The Disaster Artist is the highly anticipated comedy starring James Franco (Pineapple Express, This is the End), Dave Franco (Now You See Me) and Seth Rogen (Pineapple Express, Knocked Up). In the film, James Franco plays real life actor Tommy Wiseau as his ambitions lead him to creating The Room, which is highly regarded as one of the worst…

Upscale full service hotel brand Curio Collection by Hilton has today announced the signing of its very first hotel in Sydney, a 182-room new-build property on Sussex Street that is due for completion by the end of this year. Curio Collection, which is one of Hilton’s 14 brands alongside the likes of Doubletree by Hilton…

In a final two-week season at the Capitol Theatre, Opera Australia is farewelling one of the most beloved productions in its history – Moffatt Oxenbould’s Madama Butterfly. Someone who is very well acquainted with Butterfly is Opera Australia soprano Hyeseoung Kwon! This will be the fourth year you take to the stage as Cio-Cio-San with…

Hold on to your broomsticks because Harry Potter and The Cursed Child is coming to Australia!  After sell-out seasons in London and New York, the smash-hit stage show is making its way to Melbourne. The two-part play will open in early 2019 and run exclusively at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre. “When we embarked on this journey,…

Two-day wine and food festival Vino Paradiso is returning to Sydney’s historic The Rocks district next month with a crowd of 50,000 expected to attend across the weekend. Posted up right by the sparkling waters of Sydney Harbour, the curated blend of food, wine, coffee, craft beer, cider and spirits will be highlighted by numerous…

BBQ Festival’s are all the rage right now; just look at how packed out Meatstock gets every year. It’s no revelation that Aussies love their BBQ so the more of these things popping up around the country the better. Enter the Australian Hotel and Brewery who will be putting on an epic three-day BBQ Food…

Sydney’s Andrew Samuel has presented his new single “Luck Feels Good” and we gotta admit, it’s one for the books today. The way the melancholic weaves through glimmers of optimism and hope showcases Samuel’s song writing talent, as he takes the listener through a house party gone by. One for your playlist, “Luck Feels Good” is driven…

This morning, the inaugural Sydney City Limits festival was announced for February 2018. Following in the footpaths of the iconic Austin City Limits two weekend long event that happens in Texas every year and more recently, the brand’s establishment in Auckland, the Australian event also signifies a confident step forward by the partnership of Secret Sounds and Live…

The National Live Music Awards are well up and running for another year, with the winners of the national and State/Territory awards being called this December 7th, right around the country. Taking over eight venues, the NLMA’s will be celebrating live music across the board – and you can be involved in deciding who walks away…

Melbourne’s Howlite have returned with a new cracker of a single in “Saviour”, a great follow on from “Gothic Romance” some months ago. Continuing along this gorgeously brooding and haunting path, “Saviour” is a brilliant vessel for showcasing Alison Thom‘s vocals when put against a more stripped back arrangement. There’s a raw essence behind the southern blues…

Recently, the likes of Iggy Pop, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Ty Segall and Spiritualized gathered at the Joshua Tree for the 2017 Desert Daze festival – a three day music and arts festival that has grown exponentially since its inception in 2012. Performing on this stacked line up was Entrance – the project of Guy Blakeslee – hitting the Mystic Bazaar. Armed with his…

An utterly captivating and provocative artist, Moses Sumney will be sharing the fruits of his debut album Aromanticism with Australian fans in the New Year. Sumney’s profile has risen considerably over the last few years thanks to acclaimed sets alongside the likes of Sufjan Stevens and Solange, but in Aromanticism, Sumney has really struck out on his own…

You may already know of Alex Badham; the Melbourne musician has been kicking around for a little while now, his work with Aleks and The Ramps and Magic Hands sparking early interest, while his foray into directing music videos for the likes of Paul Dempsey and World’s End Press have won him positive acclaim on the other side…

Sydney’s Twilight at Taronga and Melbourne’s Zoo Twilights are returning for for 2018, bringing a stack of upcoming and legendary artists to Taronga Zoo and Melbourne Zoo. The huge lineup boasts both local and international acts and promises to be a stellar concert series off the back of last years successful events. With such a…

The first annual Australian Music Week Film Festival is set to dedicate an evening to the role of gender in music, with two feature films and one short screening on the evening of Wednesday, 1st November at Cronulla’s GU Film House cinemas. This program includes the Canadian feature Play Your Gender, which recently screened to…

Australian streaming service Stan has recently announced a slew of both new and original content, of which will be coming to the streaming service in the coming months. UnREAL – Season 3 First up, the critically acclaimed series UnREAL will premiere its third season exclusively on Stan starting 27 February, 2018. Set in the world…

The Walking Dead hasn’t lost sight of its impressive history nor it’s central cast, and “Mercy”, the landmark 100th episode of the juggernaut survival-horror drama, is a well-rounded declaration of that. The start to what will hopefully be a return to form following a haphazard seventh season, it’s an episode imbued with the kind of…

For fans of Blizzard Entertainment titles like Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo and Hearthstone, there’s no bigger date than BlizzCon. But for Australian fans, BlizzCon 2017’s home at the Anaheim Convention Centre in Los Angeles is a pretty epic trip to make. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Blizzard ANZ to give away 10 Virtual…

In an average restaurant, somewhere in America, a guy and girl meet. What follows is a familiar story, told in a not so average way; a lifetime condensed into just over an hour. The Depot Theatre’s latest production, The Big Meal, is an epic tale shrunk to fit a tiny stage. It is big on…

Dancers are nothing short of athletes. Their athleticism, precision and dedication to their craft evokes an innate sense of wonder to the regular person, but in a show like Tree of Codes, it leaves you bewildered. Choreographer Wayne McGregor joins forces with visual artist Olafur Eliasson and music genius Jamie xx to produce a work that accentuates the human form through an…

It’s about that time again, when one of Sydney’s most eclectic and exciting communities is channeled into the unbridled celebration that is Newtown Festival. Yep, the famously bohemian inner-west suburb is about to once again throw the party of the year as the festival, in its 39th year, takes over Camperdown Park for a glorious…

Bombay Sapphire are bringing back their atmospheric experience Project Botanicals: A Journey to the Edges of Food, Music & Imagination, taking the avid gin drinker and cocktail enthusiast back to the origins of their gin mix. Each two hour session promises to take guests on an interactive sensory journey with audio-visuals designed by artist Ta-Ku…

Australia’s first commercial brewery, James Squire, is coming to the Overseas Passenger Terminal building at Circular Quay with the opening of The Squire’s Landing, an all encompassing brewhouse featuring a restaurant, bar and micro-brewery. A joint venture between The Mantle Group and Lion, the venue will be taking over the former Doyles’ Restaurant space with development…

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes and WWE 2K games. As each year rolls around, gamers are presented with yet another WWE game with a fresh lick of paint, a new set of moves and a couple of newer wrestlers here and there. Given the trend, you’d expect 2K would pull out all…

When you hear a film that is green-lit and it is basically a vehicle for an SNL star, chances are that one would expect the film to be bad. Films like A Night at the Roxbury, Superstar and The Ladies Man are all garbage. That said, some of them do gain a cult following over…

As any self-respecting You Am I fan knows, Tim Rogers can spin a yarn or ten. What they may not realise is that this legendary songwriter, artist, and musician has also achieved this in a book format, without the need for a guitar, mic-stand or a drink. Okay, maybe he did need the latter. His debut…

October has been good to book lovers, with a bumper collection of new releases. So here, as promised, are five more books we think you need to be reading. Three of the five books are highly anticipated sequels, prequels and follow-ups, though some are more long-awaited than others. Included on this list is a nice…

Liveworks, Sydney’s premier experimental arts and performance festival is bringing queer art celebration Day for Night to Carriageworks this month. Day for Night 2017 promises an eclectic mix of art and music in the day, turning to an extravagant dance party in the night. Day for Night curator Jeff Khan said he wanted to create…

Woodes has surged forward through 2017, continuing to capitalise on the popularity garnered last year with stellar shows and musical releases that have further established her as one of Melbourne’s finest emerging names. Now, with new single “Dots”, Woodes launches the next anthemic chapter of her sonic outlook and has also produced some new tour…

Remember That Night. Not only is it a stand out track on Grouplove‘s latest album BIG MESS, but it’s a recent social media movement that has been connecting fans of theirs right around the globe. Since 2011 and the release of Never Trust a Happy Song, the Los Angeles group have been trussing together a community of fans…