Arrested Development It’s been two decades since the fateful year of 1992. Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States, Aussie filmmaker Baz Luhrmann released his...
The Paper Kites The Paper Kites call tonight’s show their last one of the tour, despite a gig the following evening in Ballarat, for sentimentality’s sake being in...
Megaupload Mogul Plans Music Reboot, Vows To Fund New Zealand’s Broadband It seems not even a multi-million dollar international raid can keep a crazy business entrepreneur down. Following the United States Government shutdown of controversial media service Megaupload earlier...
Big Day Out 2013 Adds (Literal) Metal Act To Lineup One of Australia’s longest-running and most popular music festivals turns 21 this year, and to celebrate the milestone the Big Day Out is undergoing some...
Grizzly Bear Grizzly Bear have always been best characterised as a musical anomaly. From the ferocity of their name that belies their delicate musical trappings, to being...
Police Critical Of Sydney Crackdown As Council Focuses On Music Culture Following the news that Police with sniffer dogs gatecrashed a Tex Perkins and the Dark Horses gig last week as part of a the new venue...
Melbourne Gets Another Pop-Up Live Music Venue Following on from last week’s news that Melbourne’s open-air cinema The Shadow Electric would be adding a live “music salon” to their 2013 program, with...
Angus Stone The young man with the bushy beard and the stoner good looks, one Angus Stone, kicked off the Australian leg of his tour to a...
Lisa Mitchell The anticipation for the long-awaited return of Melbourne singer/songwriter Lisa Mitchell was made clear by the sold-out crowd pouring into the Athenaeum theatre. Danco kicked...
Catherine Traicos Passing The Workers Club this Sunday, you’d hardly have a clue that just past the venue’s main bar, and through to the back room, Catherine...
Thurston Moore The Gov in Adelaide – a venue that is often asked to cater for a wide variety of acts that aren’t always overly suited to...
Last Dinosaurs There have been few Australian bands that have been able to surpass their competition and break the mould of Aussie indie rock, but Last Dinosaurs...