The irony of gentrification was exposed and wryly chastised on last year’s Grammy-nominated instant-classic The Hope Six Demolition Project, the ninth studio album from the inimitable PJ Harvey and the reason for her current Australian tour. The 11-track project was, and is, a poetic flare straight to the core of misguided bureaucracy, drawing the ire…
Mustered from a team of seven individually talented musicians (not to be mistaken for Australia’s own Middle Kids) comes Earth Angel, a debut record culminating fuzzy, melodic pop-rock with charismatic storytelling. Originally blooming from the multi-talented Patrick Jennings (Hot New Mexicans, Purple 7), this musical project is curated, written and recorded from Jenning’s home in…
Two young African American males sit on a beach together, bathed in moonlight. One asks the other: “You cry?”. The other replies, “I cry so much sometimes, I feel like I’ma turn to drops,”. Ripped from the pages of the play Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, this scene for me perfectly…
Kenny Wells (Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey) is a modern day prospector, desperate for a lucky break who teams up with a similarly eager geologist (Golden Globe nominee Édgar Ramírez) to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard, but keeping it would be even harder, sparking an adventure…
The Pickathon Festival is taking place on the Pendarvis Farm in Oregon’s Happy Valley this August, headlined by Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires and featuring the likes of Dinosaur Jr., Ty Segall and Dungen. Among the American greats are some notable inclusions from Australia and New Zealand, with Marlon Williams, Alex Cameron and Julia Jacklin…
Native Earth Performing Arts’ Sydney Festival offering, Huff, is arresting, confronting, and oddly comedic. Immensely talented writer and performer, Cliff Cardinal, ensures the audience is continually unsettled, and you will find yourself laughing at circumstances that are far from funny. If you’re looking for a feel-good night out, safely ensconced behind the theatrical fourth wall,…
Call this the dessert collaboration to end all dessert collaborations (and we all know just how many pop up just about every week). Arnott’s have had the good sense to take their iconic Tim Tam biscuits and introduce a range of new flavours in partnership with none other than the most in-demand dessert brand in…
In time for Australia Day, KFC have just released what is perhaps their greatest creation since the Golden Gaytime Krusher made it’s way onto the fast food giant’s menu; the creation: Lamington krusher. The limited edition shake is being added to their range to go head-to-head with it’s Golden Gaytime counterpart, with KFC encouraging Australians…
If a typical Aussie backyard BBQ is your main game for the Australia Day public holiday tomorrow then you may want to make sure you’ve got UberEATS on your smartphone. The delivery service have announced that instead of the usual messina and puppie bringing, their fleet of on-demand drivers will be heading around all serviced…
Determined, passionate and diligent: three traits attributed to the red fire rooster, the tenth sign of the Chinese Zodiac and the symbol for 2017’s Chinese New Year celebrations. A wealth of Chinese culture and tradition surrounds each city around the world from now until early February, bringing with it a huge amount of things to…
Vincent Sole is a name that crept up in 2016 but with his new single in “The Game”, this fresh face is making sure we’re remembering it. Utilising space in arrangement and throwing the spotlight strongly onto his vocals, Sole fuses a throbbing beat with R&B influences streaming in the song’s instrumentation. Turn this one up. https://soundcloud.com/vincent-sole/the-game-1…
The 2017 St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival kicks off in Australia this week after a successful run in Singapore last weekend and still, the new announcements are rolling out. First up, for Adelaide fans: Bad//Dreems have been added to your festival down at Port Adelaide, slotting in neatly between White Lung and Luca Brasi on the Spinning Top Stage at 3:10pm….
As January 26th approaches, the conversation surrounding changing the date of ‘Australia Day’ has become even more heated and indeed crucial than ever. Recently, NITV and SBS, in conjunction with a line up of noted Australian hip hop artists, came together to explore different perspectives and opinions of the national holiday, culminating in a one-of-a-kind collaboration, entitled…
I never feel more surrounded by familial like elation than in the throes of an indie punk rock crowd and Friday night was no exception. Starting off their headline tour in Perth, their first Australian show in two years, The Front Bottoms brought in a horde of dedicated fans, ready to jump around to that…
Hands up if your heart got broken then put back together at any of CERES‘ shows towards the end of 2016? Ours most certainly did. The emotional and cathartic rollercoaster that has become their album Drag It Down On You manifested itself into a beast live and this week, we were incredibly excited to see that it’s…
Stopped crying over Hospice yet? Me neither, but songwriter/singer Peter Silberman (from heartbreak indie-rock band The Antlers) is gearing up to release his first solo album, Impermanence, due February 24 via Inertia Music. Impermanence invites us into Silberman’s journey with a hearing impairment that led him to leave Brooklyn for a quieter upstate New York as he…
Like your vocals crooning and your 80’s synth spooky? Timber Timbre’s new single “Sewer Blues” is gunna be the best new track you hear this week. This Canadian mob have been quietly making the best folk/blues/rock music for long nights alone since 2009 with three studio albums already up their sleeve. With their forthcoming record, Sincerely,…
Amongst a slew of nominations for two of Australia’s biggest films of the last year – Lion and Hacksaw Ridge – comes a lesser known film called Tanna, directed by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler. The film, which is shot in the Navhal and Nafe languages of Vanuatu, premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where…
This morning, the Oscar nominees were announced online through a live stream – breaking tradition from the annual early morning news conference that the film world had become accustomed to tuning into. Over about 20 minutes, past nominees reflected on their Oscar experiences as they revealed the nominees for the 89th Annual Academy Awards. What…
Whether it’s from its recent positive publicity, school holidays drawing to a close or just the fact that it’s a brilliant film, Lion, starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman, did extremely well in its opening weekend, earning $4.19m, where it now sits at the top of the box office ladder. Opening on 254 screens nationally, it…
ABC has announced that filming is underway in Melbourne on the highly anticipated second season of the award-winning paranormal drama Glitch. Debuting in 2015, Glitch followed a they mystery of seven people who had returned from the dead. The series garnered outstanding drama awards at the Logies and AACTAs and attracted a legion of fans who…
Tekken 7 will finally make the jump from arcades to home consoles this June after a 15 month wait, promising to bring the story of Kazuya and Heihachi’s long-running familial war to an end.
Leisure Rules for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off starting the new In The House season! Catch John Hughes’ fun-filled classic in Vmax at Event Cinemas George St on February 3. While the rest of us were just thinking about it…Ferris borrowed a Ferrari and did it…all in a day! Tickets are only $13 (or $11 if…
In news sure to shake up the travel industry in this sector, Asian long haul budget carrier AirAsia X has become the first low-cost service on the continent to receive clearance for regularly scheduled passenger flights to the USA. To now, the only other budget carrier in the broader Australasian market to offer flights to…
In a delightful – and possibly delicious – collaboration, music trio Major Lazer and rum manufacturer Bacardi will begin a year-long partnership to launch The Sound of Rum, which will focus on multimedia events and experiences, unique music offerings and the development of a batch of limited-edition Bacardi rum. Dubbed “The Sound of Rum “, the recently announced project is tipped to…
A new dining experience is set to open in Melbourne’s stylish Emporium precinct, bringing a new restaurant-to-retail concept to the ever-growing precinct. Calia, named after an old lady that Michelin Star chef Francisco Javier Araya met in Spain, will open early this year. The new venue will allow diners to “try before they buy” from the sustainability-minded menu,…
Michelin-trained chef Ben Greeno has been leading the charge at Merivale’s The Paddington since it opened late 2015, and this week he’ll be overseeing the long awaited extension of that concept as the takeaway focused The Chicken Shop opens on Thursday 26 January. The small shopfront right next to The Paddington will be turned into…
Just a few weeks ago a heartbroken woman left a voicemail message for Messina, essentially cutting ties with them because she couldn’t get her favourite dessert on New Year’s Eve. The dominate dessert demigods may not have won her back by standing outside of her window with a boombox raised above their head, but we…
Busby Marou take us to Great Keppel Island on their latest music video for “Best Part of Me”, another beautiful cut from their upcoming album Postcards From the Shell House. “We wanted to capture the essence of the sound and the inspiration behind the songs and I don’t think the studios can’t really capture what we’re…
This week, iconic New Zealand group The Bats celebrate their more than 30 years together as a band (and with all their original members I might add!) by releasing their 9th full length record, The Deep Set. Out this Friday through Flying Nun Records, the group then travel to Australia for two shows – one…
