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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.
07.05.12 LAND & SEA
A gun, a bath, a telephone and an island are the four primary circulating props in Brink Productions’ latest play,Land & Sea written by Nicki Bloom.
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.
30.03.12 MMM POP! HANSON TO TOUR!
Last seen rocking out in Katy Perry’s video for Last Friday Night (TGIF), the clean-cut brothers Hanson, who set hearts racing in the ‘90s, are heading to Australia.
26.03.12 THE SALVADORS TO HEADLINE ‘OFF THE COUCH’
Having spent the past six months working on their upcoming debut album, local up-and-comers The Salvadors are now set to headline the Off the Couch gig at Jive this Fri Mar 30.
19.03.12 TOM THUM WINS BIG AT FRINGE 2012
As we wave a fond farewell to the 2012 Adelaide Fringe, there's other celebrations to be had.
08.03.12 FUTURE MUSIC INTERVIEW: GYM CLASS HEROES
Thanks to the goofy music video hubris, clowning media shots and swaggering onstage confidence, Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy has the aura of a man completely comfortable in his heavily inked skin.
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.
24.01.12 Danny & The Champions Of The World
Hearts And Arrows (Longtime Listener) ***1/2.
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 THE WEST END XMAS MARKET RETURNS
This Sunday afternoon Leigh St in the city will host the return of the West End Xmas Arts Market and Carnivale.
02.12.11 2012'S DELIGHTFUL GARDEN LINE-UP
The East End Fringe hub, The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, has unveiled its 2012 line-up with big name and edgy cabaret performers, acrobats, musicians and comedians all booked to perform at the popular arts hub and meeting spot.
25.11.11 LIVE: STEVIE NICKS
Our arts writer Robert Dunstan went to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre to see a unique solo performance from Fleetwood Mac's front woman Stevie Nicks supported by The Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart.
20.10.11 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL GETS HIP FOR 2012
With 68 events, 37 world premieres and a feast of music, theatre, visual art and a new night time playground called 'Barrio' with six bars, the 2012 Adelaide Festival has something for every lover of the arts and music including a contemporary music program featuring Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (pictured above), The Black Lips, Charles Bradley and Kraftwerk and Neu!’s Michael Rother.
29.09.11 KATY B INTERVIEW: KATY’S NEXT MISSION
Katy B has pulled out from the rest of the Parklife tour.
15.09.11 Massivan
Massivan Family With Three Hearts (One World Music/Beat Broker) *** ½ .
15.09.11 JESSIE J. ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE. WED MAR 14
British urban pop sensation Jessie J is heading to Adelaide to play a headline show at the Entertainment Centre.
12.08.11 LIVE: Worldhood
Rip It Up arts editor Robert Dunstan recently attended the world premiere of dance production Worldhood which is running at Grote St’s Her Majesty’s Theatre until Sat Aug 13.
29.07.11 LIVE: SIDE TO ONE / BALLET REVOLUCION
Rip It Up’s arts editor Robert Dunstan had the opportunity to experience two new dance works during the week… Side To One and Ballet Revolucion.
27.02.10 Festival Of Arts Opening at the Artisit's Bar
Festival Of Arts Opening at the Artisit's Bar
05.12.09 - 16.12.09 DOT. DOT. DOT.
For the very first time, 28 South Australian School Of Art, Architecture And Design Visual Arts graduates will host a stand-alone exhibition of their work in the SASA Gallery. On display will be various mediums including sculpture and installation, painting and drawing, history and theory, photography, jewellery, glass, ceramics and printmaking.
Concludes Wed Dec 16
27.02.10 - 02.05.10 BEFORE AND AFTER SCIENCE
Before And After Science lands at the Art Gallery as part of the Adelaide Festival Of Arts and with it brings 22 of Australia’s most innovative and exciting contemporary artists. Here, they present installation and sculpture using traditional and non-traditional materials which feature strongly alongside collage, film and painting; most wrapped around the concepts of alchemy and transformation.
