Sunday night at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre, Counting Crows brought their Complete Sweets! tour to Sydney for the first of 3 dates, offering a nostalgic trip back to the 90s while mixing in newer material. The songs that defined a generation – about faith and sex and God (IYKYK) – still carry weight, particularly from their…
Surely, if there was any occasion that required all nine core members of the Wu-Tang Clan to be present, it’d be the iconic hip hop collective’s final tour. But that’s not the case as the seminal rap group take Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena for what will allegedly be the last time, bringing with them a…
Central Coast singer-songwriter BOY SODA is one of the most exciting artists to emerge from the local scene in recent years, and he certainly proved why at a sold-out Black Bear Lodge in Brisbane on Saturday night. It was the second show of his three-date Lil Obsession Tour after playing Melbourne last week, supported by…
It’s probably safe to say more than a handful of people heading to the Qudos Bank Arena last night, might have been feeling curious, maybe even sceptical about the gig they were heading to. You can almost hear the conversations playing out. “So, if there is a new lead singer, is it like a tribute…
As a Victorian-based girl with a pretty strong pop music bias, attending WOMADelaide was always going to be an interesting experience. I’d never been to South Australia before, and I’ve never attended anything quite like this. Known for its global music programming, sprawling site and a deeply loyal crowd, WOMADelaide has built quite a reputation-…
It’s not every Tuesday that you get to see a one-man blues band and a captivating soul performance from a few feet away in your hometown, but that’s exactly what a handful of Fantastic Negrito fans were treated to at the Crowbar in Brisbane on Tuesday night. This was the first headline show on his…
Many feel that 2026 has already been a difficult year, with global tensions on the rise. This affected even WOMADelaide with some acts not able to attend this year due to travel disruptions and other issues. However, a feeling of hope and resilience was front and foremost for this year’s event. Celebrating cultural diversity, honouring…
The fact that women are such a big part of the WOMADelaide Festival is no accident. With women on the management team, and as decision makers, artists and presenters, made celebrating International Women’s Day such a natural and beautiful thing. The mood of the day was one of nurturing and celebrating the beauty inside whilst…
It was a glorious autumn day in Adelaide’s Botanic Park for the second day of WOMADelaide, the world’s music, arts and dance festival. Families have set up picnic rugs, whilst roving performers, Born in a Taxi pranced around as zebras and kids exercised their creativity in Studio Ruby Chew‘s pop-up wonderland. The event hosts a…
Despite some last-minute changes with artist travel plans disrupted by the sudden unrest in the Middle East, the show must go on. Inside the Botanic Gardens, it was like a sanctuary, fruit bats overhead and seven stages all playing a variety of world music. Day one of WOMADelaide 2026 kicked off in fine style. As…
What a week for music at the world-famous Sydney Opera House! Complementing the already iconic line-up of Grace Jones, The Streets and Basement Jaxx, was Britpop legends, Pulp. At arguably the best outdoor venue on the circuit, the ‘On the Steps’ series welcomed Cocker and friends for two nights of playing the hits. However, this…
Cries of hip hop being “dead” have been around for over ten years, but they’ve never rang more true than in 2026. Last year, hip hop, for the first time since 1990, had failed to crack the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. That’s not the death-knell some claimed, but it marked a…
On Monday night, American folk artist Sam Beam (better known by his moniker Iron & Wine) arrived in Brisbane to a sold-out Princess Theatre as part of his first Australian tour since 2018. The folk troubadour delivered his inimitable brand of lo-fi acoustic song writing, this time in its most exposed form. Performing completely solo,…
Punk. What is punk? Is it just loud music? Nope. Authenticity? yes! Activism? yes! Self-advocacy? yes! Being labelled as ‘difficult’? well apparently! Think Grace Tame, Eileen Gu, Malala Yousafazi – women supporting women, smashing glass ceilings, expectations, and absolutely the patriarchy. Relentlessly. Tirelessly. One critical, loud message at a time. They are punks, role modelling…
The Sunday rain couldn’t keep eager concertgoers away from 170 Russell in Melbourne, where Broadside, This Wild life, Hot Chelle Rae, Cartel and Anberlin rolled into town for Destroy All Lines’ An Emo Extravaganza. Announced late last year, there was lots of hyper surrounding this event. Still, a last-minute venue downsize for Melbourne hinted that…
There’s nothing like a good Irish pub show to get your evening off to a grand start. The Shamrocks have finally made their way to Adelaide to show how to do exactly that. The six Irish lads, including two sets of brothers have an instantly likeable energy about them. Raymond Walsh created the Shamrocks back…
Enmore Road was full of alfresco diners last night, many of them meeting with friends ahead of seeing Morcheeba at Enmore Theatre. No doubt, their conversations went something like this: “I remember listening to the Big Calm album in my room at Uni!”, “Me too! It reminds me of my first love, job, heartbreak, trip…
There are pop tours that feel like victory laps – and then there are the ones that feel like reclamations. On the opening night of her Australian Tits Out Tour in Brisbane, Kesha’s return to the stage felt firmly like the latter: messy in places, minimal in production, emotionally raw – and undeniably hers. The…
Sydney side ‘Wispers’ came together last night to celebrate their shoegaze queen, as Wisp performed her first ever Australian headline show. Who are they? A fun, diverse group of fans who have latched onto her over the last couple of years. A mix of OG fans from her 2023 viral TikTok moment, along with OG…
On an overcast night in Sydney, the red headed wonder Ed Sheeran brought nothing but sunny times, party tracks and love songs to the Accor Stadium crowd as part of his Loop world tour. Support for the night came in the form of Aaron Rowe, Mia Wray and Vance Joy. While admittedly only catching the…
With the summer festival circuit not as strong as it once was, the ability to see international acts like Lucy Dacus has become harder to come by. Luckily for Australia, Dacus is currently touring with Laneway Festival and managed to sneak in a headline show at the Sydney Opera House in support of her 2025…
In town as part of Laneway Festival, Wet Leg returned to Sydney and delivered an electric and super tight headline slot at UNSW Roundhouse. On the back of their second album, 2025’s brilliant Moisturizer, the English act showed everyone in attendance just how far they’ve come along in the few short years they’ve been tearing up…
After announcing a line up that would go on to sell out in minutes upon its release, the Sydney leg of Laneway Festival 2026 was primed and ready to deliver a day that could go down as one of the greats. With the weather gods delivering a mixed bag for the festival – from rain…
Any complaints about Sydney’s nightlife vanish after a night at Carriageworks nowadays. It’s become the Inner West’s iconic warehouse-style venue, perfect for raves (as we witnessed with the The Works, kicked off by none other than Underworld) And so it’s no surprise that to see South Korean DJ and effortless cool-girl Peggy Gou set up…
I can’t help but think of Nicholas Hope in Bad Boy Bubby every time I watch a video of Nick Cave performing. The oddly obscure “classic” is the kind of hard-watch that leaks from the more unflinching corners of the Australian psyche. But unlike similarly disquieting films, such as Snowtown and Picnic At Hanging Rock, Bubby’s…
It has been a minute—or perhaps closer to twenty years—since I last stepped foot into a university bar, but the vibe is one that seemingly holds true through the ages. Walking through the stunning, rain-washed grounds of Sydney University as the bells of the War Memorial Carillon rang out and the sun shone finally, there…
On a Saturday night with some of the worst weather Sydney has seen in a while, The Last Dinner Party put their best feet forward and delivered an intricate, fun and overwhelmingly brilliant set as part of their From The Pyre world tour. Returning to Australia 18 months on from their inaugural tour, the English…
We might be one week into the year, but there’s every chance we’ve already seen the set of the year, in the form of Turnstile at their Hordern Pavilion headline show. Yes, it’s a big call considering there’s a plethora of festivals ahead of us, a multitude of announced and unannounced tours coming our way,…
Returning to the country for the first time in three and half years, Joy Crookes took to Sydney’s Enmore Theatre stage to deliver a smooth, sultry and genuinely funny set in support of her second album Juniper. In town performing on a selection of new year’s festivals, the English artist was in fine form as…
Underworld may be the biggest name on the lineup for a new Carriageworks live series, simply called The Works, but make no mistake about it: the headline is intelligent curation and the art institution’s wondrously well-suited warehouse. Over the next few weeks, Carriageworks will kick the new year off with a series of classic warehouse…
