The fact that women are such a big part of the WOMADelaide Festival is no accident. With women on the management team, and as decision makers, artists and presenters, made celebrating International Women’s Day such a natural and beautiful thing. The mood of the day was one of nurturing and celebrating the beauty inside whilst…
It was a glorious autumn day in Adelaide’s Botanic Park for the second day of WOMADelaide, the world’s music, arts and dance festival. Families have set up picnic rugs, whilst roving performers, Born in a Taxi pranced around as zebras and kids exercised their creativity in Studio Ruby Chew‘s pop-up wonderland. The event hosts a…
When Jennifer Lopez released Rebirth in March 2005, expectations were enormous – perhaps impossibly so. The album arrived in the long shadow of two pop-cultural juggernauts: J.Lo (2001) and This Is Me… Then (2002), records that helped define early-2000s pop and R&B. Both albums produced major hits, iconic imagery, and a public persona that blurred…
Irish pop-rock outfit Picture This are about to play their first ever headline Australian shows this May, and they’re bringing Perth artist Sam McGovern along with them. Having just recently released their latest single, “Giants”, which follows their 2025 single “Yours Forever”, Picture This are rediscovering their own sound while playing some of their biggest…
Since its beginning in 2013, Canadian teen dance drama The Next Step has become an iconic piece of pop culture history for the younger generation. The overly-soapy drama, cliché plot points and dance numbers are the perfect ingredients for an addictive, entertaining watch that is suitable for kids. For Australians, it came as the hype…
After a little over two decades together, The Horrors are still finding new ways to evolve. The British alt-rock band recently hit their 20-year milestone following the release of their latest album Night Life– a record that leans slightly into a darker, more intimate side of their sound. With recent lineup changes reshaping the creative…
Despite some last-minute changes with artist travel plans disrupted by the sudden unrest in the Middle East, the show must go on. Inside the Botanic Gardens, it was like a sanctuary, fruit bats overhead and seven stages all playing a variety of world music. Day one of WOMADelaide 2026 kicked off in fine style. As…
Welcome back to the jungle! Celebrated rock icons Guns N’ Roses have officially confirmed their world tour is heading Down Under to a stadium near you. That’s right, it’s time to dig out your red bandana and aviators, and dry clean those tight leather pants! What can fans expect? High energy, massive riffs and the…
What a week for music at the world-famous Sydney Opera House! Complementing the already iconic line-up of Grace Jones, The Streets and Basement Jaxx, was Britpop legends, Pulp. At arguably the best outdoor venue on the circuit, the ‘On the Steps’ series welcomed Cocker and friends for two nights of playing the hits. However, this…
British rock band Pulp performed under the iconic sails of the Sydney Opera House Forecourt playing new and old songs including the classics “Disco 2000”, “This Is Hardcore”, “Do You Remember The First Time” and their biggest hit “Common People”. Frontman Jarvis Cocker prowled the stage with wry charm and the fans enjoyed a night…
Somehow it’s March already, but we’re still here with ten more new releases to add to our Discovery playlist on Spotify and Apple Music – including two singles we exclusively premiered earlier in the week. Adelaide indie rockers Sunsick Daisy take Track of the Week with their brand new single “Waiting For”. Following on from…
More than two decades after bursting onto the pop scene, Willa Ford returns with amanda, a record that feels less like a comeback and more like a personal exhale. Ford has been open about the fact that the album “was never supposed to happen,” describing how music unexpectedly resurfaced in her life during a period…
Each May, the seaside city of Brighton becomes the global meeting point for the next wave of music discovery as The Great Escape Festival returns, bringing together hundreds of emerging artists, industry delegates and music fans from around the world. The 2026 edition promises another packed programme of live showcases and conference events, reinforcing the…
Cries of hip hop being “dead” have been around for over ten years, but they’ve never rang more true than in 2026. Last year, hip hop, for the first time since 1990, had failed to crack the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. That’s not the death-knell some claimed, but it marked a…
Hailing from the vibrant streets of Gadigal Land, Social Strangers are a four-piece alternative rock outfit blazing their own trail in Sydney’s heavy underground. Drawing from grunge, punk, emo rock, post-grunge and nu-metal, the band fuses raw intensity with immersive storytelling — anchored by a powerhouse female vocalist, electrifying guitar riffs and a heavy-hitting rhythm…
On Monday night, American folk artist Sam Beam (better known by his moniker Iron & Wine) arrived in Brisbane to a sold-out Princess Theatre as part of his first Australian tour since 2018. The folk troubadour delivered his inimitable brand of lo-fi acoustic song writing, this time in its most exposed form. Performing completely solo,…
We’re heading to North America for this one — stepping outside our usual Australian orbit to bring you a slice of folk/Americana from singer-songwriter Odd Marshall. Today, the AU review premieres his pulsing and hypnotic new single “Somebody New,” a moody, swag-rock make-out anthem lifted from his forthcoming sophomore album Seconds, out March 6. Built…
You could be forgiven for thinking that Hands Like Houses never take a moment to catch their breath. The Canberra alt-rockers are back again with the brooding banger “Flowers”, which dropped 19 February via Civilians with an accompanying video. It comes just a year after their 16-track album ATMOSPHERICS – the deluxe version of which…
It’s hard to imagine something so beautiful can come from something so… ugly. And yet freedom is an ecosystem that rarely functions without friction. It’s the endpoint of a long, arduous and often cruel journey, and the beginning of a life so wonderfully and exclusively yours that it’s impossible not to take the good with…
Punk. What is punk? Is it just loud music? Nope. Authenticity? yes! Activism? yes! Self-advocacy? yes! Being labelled as ‘difficult’? well apparently! Think Grace Tame, Eileen Gu, Malala Yousafazi – women supporting women, smashing glass ceilings, expectations, and absolutely the patriarchy. Relentlessly. Tirelessly. One critical, loud message at a time. They are punks, role modelling…
English punk rock duo Lambrini Girls consisting of Phoebe Lunny (vocals/guitar – she/they) and Selin Macieira (bass – she/they) on their first Australian tour, delivered a gloriously chaotic set of political charged songs to an equally loose crowd at a sold out Metro Theatre in Sydney. Supported perfectly by electro-pop sensation Big Wett. Pete Dovgan was…
We’ve added ten new tracks to our Discovery Playlist this week — available on Spotify and Apple Music — including one we had the pleasure of premiering earlier in the week. Leading the charge as our Track of the Week is “Skin Contact” from Sydney duo Pamela., a release that feels tailor-made for late-night listening…
As someone who listens to their fair share of new music, there’s honestly not much better than seeing an artist you’ve followed on and off for a couple of years release a large body of work and absolutely crush it. In this instance, Molly Millington has gone about and released a debut album that’s one…
Ahead of its official release this Friday, we’re delighted to exclusively premiere the new single “Fall In Love Again” from Boorloo/Perth singer-songwriter Jess Cullity. “Fall In Love Again” leans fully into romantic optimism — a reflective pop anthem that captures the vulnerability and excitement of opening your heart after heartbreak. Built on a polished pop…
The Sunday rain couldn’t keep eager concertgoers away from 170 Russell in Melbourne, where Broadside, This Wild life, Hot Chelle Rae, Cartel and Anberlin rolled into town for Destroy All Lines’ An Emo Extravaganza. Announced late last year, there was lots of hyper surrounding this event. Still, a last-minute venue downsize for Melbourne hinted that…
There’s nothing like a good Irish pub show to get your evening off to a grand start. The Shamrocks have finally made their way to Adelaide to show how to do exactly that. The six Irish lads, including two sets of brothers have an instantly likeable energy about them. Raymond Walsh created the Shamrocks back…
Enmore Road was full of alfresco diners last night, many of them meeting with friends ahead of seeing Morcheeba at Enmore Theatre. No doubt, their conversations went something like this: “I remember listening to the Big Calm album in my room at Uni!”, “Me too! It reminds me of my first love, job, heartbreak, trip…
After a sold out USA and UK tour, Freya Skye is officially heading Down Under this June, bringing her Stars Align tour on the road. Hinting at Australian dates in a recent post, fans waited patiently for the official announcement, which came at 2am AEDT today. The stars align tour will hit Brisbane’s Fortitude Music…
There are pop tours that feel like victory laps – and then there are the ones that feel like reclamations. On the opening night of her Australian Tits Out Tour in Brisbane, Kesha’s return to the stage felt firmly like the latter: messy in places, minimal in production, emotionally raw – and undeniably hers. The…
With February flying by (how is it already the 20th?), we’re back with ten fresh tracks for your weekly rotation — a mix of rising stars, left-of-centre gems and undeniable earworms. Leading the charge is our Track of the Week, REDD. and best friend ixaras, with “juliet” — a track that’s been living rent-free in…
