In its 13th year in 2017, the St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival returns with some names that have graced its stages before breaking out overseas, some names who will be making their Laneway debut and some names that come with a solid whack of international hype backing them. We already knew that A.B. Original and Nick Murphy (FKA Chet Faker) would be on…
Sampa The Great continues to be celebrated (and rightly so), with the artist being named the recipient of the inaugural Corner Award! The award, presented by the iconic Melbourne live music venue, will see Sampa perform a special headlining show at The Corner on November 4th, with the first 150 ticket purchases set to receive a…
Okay, so last year, the crew at 5/4 Entertainment threw one hell of a party within the hallowed walls of the Freemasons Hall in Adelaide. It was raucous, featuring some amazing local rock and punk talent and it was quite obvious that it was setting a high bar for any similar event to follow. This weekend,…
If you followed our recent coverage of BIGSOUND or the NT Song of the Year awards this year, Apakatjah is a name that would have popped up a few times. The Alice Springs duo proved themselves to be a highlight discovery for us when we travelled to the Top End and again, in Brisbane last week. Fusing traditional…
Alex Lahey went into BIGSOUND this year as one of the festival’s most talked about artists and came away from it as one of the acts people continued to buzz about. Understandably, the hype is justified – after her B-Grade University EP brought her widespread acclaim, not to mention shows around the country and Splendour in recent…
A large part of me feels like there’s little point in writing a review like this. Tim Freedman and The Whitlams have had a command of live music in Australia for so long now that I do sometimes wonder, “why bother?” I mean people don’t read reviews of Whitlams shows to find out if they’re…
Melbourne Music Week has begun teasing us with some gems ahead of the event’s full program announcement in October with news of key headliners and the new festival hub today. Melbourne’s Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle, has announced that one of the city’s iconic sites, the historic State Library Victoria, will be the Hub for MMW this year, the…
Meet Petrol Girls. The South East London four piece have been making waves with their own brand of feminist post-hardcore music and in their latest single, “Phallocentric”, they’ve gone and laid it all out on the table once more. The music video features bodies and paint – hooked yet? The song, taking the symbol of the…
Melbourne group Maefire are currently in Singapore showcasing at Music Matters but back here on the homefront, we’ve been digging their latest tune in “Crawling”. Continuing to flesh out their alt-rock stylings off the back of the successful release of “Without You” earlier this year, Maefire have crafted another catchy single that’s bound to stick with you after…
The Jam was a band of immense talent which did something most others never manage: splitting at the height of its power and fame and leaving fans wanting more. Quintessentially English, yet able to find audiences far beyond its native shores, the band’s singles list reads like a best-of of English rock from the last…
Now that the BIGSOUND dust has settled and the industry has returned to some sense of normal; our on-ground team have been going back through notes jotted down on phones, ‘Definitely check out…’ style messages sent back and forth, in determining the selection of bands who stood out as strong winners across the board. With many of these…
The few days we spend at BIGSOUND in Brisbane is best described as an annual escapade into a fine slice of the best in Australian music – a sample of what’s been round the traps recently, what’s returned after some time away and what’s coming next. Across the three nights of live music – two official…
While in Sydney recently, Larry caught up with Ben and Harry ahead of SAFIA‘s debut album release of Internal. Chatting about the album and it’s creation, particularly the material that had been road tested live already, the boys open up about some of the challenges they were met with. “There’s one song that we’ve been playing for a long time, which…
Julia Jacklin isn’t planning on stopping when she returns home from an impressive round of international tour dates this November. The Blue Mountains native has already had a stellar 2016 off the back of single releases and showcase festival dates at both SXSW and The Great Escape that had then led to the inking of…
Running Touch, mate. His new single “Aubrey” has seen the Melbourne producer link up with Ira Horace for a pounding dance jam that’s been rattling around in my ahead since I was directed to it only a few days ago. The addition of Horace’s raps in amongst Running Touch’s fast-paced beats and production doesn’t drop in energy…
BIGSOUND brought some great names to Brisbane last week and we were stoked to have scored some time ahead of the showcases with them! Erica and Sally aka one of our new favourite hip hop acts in Coda Conduct, sat down with Larry on Wednesday to chat about how far they’ve come since their first show in a warehouse, to being…
Directed by Grey Ghost, 21 year old dynamo performer Maribelle indulges in some brilliant 90’s throwback vibes on her new music video for “Shout”. The tune, taken from her debut EP Overtake (out now!), is catchy as hell and the visuals are equally as engaging. From the choreography to the set design itself which is a delight for the…
Brilliant. Just brilliant. To ensure that our 2017 is off to a well and truly prosperous start, The Boss is coming back. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be back in Australia and New Zealand next January and February for a huge summer tour that will see them joined by the likes of Jet, Diesel and Marlon Williams and The Yarra…
Believe it or not, Cass McCombs just outdid himself with his latest album, Mangy Love. Cass McCombs might have eight albums under his belt already, but Mangy Love fits into the shoegaze vibe with a little bit of New York paranoia punk and Philly soul that sets itself from its counterparts. Cass McCombs will be…
The Black Sorrows will release new album The Faithful Satellite on September 16th, their 20th release to date. On the back of that they will also head out on tour, playing a massive 50 dates between September and December. As if we needed more reasons to call Joe Camilleri the hardest working man in Australian…
A raucous six piece from Melbourne, Northeast Party House have been making indie party rock for just over six years. Their first LP, Any Given Weekend, received critical acclaim, and has seen the band touring across Australia and the globe, with a second LP Dare on the way. We caught up with guitarist Mitch Ansell to…
Oh, BIGSOUND. You’ve done it again. Returning to Brisbane for my second time at the conference/music festival in 2016, I approached the trip with a list of my own personal non-negotiable, must-see artists, some recommendations from friends and a steely determination to not burn out too hard on the first night. That steely determination lasted until…
For one magical week of the year, Fortitude Valley transforms to a musical haven; a subtropical playground bathed in the auditory ambrosia that is BIGSOUND. Christmas for the music industry has just passed, and what a week BIGSOUND 2016 has been. Dissection, examination and support of the Australian music community sustained the BIGSOUND conference during the…
Post-rock band Tortoise will be returning to Australia and New Zealand for a couple of dates and to share their love for music through their recent album release, The Catastrophist. First up is New Zealand, with stops in Auckland and Wellington, before they come over to Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, and Perth. It’s been seven years…
Who’s up for some metal and progressive rock? Meshuggah, one of Sweden’s pioneering metal bands, is marking their 30th anniversary with a world tour and Australia and New Zealand is on the roster! With stops in Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle, there are lots of opportunities to catch Meshuggah in action. With the release of…
With BIGSOUND serving up a live music lineup that no doubt brought solid highlights across all genres this past week, we were lucky to spend some time with some of the artists who performed some bloody amazing shows over the course of the event. Photos by Zakarij Kaczmarek. SAMPA THE GREAT An artist who came to BIGSOUND with a lot of…
Melbourne’s “high priestess of soul”, Kylie Auldist, is returning to her homeland for a tour that promises to be special. Supported by the effervescent NZ artist Aaradhna, this tour is shaping up to be a mesmerising celebration of vocal power. Kylie has been globetrotting of late as the voice of the Kungs vs Cookin’ on…
In a fortnight The Workers Club is set to be lit up by the Rolling Stone Live Lodge for another year. Today Rolling Stone have unveiled the third and final lineup of artists, and it’s big. Kasey Chambers will close out the final night of the event on Sunday October 9. AFL Grand Final Night, aka Friday October 1st, will boast a…
In this issue: A bona fide artistic legend, a skuzz pop up and comer and maybe the coolest band in the world walk into a bar… YOKO ONO Sooo… this sounds cool. Yoko Ono is rereleasing a bunch of stuff. This will come in the form of The Yoko Ono Reissue Project, comprising of 11…
Multi-instrumentalist and visual artist DRELLER has come through with a new music video for his third single release, “A Signal That Comes Back” – the sounds Tom Rawle has been experimenting with and fleshing out with this new project has seen some incredible material be unveiled so far and this tune falls perfectly into line as well. Check the…
