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02.05.12 2012 APRA AWARDS NOMINEES
The Australian Performing Right Association (APRA) has announced the 2012 nominees for its highly prestigious awards ceremony scheduled to take place next month.
19.04.12 GOTYE REACHES #1 IN AMERICA
He’s the first Australian artist to do it since Savage Garden’s Truly, Madly, Deeply in 1997, but Wally de Backer, aka Gotye, has officially reached the #1 spot in the US charts with Somebody That I Used To Know.
27.02.12 GOTYE NAKED AGAIN IN ‘EASY WAY OUT’ VIDEO
While Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know continues to conquer international music charts like avian flu, the man behind the moniker, Wally de Backer, has been busy back home in Melbourne working with director Darcy Predengergsat for his newest video clip, Easy Way Out.
27.01.12 GOTYE TOPS TRIPLE J HOTTEST 100 POLL
The results for the Hottest 100 are in with the #1 single for 2011 unsurprisingly going to the meteorically successful Gotye and Kimbra collaboration Somebody That I Used To Know.
10.01.12 OFFICIAL COACHELLA 2012 LINE-UP
This morning Coachella announced the official three-day festival line-up for 2012 and it’s an absolute corker, even featuring Australian solo debonair Gotye on the bill.
04.01.12 GUESS WHO TOPPED THE 2011 ARIA CHART?
If Jessica Mauboy's nomination for an ARIA award last year wasn’t bizarre enough, the final tally of record sales in Australia for 2011 is an even more disturbing insight into what people are really listening to at home.
13.12.11 HOTTEST 100 VOTING SET TO OPEN
Will Boy & Bear have another stellar year? Will Art Vs Science’s stupidity finally be boycotted by the listening public? Will Jack Ladder’s supreme tune Cold Feet finally be lauded as the finest Aussie single of the year? It’s time to vote in the Triple J Hottest 100 poll.
28.11.11 BOY AND BEAR CLEAN UP THE ARIAS
Whoever penned ‘nice guys finish last’ might need to do a rewrite, as it is nice guy quintet Boy and Bear that cleaned up the 2011 ARIA Awards ceremony last night in Sydney after taking home five gongs for their stunning self-produced debut album Moonfire.
10.11.11 SIX THINGS FROM THE AMCATS TOUR DIARY
Local Adelaide duo The Amcats were recently invited to showcase at New York City's CMJ along with fellow Australian acts Gotye, The Grates, Boy & Bear, and Little Red.
12.10.11 DRAPHT, BOY & BEAR AND GOTYE LEAD ARIA NOMINATIONS
A diverse trio of Australian acts lead the ARIA Awards nominations this year, as Perth MC Drapht, Sydney mystic folkers Boy & Bear and popular sonic adventurer Gotye (pictured) all have seven nominations for the 25th Australian Recording Industry Association Awards to be held on Sun Nov 27 in Sydney.
10.10.11 LIVE: GOTYE
Our writer Miranda Freeman heads to Her Majesty's Theatre to check out Gotye's second sold-out performance in Adelaide for the week.
29.08.11 INTERVIEW: GOTYE
Words: Nina Bertok It peaked at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart and it’s already one of the biggest songs of the year, so it’s hard to believe when Gotye [AKA Melbourne musician Wally De Backer] says that his current hit Somebody That I Used To Know almost never saw the light of day.
02.08.11 KIMBRA TO TOUR DEBUT ALBUM WITH F!SR,F!
You’d be crazy if you haven’t heard of Kimbra by now.
08.07.11 VIDEOS OF THE WEEK: JUL 8
Alright alright, let's all try to recollect ourselves after that amazing new Gotye video.
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.
12.10.10 Laneway Line-up
After Mumford mania and Florence fever earlier this year, the Laneway Festival organisers have opted for a decidedly more indie line-up in 2011.
22.09.10 Ripped Apart: The Basics - ðə'bæzɪtʃ
Fed up with the monotony of the music industry, Melbourne's The Basics have decided to "do a Radiohead" and release a live album free to download on the interwebs.
"We worked in this amazing studio at the top of this tower, it was just majestic."
