04.03.11 Cloud Control take out the AMP
Blue Mountains quartet Cloud Control have won the sixth annual Australian Music Prize, announced at a ceremony in Sydney last night.
15.02.11 5 Minute Festival: Cloud Control
In the leafy, not-so-crowded backstage area of the Laneway Festival, Jeremy and Alistair from Cloud Control shoot the breeze with the folks from Your Take Sessions.
03.02.11 Australian Music Prize 2011 Shortlist
The nine albums nominated for the 2011 Australian Music Prize (more economically referred to as the AMP) were announced in Sydney yesterday.
18.01.11 Laneway Set times
The Laneway set times have been revealed and it does not make for pretty reading if you're a fan of Yeasayer, Deerhunter and Local Natives.
05.01.11 Live: Falls Festival (Part 2)
Lorne - Wed Dec 29-Sat Jan 1 New Year’s Eve saw Joan Jett’s PA cut out five minutes before midnight and a belated countdown close in on 0 only to be met with confusion and an absence of pyrotechnics (except those being fired off in the crowd).
04.01.11 Live: Falls Festival (Part 1)
Lorne – Wed Dec 29-Sat Jan 1 You can be sure of three things at any Falls Festival: sunburn, a shitload of bogans and some fucking fantastic live music.
26.11.10 Cloud Control playing free Adelaide gig
Cloud Control will play a free gig at Glenelg's Grand Bar as part of the Carlton Dry 'Thank God It's Monday' concert series.
23.11.10 The J Awards: All the nominees
Triple J have finalised the nominations for the J Awards for Australian Album Of The Year, Australian Music Video Of The Year and Unearthed Artist Of The Year.
09.11.10 Internet Killed The Video Star: Tue Nov 9
A brand new weekly segment on Rip It Up Online sees us trawling through the interwebs looking for the hottest new music videos currently doing the rounds.
01.11.10 Celebrate Triple J's Ausmusic Month
They're the undisputed champions of Australian music and every November Triple J pull out all the stops to celebrate the very best in our domestic scene.
15.10.10 Belles Will Ring heading north...and south, east and west
Freakadelic mountain hipsters Belles Will Ring have announced their return with a new single and will be touring the country at the end of next month to promote it.
05.10.10 Independent Music Award winners
All controversies aside, you'd have to say the judges for the 2010 Jagermeister Independent Music Award have got it right in 2010.
21.09.10 Three more nominees for the J Award
Triple J have announced the next three nominations for its sixth annual Richard Kingsm.
11.08.10 Cloud Control spring tour
Fresh from a successful trip to the UK where they made their international live debut and picked up a publishing deal with Infectious Records, Cloud Control have returned home to dish out more live goodness on Australian audiences.
04.08.10 A splendid weekend part 1
You're probably sick to death of people rubbing your noses in it by now and at the risk of flogging a dead horse, Splendour In The Grass 2010 was surely one of the greatest festivals ever to hit Australia.
21.07.10 The Fresh 50: 20-11
Have you ever stopped to think just how awesomely exciting the Australian music scene is? No? Well we here at Rip It Up Digital certainly have, so much so that we just couldn’t keep it to ourselves.
17.06.10 The Best of 2010 (So far): Track 1's
Bands putting one of their best tracks at the start of an album is no new thing, but in 2010 there have been some absolute fire crackers.
06.04.10 Rip it up TV: O'Ball
The O'Ball is an Adelaide University institution, something every student looks forward to after they take their first nervy steps on campus for the year.
01.04.10 Rip it up TV: O'Ball
The O'Ball is an Adelaide University institution, something every student looks forward to after they take their first nervy steps on campus for the year.
"We worked in this amazing studio at the top of this tower, it was just majestic."