Music

We catch up with Andrew Knox from Sydney band – and good friends of the AU – Made in Japan to talk about their UK adventures earlier this year, their new music, their upcoming shows in Sydney and Melbourne and much more! …you recently took on the streets of London – How did you find…

A record 26,000 runners braved the rain to run in the five kilometre night time fun run event, making it the biggest stand alone 5km event in Australian history. Brought to us by Wilkie Productions, enjoy these photos from the run and the big dance party that followed, featuring DJ Dingo and Alison Wonderland! The…

Our good friends in Melbourne’s goodbyemotel are continuing their tour around America. Enjoy part three of their adventures around the country in this very special tour diary feature video!

the AU review challenges Nick and Paul from Franz Ferdinand to a quiz on some “fun facts” about Australia.

This week the Australian leg of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Old Ideas World Tour’ arrived in Western Australia with a packed show at the Perth Arena. At 79 years old, Cohen doesn’t look to be slowing down any, treating his Perth fans to a three-hour set, that featured, a good twenty songs and not one, but two…

the AU review sits down with Nick and Paul from Franz Ferdinand in Sydney, Australia to talk about all their adventures around the world, their return to Australia, performing their new album live and much more…

Franz Ferdinand played the Metro Theatre on Friday night with support from Shining Bird. Gwendolyn Lee was there and brings us these photos from the pit.

Electronic music isn’t what it used to be – where there once were clear lines between house, dance and rock, Australian music has openly taken on all technology so that there is a fusion of the best parts of each genre. Melbourne’s World’s End Press and Sydney trio Movement take on big sound for a…

A little more than a month after Neutral Milk Hotel kicked off their reunion tour – their first run of shows since 1998* – in Baltimore, Maryland, the iconic group have made the journey down to Australia for their first ever shows in our country. To be considered so early in this reunion cycle, or…

Ahead of their appearance next weekend at Wollongong’s highly anticipated boutique music festival The Farmer and the Owl, we caught up with Luke O’Farrell from Sydney’s The Laurels to talk about the importance of events like this, growing up in Wollongong, The Drones, album number two, touring the USA and much, much more… How important…

It’s been almost four years since the John Butler Trio‘s record April Uprising was released. It went on to go platinum in Australia while the band toured the world. Now, it’s finally time for a new JBT record to see the light of day, with the band finishing up Flesh & Blood set to be…

the AU review presents Katie Noonan and Abby Dobson performing the classic Leonardo’s Bride track “Even When I’m Sleeping” in anticipation of Katie and Abby’s “Songs That Made Me Tour” which also features Angie Hart of frente and new talent Martha Marlow. The pair talk about the tour, Katie talks about her love of the…

For a band that has never headlined a tour in Australia to date, the guys from OneRepublic managed to nearly sell out the enormous Event Centre room and bring a thunderous show to the crowd filled with epic pop rock tunes and flashy production.

OneRepublic played the Star Event Centre on Tuesday night. Gwendolyn Lee was there and brings us these photos from the pit.

To celebrate the bands return to Australia for the first time in 17 years – which kicks off in Brisbane tonight – Superchunk are offering a free download of a live recording from their last visit – a performance at Melbourne’s Iconic Corner Hotel! The release is called: Clambakes Vol 7: Shut the F*ck Up!…….

We came across this track “Bob Dylan” recently. It’s from a new outfit called Cold Clinical Love. We don’t know who they are or where they’re from. We know they have a Tumblr and a Facebook though, and that voice is quite familiar… well, we’ll let you be the judge on that. In the meantime,…

With their anticiapted tour kicking off TOMORROW, we caught up with JC Carroll from legendary UK group The Members to talk about their 34 year absence from our country, what we can expect from the shows, playing Glastonbury, reuniting with Rudi Thompson for the Australian show, working with Rat Scabies and more… Having Rudi on…

Red Beard are currently on tour with Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, hitting up a huge amount of venues around the nation through until November 23rd. The Gympie act who are beginning to make waves themselves, have guitarist Michael McKiernan answer some questions the AU had for them about touring, plans for 2014 and how releasing their…

We talk to guitarist Jim Wilbur from iconic American group Superchunk who come to Australia this week to perform shows with M. Ward and Neutral Milk Hotel – the band you never thought you’d get to see but finally are getting the chance to. According to Jim, “they’re a rock band from the middle ages!”…

Currently on tour to celebrate her new single “The Good Life” we talk to Sydney producer Elizabeth Rose about the track, the tour, her recent trip to the USA for CMJ and more… Welcome back to Australia! You played your first local show in a while at Alhambra over the weekend, how did the show…

Out today on Warp through Inertia is Shields: Expanded and Shields: B-Sides, Grizzly Bear‘s special follow up their acclaimed 2012 album Shields. The track listings are below. And so is a new track being released as part of both collections: “Listen and Wait”. Enjoy! Shields Expanded Tracklist: DISC 1: 01. Sleeping Ute 02. Speak In…

Abbe May has revealed her new clip for “Perth Girls”, a homage to the clip for Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irresistible” clip. The track comes off her celebrated (and ARIA award nominated) album Kiss My Apocalypse, and is being released with a new track in “Total Control” as a double A-Side. Check out the clip here:…

the AU review sits down with Canada’s Andy Brown to talk about what he’s been up to since he last toured Australia, his latest single off the record Tinman and we look ahead to his massive Australian tour with Damien Leith, which runs through December 2013. In the videos below we also talk influences and…

Dew Process’ latest signee goes by the name MT – fronted by Michael Tomlinson of Yves Klein Blue – and they’ve released a debut single in the form of “Alpha Romeo”, which you can enjoy below! MT was born in the UK, so there’s already been a great deal of love from the likes of…

the AU review talks to actress Michele Williams talks about playing Betty in Neil LaBute’s In A Forest Dark And Deep, which is currently in an encore season at Northcote’s Winterfall at The Theatre Husk, until November 23rd. You’ve kicked off the season… how have the show(s) gone so far? So far we have only…

Playing the WAM Festival Saturday Spectacular this weekend in Perth are past WA Music Award nominees Anton Franc. I had the chance to speak to Josh Bowyer & Jamie Kuzich from the group on the day their new EP All This Talk was released… Congratulations on the release of your new EP! Yeah! It’s pretty…

We’re excited to present “Northern Lights”, the first single from DZ Deathrays forthcoming sophomore LP, which we are expecting to be released in the first half of 2014. The track was produced and mixed by Andy Savours, and it’s a bit of a change from what we’re used to from the Brisbane duo. We don’t…

Fresh from their first tour in support of the debut album Leisure Coast, Austinmer six piece Shining Bird are set to play a run of festival and one off performances during November to showcase their new single, “Keep Warm”. Following a series of self-made video clips, the band teamed up with Byron Bay production team…

Directed by Dimitri Basil, Snakadaktal‘s new music video for their single “Fall Underneath” – off their acclaimed album Sleep in the Water – has been released. The video features plenty of retro filters and a lot of motion. Check it out now! Song Lyrics: Fall Underneath. Stop your clock, fall underneath To hear the steps,…

the AU review talks to Swedish DJ and producer Adrian Lux about his new single “Wild Child”, we get some hints as to what may be on his next album, and we talk about his current Australian tour. Interview/Edit/Camera: Larry Heath Filmed on 6th November 2013 in Sydney, Australia REMAINING AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES: NEWCASTLE: King…