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22.05.12 SET SAIL ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND TOUR
After something of a turbulent start to the year involving visa woes, all members of Sydney’s indie-pop trio Set Sail are now back on Australian soil and ready to make the country privy to their newest material with the announcement of a national tour.
21.05.12 XAVIER RUDD ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM AND TOUR
Hot on the heels of his highest-selling single to date Follow The Sun, multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd has announced for this August and September plans to finally put forward his highly anticipated new record Spirit Bird alongside a national tour.
18.05.12 INTERVIEW: LADYHAWKE
When you’ve got some of music’s biggest heavyweights like Kylie Minogue, the Scissor Sisters and Courtney Love in your corner, it’s hard to imagine why you’d call your hotly-anticipated sophomore album Anxiety.
18.05.12 Santigold
NME’s Queen of All Pop 2008, Santigold, recently returned with the release of her eagerly anticipated sophomore album Master of My Make Believe and thanks to Warner Music Australia we’ve got five copies up for grabs.
17.05.12 SLASH ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Recent Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductee and former Guns’n’Roses guitarist Slash has announced that he will be returning to Australian this August in support of his new album Apocalyptic Love.
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 INTERVIEW: CATCALL
Sydney's Catcall (AKA Catherine Kelleher) has just dropped her epic pop masterpiece The Warmest Place and is basking in the wave of relief that comes with finishing a project of this magnitude.
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.
10.05.12 BEASTIE BOYS’ ALBUM SALES SKYROCKET POST MCA’S DEATH
Seven Beastie Boys albums reached the Billboard Hot 200 charts this week, just days after the passing of founding member Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch.
08.05.12 GEOFFREY O'CONNOR ‘PROUD’ TOUR
Vocalist of The Crayon Fields and Melbourne’s leading synth ‘sensualist’ Geoffrey O’Connor has just released his brand new single, Proud, taken from his melancholic and breezy debut solo album Vanity Is Forever.
07.05.12 WATCH THE SALVADORS ‘MAKING OF’ DOCO
With the release date of their debut album edging closer and closer around the corner, Adelaide outfit The Salvadors have released a four-minute ‘making of’ documentary about their recording and writing processes so far.
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.
03.05.12 INTERVIEW: GRAVEYARD TRAIN
If Texas Chainsaw Massacre were materialised into a musical, it’d probably sound a little bit like Melbourne horror alt-country outfit Graveyard Train.
01.05.12 LIZ MARTIN TO TOUR ‘A LITTLE'
Normally major reconstructive surgery can leave you a little downcast, but in Australian songstress Liz Martin’s case, the recovery period bloomed into her light-hearted and candid third studio album, Dance A Little, Live A Little.
27.04.12 ISAW ‘THE IDENTITY’ AUSTRALIAN TOUR
After months of immense effort, Adelaide metal heavyweights Isaw are finally set to storm the country this May and June with their debut album The Identity.
24.04.12 CANNIBAL CORPSE COMING TO TORTURE AUSTRALIA
It’s been three years since we were last graced with the sacophagic presence of death metal outfit Cannibal Corpse.
24.04.12 THE AUDREYS COLLECTING THEMSELVES
In celebration of the release of their most recent album Collected, this June and July alt-roots act The Audreys will embark on an intimate duo tour to theatres all across Australia for the first time in nearly a year.
23.04.12 THE SHINS ANNNOUNCE SPLENDOUR SIDESHOWS
It’s been a while since we saw our old friends The Shins, who when last here even devoted a song to us.
23.04.12 HILLTOP HOODS: FRI JUL 27, ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE.
Supporting the recent release of their number one platinum album, Drinking From The Sun, the Hilltop Hoods are embarking on one of the year’s most highly anticipated tours this June through to August.
20.04.12 JACK WHITE SPLENDOUR SIDESHOWS
Aside from his headlining Splendour In The Grass spot, former White Stripes frontman Jack White has revealed two east coast sideshows for this July in support of his solo album debut Blunderbuss.
19.11.09 Tori Amos at Thebarton Theatre
Besides Bob Dylan, what other iconic artist could get away with a two-hour show where only one single was performed? Tori Amos gives her fervent Adelaide fans another incredible show at Thebarton Theatre, but the hypnotic setlist of B-sides and album tracks from the past two decades leaves casual listeners bewildered.
