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15.02.12 LIVE REVIEW: LANEWAY FESTIVAL
A number of band competitions were held this year in conjunction with Adelaide’s fifth annual Laneway Festival, but it seems one of these contests is merely hypothetical.
18.01.12 MUSIC VIDEOS THIS WEEK
We’ve had a bit of a break from our usual allotment of music videos, but fear not, your weekly fix of visual delights has returned (we’re looking at you Lana Del Rey and your cathedral of tigers).
17.02.11 Brit Award Winners 2011
Tinie Tempah, Arcade Fire and nu-folk were the big winners at this year's Brit Awards, while '90s pop group Take That capped off a remarkable comeback by walking away with the award for Best British Group.
22.12.10 Editor Vs Editor: Singles of the year (20-11)
It's a tastemaking clash of the titans as Rip It Up's magazine editor Scott McLennan takes on online editor Jimmy Bollard in an epic singles of the year countdown.
21.10.10 The cutest couples in music
If you’re a musician, all that time on the road can be kind of lonely.
21.10.10 The NME Cool List 2010
NME's much-maligned Cool List has returned, with the English tastemaker once again having its contentious say on who the coolest people in music have been in 2010.
08.09.10 The xx win Britain's Mercury Award
Sulky Londoners The XX have taken out Briatin's coveted Mercury Music Prize for their highly acclaimed debut album XX.
11.08.10 Rip It Up TV: Laura Marling
The lovely Laura Marling played in Adelaide for the very first time last weekend so before she hit the stage for her sold out show at The Governor Hindmarsh, we pulled her aside for a chat about the nu-folk phenomenon, boyfriends old and new, and intellectual stuff like books and poetry.
09.08.10 Boy & Bear national tour
Boy & Bear are the toast of the international folk community.
05.08.10 A splendid weekend part 2
The conclusion to Scotty Mac's Splendour reflection features a stunted Florence Welch, a sedated Julian Casablancas and a sloppy Richard Ashcroft.
07.05.10 Just announced: Splendour sideshows
With tickets for the monster festival already snapped up, the closest you're going to get to the Splendour superstars is some 1000km away.
06.05.10 Splendour Sideshow Update
If the only message you got this morning was 'Server busy, try again later', then I'm afraid there's more bad news as many of the international Splendour acts confirmed their sideshows today with Adelaide getting a good old snub from most of them.
"We worked in this amazing studio at the top of this tower, it was just majestic."
