Newcastle punk quartet Turpentine Babycino have emerged with their debut single and video “Write A Song Sounds Shit”, released 15 September. The fervent track begins with searing riffs over driving drums and bass before a simmering verse of angsty but vulnerable vocals. A catchy chorus with comical lyrics detailing the aftermath of a breakup leads…
It’s understandable that most frequent travellers will instinctively shy away from “ultra low-cost carriers”. With limited service both in terms of the amount of daily flights, and the actual service they offer, they are generally far from the best, nor most reliable ways to travel. But every so often, a deal is too good to…
Given how wild everyone – or teenage girls, to be a little more accurate – are for pop’s main man-candy Harry Styles, it will no doubt throw much of his female following off as to how graphic the sexual scenes are in My Policeman, a queer love story that perseveres with grand intentions but, sadly,…
For over 20 years, Milk Crate Theatre have engaged with disadvantaged people, devising works which challenge norms of performance. Developed over the 2020 and 2021 lockdowns, DUST was conceived over a number of zoom sessions before being fleshed-out in the person earlier this year. Drawing on themes of isolation and enforced reflection, the story centres…
The Driver Era are your latest sun-drenched Los Angelean obsession, un-polishing the pop shine with their own candid sound despite their glossy history. Rocky and Ross Lynch could easily be thought as pop machine products; Ross coming from his well-documented Disney training ground and Rocky joining him alongside their other siblings in their past project…
We’ve got just the song to get you through hump day, with the new tune from Adelaide bopsters The Tullamarines. The world can appear to be a bleak place, with the boomer generation screwing it for those coming later. “Television” reflects upon this, but with a buoyant and jolly feel to it. We’re pumped to…
After 18 years on the scene you could expect some festivals to pander to an older market, but not Laneway. For the festival’s 18th birthday they’ve brought out some of the world’s biggest acts to celebrate alongside you. At the top of that list sits the behemoth sibling rock band HAIM who just last year…
In Victoria Lee’s A Lesson in Vengeance, eighteen-year-old Felicity Morrow has returned to Godwin House; the oldest and most haunted of the student houses at Dalloway school, a girl’s academy set high in the Catskill mountains in the U.S. She has returned after a year away, a year in which she was recovering from the…
Celebrating 25 years of hits, Robbie Williams is set to return to Australia and New Zealand in November 2023. The tour will include three A Day On The Green dates in Australia, plus a date at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium, and Melbourne’s AAMI Park. The run will kick off with a special show in New Zealand…
Why can’t every day be like the weekend? The buzz of getting loose on the weekend is perfectly captured in “Weekend Blues”, the latest tune from Sydney’s Love Drunk Hearts. The song also reflects on the downer of waking on a Monday, knowing that today isn’t going to mirror the fun of the last couple…
That time of the year has rolled around again, where we begin to look forward to the nearing NBA season, discussing many of the bigger trades and looming deals around the league. Along with that however, comes the launch of the latest NBA 2K, allowing us to live out our potential virtual careers as NBA…
Are you an Aussie singer who is constantly looking for ways to improve your voice and your performance? For famous Aussie artists like Iggy Azalea, Sia, and Kylie Minogue, there is no such thing as perfection; instead, it’s a constant quest to improve, unlock additional creativity and push your limits. While this can only be…
One of the more unlikely franchises of a resilient nature, V/H/S/, a retro-appearing horror anthology effort that often compiles a series of genre directors flexing their creative muscle through short horror narratives, is now in its fifth iteration in the form of V/H/S/99. The horror tales that often are confined within the V/H/S/ films are always…
When The Wonder first begins there’s a rather pretentious and, ultimately, unrewarding additive that runs the risk of undoing all that will follow. Niamh Algar‘s soothing vocal tone greets us as our eyes glaze over a constructed film set. Algar informs us that we are indeed watching a film, but the players involve believe in…
Thelma Plum brought the last leg of her Meanjin tour to the UNSW Roundhouse on Friday night. Celebrating the release of Meanjin, her third EP, it was a triumphant return to Sydney. A packed venue, with Thelma’s parents amongst the keen fans, it was a very special night indeed. Supported by Jem Cassar-Daley and GRAACE,…
The Hoodoo Gurus brought their seemingly endlessly rescheduled 40th Anniversary tour to The Hordern Pavilion last Thursday night. It was a sold-out show, with the mighty Dandy Warhols and The Buoys in support. The audience was multi-generational, reflecting on how long they have been around, and the quality of their songs over the duration of…
The Austin City Limits Music Festival is a few weeks away from kicking off but the festivities just got bigger with the announcement of ACL Fest Nights. ACL Fest Nights will take place in 10 different venues across Austin, Texas as several of the bands playing the festival will pull double duty and play after-shows…
Though he certainly didn’t lose any of his sense of comfort by travelling across the Atlantic for his last film – 2017’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – there’s a sense of grandeur in writer/director Martin McDonagh returning to his homeland for The Banshees of Inisherin, an impossibly funny and, at times, heartbreakingly bleak dramedy…
As much as this film titles itself after an infant whose actions drive much of its horrifically-laced narrative forward, it’s the newborn’s mother that earns much of the focus in Baby Ruby, an unsettling psychological drama from Bess Wohl, the writer/actress making her directorial debut here. That mother is Jo (Noémie Merlant, best known for…
If you’re one of the many that have laughed on repeated viewings of Bridesmaids (and hopefully the underrated Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) then it’s because of Annie Mumolo. A writer and actress who has long been a reliable staple in the comedy genre, she’s once again making her presence undeniably known…
The idea of a Fletch remake/reboot/sequel has long been discussed for almost three decades now. The obvious suggestions of Jason Lee and Jason Sudeikis were thrown around for contention to follow in Chevy Chase’s comedic footsteps during its production, but after consistent stop/starts it has fallen to Jon Hamm to pick up the mantle and…
“Mommy and Daddy will be right next to you the whole time.” From the opening line of dialogue in Steven Spielberg‘s The Fabelmans, an autobiographical coming-of-age tale that boasts itself as his first writing credit since A.I. some two decades prior, we get a sense of what’s to come as, outside a New Jersey movie…
As a founding member of the band Sheppard, Amy Sheppard has earnt her stripes over the last decade as part of one of our most successful acts to break through domestically and overseas. Today, Amy has released her keenly anticipated debut record, the fabulous EP Nothing But Wild. This is a singer/songwriter that knows how…
A further ten tracks have been added to our Discovery playlist on Spotify and Apple Music, including two tracks we exclusively premiered earlier in the week. Our Track of the Week is “Listen Up” from Clea. The multi-hyphenate – songwriter/producer/performer has released a song of clarity and beauty, crisp clear production with an ethereal warmth…
There’s something incredibly refreshing about The Good Nurse in that its true-crime temperament isn’t marred by overt manipulation – as so many of such adapted tales can be. Jessica Chastain (as typically great and committed as expected) is Amy, the titular good nurse, a single mother who is hiding her own ailment as she dedicates…
The claustrophobic and emotional resonance Florian Zeller created with 2020’s The Father is unfortunately nowhere to be found in The Son, a prequel of sorts based off another of Zeller’s stage plays. A chamber piece on the subject of dementia that rightfully won Anthony Hopkins his second Best Actor Academy Award, The Father expressed subtlety…
Rian Johnson had far too much fun paying homage to the works of Agatha Christie in 2019’s star-studded crime comedy Knives Out. To say he executed it perfectly would be putting it mildly, but whilst a sequel to such a set-up seemed like a given, how anything secondary would be navigated was another mystery in…
Antidote at the Sydney Opera House is marketed as a ‘festival of ideas, art and change’ and the 2022 line-up presented a diverse and intriguing list of topics from climate change to the war in Ukraine. Over the last few years, it feels as if the stability we have so long expected and taken for…
Bodies Bodies Bodies tells the story of a group of exuberant 20-something youths who plan to party for the weekend in a remote mansion. Partygoers include Sophie (Amandla Stenberg), a rich kid who has a dark backstory involving drug use, her partner Bee (Maria Bakalova), a working-class reticent young woman, David (Pete Davidson), an unruly…
Sony PlayStation released a surprise State of Play stream yesterday, revealing a closer look at some upcoming titles like Hogwarts Legacy and the anticipated PlayStation Stars rewards program. But he studio also took the time to grace us with some brand new reveals, some even from older franchises, making their way back onto a new…
