L-FRESH The LION is heading back to Adelaide in August to headline the University of Adelaide’s 2016 At The Cloisters event! The winter music event is going down on August 5th and is going to be featuring live art, food and drinks, not to mention some more special music guests to join L-Fresh on the bill. Supported…
Into It. Over It. have recently released their music video for current single, “No EQ”, in advance of their upcoming debut Australian tour dates this September! The tune, taken from their praised album Standards, has spawned the visuals which according to Evan Weiss, is a ‘buffalo plaid nightmare’. Following a number of his friends, dressed up in Weiss-type…
It had been a long five years between drinks for Australian fans of The Kills, last here for the 2011 Splendour in the Grass festival. Returning for the same event five years and one album later, the duo (performing as a quartet) sounded in top form as they ran through their latest release Ash &…
Continuing our look back at our favourite music videos, we turn the spotlight to May, where we became introduced to some more rad artists and their latest visuals; from MOSSY‘s “Ginsberg”, to Modern Baseball‘s brilliant video for “Wedding Singer”, there were definitely all angles covered. Hit ‘play’ and revisit them below! PLAYLIST Tim Wheatley – “78 Benz”…
Splendour in the Grass has existed as a must-attend festival in the minds of almost every Australian music fan since its inception in 2001. Widely regarded as one of the music events on the Australian calendar, the Byron Bay festival has seen some of the world’s best tread its stages and offer up live music…
BIGSOUND has unveiled its latest artist additions to the 2016 festival, with some of the country’s beloved touring names joining on a line up exceeding 150 names. DZ Deathrays, Tkay Maidza, Harts, Japanese Wallpaper and Vera Blue have been named alongside Gawurra, Teeth & Tongue, The Belligerents, Harmony James, I Heart Hiroshima, The Gooch Palms, Kučka, Rainbow Chan and more on the latest BIGSOUND reveal – colour us absolutely stoked. They…
The Sacred Heart Mission has announced some more special names to their annual Heart of St Kilda Concert happening in September, raising funds for those desperately in need. Last year, the concert raised $79,000 for the Mission’s Meals Program to feed nearly 20,000 people in need and this year, they’re hoping to smash the record. The…
Bringing their new album, Periphery III: Select Difficulty, out to fans, Periphery are gearing up for some huge Australian dates next February! The album represents the metal band on some of the best form of their career to date and given their last Australian tour was completely sold out, we’re expecting their 2017 dates to follow suit for…
Ali E has produced a great new track in “Two By One”; a single further showcasing her talent as a songwriter and vocalist. Recorded and mixed at Captain B Studios by Brooke Penrose and featuring instrumentation from Mark Renall, Leigh Ewbank and Ceci Dowling, the latest Ali E offering is broody, enticing and grungy all at the same time. A song about…
The Bennies are currently entering the home stretch of a 30-date long tour that has seen them sell out venues at multiple venues around the country. From Melbourne up to Darwin and out to Queensland, the Wisdom Machine purveyors have been hitting it hard and have been doling out some incredible rock shows to punters who have…
Jumping the Shark, the debut album from Sydney artist Alex Cameron, is just weeks away from release (August 19th) and to keep us hyped, he’s recently released the official music video for the record’s third single, “The Comeback”. Directed by Britt McCamey, featuring cinematography by David Gannon and Matthew Cresswell, the music video features Cameron cutting a striking figure on an…
Some huge names have been revealed to be speaking at SXSW next year, as the tech, music, film, business, sports and journalism fields start ramping up for the conference and festival in March. Named on this first wave of speakers are Jennifer Doudna and Jill Soloway as keynote speakers; Doudna, the geneticist and co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing technology and Soloway, the creator…
When Gang of Youths released their debut album, The Positions, back in April 2014, the record’s candid content matter would remain a main and ever-present focus right throughout its ensuing tour and promo cycle. As ‘the album about cancer’, The Positions was quick to solidify itself with the Gangs’ fan base and corners of the…
Legendary The Smiths vocalist Morrissey will be making a return to Australia for five shows as part of a wider, recently announced world tour. Just last year, Moz came down as a headliner for Sydney’s Vivid LIVE, playing to a sold out crowd at the Sydney Opera House, but this time he’ll be skipping the…
There aren’t too many good things to come out of illness and disease. Two of them, however, are the first two releases from Sydney band Gang Of Youths. While 2015 was hit by the massive and anthemic concept LP The Positions, 2016 is inevitably going to become enthralled by its follow-up EP, Let Me Be…
Callum Wylie has spent many years honing his Country/Folk song writing style; his songs are beautifully simple and emotionally complicated all at once. After the release of the single “You Make My Tears Fall Like Rain”, Callum took some time out to fill us in on how he’s reached this point in his career. Give…
Perth MC Marksman Lloyd has delivered his new single “Seven Laps”, another cool offering from the rapper who has been fast orchestrating positive momentum after the release of “Olympus” last year. The bass hits deep while Lloyd’s rhymes bite hard as he delves into struggles with addiction and anxiety within the lyrics. Have a listen to the…
While in Sydney recently, UK rising star Jack Garratt sat down with Larry to chat about the success of his Phase record and the development of his live shows to steadily growing audiences around the world. Obviously an avid music fan himself, Garratt describes his favourite elements of live music and how his shows are consistently developing. “The…
Melbourne’s Oh Pep! have spent much of 2016 overseas with their debut album Stadium Cake, winning fans through the US and Europe/UK regions; bringing some brilliantly honed folk rock to audiences that have been lapping it up eagerly. Before they come home to tour the album in September, Olivia and Pepita have dropped the visuals for their latest single, “Bushwick”. Filmed…
Dreamy South London strummer Jacob Read, better known as Jerkcurb, has a strange ability to make gloomy, sullen rock sound grand and somewhat hopeful; there’s no exception to that on latest single “Night on Earth”, a fragile song of love and death. It sounds like Read’s woozy, submerged vocals are drifting in some kind of…
Since we first heard the memorably titled “Pussy Makes The World Go Round” (aka “PMTWGR”), we’ve been hooked on Melbourne duo Slowly Slowly. Between Ben Stewart and Alex Quale there exists a painfully genuine and heartfelt sense of songwriting and lyricism, an honesty that fans will have easily gleaned from “PMTWGR” and “New York Paris” in particular. On their debut album Chamomile,…
Irish alt-pop duo Hvmmingbyrd come to us with a new music video for their excellent new single, “If Love Was Enough”. The Massive Attack-style atmospheric production quality and influence remains prominent through this band’s music (one of the first elements of their style that had us drawn in early), while between Deborah Byrne and Suzette Das, there exists a cool…
Sunday night at Splendour wound up one of two ways; you either lost your mind blissing out to Sigur Ros in the Mix Up Tent or you threw down with a full amphitheatre of punters to Flume‘s jam-packed headline set at the other end of the site. Either way, wrapping up the weekend at the…
I caught up with Beach Slang‘s James Alex, while he was in Australia last week for Splendour in the Grass. We spoke at length about his trip down under, and progress to discuss those bucket list moments which he continues to tick off in his career… In part two of our interview, we look ahead…
For another year, Splendour in the Grass has succeeded in pulling off one memorable live music event out in Byron Bay. Providing a line up of artists representing some of the best touring musicians Australia has at the minute, not to mention some incredible international visitors, Splendour was more than just a playground for triple…
The 1975 can’t seem to get away from our beloved country. After a string of January shows, the alt-pop band upped the ante for the second coming of arena sideshows after this year’s Splendour in The Grass for their sophomore album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of…
Seattle formed quintet Band of Horses have long been favourites on Australian shores, and tonight the band made their long awaited Sydney Opera House debut, as part of their Splendour in the Grass visit and off the back off their brilliant LP Why Are You OK. It would go on to be a show that…
Acknowledging the crowd put in a pretty solid effort for a Sunday night before they left the stage, UK outfit Crystal Fighters had their Sydney audience singing and dancing along to every track of the hour-or-so set. The show marked the end of their brief run of performances in Australia, which included shows in Melbourne…
Saturday at Splendour kicked into high gear early, with phenomenal sets by NGAIIRE and Harts being laid down at the beginning of the day. NGAIIRE’s show at the mix up tent was easily a top festival pick, with a diverse and euphoric crowd loving every groove and note she and her brilliant backing vocalists doled…
I’m trying to teach myself French, and a friend put me on to Christine and the Queens (the stage/project name of bilingual French musician Héloïse Letissier). It turns out it’s only about half-useful, because Christine and the Queens’ self-titled debut has a lot of English lyrics, at least on the international release. It’s a good…
