“Wierd Al” Yankovic has just released his video for “Perform This Way” – a parody of “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga. The video sees Weird Al’s face CGI’d onto a female’s body, as they run through some of Lady Gaga’s stranger outfit choices, as well as making up a few strange ones of their…
Born in Brooklyn, schooled in Boston and currently based in Los Angeles, independent singer, songwriter and Producer Jim Bianco has been waiting a long time to come to Australia. And earlier tonight he played his first ever show on Australian shores – supporting good friend Joshua Radin at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney. Ahead of…
Tomorrow night, Steve Kilbey is joining Peter Koppes and Tim Powles from The Church for a one-off intimate performance at the Red Rattler in Sydney, to raise money and awareness for Autism Spectrum Australia. I had the honour of catching up with Steve last week to chat about the initiative, his work with Ricky Maymi…
The Telstra Road to Discovery launched nationally last night with a huge night of live music at The Basement in Sydney. Playing the event were Tim Rogers (You Am I), Ella Hooper (Killing Heidi/The Verses), Mick Thomas (Weddings, Parties, Anything), Charles Jenkins (Ice-cream Hands) and Karl Broadie. Plus, former winners >Tenielle (WA), Luke Webb (NSW),…
Brooklyn based trio The Antlers took the world by storm with their glorious LP Hospice back in 2009 and are continuing to win hearts across the globe with the recent release of their follow up record Burst Apart. The AU review caught up with front man Pete Silberman to find out what it’s all about….
We’re back with another six videos for Music Video Monday. We kick things off with our video of the week. It’s Set Sail performing “Bittersweet Symphony” in their underwear at Desigual London. Here’s the back story from the band: Barcelona label Desigual’s “Come half-naked, Leave dressed” London promotion promising free outfits to the first 100…
I was expecting a night of surprises and nuttiness with this night of some odd sounds at The Tote (well, when isn’t there nuttiness at The Tote?), and I got more of the latter than the former. However those surprises and nuttiness at the end of the night were not something to take really in…
When the documentary Ain’t In it for My Health begins, we are rather abruptly thrown into the world of Levon Helm, the former drummer/vocalist of The Band. We find the chain-smoking singer from Arkansas in a very different period of his life than where we left him over 30 years ago in Scorsese’s iconic film…
PNAU return with single #2, “Solid Ground”, from their eagerly anticipated album Soft Universe (out July 22, 2011). It sounds like the Empire of the Sun days really rubbed off on Mr. Nick Littlemore…
You may not have heard of Kordan, but something tells me they will soon be topping ‘next big thing’ lists. After all, this is the band who were handpicked by Australia’s Cut Copy in 2008 as opening act for their North American tour on the strength of their debut EP. Emerging from Puerto Rico’s burgeoning…
Bon Iver‘s new album ‘Bon Iver’ is out tomorrow (Friday 17th June) on Jagjaguwar/Inertia. We’ve been listening to it on repeat in our offices all week and we can’t wait for you all to hear it! In the meantime, here’s the music video for single “Calgary”. It’s a stunningly beautiful track (we’d expect no less)…
Liam Finn releases his new acclaimed album FOMO tomorrow, and to celebrate we’ve got the frosty music video for his brand new single “Cold Feet”. The title has been taken quite literally! Poor Liam… he looks so cold. In my humble opinion it’s the best single Liam has released to date – but we’ll let…
In celebration of the new clip from Guineafowl – the ridiculously catchy “Little Fingers” (an early contender for Australian song of the year – seriously loving it!) which you can view at the end of the article – we’re going to look back at five of our favourite backwards video clips. This was a surprisingly…
This was the second of the Women Of Soul nights featured at The Toff, the first night last week was a stellar showcase of voices and I was hoping that we’d be stepping up the uber-fun soul and funk vibe of last week. I walked into the gig misjudging the start and missed a few…
Hailing from Ethiopia, Dereb The Ambassador has been one of the most talked about Sydney based artists in quite some time. He’s going to be playing at GoodGod Small Club next Friday night, July 1st – so we thought we’d have a brief catch up with Dereb himself in anticipation of the show… Thanks for…
Local five piece Fever Artiste are set to explode with the release of their debut EP Miami Girls. The selection of tracks featured on the record display a sense of fun and adventure that have all been neatly packaged into three minute pop ditties that are sure to get you up and grooving on the…
Melbourne based indie act Goodnight Owl have gained a new member and shed their name to embrace new beginnings as Love Migrate. The AUreview caught up with front man Eddie Alexander to find out what it’s all about. Hi Eddie how’s your long weekend going? It’s been good thanks. I’m in Alice Springs at the…
While waiting for an interview at Canadian Music Week this past March, I was lucky enough to be introduced to an Ontarian duo who showed just how much is possible with two men, a guitar, a drum kit and a wall of beautiful distortion. The kids call it “rock and roll”. Brandyn James Aikins and…
When I first heard the following track, my initial thought was “as lazy as the lyrics are, the music is pretty damn fantastic”. While I could have guessed it was a sample, the extent to which Duck Sauce utilised the original actually quite surprised me. Here’e the original, which I’m sure you know well. And…
Welcome back to our monthly feature article, the AU crew poll! When I put the call out to our contributors about their favourite venue in Australia, I was struck by the diversity of the responses. Almost every answer was a different location, provided with a different reason. Unfortunately none of our contributors in Brisbane added…
We’re back with another Music Video Monday – this week falling on a long weekend! So we’re hoping you’re having an amazing day off. We’ll kick things off with Brisbane’s Evil Eddie and his catchy track “(Somebody Say) Evil”. Sydney band The Preachers, are next, who have brought us their new video for “Pale Rider”…
One of the early highlights of the Sydney Film Festival has been The Guard. Directed by John Michael McDonagh and starring Brendan Gleeson (above) and Don Cheadle, this unassuming Irish film is in many respects a modern day western. With McDonagh keeping the audience guessing as to where the allegiances of our ‘hero’ (Gleeson) lies,…
As part of Vivid Creative Sydney and in conjunction with the third day of the Sydney Film Festival, Friday night at the MCA celebrated the relationship between film and music with the Australian premiere screening of the Pop Art film LBF (Living Between Fucks), followed by the live stylings of Kids at Risk and Fergus…
One of the more unique events to hit the Australian touring circuit of late are the upcoming Storm in a Teacup shows. We chatted to one player of the event in advance of the tour, the lovely Jen Cloher. Head to the end of the article to find out more about what the event is…
Locals New War had the difficult task of warming the stage for the latest hipster buzz band to explode across the blogosphere Teeth & Tongue. They were slow to warm up with their first track being a dull, long drone of monotonous bass and sketchy vocals that seemed to suffer from some bad sound mixing….
I entered the doors to the sounds of Melbourne via Munich trio Verdaine, who had deep dark tones and ploughed through their set like no-one’s business. I was standing there with drink in hand trying to think whether or not the band were giving off some sort of shoegaze vibe, but at the same time,…
Earlier this month, Melbourne’s Eagle and the Worm impressed a packed out Oxford Art Factory in Sydney, celebrating the release of their debut record Good Times (in stores now). Larry Heath sat down with the band’s enigmatic front man Mr. Jarrad Brown a couple of days after that performance to talk about the road that’s…
As I was heading to this gig I started to think about weird existential issues about the Australian music scene: why isn’t soul and funk given the attention it well deserves? Hell, there are bands and singers who sweat and work to the bone to deliver great gigs each week in and around Australia, yet…
NME has released its annual top 50 list of ‘Best New Bands’ for the year. No doubt collated from the last few months scouring the world’s music conferences – in particular SXSW in Texas and The Great Escape in the UK – this is a list of relative unknowns who NME reckons will hit the…
GB3 – the collaborative musical project from Underground Lovers’ Glenn Bennie – announce a new single ‘How Do You Glow?’ on June 4 from the acclaimed album Damaged/Controlled, and will launch the single at an exclusive June 10 live show at The East Brunswick Club in Melbourne. The digital single will also feature an alternate…
