Music

For those of you who haven’t been keeping tabs on our coverage of the Los Angeles based festival Culture Collide over the last week, let me bring you up to date. From last Wednesday night until Saturday, a series of live events took over a variety of venues in the Echo Park/Silverlake area of Los…

And the music continues! We kicked things off on day two with the Dutch Impact Party and enjoyed the sweet sounds of bands from The Netherlands. Unfortunately we missed Death Letters (more on them later in week), but made it just in time to see the energetic performance from De Staat. Their brand of heavy…

My third night at Culture Collide was a rather brief affair due to other engagements, but I got to catch some fantastic performances from a couple of bands I know very well, and a couple others I didn’t know much about at all… First up were Netherlands based duo Death Letters. With both members under…

Cathartic is an appropriate term to describe the new sounds being made by Sydney based troubadour Roland Ellis and his musical cohorts – Ernest Ellis & The Panamas. With a separation from their label and a slight alteration to the band’s name their new direction has been firmly established and their latest LP Kings Canyon…

Following a special evening of Culture Collide celebrations on Wednesday night, which included the LA premiere screening of Nirvana: Live at the Paramount (which literally had people cheering in their seats), a special DJ set from The Rapture and some entertaining dancing courtesy of Playstation Move, the festival officially kicked into gear last night with…

Wow. The weather gods do NOT like Parklife. Is it just me or does it rain on the first Sunday of every October? Though we avoided a torrential downpour, the rain did little to stop the punters from jumping in the mud – and the extreme cold did little to stop the rest from taking…

Sydney trio Cameras are the next big thing in Australian music and they’re sure to have the hype machine buzzing in the lead up to the release of their debut LP this month. In Your Room is a fantastical record that plays on the light and darkness that lives within all of us. Cameras sound…

Larry Heath catches up with Canberra electronic duo The Aston Shuffle backstage at Parklife Sydney.

Larry Heath catches up with New Zealand group The Naked & Famous backstage at Parklife to chat about their rising popularity around the world, what’s next for the band, Lollapalooza and how the Parklife tour has been going…

Backstage at Parklife, Larry Heath catches up with German electronic duo Digitalism to chat about touring Australia, the world, their new album – and releasing a greatest hits record!?

Thunder Love play Lewisham Livehouse in the Lewisham Hotel & Pete Dovgan was there to catch the action

While they were in town for Counter Revolution, Larry sat down to chat with Forest and Joe from California’s power-pop band HelloGoodbye to talk about their tour, their new album, and… real estate prices. What have been some of the highlights of the tour so far? Joe: Everything’s great. We love Australia – we just…

Alan Palomo, better known as Neon Indian, rose to prominence in the chillwave explosion of 2009 and while the genre is now to music what MySpace is to social networking, Palomo has adapted and evolved his sound, proving that he’s no one trick pony with his brilliant sophomore LP Era Extraña. The acid-infused, bedroom recordings…

In today’s society, the rising trend of music collaborations is becoming a sure-fire way to expand the fanbase, either through the release of singles, albums, or even one-off live performances. It was recently announced that legendary jazz crooner, Tony Bennett, scored his first #1 album with the release of the aptly titled Duets II, working…

Field Day, synonymous with New Year’s Day for young Sydneysiders is back to throw down its 12th serving of the very best in indie, dance and incredibly good times. The city’s original multi-stage outdoor party is renowned for the gathering of friends coming together for a fantastic fun filled first day of the year. There…

Triple J is drip feeding the BDO 2012 announcement … Here we go! Kanye West, Soundgarden, Kasabian ROYKSOPP!!!, Girl Talk, Best Boast, Cage The Elephant, The Getaway plan, Foster The People, Frenzal Rhomb, OFWGKTA, The Jezabels, Battles, Mariachi El Bronx, Parkway Drive, Architecture in Helsinki, Boy and Bear, Hilltop Hoods, The Living End, My Chemical…

It’s not long before the New Year hits (seriously!), and with it some highly anticipated shows from California’s Dum Dum Girls. And to get you even more excited, the band have just released a retro, sexy music video for their popular single “Bedroom Eyes”. Damn, so catchy cool. Check it! The track is off their…

With the always phenomenal Peats Ridge Festival (held over New Years Eve just an hour or so north of Sydney) just around the corner (hard to believe, no?), Larry Heath caught up with Festival Director Matt Grant to chat about the event, the lineup and more… How do you feel the line up has shaped…

I normally don’t head to hip hop shows. After tonight, I probably won’t head to another hip hop gig for a while. For starters, it was a very cold, very uninviting night to head on out to a gig for. I had been put in a bad mood by security already (note to self: don’t…

The Buffalo Club is the latest hipster retreat to open its doors in the CBD and the vintage 90’s crowd were in fine form as they lazily sat back and watched Sydney duo Fishing doing their thing. Fishing are beat making maestro’s and their live mixing is inspired. Their party jams would be better consumed…

Catcthing the last few songs of Albert Salt’s set was one of those special live music moments when you realise you’ve just walked in on something incredibly amazing. Albert Salt does the one-man-band thing very well and his eclectic arrangements that involve a hedonistic mix of jazz, classical and electronics were a pleasure to witness….

I sat down with DJ Minx to talk about winning the She Can DJ competition and find out what happens next! What were the steps involved in you getting into the finals of the She Can DJ Competition? I’m sure there were a lot of them. Initially it was a word of mouth competition within…

With attitude delivered through a solid combination of Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Punk, 50’s Rock n Roll, Country and Surf, Germany’s very own MAD SIN bring their much anticipated live show to Australian shores in 2011 to celebrate the release of their thirteenth album – ‘Burn and Rise’. Legendary front man Koefte DeVille recently endured several encounters…

Once every now and then a tour comes along that makes you give yourself a little pinch; just to see whether your dreaming or not, well, sit back, take a breath and get ready because this October CHOPDOG, BOMBSHELLZINE & BUDWEISER are proud to present two of FAT WRECK CHORDS heavyweight punk bands POUR HABIT…

Launching at Heffron Hall on the weekend of 15-16 October as part of Art & About Sydney 2011 is PeepShow AR, a smartphone app which will use augmented reality (AR) technology to celebrate the creative spaces and industries within the 2010 postcode. Straight from the palm of your hand, PeepShow AR will offer unique curated…

Alaska Projects, Sydney’s newest ARI, will officially launch on Wednesday 5 October 2011 with the Car Park Project; a collaboration with the City of Sydney to establish a unique artists’ project space within the forgotten mechanics’ office located in the basement of the Kings Cross Car Park. Alaska’s first exhibition, Lorem Ipsum: Opening Group Show…