Music

With sell out tours from bands like Hanson and S Club, not to mention the forthcoming tours of bands like Wheatus and Eiffel 65 thanks to Fat as Butter festival, plus the forthcoming reunion album from Soundgarden, reminiscing about the 90s seems to be all the rage at the moment. So, in the spirit of…

Last month we raved about the new Big Village compilation, and now we’re proud to be premiering the new music video for the track “Get Ya Twisted” by Klue and Billy Rose, featuring P. Smuf. Here’s with Klue had to say about the track: “One of the focuses of the Big Things Volume Two project…

Brighton hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks will arrive in Australia later this month to play Parklife around the country. We caught up with the pair to discuss their music, the tour and much more… Your debut album Stereo Typical was released last year. Since then you’ve played numerous festivals and gigs across your native UK and…

Last week at BIGSOUND in Brisbane, the AU review teams up with Press Record to put on a Beer Pong Tournament. As you do. The two day event, taking place at the Tempo over the conference lunch, saw members of The Spitfires, Violent Soho and Set Sail amongst its many players, alongside industry from Alhambra…

Three of the country’s most impressive emerging acts – Argentina, Tokyo Denmark Sweden and Them Swoops – have joined forces for a tri-state tour along Australia’s east coast this October. The second ever Triple Treat Tour follows on from the original, which featured Millions, Nantes and Northeast Party House in February and March this year….

In advance of their East Coast appearances at Parklife later this month, Irene Antoniou caught up with Sydney duo Softwar to talk about their upcoming performances, their new EP and much more… How does it feel to be claimed as ‘the ones to watch’? Its a super nice feeling and we are very happy to…

Australia’s own Karnivool continue their glorious run of overseas performances with a headlining showcase at the Bacardi NH7 Weekender, taking place over three days this November in Pune, India. Sydney’s Jinja Safari have also been announced for the event, with more Australian names expected in the coming weeks. They join a string of local acts…

Many of you will undoubtedly remember Wes Carr as the winner of Australian Idol a few years ago. Since then Carr has had a pretty eventful time. He was dropped by his label, turned a plane around, and done plenty of soul searching. Now he’s back with his debut release Blood & Bone under his…

While I’ll admit that the pun in the title convinced me to go as much as the idea of a night of female talent did, the abundance of the latter was the reason I stayed. Lily So & Co, Lucy B, Miss Little, and Rainbow Chan might have only played six song sets, but together…

The first time I speak to Tim Rogers on the phone, he’s delightful; the dream interviewee. Upbeat and charming, he calls me ma’am a lot and answers discursively; seguing smoothly from the book he’s reading about Russian poetry, to baseball and a conversation he recently had with his ex-wife about the Irish-Jewish tradition of mourning,…

Adelaide’s City Riots play their new single “Wait For You” for our new series “the AU sessions”. Recorded in Sydney. You can view the official video clip of the single HERE and you can check them out LIVE at the following shows: Saturday, September 15th | The Liberty Social, Melbourne Tickets: $10 at the door…

After they performed an acoustic version of their latest single “Wait For You”, we sat down with the Adelaide boys from City Riots to talk about the song, the upcoming album and what’s in store for the rest of 2012… Camera: Nathan Atkins Interviewer/Edit: Larry Heath

Being the first time that I’ve ever been there, I was surprised with Ding Dong Lounge being a little smaller than I expected. Lit like a sixties hippie club with a nice large bandroom which can be identified in a way as “out the back” felt cosy and inviting in a mysterious sort of way….

Tomorrow night, the winner of the 2012 She Can DJ competition will be crowned at a massive party at The Ivy in Sydney. All TEN finalists caught up with us to talk about their favourite songs and let us in on how they get into the DJ scene… stay tuned to find out the winner!…

Henry Wagons is just about to release his first ever solo record, Expecting Company?; on September 28th to be precise. To help celebrate the release, he’ll be going on a national tour in November, bringing along a bunch of “hotshot vagabonds” he’s calling The Unwelcome Company. This group includes the Wagons rhythm section, as well…

Heading to The Grace Emily on a chilly Thursday night to see Tim Hart of Sydney’s Boy & Bear, there were two words I definitely didn’t expect to hear that evening (or ever, really): “testy” and “pop”. Yes, “testy pop”. Uttered at least twice by the Sydney indie-folk singer, songwriter, guitarist and, well… amateur comedian….

Heading our way in January for the Big Day Out, punk outfit OFF!, headed by the legendary Keith Morris (Circle Jerks/Black Flag), have just released a 80s VHS inspired music video to accompany two tracks off their debut self-titled album, “Borrow and Bomb” and “I Got News For You”. The hilarious video features News Radio‘s…

Last year, popular video game chain EB Games launched a gaming expo in Australia, the EB Expo, targeted at both the general public and industry. Taking place on the Gold Coast, the event was a huge success. Over three days this October, the Expo returns for a bigger and better installment set to take over…

Heath Media – parent company of the AU review – continues supporting the local music scene by today proudly announcing the return of CAPTURED. In 2011, as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival, we sourced out 6 of Australia’s best emerging filmmakers and matched them up with 6 of the countries most exciting young acts…

Welcome to yet again, another feature! It came to me like a dream. The idea that it’s possible to have a multitude of tracks with the same title but have different contexts within them and I couldn’t be prouder of showing you two fine examples of what I’m on about. Just a word of warning…

Metric have always balanced the rock and synth-based pop sound impeccably, and no album showcases this better than their 2009 breakthrough Fantasies. And now that the band is enjoying more exposure and success (in part thanks to appearances on soundtracks like Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Twilight: Eclipse) the anticipation for their follow-up was…

While they were in Sydney last week, we caught up with Sam and Andrew of Brisbane’s The Jungle Giants to talk about spilling beers on Last Dinosaurs, touring, music, good fun times and much more…

Before I headed along to The Standard on Thursday night to see New Zealand’s Die! Die! Die!, who we have featured many times over the years on the AU review, it occurred to me that I’d never before witnessed the explosive trio. For shame, I told myself… for shame. So it was with little hesitation…

Guess what’s back, back again… Riff Off’s back, tell a friend… or fifty. Just when you thought it was done and dusted, the notion of sampling music is still thriving and in some cases, giving an extra edge or dimension to an otherwise well-versed track. That was the idea for New York-based rapper, Outasight, who…

There are only a handful of bands that people regularly talk about never getting the chance to see live. It burns in their soul and gnaws at them incessantly. Refused fit perfectly into the category as one of those legendary bands however on January 9, 2012 they announced to the world that they were indeed……

We catch up with Grant Redgan, singer and guitarist of Brisbane outfit The Oyster Murders to talk about their new record Winter of the Electric Sun, working with ‘Magoo’, their influences, CMJ and much more… Why did you decide to call yourselves The Oyster Murders and what does it mean? Do you find people expect…

One of the biggest music festivals in the world is the CMJ Music Marathon, which hosts 1,300 live performances across over 80 nightclubs and venues scattered around Manhattan and Brooklyn. Yesterday the festival unveiled its first lineup and as is usually the case, many Australian bands will be taking part, with The Presets topping the…

After prickling up a few ears with their debut single “Half of It” last year, Sydney based production duo YesYou – Jono Kirkham and Gav Parry – have released a new single and music video in “Frivolous Life”, which features Marcus Azon from Jinja Safari on vocal duties. The track is the first single off…

Fresh from her announcement high atop the CMJ lineup, Kimbra will be returning to NSW in December to headline the annual Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie, alongside Dead Letter Circus, Hermitude, Husky, DZ Deathrays, the return of The Datsuns and much more… Here’s the full lineup: Kimbra, Dead Letter Circus, Hermitude, The Datsuns,…

Before speaking to Sam, a little birdie in the form of a helpful PR assistant mentioned jokingly that he was a “charmer”. Of course, I was immediately intrigued. But the image of a smooth John Mayer type character was quickly replaced by a chilled, down-to-earth 23-year-old who really loves what he does. That happens to…