Of course I knew soft ocean waves weren’t creeping up to multi-instrumentalist Yann Tiersen when he took the stage at the Sydney Opera House earlier this week, but I could have sworn I saw them. The man best known for scoring timeless French film Amélie (mostly with songs taken from his first few albums) staged an…
Mustered from a team of seven individually talented musicians (not to be mistaken for Australia’s own Middle Kids) comes Earth Angel, a debut record culminating fuzzy, melodic pop-rock with charismatic storytelling. Originally blooming from the multi-talented Patrick Jennings (Hot New Mexicans, Purple 7), this musical project is curated, written and recorded from Jenning’s home in…
The irony of gentrification was exposed and wryly chastised on last year’s Grammy-nominated instant-classic The Hope Six Demolition Project, the ninth studio album from the inimitable PJ Harvey and the reason for her current Australian tour. The 11-track project was, and is, a poetic flare straight to the core of misguided bureaucracy, drawing the ire…
Café del Mar invites you to the Electric Gardens After Party this Australia Day weekend, Sunday 29th January from 12:00pm to 2:00am. Situated in the heart of Darling Harbour, Café del Mar offers the perfect setting to dine, drink & dance the night away whilst overlooking one of Sydney’s most iconic destinations. International DJ and…
In The Service of Spring is the debut full-length from Sydney’s Dusken Lights. It’s an extremely relaxed album – very, very low energy – but very sweet and pretty when it works. The opening track, “Superman, Wondergirl” (sidenote, why no Wonder Woman?) is a promising opener, with the juxtaposed vocals of singer/guitarist Paul O. Watling…
The effortlessly talented and charming Sam Buckingham returns from time spent abroad with a brand new album to be shared with fans and newcomers alike. Setting her sights on Latin America, the Byron Bay native spent time away travelling through Costa Rica, Granada Honduras and Nicaragua before coming home to put this album together – the…
Horrorshow head to country New South Wales for their new music video for the track “Push” – one we’ve been digging this week. Filmed by the Entropico crew, stories of striving to achieve one’s goals are explored within a diverse and culturally rich landscape. We meet Phil Kennedy and Mansi Patel, two individuals who have been running their own businesses,…
Ahead of her show at St. Stephen’s Uniting Church as part of this year’s Sydney Festival, the AU catches up with Wafia. With new material on the way following on from a successful year of music and shows in front of consistently growing crowds around the country, Wafia stares down the barrel of another huge year of…
Take my hand and I’ll show you a band that has moved across the lands, beginning in suburban Australia and currently residing in New York, who have one of the coolest 90’s garage sounds going round. Despite their hazy guitars and echoing, droning vocals making for low-fi foundations, Splashh add layers of zooming synths and bright…
Like your vocals crooning and your 80’s synth spooky? Timber Timbre’s new single “Sewer Blues” is gunna be the best new track you hear this week. This Canadian mob have been quietly making the best folk/blues/rock music for long nights alone since 2009 with three studio albums already up their sleeve. With their forthcoming record, Sincerely,…
Stopped crying over Hospice yet? Me neither, but songwriter/singer Peter Silberman (from heartbreak indie-rock band The Antlers) is gearing up to release his first solo album, Impermanence, due February 24 via Inertia Music. Impermanence invites us into Silberman’s journey with a hearing impairment that led him to leave Brooklyn for a quieter upstate New York as he…
Hands up if your heart got broken then put back together at any of CERES‘ shows towards the end of 2016? Ours most certainly did. The emotional and cathartic rollercoaster that has become their album Drag It Down On You manifested itself into a beast live and this week, we were incredibly excited to see that it’s…
I never feel more surrounded by familial like elation than in the throes of an indie punk rock crowd and Friday night was no exception. Starting off their headline tour in Perth, their first Australian show in two years, The Front Bottoms brought in a horde of dedicated fans, ready to jump around to that…
As January 26th approaches, the conversation surrounding changing the date of ‘Australia Day’ has become even more heated and indeed crucial than ever. Recently, NITV and SBS, in conjunction with a line up of noted Australian hip hop artists, came together to explore different perspectives and opinions of the national holiday, culminating in a one-of-a-kind collaboration, entitled…
The 2017 St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival kicks off in Australia this week after a successful run in Singapore last weekend and still, the new announcements are rolling out. First up, for Adelaide fans: Bad//Dreems have been added to your festival down at Port Adelaide, slotting in neatly between White Lung and Luca Brasi on the Spinning Top Stage at 3:10pm….
Vincent Sole is a name that crept up in 2016 but with his new single in “The Game”, this fresh face is making sure we’re remembering it. Utilising space in arrangement and throwing the spotlight strongly onto his vocals, Sole fuses a throbbing beat with R&B influences streaming in the song’s instrumentation. Turn this one up. https://soundcloud.com/vincent-sole/the-game-1…
In Sydney last month, we caught up with two of our favourite Canadians: Brian and Dave of Japandroids. While we reflected on their recent shows in the country, focus soon turned to their highly anticipated new album (out this week), Near To The Wild Heart of Life. After a few years completely out of the spotlight, the rock duo came…
Freooooooo. Damn, that place is producing some exciting musical talent (not to mention the footy team, but that’s for another day…) – Dream Rimmy have been one of our favourite emerging bands out of the west coast and today, we’re stoked to be sharing our pick of the day in their new single, “Like Me”. Taken…
This Gainesville punk outfit have just announced their new EP, Sound The Alarm, will be released February 3 to mark a new era for the band as they celebrate 25 years together as well as a new recording deal with Pure Noise Records. The seven track EP is set to be as packed out and…
As Australia swiftly enters a new week of scorching heat wave temperatures, Swedish singer/songwriter Jens Lekman drops an icy-cold, tropical-based spritzer in the form of his new single, “What’s That Perfume That You Wear?”. The track also comes with the announcement of Lekman’s fourth studio album Life Will See You Now, due out February 17 via…
He has a voice that has drawn international acclaim and a musical presence that has been turning heads recently. Louis Baker‘s fusion of hip hop with electronic and soul has brought him much attention and off the back of his new single “Gave It All Away”, we expect much more praise to follow. This particular version…
Indie musicians Montaigne, Taka Perry, and Sam Margin (The Rubens) have teamed up with best-selling Australian authors Matthew Reilly, Jackie French, Anna Funder, and Alice Pung to feature in the latest series of videos in the “This Book/Song Changed My Life” social media campaign. Created by Copyright Agency and APRA AMCOS, the new campaign highlights the possible negatives of the recently proposed changes to Australian copyright law,…
Now in its sixth year, the French festival So Frenchy So Chic returned to Sydney over the weekend, after a jaunt in Melbourne 7 days prior. The festival brings together a wide array of French food, drink and music, while Sydney in turn provided some of the best weather we’ve seen this summer, as what…
This week, iconic New Zealand group The Bats celebrate their more than 30 years together as a band (and with all their original members I might add!) by releasing their 9th full length record, The Deep Set. Out this Friday through Flying Nun Records, the group then travel to Australia for two shows – one…
Busby Marou take us to Great Keppel Island on their latest music video for “Best Part of Me”, another beautiful cut from their upcoming album Postcards From the Shell House. “We wanted to capture the essence of the sound and the inspiration behind the songs and I don’t think the studios can’t really capture what we’re…
As a long-time fan of The Living End it was with great delight that I had the chance to have a chat with drummer-extraordinaire, Andy Strachan, about their seventh album, Shift, life on the road, and the fear of Meatloafing. Firstly, congratulations on the latest album; it’s a killer, I think. Thank you, that’s good…
Few indie-rock bands can stick it out for over a decade and remain as prevalent and charming as they were at the beginning. The Shins are proving themselves to be one of those bands. Maybe you’re like myself and nod fondly to the day your adolescent ears first let James Mercer’s sunny vocals teach you…
Following on from the announcement that Courtney Barnett will be performing her only scheduled theatre show for the year in support of Patti Smith and Her Band in Melbourne, Bluesfest has now revealed that the Melbourne songwriter and performer will be heading to Byron Bay for a special festival show on Easter Thursday this year. 2016 was…
One World Entertainment are thrilled to announce Raggamuffin All Stars featuring Grammy winning superstar Shaggy, break out New Zealand sensations SIX60, The world’s premier reggae group performing the hits of Bob Marley – The Wailers featuring reggae star Julian Marley, reggae legends Morgan Heritage own House Of Shem. The all-star line-up of reggae royalty will…
South Australia is spurring on the momentum surrounding the wealth of events happening out in their wine regions – you don’t just head out to McLaren Vale, the Barossa and Adelaide Hills and the Clare Valley for hens days and weddings anymore, oh no. Now, vineyards and the gorgeous surrounds of South Australian farms are becoming…
