San Cisco Interview

After taking a short break in their hometown of Fremantle before flying out to London that afternoon, Jordi Davieson, the lead vocalist and guitarist of Australia’s much-loved goal kicking kids, San Cisco, takes some time to chat to Rip It Up about the band’s recent overseas exploits and where San…

The Reverend Horton Heat Interview

The Reverend Horton Heat, a rockin’ trio from Texas who play a revved-up form of country music and rockabilly and are just as likely to have their followers swing dancin’ as they are to have ’em slam dancin’, are currently on a much anticipated Australian tour.

Ahead of their eight-date…

Oi You! Urban Art Festival

A few years ago two young artists made newspaper headlines when a mural they painted on Rundle Street was erroneously removed a few hours later by council workers. It was a disheartening moment for Adelaide’s street art scene, but fast-forward to 2013 and the city has more than made up…

A Place For Me Review

Known elsewhere under the less catchy but still pretty fitting title Stuck In Love, writer/director Josh Boone’s début is a low-key drama featuring a name cast who can’t exactly have been paid much to appear. The Borgens are a family in various crises.

The dad, William (Greg Kinnear), is a…

Primal Scream: More Light

Despite rascal bassist Mani skiving off to make a mint with the reunited Stone Roses, it’s business as usual in the Primal Scream camp. Nine-minute opener 2013’s title might infer new rules of engagement, but Bobby Gillespie’s breathy rhetoric about 21st century slaves, television propaganda and a peasant underclass suggests…

The Postal Service: Give Up (10th Anniversary Edition)

Times change. In the booklet for The Postal Service’s sole album, 2003’s Give Up, frontman Ben Gibbard looks like a fat loser virgin. A decade later the Death Cab For Cutie singer is the only person in the world who’s experienced marriage to delish Zooey Deschanel - even if the…

June Folkathon

Some of Adelaide’s best musical acts are banding together for a June ‘Folkathon’ at Port Noarlunga to raise funds for upcoming 2013 Fleurieu Folk Festival.

Iconic folk acts including Spiral Dance (pictured), Chris Finnen, Astro Cobalt, Goldstein, The Ryebuck Sheilas, Crowdy Crawns and more will perform from 12pm…

Gorgeous Festival Returns As Two-Day Event

Gorgeous Festival will return to SA's picturesque southern wine region this November as a two-day event, running from Fri Nov 22 and Sat Nov 23 at Serafino Winery, McLaren Vale.

In 2012 a stellar line-up graced the main stage with headliners including…

Listen: New Beyonce Track ‘Grown Woman’

** Update: The leaked song has since been taken down, but you can listen to a live version of Grown Woman here.

Following in the footsteps of the unexpectedly electronic Bow Down/I Been On, a new Beyonce

Bigger Than Me Exhibition

Bigger Than Me is an exhibition about bigness, curated by art graduates Madison Bycroft and Beth Shimmin.

Bigger Than Me explores the idea of ‘big’ with both physical and metaphysical considerations through the works of twelve local and interstate artists, featuring Melbourne’s…

Doors Keyboardist Ray Manzarek Dies Aged 74

Ray Manzarek, founding member and keyboardist of The Doors, has died aged 74. The legendary musician passed away today in Rosenheim, Germany after a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer surrounded by his wife and brothers.

Manzarek is best known for his work with The Doors who formed in 1965…

Babyshambles Announce Splendour Sideshows

Pete Doherty’s English garage rock outfit Babyshambles are embarking on a string of Splendour sideshows with a date included at Adelaide’s HQ on Jul 29.

As part of their very first Australian visit, Doherty and Co will venture to Melbourne, Sydney, Perth…

Rufus Norris, Director Of Broken Interview

Rufus Norris, in between other juggled commitments (“I’m trying to find a quiet spot here in BBC Radio, as I had another interview this morning”), recently talked via phone to Rip It Up about Broken, his debut as writer/director drawing from the novel by Daniel Clay. Discussing some of the…

Broken Review

Theatre-intensive director Rufus Norris makes his début as cinematic writer/director (adapting Daniel Clay’s novel) with this dark drama saved from despair by beautifully understated playing, particularly by the totally unknown and unaffected Eloise Laurence.

Her ‘Skunk’ is an 11 year old living in North London with:…

Snitch Review

While there’s no doubt that Dwayne Johnson is one major hunk of man, stuntman-turned-co-writer/director Ric Roman Waugh’s mostly agreeable drama is easily the first movie he’s ever appeared in where he looks almost like a regular guy, mostly by keeping his shirt on.

His John Matthews is a construction businessman…