A number of bands, including Lime Cordiale, Good Boy, Deep Sea Arcade and Lily and the Bellows, took over Oxford Art Factory for Rare Finds‘ first birthday celebration! On the main stage, Lime Cordiale slayed. The band has been on a break from playing live but you wouldn’t have known it, based on their performance….
GiggedIn are hosting a special show for Alpine fans in Sydney next month, supported by Jess Kent and R.W. Grace! Taking place at the Oxford Art Factory on May 19th is free for all GiggedIn members, while new people are also encouraged to sign up HERE, if they haven’t already. The aim of the service is to encourage more…
Well, this is a little slice of gorgeous for your Wednesday. Melbourne duo Kllo have dropped their new single in “Bolide”, the first cut release from their new EP Well Worn. The hype and momentum that has built around Simon Lam and Chloe Kaul since the broke out with the Cusp EP in 2014 has been amazing to watch and with this…
In a really overdue move, those on-point curators over at Red Bull Music Academy have decided to bring the world-renowned four-day city takeover known as Red Bull Music Academy Weekender to Sydney in September. The tightly selected festival program of music events, live performances, public artist lectures, club nights, and art exhibitions will be shaped…
Danny Brown is mere days off the start of his Australian tour dates for this year’s Groovin’ the Moo tour, a much welcomed return to the country for the rapper, who has been spending much time in the studio recently working on a follow up album to 2013’s Old. He’s just arrived back home to Detroit when…
Broods will be bringing their electrifying live show back to Australian shores this July along with their new album Conscious! The east coast tour will have the Nott siblings hit up venues in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, supported by Vera Blue and Xavier Dunn. Both support artists are generating their own hype, so this makes for a hectic triple…
The Dandy Warhols have been making music for over twenty years and have just released Distortland. Brent DeBoer chats to John Goodridge about the making of the album, cassettes and touring. Hey Brent, how are you doing? Yeah, I’m all right. I’m a little bit tuckered out, but I’m in a really cool space here….
“Where’s your self-esteem, gorgeous? Did it go when I told you that I was a cheat, gorgeous? I had to come clean, even if I made you smash my Nintendo Wii, gorgeous…” Oh REMI, Remi, Remi. The Melbourne hip hop favourite lays his laddish past out on the table on his new single, “For Good”, featuring the amazing Sampa…
Delivering a slice of rock reminiscent of Queens of the Stone Age today is Brooklyn duo Of Clocks and Clouds! Joe Salgo and Ross Procaccio go in on heartbreak and relationship dissolution on new single “She Had To Go” – channelling hurt and emotional grief through some aggressive and intensifying music. This isn’t a break…
Splendour in the Grass tickets are going to be few and far between once those bad boys go on sale (remember – 9am sharp, April 21st), but the good folk behind Australia’s premiere winter music event are giving you the opportunity to nab not one, not two, but three festival passes with a new competition they recently…
Craig Nicholls‘ reputation precedes him. As The Vines’ lead singer, he’s been through a lot over the years, but tonight, the music is the focus. We’re treated to stripped back versions of the laid back Vines’ songs, as well as a few covers (spoiler alert, there was no “Ms Jackson”), and the night was enjoyable…
As a populace, Australia has known Violent Soho have been building towards stardom for the better part of this decade. While their first and sophomore records (We Don’t Belong Here and Violent Soho) received little praise and only minor success, 2013’s Hungry Ghost was the punch-in-the-face and kick-in-the-teeth that rightly put Violent Soho on the…
Paul Kelly is set to be recognised and honoured for his services and contributions to the Australian music community at Support Act’s ‘Music in the House’ event in Sydney next month. The ceremony, taking place at The Ivy Ballroom on May 18th, will see Kelly awarded the special charity award, while artists Julia Stone, Thelma Plum and Urthboy have been confirmed…
Sydney artist Klue has dropped his new tune in “So Good” and well, the title pretty much says it all. The producer/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist has backed up what was an equally as impressive single in “Hiding” with this new song, giving us another taste of the music to come on his debut EP, Daybreak. His vocals draw…
Australia and NZ have been slotted into Kaytranada‘s first ever world tour, with the Canadian producer coming over our way for a run of hotly anticipated club dates in October! Kaytranada’s debut album 99.9% is out next month and comes with some killer collaborations that are sure to have this LP ranked as one of the best…
L-FRESH the LION is a hip hop artist Australia should be fiercely proud of. His music is hard hitting, weaving some powerful and heartfelt lyricism with equally as impressive production and with his sophomore album Become, he’s set to reach more people, no doubt about it. In his latest single, “1 in 100,000”, L-FRESH the LION goes in…
Yep, yep, yep – book these dates in now. Returning to Australia this July for a quick three-show run down the east coast are Glass Animals. We haven’t seen them in Australia since they did the Falls Festival tour plus some shows of their own a little while back, but they continued to maintain a solid and favourable…
There’s only a few weeks to go until Bad Vision drop their sophomore record, Turn Out Your Sockets, quite the anticipated release from the Melbourne band! In their latest single “Fairweather”, we’re given an upbeat and colourful tune (as is the music video, featured today), but the lyricism nods to less happy themes. As songwriter Jerome Rush has described,…
Hilltop Hoods hit their hometown over the weekend to celebrate the release of their latest album, Drinking From The Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung—their follow-up to 2007’s The Hard Road: Restrung. Joined by Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO), Adelaide Chamber Singers and other special guests, the sold-out crowd was in for a monumental night. A.B. Original…
Melbourne psych-punk purveyors Horace Bones are due to be back out on the road down the east coast with their brand new track “Outside” this May and June! Riding high on their singing with the 123 Agency in Melbourne and Thirds Music, the band have been consistently backing it up, quality track after quality track….
With an odd burst of warm weather over the weekend, Northbridge was buzzing nice and early on Saturday night with the maze of boutique bars around Jimmy’s Den thriving as we waited for doors open. After hearing an interview with the band, I was well and truly keen to see Sydney act Tigertown taking their…
Recorded at the Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) studios in Tokyo, Melbourne producer Lewis Cancut has linked up with Japanese vocalist TIGARAH for this tune we’re digging, “Say Ok”! In TIGARAH’s vibrant and sugary vocals and the tropical house and bass thumps Cancut brings to the table, “Say Ok” is an ear worm of a…
Sydney’s Shining Bird will be on the road once more, this time with their new single “Helluva Lot”, the latest cut from their soon-to-be-released album Black Opal! The band has been generating some decent excitement surrounding their music for some time now; of course, their debut album Leisure Coast brought the band to the attention of many, not…
This month has seen Yeasayer finally release their fourth studio album in Amen & Goodbye, four years after Fragrant World and numerous tours that had the New York musicians making their stamp as one of the experimental indie bands in that crop emerging from 2006/2007 onward. As Chris Keating says, the time in between album releases was necessary for the band in the…
Perth artist Elli Schoen has released a gorgeous video for her single “Hard Heart” reflective of the talent the young artist has shown through the music itself. Tender and fragile in delivery, Schoen has a vocal range and songwriting knack that evokes emotion that threatens to overflow completely before reining back in. The honesty threaded through the…
Randy Hansen, guitar virtuoso and one of the few guitarists in the world to be recognised by Jimi Hendrix’s family, is bringing his acclaimed Hendrix Revolution tour to Australia for the first time. Dedicated to maintaining the memory of the virtuoso guitarist and his ground-breaking music, Hansen has created a show celebrating everything great about…
The world was treated to a surprising (and hard-rock wet dream inducing) announcement early this year – the great man himself, Iggy Pop, was going to release an album of new material. Not only that, but it was to be produced by another rock legend, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles…
This week in the music industry, we’re treated to a global report on the growth of the music industry from IFPI and Sony takes on defunct streaming service Rdio over licensing dollars. Digital Revenue Overtakes Physical In IFPI Global Music Report On the 12th of April, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) released…
Leading UK brand Hospitality is returning to Australia and New Zealand for a seven-date tour featuring London Elektricity, Etherwood, Maduk and MC Fava. For Perth, Sydney and Adelaide shows, drum & bass pioneer Danny Byrd will be joining the line up. The NZ shows will be presented by George FM. Check out the dates and where to buy…
Melbourne’s Sui Zhen has announced a fundraiser gig for Melbourne next month as she prepares to head overseas with her latest record, Secretly Susan! Having just signed to record label Twosyllable, the artist looking ahead to a bright 2016, with international touring on the cards and a spot at Splendour all on the horizon. Sui Zhen’s Melbourne…
