Music

Woodford might’ve ended a few days before, but with The Basement hosting a few of its notable acts on Friday, (soloists such as Andy Brown, Jodi Martin, and Dave Gunning, and the headlining duo Folk Uke), us Sydneysiders were treated to our own mini-folk festival.

We catch up with Sydney’s Microwave Jenny backstage at the 2011 Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie. CREDITS: Camera: Yaya Stempler; Interview/Edit: Larry Heath With thanks to Festival of the Sun staff and organisers and Microwave Jenny.

We catch up with Brisbane’s Hungry Kids of Hungary backstage at 2011 Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie. CREDITS: Camera: Yaya Stempler; Interview/Edit: Larry Heath With thanks to Festival of the Sun staff and organisers and Hungry Kids of Hungary.

We chat to Melbourne’s Brothers Grim backstage at the 2011 Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie, and also catch them in action during a serenade on the beach. As part of promotion for the festival, organisers gave away a series of prizes from the bands to attendees. Brothers Grim just so happened to offer…

Sydney Festival is as ingrained in Sydney music culture as the Hottest 100 is to Australia Day, and every year it just gets better and better. This year the festival sticks with what’s worked so well over the last few years – from Festival First Night, to the Spiegeltent and the Keystone Festival Bar (Formerly…

You may remember that in our best of lists of 2010, we rated out favourite song of the year as “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”. Well, at the end of last year, Arcade Fire finally released a film clip for the amazing song. And they didn’t just release one… here’s the official clip first: The…

We caught up with Twin Shadow to have a chat about some new and upcoming material and touring. Where are you at right now? I’m in the studio right now in California, Los Angeles So working on some new material for us? Yeah, new material, it’s great We got a little taste of some new…

We catch up with Melbourne’s The Delta Riggs backstage at the 2011 Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie. CREDITS Interview/Edit: Larry Heath; Camera: Yaya Stempler With thanks to the staff at Festival of the Sun and The Delta Riggs

We catch up with Perth’s Young Revelry backstage at the 2011 Festival of the Sun in Port Macquarie. CREDITS: Camera: Yaya Stempler; Interview/Edit: Larry Heath With thanks to Festival of the Sun staff and organisers and Young Revelry.

The irregular sleeps seemingly were getting a hold of me. Waking up with this kind of irregularity over the last five days wasn’t making me crazy, but I was certainly feeling it when I took that very cold shower. It was now day five of Woodford and I was starting to feel the effects of…

Sydney Festival has announced the official line-up of artists that will be appearing at the Jägermeister ‘Hunting Lodge’, which will be popping up in Honda Festival Garden in Hyde Park from next week, 10-29 January 2012, as a semi-permanent bar and performance space. The Jägermeister Hunting Lodge will be home to a series of intimate…

One of our favourite acts from the Peats Ridge Festival over the weekend was Brisbane ten-piece Inland Sea. They recently released their music video for “The Only One”, and we thought we should share it with you! Upcoming dates for Inland Sea: Sunday 22nd January, Big Day Out www.bigdayout.com Wednesday 25th January, The Soundlounge, Currumbin…

Reasonably bearded Seattle based six piece Fleet Foxes had an amazing 2011. Releasing their sophomore LP Helplessness Blues to rave reviews around the world – hitting Number One in Norway, Number Two in the UK, Number Four in the US and Number Six on the Australian Charts – and touring the globe relentlessly, including a…

Fed Square’s FREE live music series, Fed Square Live presented by The Push continues through January with a line up of indie, blues, dance and rock performances by Australia’s top independent acts and emerging talent. The January line up features Bleeding Knees Club + Snakadaktal (12 January) and Stonefield + Tessa and The Typecast (19…

As we hit the second day of 2012, we take a look back at how hundreds of thousands of music fans around Australia brought in 2012 through a string of events on New Years Eve and New Years Day. PEATS RIDGE FESTIVAL Over 10,000 music fans a day travelled to picturesque Peats Ridge – just…

New Years Eve is the most anti-climactic night out of the year and attempting to leave your house in Melbourne amongst the thousands of drunkards who take to the streets is always an interesting affair. Fortunately the crowd at the Corner Hotel were reasonably well behaved and a sizable audience gathered early to witness Ouch…

Waking up later each and every day seems to be a regular thing for me these days. It happened at Meredith, and it’s happening at Woodford. The third day is upon us and I was up at the sunny dawn of 8am. The previous two days saw me awake at the fairly reasonable hours (if…

Heading through the gates in the pitch black of night and then pitching the tent up in those conditions wasn’t the most ideal start, but it’s kind of the way with these things. I guess I should be used to it by now, considering I’ve been to Meredith, Splendour and many other camping festivals ever…

I’ve arrived and settled in at Woodfordia for this years Woodford Folk Festival. Needless to say, I haven’t so much hemp clothing product in one location! Apart form all that fashion craziness, all has been quiet of the perfomance front, except from the odd poet and person on stilts. However, I’m sure that will all…

We’re back with the top half of our top 20 countdown albums of 2011 list, and like all those before it, it’s an electic pile of music from around the world that our contributors have been loving over the last 12 months. Let’s get it started! Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee II “The most…

As voted by the AU review contributors, here are our favourite 11 music videos of 2011, which continues Gotye and Kimbra‘s sweep of our 2011 awards. Unlike the last countdowns, we’ll let the videos speak for themselves…. 11. Bluejuice – Act Yr Age 10. Liam Finn – Jump Your Bones 9. Big Scary – Gladiator…

Let’s dive right into the final batch of favourite tracks of 2011, as voted by AU review contributors! The number one choice won by a landslide and we reckon this is a pretty good indication of what’s to come for the Hottest 100… does anyone else really stand a chance? Read on! 10. “Stay, Please…

And we’re here! It’s time to announce the top 10 albums of 2011, as voted by the contributors of the AU review. But before we get there, you may remember we had an album on the list released back in 2010 (Grinderman 2)… so we’re going to kick off our final countdown with a look…

Let’s dive right into the next batch of favourite tracks of 2011, as voted by AU review contributors! 20. In 2011, this Melbourne based band became fast favourites of the live scene, with their catchy riffs, energetic stage presence and tracks like this one, which stick with you long after you turn it off… The…

Fresh from playing the Vanguard in Sydney, we catch up with the UK’s Gemma Ray, who’s currently on a tour around the country, to talk about her forthcoming record Island Fire and more. You can catch Gemma at Peats Ridge Festival next week! Let’s talk Island Fire, due for release in February – have you…

Returning to Australia next month for a performance at Sugar Mountain Festival in Melbourne alongside a few other shows, we catch up with Petey Dammit of San Francisco group Thee Oh Sees, to talk about their new record and more… Let’s talk about your latest album release, Carrion Crawler/The Dream. Where did you record the…

We return with the next batch of our favourite albums of 2011… Arctic Monkeys – Suck It and See “Arctic Monkeys can do no wrong. Seriously. Even with a slightly more chilled out album than previous ones, it still rocks my socks.” – Karina Carroll Tyler, The Creator – Goblin “Gotta put GOBLIN as my…

Today we kick off our top 40 countdown for Albums of 2011. This was a hotly contested race, and much like the top 40 tracks of 2011, it’s a highly eclectic mix of the year’s finest local and international releases. This list was voted on by the contributors of the AU review and compiled by…

Let’s dive right into the next batch of favourite tracks of 2011, as voted by AU review contributors! 30. We kick off the second part of our countdown with what is easily one of the catchiest tracks of the year, by a band who will have made no less than three trips to Australia in…