It’s that time of year again: the world famous Sydney Festival is arriving this weekend – Saturday the 5th of January to be exact – and as usual there’s so many choices, so much great music and theatre and art to see, that making a decision on what to see and what to miss is…
For our second Aussie BBQ show, the four remaining bands – Jinja Safari, The Aston Shuffle, Big Scary and Sheppard – along with myself and the BBQ crew headed onto Delhi. Flying with IndiGO airways, we got off to a shaky start with us, collectively, sitting 130 kilos over the limit in terms of baggage….
With the first of the Aussie BBQs behind us, and Karnivool on their way back to Australia, we were all treated to a day off in Mumbai before we headed to Delhi for the second show. Having spent most of our time in a bit of a glass bubble – taken from one event to…
Having completed the business end of proceedings, it was now time to return to the focus of our trip to India: The Aussie BBQs. Having had all five bands play at the NH7 Weekender in Pune, our travelling circus was now in Mumbai, where the first of three Aussie BBQs was taking place following the…
Perth duo Sun City caught up with us backstage at the Beresford in Sydney last week just before they hit the stage and filled us in on their favourite albums of 2012…
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As the triple j Hottest 100 opens up its digital doors for voting in its 2012 edition, we come to an end of our top 40 albums list with ten phenomenal albums. Stay tuned for our top 40 songs of 2012… they’ll be launching tomorrow and running through to the New Year! Mumford & Sons…
With the festival under our belts, we were now looking forward to the three standalone Aussie BBQ shows that would take us around the country. The first, in Mumbai, served as an official after-party of sorts for the Nokia Music Connects Conference held nearby; a two day event that looked at the business of music,…
We continue our top 40 albums of 2012 countdown with the third part of our journey to the number one spot… Lana Del Rey – Born To Die When I first heard the song “Born To Die” I was blown away. I felt liked I was hearing something different, something I had been craving to…
As it’s been previously reported, the Big Day Out is going to be joining the world’s elite festivals this Summer by introducing Chow Town to their festivals – a celebration of some of Sydney’s finest food. These are the sort of restaurants you couldn’t get bookings to even if you tried (and believe me, I…
We continue our Top 40 Albums of 2012 list with 30 to 21… These albums were voted by 42 of our fine contributors and the list that has resulted is an eclectic mix; from local indie, to international chart toppers, Australian Black Metal and all the way back again. We hope you enjoy our annual…
As we launch our Best of 2012 series, we begin as we usually do with the first ten albums of our Top 40 Albums of 2012 list. These albums were voted by 42 of our fine contributors and the list that has resulted is an eclectic mix; from local indie, to international chart toppers, Australian…
While at Clockenflap in Hong Kong we caught up with Nic Offer of !!! (Chk Chk Chk) and he let us in on what his favourite record of 2012 was… so let’s learn a little more about Big Day Out bound Death Grips from the man himself…
Your bright, red lips makes my blood bright red… Welcome to my new feature column “Larry Likes!” in which I share recent musical discoveries with you – both local and international. We start with a Sydney four piece called Yetis. “Bright Red” is the second track off their just released sophomore EP Hear Me Now,…
I love music documentaries. If my annual Sydney Film Festival coverage is anything to go by, by and large I’m first in line for the latest release. Lemmy definitely ranks high on the list of Sydney Film Festival favourites, a man who would count himself as good mates with another man named Mr. Dave Grohl…
In our continuing red carpet misadventures from the 2012 ARIA Awards in Sydney, we take you back to nine more of our live streams from Soundcloud, plus some backstage press conference audio from The Temper Trap, Russell Brand, Gotye, Kimbra, Yothu Yindi and Peter Garrett. We had a great time at the awards – see…
Once again the Australian Music Industry’s “night of nights” has come and gone, seeing the venerable Gotye retain his crown of “Best Male” as well as taking out two other awards including the big one – “Album of the Year”. London based, Melbourne bred The Temper Trap were the only other multi-winners of the night,…
After we discovered we were placed in rooms next door to one and other, the night that followed the final day of the NH7 Weekender Festival took a turn for adventure with Ed, Jack and Jack’s lovely girlfriend. Keeping it simple, we ended up drinking a few too many Kingfishers as we ran around Pune…
This morning was a strange one. After a Hurricane, a journey to India that seemed to go on for days and a first day more epic than most, last night was my first in a proper bed in a good week. With the very fact I was in India still failing to sink in, it…
We continue with our Best of the 90’s series with a look at the ten Australian albums our contributors have voted as their favourite of the 1990s. With The Living End currently touring every album they’ve ever released around the country, perhaps it’s only appropriate that we kick off this countdown with their self-titled 1998…
So there you have it. I’m in India. Who would have thunk it? And now, after settling into my surroundings, it was time to get the music on, and head to the second day of the NH7 Weekender Festival in Pune. The sun had well and truly drifted into darkness as I entered the beautiful…
Welcome to the pilot episode of the AU review Podcast! In this first issue we take you back to September’s BIGSOUND conference and the Fat As Butter event in Newcastle. Enjoy chats with The Trouble With Templeton and more… Podcast Producer and Host: Tiffany Britchford Industry News Segment: Phil Perez Interviews: Larry Heath
The following was written on November 1st, 2012. This is one story that begins not with a whimper, but a storm. A ‘Frankenstorm’ as they called it. Appropriate for Halloween, but a pretty fair description, too, of the clusterfuck of a weather pattern that blew through New York on October 29th, destroying houses, taking lives…
After some 15 hours at JFK, I was lucky enough to make it on board the lone flight to Mumbai via Abu Dhabi with Etihad, thanks much in part to the GM of Airline Operations, who I have to thank for getting me on board. One piece of advice I have to offer all travellers…
The Big Scary Indian Tour Diaries continue today as the band travel from Pune to Mumbai, where they were able to spend a few days seeing the city ahead of a massive show at the Hard Rock Cafe. Above, the band spy on the local vehicles, noting the “awesome detail” that the cars and buses…
In this AU Review feature, Philippe Perez talks to a couple of Australian music teachers, Rosalind Chia and Tao Kahn (pictured above) and delves into what makes for a good student-teacher relationship musically. There’s normally a process of many years to plug through to become be a master of any instrument. Practice makes perfect, as…
Perth band The Stanleys recently galavanted around the USA for a tour leading up to a series of shows in New York for CMJ. The band have shared their tour diaries with us. The first, above, is from their first stop in LA and the first of many burgers and fries on the CMJ Tour……
Over the next few weeks, bands from around Australia will be sharing their adventures in India exclusively with the AU review. We’ll also be sharing stories of our own. To kick things off, Melbourne duo Big Scary will be walking through us their adventures in India for OzFest, the NH7 Weekender and The Aussie BBQ….
Melbourne four piece Dancing Heals recently returned to Australia after an expedition to the USA to play CMJ… among other things. The band have exclusively shared with the AU review their tour diaries detailing their adventures… The talk about drinking with Das Racist, seeing The Jezabels explode on the international stage, of course their own…
The guy who always appears on stage to check the mic and gets everyone’s hopes up. The guy who makes sure the band is in tune, the peacemaker and the go to guy for, well, everything. Or to my mind, the mysterious strangers who usually fascinate me more than the musicians themselves, with their lanyards…
