The state of Australian music festivals over the past few months have been bleak with popular and much-loved music festival, Soundwave, facing its cancellation. However, new tour dates for Splendour In The Grass have been announced and we couldn’t be more stoked! This year the festival will take place at North Byron Parklands on Friday…
The Bennies have been a favourite in the Australian punk scene. With fans eager to listen to new material since their 2013 record, Rainbows in Space, it’s been announced that they will be releasing their 2016 record, Wisdom Space, described as an 11-track journey to the minds of the band. The record’s anticipated release date…
2015 was a massive year for Sydney, Blue Mountains based hip-hop artist, Tuka. With his third solo record, Life Death Time Eternal, topping the charts (debuted at #6 on the ARIA charts), selling out his first solo tour in Australia and making his first trip ever to the USA – both playing shows in full capacity…
Ben Abraham has linked up with Oh Yeah Wow to make a stunning film clip for his new music video for latest single “You and Me”. The video producers, who have been behind clips by the likes of The Jezabels and Gotye, brilliantly captured the broodiness and intimacy of the song with the visuals, depicting…
They’re contenders for the APRA Song of the Year and they recently dropped into Falls Festival for a set or two. Let’s take a look back at Hiatus Kaiyote‘s sophomore album that propelled them further than they thought they could go. That’s right, we’re talking about future-soul, funk time travellers Hiatus Kaiyote and Choose Your…
Jordan Rakei has been whipping up quite the reputation for himself around the globe recently as a must-see artist, with live shows going down incredibly well and off the back of his recent collaboration with Disclosure, the now London-based Australian has cultivated a strong fanbase that has only continued to grow in size and enthusiasm….
Oh, Facebook. An avenue through which many a rumour can start, many hopes can be raised and much excitement can be generated. At the very least, that’s what At The Drive In have used it for today. The band posted a short snippet to their social media page with nothing but a link to their…
In This Issue: Some strange strange vibes coming out to you this week, from the away from home strangeness of RÜFÜS’s latest release to the return of Yoko Ono right over to a debut inspired by UFO’s. It’s time to expand your tastes, check it out! RÜFÜS The new album from RÜFÜS is due out…
The artist announcement for this year’s Bonnaroo festival has been dropped in memorable style, with Conan O’Brien delivering the news on Tuesday night’s (US) edition of Conan. Headlined by Pearl Jam, LCD Soundsystem and new project Dead and Company (featuring John Mayer and members of the Grateful Dead), Bonnaroo returns to Manchester, Tennessee this June!…
Laneway Festival-bound goddess Grimes has released a new music video, this time for her tune “Kill V. Maim”, just in time for us to be getting proper hyped for her upcoming festival sets! The single, taken from her forthcoming album Art Angels had its music video show over in Toronto, directed by her brother and…
Bluesfest celebrates 27 years on the Australian festival calendar in 2016 and this year, the Byron Bay affair has brought together possibly one of its strongest and diverse line ups yet. Featuring the likes of Kendrick Lamar, D’Angelo, The National, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and more, the festival ignited conversation in 2015 surrounding the…
This single from Courtney Barnett is everything we’ve come to expect from a Courtney Barnett song, and we’re definitely not complaining. Recorded as part of the new Milk! Records sampler Good For You, “Three Packs A Day” has Courtney’s effortless vocals bringing an interesting story out of something you wouldn’t expect a song to ever…
Scottish group WHITE have dropped their new music video for catchy single “Living Fiction” and we dig. The band is looking to have a pretty big 2016, with their biggest UK tour yet coming up and then a trip out to the US for SXSW also on the horizon. “Living Fiction” is a great introduction…
Sydney Festival’s late night programming at their Festival Village in Hyde Park has always been impressive. A mix of paid and free gigs that start close to midnight and remind Sydneysiders of the sort of nightlife and entertainment that this city does so well, yet seems so intent to take away from us. As the…
Disaster, dilemma, gloom and an absolutely dreadful time: It’s what Daughter do. And to be frank, they do it way too well for you to not be at least a little bit concerned about the band members’ wellbeing. Daughter, the London based trio consisting of vocalist Elena Tonra, Swede Igor Haefeli, and Frenchman Remi Aguilella,…
It’s impossible to review ★ (Blackstar), David Bowie’s 25th and, devastatingly, last album, in any subjective way given the tragic events that have passed since its release. Lyrics, especially from the title track and “Lazarus”, are now refracted through his death and are hard to interpret without his illness in mind. But, for the record, I bought…
The 20 contenders for this year’s APRA Song of the Year accolade have been announced this week, with a diverse range of Australian songwriters being acknowledged for some great releases through 2015. There were thousands of votes taken in over the last month or so, with a mix of established artists and emerging frontrunners on…
Australia’s first fan-funded heavy music festival, Legion Music Fest, has decided to change the dates of the debut festival to January 2017 Australia Day weekend, after extended discussions with industry partners, bands and the Legion Fan council, John Sankey and the Legion Music Fest team. “We did everything in our power to make Legion happen this…
With only days left to vote for triple j’s Hottest 100, your favourite bands still have a shot of landing their 2015 releases somewhere in the countdown, hopefully near the top! While at Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie, Larry checks in with a range of the artists performing to see what their favourite…
Urthboy has dropped the next little taster of a track from his upcoming album today, “Second Heartbeat” and has demonstrated to the Australian hip-hop mainstay’s ability to link up cleverly with talented individuals who stand out on their own, rather than be relegated to backing vocalist/drowned out guest vocalist duties. For this tune, Urthy’s brought…
After the success of the debut album Atlas, RÜFÜS took time out to head to Berlin to create their sophomore album Bloom. John Goodridge spoke to drummer James Hunt from the band about the making of the album. How are you feeling about the new album? I’m really excited. I only feel like I got…
In our 102nd instalment of “Stumbled Upon”, we meet London’s King Charles, chat about song writing, Dylan, Mercury and Bowie and get a sneak peak at his latest release, Gamble For A Rose. Name: King Charles Website / Social Media: kingcharlesmusic.com Facebook / Twitter Genre: Pop / Rock / Alternative Members & their roles: King Charles…
Photo by: Jamie Williams Oh you pretty things. As Hyde Park’s Sydney Festival Village heaved with people paying their last respects to the one and only David Bowie, a little band from New Zealand played a nice venue called the Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent. They were The Chills and they played a set that was brimming…
Adelaide’s SKIES have been busy already this year, not wasting any time in capitalising on the success 2015 brought them. Touted as one of your classic next big things to come out of SA, the trio have recently wrapped up work on their next single, one we’re excited to hear more of. Their tune…
Irish indie duo Heathers came on to our radar when we linked up with them at SXSW in 2014 – Dublin sisters Ellie and Louise McNamara were making great waves through the festival with their stunning voices great music we got to know more of on their Kingdom album. This year, Heathers have kicked things…
Photo: Jamie Williams Sydney’s State Theatre was mostly hustle and bustle when Ethiopian-born and Finnish singer-songwriter Mirel Wagner graced the stage solace with an acoustic guitar as she fixed herself to a lone stool. A wealth of applause filled the room as she announced her impending ballads, and the chatter reignited. Wagner fought through hundreds…
Brisbane does good pop. I don’t think anybody is disputing this fact but it definitely should merit some more mentions here and there. I don’t know what it is about bands coming out of the Sunshine State in recent years, but they’ve been churning out some great material that has been piquing the interest of…
Okay, so maybe Kanye West’s “GOOD Fridays” series isn’t exactly back on track. Many thought the Chicago rapper-producer would be releasing a new song every Friday in the lead-up to the highly anticipated Swish, much like he did in the weeks before My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was released in 2010. While we were wrong…
Positioned as one of the must-see shows of the 2016 program, Sydney Festival mainstay Meow Meow‘s The Little Mermaid is entertaining audiences nightly in the Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent at Hyde Park in a World Premiere production. The show is part two of Meow Meow’s “Little” trilogy – the first part of which, Little Match Girl, was seen at…
It’s safe to say that as of 2016, this is most definitely the internet’s world and we’re just existing in it. Gone are the days where teenagers would suffer the desperation and angst associated with the dreaded dial-up tone – now, these kids are launching massive careers by posting videos of themselves singing, dancing, performing…
