Music

Nick Douwma, the man behind Sub Focus chats to John Goodridge about his recent album Torus and his upcoming tour with Future Music Festival. Hi Nick, thanks for taking the time today to talk to the AU Review. Your new album, Torus is a great album, which has just been released in Australia. The opening…

The fourth annual Filter Magazine Culture Collide Festival has kicked off in Silverlake in Los Angeles, serving as a lead in for next week’s CMJ Festival in New York and embracing music from all around the world – including three acts from Australia: Miami Horror, Plastic Plates and The Novocaines. The festival has launched with…

Rose Wintergreen may be in the middle of her co-headlining tour with Rosie Catalano, but she still has time for her fans. Emily Booth caught up with Rose about her hectic year: awards confusion, musical evolution, crowdfunding, and sand. Lots of sand.

Another year and another Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival has come to an end. My second consecutive year at the event, it was a truly phenomenal weekend of music where I discovered new talent, caught up with some old favourites – and saw a few legends who I never thought I’d have the chance…

Larry catches up with Radio Personality and Comedian Tim “Rosso” Ross to talk about working in radio, his upcoming performances in Australia and overseas and much more… Find out more about Rosso’s upcoming dates at his official website here: http://timross.com.au/ – or on his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/rossoworld.

Austin City Limits Festival – much like the TV show from which it stems – is as much about the new acts as it is about the well established ones – and so it’s only natural that you’ll discover a few new favourites in your visit to the festival. Ahead of the event’s second weekend,…

Larry sits down in the Austin Airstream at Austin City Limits (ACL) 2013 with Kevin Parker from Perth’s Tame Impala. We talk about life on the road since their latest record Lonerism was released 12 months ago – how easy it is to forget what’s happening (and what’s happened) one day to the next –…

Larry sits down at Austin City Limits 2013 with two parts of Franz Ferdinand to talk about their latest record (Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action), the American tour, their return to Australia next month, Neutral Milk Hotel and the unfortunate fall of Harvest Festival, cameras, a new iPhone app idea…and see what happens when…

Having missed them at Austin City Limits over the weekend, and witnessing way too little of their set at Splendour earlier this year, I was pretty excited to get the chance to see Irish up-and-comers Little Green Cars at the intimate Echo in Silverlake, California. In what is the band’s second US jaunt since they…

Following their four WAM nominations, Perth’s Rainy Day Women returned home from a national tour to launch their latest single “Ain’t It Time?” at Perth’s Amplifier Bar. Completing the bill were fellow locals PUMBA, Our Man In Berlin and 44th Sunset. Opening proceedings were PUMBA, playing only their second ever show. Not that you would…

Hello. We are sleepmakeswaves. We make instrumental rock music. Some people call it ‘post-rock’, we prefer to call it ‘love songs about delay pedals’. We are embarking on a tour of Europe with a band called 65daysofstatic. They sound kinda like us, but are slightly older, probably a little better and British. It will be…

Regurgitator played the Hi-Fi on Friday night with support from Wampire, Super Best Friends and Bruce. Gwendolyn Lee was there and brings us these photos from the pit.

Larry sits down with LA based duo Electric Guest to talk about their time between full length records, their recently released EP, what we can expect from the next album, their experiences in Australia, whether or not they have plans to return and more!!

Big Scary have just finished touring nationally with Bernard Fanning and are soon to head to the Carlton Dry Independent Music Awards, where they are up for three nominations, including best independent artist and best independent album for their latest Not Art. Big Scary have released their two albums through their own label Pieater. We…

Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to catch up with the amazing Nicky Bomba under several guises. From his solo material, to his work with John Butler and now the 26-piece Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Nicky has been a very busy man in the Australian music industry. Focusing much of his attention at the moment…

With the recent cancellation of the second date of Big Day Out, we’re once again shown that even the most ambitious of festival promoters are having to… well, reconsider their ambitions. It’s more than safe to say that Big Day Out isn’t going anywhere, especially with the management shuffle, but what of the rest? Summadayze…

Danny Harley is making some pretty special music under the moniker of The Kite String Tangle, this much is true. We sent him some questions about the musical fields he’s dabbling in currently, how he got into electronic sounds and what we can be expecting from him as he prepares for a November tour! Tell…

Australian Hardcore and Metal outfit Hellions have just released their debut record Die Young, and unleashed the latest video for their new song “The Penultimate Year”. We caught up with the group to talk through this, Miley Cyrus and much more… You’ve just released “Die Young”. how long has the album been completed before its…

Larry talks to the up-and-coming rock and roll star out of the USA Nikki Hill, who’s one of the young talented artists featured in the early announcements of the 2014 Byron Bay East Coast Blues and Roots Festival. We talk about her music, rock and roll, AC/DC and much, much more… Tickets to Bluefest over…

I had an opportunity to good to turn down: sit down with Felix Riebl from The Cat Empire and chat over some Yum Cha at the Marigold in Sydney! You can listen to the full chat below. Enjoy the sound of… food! We talk about their new album, their current tour and much more…

Larry catches up with Jason Swinscoe of famed ensemble The Cinematic Orchestra to talk about their upcoming trip to Australia for GRAPHIC festival, working with The Light Surgeons for the event, their latest music and much, much more… listen on! The group will also appear at Melbourne Festival. Don’t miss The Cinematic Orchestra with The…

Last week I took some time to look back at my favourite interviews from 2012’s Austin City Limits Festival. But as this weekend will see us return to the festival in question, we thought it was about time we look forward to the festival, rather than back, and give you our top 10 picks of…

After heading on sale at Noon today, Future Music Festival sold out its first release allocation of tickets in 35 minutes in Sydney, under two hours in Melbourne and just over three and a half hours in Brisbane. Second release tickets are on sale now in these cities, while First release allocations remain in Perth…

Larry chats to Jon Fratelli from Glasgow’s The Fratellis to talk about returning from a hiatus, producing their new record We Need Medicine – which is out next month – their “strange mix” of Australian fans, what the band learnt in their time apart and much more… We Need Medicine is out in Australia on…

The Drones played the Metro Theatre on Saturday night with support from Harmony. Gwendolyn Lee was there and brings us these photos from the pit.

Larry sits down with Leeds, UK based DJ and Producer Miguel Campbell at Listen Out in Sydney to talk about his music, performing around the world, his Outcross Records Label (which is currently celebrating its 7th birthday), the changes in the music industry over the last decade and much more… Interview: Larry Heath Edit/Camera: Nathan…