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…
In December, US musician and songwriter Jenny Lee Lindberg released her debut album right on!, her first foray into solo work outside of Warpaint. Under jennylee, Lindberg made a record that holds an instant appeal to fans of Warpaint in the establishment of some dreamy soundscapes, but the songs on right on! have a intimate…
It feels like it’s been a long time coming but finally, fans will be able to get their hands on the debut DMA’s album Hills End, next month! It’s another step forward for the band who, through 2015, have been firmly establishing themselves as international favourites as well as Australian legends, with sets at Bonnaroo,…
Horror My Friend may have taken a while in crafting this beast of a debut record but the wait is most certainly worth it; the Adelaide band has come out guitars thrashing, confident and ambitious – the trio has harnessed some well established post-punk/90’s rock influences in producing a record that isn’t scrappy. It’s aggressive…
Dappled Cities are giving fans a taste of some long awaited and much anticipated new material with a special gig in Sydney next month! We haven’t really heard much from the band since touring 2012’s Lake Air wrapped up, but they’ve been working away on the upcoming fifth Dappled studio release and no doubt there’s…
20 year old Amber Bain aka The Japanese House is gearing up for her first ever Australian show tonight when I’m put through to her. Flying in from the UK in time to witness Sydney’s manic storm yesterday, any signs of jet lag or nerves surrounding her upcoming gig aren’t evident at all. “The first…
Rock band. Industrial work site. A lot of metal. Noise. The perfect setting for Monster Truck‘s new music video, no? “Don’t Tell Me How To Live” is an excellent little package of hard hitting riffs, classic hard rock vocal and well, it’s a lot of damn fun to listen to. Taken from the Canadian band’s…
Along with the announcement of their first album in five years (if we don’t count their film soundtrack work) comes the new single from Explosions in the Sky, “Disintegration Anxiety”. Opening with ambient an ambient soundscape, this track builds into crunchy and intense drums backing ambient post-rock guitars we’ve come to know as the band signature….
Today’s video of the day comes from Sydney’s Charlie Forster Anderson with a unique and well-executed concept involving a heap of post-it notes and an out of focus urban Sydney background. The track itself hails from Anderson’s debut LP Long Story Short which will be out March 16 and promises to be compulsory listening based…
New Zealand is about to get their first taste of a festival like no other! Auckland City Limit hits Western Springs Stadium in March with Kendrick Lamar and The National topping the bill, while some sick additions in Sydney’s Gang of Youths and Melbourne’s Jarryd James among the latest additions to the whopping lineup! With the…
He won us over completely at the Falls Festival before New Year’s and it would seem that the rest of the country is in for a similar experience, with Hein Cooper revealing a whopping amount of live shows to take him right into March. The songwriter’s debut album The Art of Escape is coming out…
