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20.05.12 INTERVIEW: MAX SAVAGE
Just a few weeks ago Rip It Up 2012 Hot Six nominee, Max Savage of The False Idols, found himself picked up by the same international booking agent that hosts Annie De Franco, Graveyard Train and Cash Savage.
15.05.12 LIVE REVIEW: JOSH PYKE
Rip It Up reviewer Sharni Honor might have a dangerous infatuation with prospective husband Josh Pyke and his finely manicured beard, but we’re sure that didn’t prevent her from offering a completely unbiased review of his Elder Hall show over the weekend (much).
15.05.12 LIVE REVIEW: FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS
Nothing Compares 2 Frank Turner, according to Rip It Up's reviewer Owen Heitmann.
11.05.12 INTERVIEW: PRINT CULT 2012
With the annual Print Cult taking place next weekend at Tooth & Nail gallery, an event allowing Adelaide's most prominent printmakers to display a variety of work with many different techniques, Rip It Up spoke to artist and gallery curator Jake 'One' Holmes about the shifting direction of South Australian art and the return to manual methods.
10.05.12 INTERVIEW: FRANK TURNER
English troubadour Frank Turner, whose four folk punk albums have won him a legion of fans, has enjoyed previous Australian solo tours so much that he’s now heading back with his band, The Sleeping Souls.
08.05.12 INTERVIEW: JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI
Jiro Ono, an 85-year-old Shokunin (Master Sushi Chef) who operates Tokyo’s Sukiyabashi Jiro restaurant, is the subject of the new American-produced, Japanese-language documentary from director/co-producer/cinematographer David Gelb.
04.05.12 THE SKIN I LIVE IN
Rip It Up has five copies of the DVD 'The Skin I Live In' featuring Golden Globe nominee Antonio Banderas to give away for this month's newsletter.
04.05.12 LISTEN TO GLISK'S DEBUT ALBUM 'HERMAION'
A few months after being nominated asmost electronically capable of Rip It Up's 2012 Hot Six, local electro whiz Glisk has finally unveiled his debut album Hermaion.
01.05.12 LIVE REVIEW: JAY & SILENT BOB
Two Hollywood stars in Adelaide just a fortnight after Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling popped by? Amazing! Rip It Up’s film guy Mad Dog Bradley presses pause on the DVD remote and heads to Thebarton Theatre to see what Jay & Silent Bob are getting up to.
27.04.12 LIVE: HENRY ROLLINS
Holding the same stance for 150 minutes as he held Her Majesty's Theatre verbally captive, Henry Rollins delivered a volley of anecdotes to his Adelaide fans as single beads of sweat dripped down his tensed microphone arm.
23.04.12 MISSY HIGGINS RETURNING TO RAZZLE DAZZLE
After nearly five years of absence, Rip It Up is excited to announce that our much-loved Australian songstress Missy Higgins will be returning to the musical fore this June and July with a brand new single Unashamed Desire and her first national tour since 2007, The Ol Razzle Dazzle.
14.04.12 INTERVIEW: LYLA'S BREAK-UP
Following last month's sudden announcement that they would be performing their last ever show, Rip It Up caught up with Anthony Callisto of Lyla to find out why, after being together since they were 16, the band had decided to call it quits.
13.04.12 INTERVIEW: LIFE IN MOVEMENT
Adelaide-based filmmaker Bryan Mason recently spoke to Rip It Up's MDB about his work upon Life In Movement, and his own investment in this most personal of documentaries.
11.04.12 RIP IT UP’S AUTUMN ALBUM FORECAST
With a brand new batch of albums and artists on the music horizon, Rip It Up has compiled a list of some of the best new LPs we can expect this autumn from artists like Fiona Apple, Azealia Banks, Sigur Ros, M.
03.04.12 INTERVIEW: STEVE EARLE
American troubadour Steve Earle plays the Governor Hindmarsh tonight (Tue Apr 3) in solo mode and Rip It Up’s Robert Dunstan speak to him prior to his visit.
29.03.12 KRYPTON DISCS TO CLOSE DOWN
Rip It Up is sad to report that another iconic record store, Krypton Discs in Glenelg, will be closing its doors at the end of April.
29.03.12 BEST COAST'S NEW SINGLE 'THE ONLY PLACE'
When Rip It Up spoke to Bethany Coseninto of Best Coast earlier this year she delved into some details about her forthcoming new album: “I’m definitely becoming more confident and ready not to hide my voice under heaps of things.
27.03.12 RIP IT UP TV: DEPARTURE
Rip It Up TV recently ambled along to the return of Departure at the Art Gallery of South Australia to sip some wine, eat some food and peruse the current contemporary art exhibition on offer, the 12th Biennial of Adelaide Artwork's Parallel Collisions.
23.03.12 INTERVIEW: NICK LOWE
You've got to be cruel to be kind, especially if you're English singer songwriter Nick Lowe.
22.03.12 LIVE: ST VINCENT
The Adelaide Festival's Barrio schedule offered a mouth-watering line-up of talent from across the world in a mesmerising outdoors locale.
10.12.09 RIP IT UP & ONION WEBSITE LAUNCH PARTY
The brand new RIPITUP.COM.AU and ONION.COM.AU launched with a party at the Mercury Cinema. Live band Lyla kicked off the night, followed by a doco about life and times at Rip It Up and Onion. Check out the video at RIP IT UP's Youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/ripitupmag.
09.08.11 Rip It Up Young Artist Award at Keith Murdoch House
Rip It Up Young Artist Award at Keith Murdoch House
13.05.10 - 29.05.10 VERY REMOTE
Visual artist Peter Drew is throwing together his third solo exhibition - and you’re invited. The paintings, based on his travels through remote Aboriginal communities in the Tiwi Islands, comprise of pixelated images.
“For me the pixelated images convey the possibility of communication between different cultures despite the fact that details are often lost in translation,” he tells Rip It Up.
01.05.10 - 25.05.10 PRIA MITRA
Artist Pria Mitra is showcasing her talent of lo-fi leopards, lions, tigers, monkeys, mustangs and Mexican sunset stencils, while celebrating imagery, colours, places and typefaces.
“My work expresses a total joy of life, in all its dimensions. It’s a multimedia experience. I utilise stencils, hand painting and collage,” Pria tells Rip It Up.
"We worked in this amazing studio at the top of this tower, it was just majestic."
