The 2026 instalment of Laneway Festival in Melbourne had both bark and bite. In its 21st year, the premier date on the Australian festival calendar shows no signs of slowing down. It was sun-drenched, shoulder-to-shoulder and humming from gates to close. The heat lifted the whole site as Chappell Roan drew one of the day’s…
With the summer festival circuit not as strong as it once was, the ability to see international acts like Lucy Dacus has become harder to come by. Luckily for Australia, Dacus is currently touring with Laneway Festival and managed to sneak in a headline show at the Sydney Opera House in support of her 2025…
The demand for the 21st edition of our beloved Laneway Festival in 2026 has been off the charts. Already Sydney and Melbourne are sold out, and tickets for Adelaide, Perth and the Gold Coast are running hot. Details for the sideshows has just dropped, and we’ve got all the essential details to help you get…
It’s that time of year when our team of music writers and editors get together to count down the 40 best albums of the year. And while this has been no usual year, the quality of music that has been released has been incredibly high. Suffice it to say, this has been a very difficult…
Drenched in nostalgia and melancholia, Lucy Dacus does sadness at its best and most potent. Now onto her third album, Dacus returns with Home Video, eleven songs that are a deep dive into her coming-of-age years in suburban America. Written mostly from a bibliographical viewpoint, much of Home Video is Dacus exploring her own being,…
It’s time for the AU review’s annual list of the best albums from Australia and the rest of the world for 2019. Across this list, we take you through a wide range of genres, with music that represents the exciting, vibrant time of music right now. It’s fair to say that there are some notable…
We’re big fans of Julien Baker here at the AU, so we were stoked to hear that the Memphis singer-songwriter has teamed up with Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus for a new side-project: boygenius. What initially started as a series of chance encounters, performances and a bit of pipe-dream has evolved into a forthcoming EP…
