Every year, Easter in Australia means one thing for music fans: Bluesfest. The annual Byron Bay festival bringing some of the finest acts from around Australia and the world to the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm just outside of Byron – and this year the lineup is without question their finest in years. From the contemporary…
DMA’s are one of those bands who can do so much without looking like they’ve done much at all. In their lyricism, some brilliant narratives are crafted yet a no bells and whistles/smoke and mirrors approach to their brand of Britpop-licked indie music has made the Sydney group relatable to everyone in some way or…
It is one thing to sell out your first headline gig down under and it’s another to play to a room where you have the crowd’s full, phone-free attention. Canadian duo Majical Cloudz brought their Laneway 2016 set to the intimate Newtown Social Club for what proved to be a reflection on sombre emotions dispersed…
This years Groovin the Moo (GTM) is looking for local legends to get involved for the 2016 festival. The festival wants to further engage local legends, artists, volunteers, providers, students, community groups, sporting clubs and much more to highlight each local regions talents. This year holds even more initiatives for locals to get involved and be…
As we head into the third installment of this year’s Courtyard Sessions down at the Seymour Centre in Sydney, we steal some of Jordan Millar‘s time to find out more about what to be expecting from his set on Friday and what he’s currently working on. Having spent much of 2015 bringing his music to…
As part of Gold Coast’s Bleach* Festival, the streets of New Orleans will be recreated at Palm Beach on the 5th of March for the Feast Fiesta street party. The festival will see performances from The Unusual Suspects, The Bella Fontes,The Hanlon Brothers and Cheap Fakes. Along with music, the festival will feature international cuisine from local restaurants and pop-up dining…
On the back of their debut album, Hills End, set to be released February 26, DMA’s have announced the Australian dates for their worldwide Hills End Album Tour. The band will tour all major capital cities over May and June. Their highly anticipated album comes after several successful singles, including their debut single ‘Delete’. Check out the…
It was a night of tributes at the 58th Grammy Awards, with some of the biggest names in music paying homage to the likes of David Bowie, B.B King. Lionel Richie (who was named “MusiCares Person of the Year”) and Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister. The series of dazzling and heartfelt covers remained the most memorable of the…
Melbourne vocalist and producer Lisa Spencer has been crafting some special music under the moniker AURA and the next few months see this exciting talent being set up to reach more people than before. The release of her new single “Out Loud” (premiering today on the AU) is a great follow on to “New Thing”,…
Adelaide lads, the Grenadiers, are soon to be on the road for another blistering tour of Australian venues next month but before they warm back up for the gigs, they’ve given fans a new slice of heat in new single “Live Fast, Diabetes”. Self-recorded by the band and mixed by James Balderston, the newy is…
In our 106th installment of “Stumbled Upon”, we get to know a bit more about Byron Bay’s PLTS , chat about growing up in Byron and recording their latest single, “On & On”. Name: PLTS (pronounced Pilots) Website / Social Media: pltsmusic.com Facebook / Soundcloud / Instagram / Twitter Genre: Indie/Rock Members & their roles: Kit…
Straight up, Hymns is as far removed from the Bloc Party that burst on to the scene in the mid 2000’s as possible. Hymns doesn’t have a “Banquet” or “Helicopter”, and slightly misses the mark with its balladry. But, the development and reincarnation of Bloc Party on Hymns obviously didn’t want the band to be…
A gloriously warm, sunny Melbourne evening saw a sold out crowd descend upon Melbourne Zoo for Birds of Tokyo‘s gig as part of the Zoo Twilights series. The Zoo Twilights run for two weeks, with all proceeds going towards fighting the extinction of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot. As the sun slowly made its way to…
First off, who is this Pablo to whom Kanye West refers with his album title, The Life of Pablo? Picasso? Neruda? Escobar? Is he inexplicably trying to revive Petey Pablo’s career? Referencing Radiohead’s classic debut? Maybe he is likening himself San Pablo (St. Paul), another biblical reference following the religious megalomania of Yeezus. Most likely…
The Adelaide Fringe Festival kicked off in spectacular style over the weekend, with artists and the public taking to the streets of the city’s CBD for a parade that lit up the night. Second only to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Adelaide event signals the beginning of the fringe/comedy circuit for many, while thousands upon…
Keep Sydney Open have come together with local musicians and speakers for a special public rally event to take place at Belmore Park next weekend on February 21st in response to the ever-mounting levels of discontent with the State Government’s lockout laws and the effect they’re having on businesses within Sydney’s CBD. The rally will…
Man, does this new Gypsy & The Cat tune feel fresh. I remember back a few years ago, the duo was everywhere off the back of Gilgamesh and it also felt like they drowned out every other indie-pop act pounding the pavement for a little while there. Then, Gypsy & The Cat went away. They…
In the country as a part of the touring St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Las Vegan Indie Dance Popper Shamir graced the stage of the Oxford Art Factory and rightly showed his Sydney fans a real good time. Opening up the balmy Thursday night was local artist Jess Kent. Having started the year with a debut…
There’s a new country supergroup in town – and they’re called the Outlaws. Well, Adam Brand and The Outlaws, to be correct. Made up of Brand, Travis Collins, Matt Cornell, Drew McAlister (of McAlister Kemp fame) and Mike Carr (the creative genius behind musical comedy character, Buddy Goode), they’ve been stirring up trouble all over…
Released mid last year, Vince Staples‘ double-album debut Summertime ‘06 was praised as a clever, vivid, and blunt entry into the long history of reality-rap coming out of L.A, fully delivering on the potential the 22 year old rapper had been showing across four mixtapes and one very well-received EP. That potential shifts well to…
Somehow I’ve managed to miss CHVRCHES every time they’ve come out to Australia, and as they tour with Laneway Festival, I finally found out what I’ve been missing out on. Selling out two weekday shows at The Forum in Melbourne is no mean feat, and if anyone were to deservingly do so, the Scottish trio…
In this week’s State of Affairs, we talk Sydney lock out laws, look at the growing music market in Germany, announce the Queensland Music Awards nominees and look at the AIR charts for the week! Lock-out Laws: Episode VI – Return of the Musician Over the last week, the boiling tension behind Sydney’s Lockout Laws…
James Blake has just released a new single “Modern Soul” on his BBC 1 Radio show and it’s full of his incredible voice and instantly recognisable piano style. There’s no word of when his highly anticipated third album will come out or if this one’s a cut from it, but it certainly makes us excited…
Today, Adam Young celebrates the release of his debut solo record, Elementary Carnival Blues – an album that has seen the musician dive into some stellar alternative country sounds and work with some incredibly talented types along the way. While his work with seminal bands in Daisygrinders and Big Heavy Stuff perhaps would indicate a…
After the shock announcement that Prince will be touring Australia and New Zealand at the end of this month with his concept live show, Piano & A Microphone, the Purple One has decided to up and spread the Aussie love outside of just Sydney and Melbourne. The legendary musician will now be heading the Perth…
We should expect it by now, but the masters of the one-take music video have gone and done blown our minds once again. For their new single “Upside Down & Inside Out”, the US quartet have convinced a S7 Airlines to send them weightless. In an actual aircraft. For a perfectly time, free-floating, magnificent adventure. I…
Perched dangerously close to the edge of the stage, Battles‘ signature skyscraping cymbal lingered precariously over the crowd as the New York band’s fans eagerly awaited their long anticipated return to Sydney. Guitarist and bassist Dave Konopka emerged first, busy looping his effects on the ground, a guitar draped over his shoulder. There was a slow build as guitarist/keyboardist Ian Williams came on and then, finally,…
As we continue to hurtle through the opening months of 2016, Art vs Science have gone and reminded us this week that their tour is coming up just as quickly, with the release of a brand spanking new video for “Chosen One”! Shot and directed by the band, the music video for their new single…
Ali Robertson is a name you’re sure to be hearing more of through 2016 – the Scot is making some damn fine music and to enter the weekend, his new single “Something About Your Love” is a pearler. The tune, as an introduction to this exciting artist’s potential, is smooth and darkly enticing, similar to…
Yesterday morning, many Australians in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney woke up early to stream an unprecedented worldwide listening party-cum-fashion show by Chicago emcee Kanye West, debuting his new album, The Life of Pablo in full (or so we thought). So far, the album has been very well received if publications across the globe are anything…
