Melbourne lads Northeast Party House are set to tour around Australia in May and June. The band are bringing their high energy live show to Groovin the Moo, of course, but alongside the festival dates, they’ll be sliding in a few special headline shows for fans too. Following the success from the band’s latest album Dare, the boys…
Australian hip-hop royalty Butterfingers are back. Officially back in the saddle after a 10 year long hiatus from the recording studio, the four piece from Brisbane are soon to be out on the road! Releasing their new single “Big Night Out” on March 10th, the boys embark on a whirlwind national tour stopping at all the major…
Well, it’s 2017, can you deal with girls making rock music yet? This is the question demanded by Jennifer Calvin, one of the lead sister’s of Bleached. Since the band have been creating melodic, urgent punk rock dating back to their 2013 debut Ride Your Heart, discussion has tended to hover over what it’s like for the two…
Tullara’s debut EP Better Hold On had been a long time coming. The songwriting process began around three years ago, encapsulating a broad spectrum of emotions ranging from intense heartbreak to bounding optimism and retelling a personal journey within six short tracks. The honesty of this EP is inescapable. From first listen it’s evident that Tullara…
Regardless of how your Valentine’s Day/International Hallmark Day celebrations (or lack thereof) went down, The Pink Tiles gave us all a present with their super sweet music video for “Time For Love”. Featuring a bright, 60s influenced, eye-popping colour palette, stop motion, scrabble tiles, and candies, this video takes the time to show a little love….
Nicola Yoon‘s popular Young Adult novel from 2015, Everything, Everything, is getting a big screen adaptation later this year, with Stella Meghie (Jean of the Joneses) behind the camera and J. Mills Goodloe penning the screenplay. The story follows 18-year-old Madeline Whittier, who has an obscure condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) – known in…
Fast becoming one of the most anticipated Australian films of the year is Stephan Elliot‘s comedy Flammable Children, which is reuniting former Neighbours co-stars Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue. Today, the official first look images were released and it gives us a taste of what we can expect from the film – with Guy and…
If there’s one filmmaker who, in my opinion, hasn’t made a bad film, that filmmaker would be Martin Scorsese. Venturing from genre to genre with ease (who else can go from the family fantasy Hugo to the dark comedy The Wolf of Wall Street just like that?) and always applying professional care and passion within…
Uniquely tucked away on the bland Aurora Lane and directly behind the very central Southern Cross Station is where you’ll find Melbourne hotel Travelodge Docklands, one of two properties for the low-cost chain in Melbourne, the other being Travelodge Southbank. The consistency among the Travelodge brand throughout Australia has positioned the name among the most…
Asia TOPA has just kicked off in Melbourne, and with it comes a variety of art from our country neighbours to the north. A collection of amazing performances including Tao Ye’s 6 & 8, originally featured in Paris Fashion Week. These two distinct dance works amazingly precisely the same in their execution. For these performances Tao…
Well somehow we’ve found ourselves in the middle of February with March fast approaching so it’s about time for another of our monthly features where we pick five books you need to be reading that month. Once again the five books have an international feel to them, with a handful of books from American writers,…
Adelaide singer/songwriter Loren Kate brings us her new music video for the rich and gorgeous single, “Silver and Gold”. Premiering with the AU this afternoon, takes the audience out into sun-kissed territory; kids play and explore, while Loren’s voice captivates. The Telstra Road to Discovery winner has had a big few years leading up to the release…
Grammy Award winning artist k.d. lang will be returning to Australia this winter in celebrating the 25th anniversary of her first all-original album, Ingénue. The mini-tour will see k.d. head to Sydney, Perth and Melbourne in July, performing Ingénue in full, along with a selection of her other major hits. For k.d. lang fans who are also Telstra…
Some of Tassie’s favourite sons will be hitting a stage near you this winter, with Luca Brasi locking in their biggest Aussie headline shows to date for June and July. The boys have already had a blistering start to 2017, with the Laneway Festival well-positioning Luca Brasi as one of the country’s best rock bands, still…
Joining the likes of Courtney Barnett, DMA’s, The Griswolds and Marlon Williams, Sydney’s Middle Kids have joined the slew of artists from Australia and NZ to be breaking into the US TV market. Currently in America as Cold War Kids‘ latest tour mates, the band stopped by Conan to perform “Edge of Town”, from their self-titled debut EP….
The Hilltop Hoods Initiative is back for another year, with emerging Australian hip hop and soul artists encouraged to get involved for their chance to land a $10,000 grant courtesy of the Hoods and APRA AMCOS. Now in its 12th year, the Initiative has supported the work of the likes of Sarah Connor, I AM D and Jimblah – three…
Newcastle’s indie punk trio RAAVE TAPES deliver more of their unbridled energy in new single “2 U xoxo”, two minutes and 45 seconds of danceable punk. The unmistakeable influences of Crystal Castles and Death From Above 1979 are heard, as the boys deliver their ode to modern dating, criticising how good-looking people don’t have to be able to dance. Front man…
Tegan and Sara‘s 2016 album Love You To Death saw the Quin sisters further challenge fans with an exploration of the defined pop side of their songwriting and artistry. Their sisters’ eighth studio album currently has Tegan and Sara touring around the world – they’re soon to return to Australia – not only bringing the album to audiences, but also continuing…
Many of you will recognise Gaz Harrison from his many years behind the decks as one half of the Ballarat-bred Yacht Club DJs. An Australian festival and club favourite, the duo recently embarked on a bit of a reunion tour around the country; more of a final lap to hark back to the hectic days. Incredibly well-received,…
Icelandic singer/songwriter Ásgeir returns after three years refining his highly-anticipated second full length, Afterglow. Following up his stunning breakout 2014 release In The Silence, Afterglow will reflect the muso’s time spent travelling and developing into one of the most distinctly delicate voices out there. In what has been an explosive 5 past years, the new album is…
Earlier last month, funk royalty Jamiroquai announced their new album Automaton is set for release on March 21st via Virgin EMI and available for pre-order HERE. It may have almost been a decade since this British group conjured up a new disco anthem, but their legacy hasn’t shrunk in the slightest. The new record was inspired…
Hands up whose hearts did a little backflip when Holly Throsby announced a new album was in the works? Hands firmly up, we’re stoked to have seen one of our favourite Sydney musicians return with new music (not like she hasn’t been busy writing novels and being a general boss, or anything…) and in her new music…
The PAX Australia gaming convention will return to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in 2017 running over the weekend of October 27-29.
After much begging and cursing Niantic have finally given us their biggest announcement since the mega successful Pokemon Go app debuted in July of last year. That announcement is Generation 2, and we’re talking an actual Gen 2 release, not a bunch of baby Pokemon you can only hatch from eggs. Sometime over the next…
The ills of racial segregation have been well-documented in modern cinema; many pieces set in eras like the 60’s have tackled the absurdity and nonsensical way the division functioned in – mostly American – society even when black populations worked side by side with white populations. This is the core tension of Hidden Figures, the…
The popular Netflix series Love is returning for a second season on March 10th and the digital network just released the first trailer for the new series to get us all excited (and on Valentine’s Day no less!). As in the first season, Love follows nice guy Gus (Paul Rust) and brazen wild-child Mickey (Gillian…
From the moment you step foot into the life of Morgan Yu, you enter a world both new and familiar. Prey draws easy and obvious parallels to Arkane Studios’ award-winning Dishonored series, but with its brilliantly unsettling atmosphere and mind-bending opening level, it presents something unique and altogether exciting.
A well-intentioned, though not entirely successful debut venture from Luke Scott (son of Alien director Ridley Scott, for those of you playing along at home) Morgan is more a shallow version of Ex-Machina than the slick sci-fi character study it so clearly desires to be. The titular Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy, maintaining her genre score-card with this, The…
Never forgive. Never forget. If there’s one mantra the characters of Big Little Lies live by, it’s that. Shrewdly written by TV veteran David E. Kelly, HBO’s new seven-arc mini-series is a deliciously wicked slice of suburban slaughter where it’s what’s on the outside that matters most. Based on Australian novelist Liane Moriarty’s best-selling prose,…
There is something to be said for The Walking Dead’s more tempered episodes. What they lack in action and spectacle, they more than make up for in character building and refining its – at times – capricious narrative. That’s how Greg Nicotero and co. elected to open their second half of season seven but perhaps as…
