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17.05.12 INTERVIEW: GRIMES
Canada’s Grimes, AKA Claire Boucher, is one of 2012’s breakthrough artists, her album Visions entailing the addictive Oblivion, and evoking an R&B Miss Kittin or futuristic Mariah Carey.
11.05.12 RETURN OF THE STEEL PANTHER!
Drawing a massive midday crowd out to Soundwave this year (and apparently blowing Alter Bridge off the stage at Sidewaves interstate), LA’s nutty hair metal lads Steel Panther are getting their Balls Out during a new tour announced for October.
08.05.12 ELIZABETH ROSE AT ROCKET BAR
Sydney popette Elizbeth Rose has risen to prominence over the past twelve months with her Grimes-esque blip and bloop tunes and theatrical stage presence.
23.04.12 THE TEA PARTY RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA
We’ve had our fair share of Jeff Martin tours over the years, but now his full band, The Tea Party, will be arriving down under this July for the first time since 2004 in celebration of their recent formation and forthcoming new record.
17.04.12 LISTEN TO THE NEW BEACH HOUSE ‘LAZULI’
With the first offering Myth already all over the airwaves, Balitmore dream-pop duo Beach House have unveiled the second single off their hotly anticipated forthcoming album Bloom due out May 15.
05.04.12 WIN A DOUBLE PASS TO LISA MITCHELL
Want to see Lisa Mitchell for free as part of her Heavenly Sounds tour that will be hitting Adelaide on Thu Jun 14?.
02.04.12 DEEP SEA ARCADE HEADING TO THE OUTLANDS
Sydney five-piece Deep Sea Arcade will hit the road this June on an outlandish national tour to celebrate the release of their debut album Outlands.
27.03.12 LISA MITCHELL CATHEDRAL TOUR
Last year churches and cathedrals around the country came to life as part of the sold-out Seeker Love Keeper Heavenly Sounds tour.
20.03.12 FRINGE WRAP: TUE MAR 20
We're sorry to say that this is the final Fringe Wrap for 2012.
14.03.12 FRANK TURNER COMING TO ADELAIDE
British folk/punk hero Frank Turner will soon be Australia-bound for a performance at Groovin’ The Moo festival, but if you don’t have tickets to see him on the open air stage you can catch him in a more intimate setting when he tours with his band The Sleeping Souls this May.
22.02.12 SNAKADAKTAL ADD SECOND ADELAIDE SHOW
Due to an exhaustion of tickets to their first show, Triple J Unearthed up-and-comers Snakadaktal have announced a new run of dates for their upcoming March/April tour including a second show in Adelaide.
22.02.12 DEAD LETTER CIRCUS ANNOUNCE SLEEPWALKER TOUR
After extensive travels throughout the US and the success of their No Fracking Way campaign tour last year, Brisbane alt-rockers Dead Letter Circus are getting back on the bandwagon with a 20-date Sleepwalker tour this May.
21.02.12 BLUEJUICE BRINGING THEIR GOOD COMPANY
Citizens of Australia – this April you'll want to make sure your grandmothers aren’t running rampant through public parks, because the ever-energetic Bluejuice are coming to town.
20.02.12 SAN CISCO LAUNCHING ROCKET SHIP TOUR
They may be a bit Awkward but that doesn’t mean that they are shy of a stage, as young WA guns San Cisco are getting back on the bandwagon just weeks after their debut national tour.
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.
10.02.12 ADELAIDE FRINGE Q&AS VOLUME ONE
The Garden Of Unearthly Delights opens next week, with all manner of shows set to whet your tastebuds ahead of the official Adelaide Fringe opening.
10.02.12 INTERVIEW: CHAIRLIFT
Potential Laneway stage invaders, take heed: showcasing their new album Something at New York’s famed Bowery Ballroom last week, Chairlift singer Caroline Polachek took on an overzealous intruder with a move straight out of a police training video.
01.02.12 XAVIER RUDD COMING TO THE GOV
With six albums already under his belt, multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd has showed no signs of stopping.
17.01.12 SNAKADAKTAL ANNOUNCE MARCH TOUR
2011 was a big year for triple j Unearthed High winners Snakadaktal.
12.02.11 Fraud Millionaires farewell show at the Crown & Sceptre
Fraud Millionaires farewell show at the Crown & Sceptre
21.12.09 Deez Nuts
Deez Nuts, featuring JJ Peters formerly of Adelaide band I Killed The Prom Queen along with someone who looks suspiciously like a tattooed barperson at the Grace Emily, are heading back to town to play yet another of their crazy, metal-infused rap gigs. This time it will be with Gold Cost act Mourning Tide and NSW band Mark My Words as a licensed all-ages affair at Fowler’s Live on Mon Dec 21.
26.11.09 - 17.12.09 FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE
Twenty-five-year-old Shane Devries is an oil painter extraordinaire. He captures quirky characters in heart-stopping moments of rising, falling and weightless suspension within breathtaking landscapes in the exhibition, From Somewhere Else.
14.01.10 Chimaira (US),
with Double Dragon and The Rose Line
14.02.10 - 14.03.10 MANDALA
Body painter extraordinaire Emma Hack is back with the brushes, in her striking new collection of human forms, butterflies and wallpaper designs.
20.02.10 - 31.03.10 MERGE BY LEAH SMITH AND HAYWOOD BY LAURA SMITH
The mother and daughter pair - with over 30 years of artistic experience between them - are exhibiting a number of painted works on canvas in a variety of media as well as some sculpture by Laura Smith.
18.03.10 - 11.04.10 TRAFFIC
With a fascination for advertising material, a heap of artistic flair and a healthy interest in affichistes (torn poster art), Ian McFarland presents new mixed media reflecting the ebb and flow of traffic in the big smoke. Think ripped patterns, sun faded colours, residual brush strokes of application and the imprinted pattern of brick and corrugated iron.
