08.05.12 ATTENTION ALL BUDDING MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTORS!
Want a chance to make the video for Van She’s new single Idea Of Happiness, as remixed by French producer SebastiAn?.
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.
16.04.12 COOKING WITH DENNIS LESLIE
Being half Filipino, this is a dish I have had on a weekly basis.
19.03.12 WATCH THE DEATH STARRS
Gold Coast/Melbourne hip hop duo Death Starrs have won the 2012 Triple J Unearthed Hilltop Hoods Remix Competition with their take on the track Now That You're Gone from the Hoods' new album, Drinking From The Sun.
15.02.12 FUSE FESTIVAL EAST MEETS WEST
Drawing a line down the middle of Adelaide like the South Australian version of the Berlin Wall, Fuse East and Fuse West sees both local and national musicians taking sides and performing at venues across Adelaide as part of Fuse Festival.
15.02.12 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Soundtrack (EMI/Mute) ****.
06.02.12 LIVE: BIG DAY OUT 2012
Did Kanye’s absence ruin the day? Has the 15 years between Soundgarden performances at the Big Day Out been worth the wait? What did the sniffer dogs make of Royksopp’s set in the Boiler Room? Rip It Up sends Ryan Lynch and Scott McLennan along to sort the wheat from the chaff.
24.01.12 Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream (Deluxe Edition) (Virgin/EMI) ****1/2 .
23.12.11 JD SAMSON & MEN COMING TO BARRIO
Next March Le Tigre’s gender bending JD Samson will bring her newest musical project MEN, a DIY experimental outfit hailing from the feminist punk scene in Brooklyn, to Australia to tour their debut album Talk About Body.
06.12.11 RIP IT UP TV: KI SURF MUSIC FESTIVAL PART 2
The second episode of Rip It Up TV at Kangaroo Island Surf Music Festival is here, in which we asked all the big questions backstage to The Shiny Brights, Big Scary, The Salvadors and Gemini Downs.
01.12.11 LIVE REVIEW: GORGEOUS FESTIVAL
Rip It Up Editor Scott McLennan headed down to McLaren Vale last weekend for the inaugural Gorgeous Festival to discover Icehouse are still a great southern band during their comeback shows.
29.11.11 KIKUYU ALBUM LAUNCH AT THE GRACE EMILY
Next week at The Grace Emily solo Melbourne micropop artist Kikuyu, otherwise known as Sez Wilks or 'Whistling Nancy' of Aleks And The Ramps, will be launching her debut album Hunter Gathered.
16.04.10 Hot Tub Time Machine Premiere at Gepps Cross Drive-In
Hot Tub Time Machine Premiere at Gepps Cross Drive-In
28.05.10 Sex And The City 2 Premiere at Piccadilly Cinemas
Sex And The City 2 Premiere at Piccadilly Cinemas
24.06.10 Self Preservation Society Launch at The Grace Emily
Self Preservation Society Launch at The Grace Emily
11.11.10 Gareth Liddiard at the Grace Emily Hotel
Gareth Liddiard at the Grace Emily Hotel
Carclew Off The Couch Youth Week 2011 Launch Showcase featuring Gemini Downs at Fishbone Park, Hindmarsh Square
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.
09.12.09 - 15.12.09 MITOSIS ART EXHIBITION
Opening Wed Dec 9, Mitosis presents the creative works of 32 exciting emerging artists, all graduates of the Art Architecture And Design School, Uni SA, in a celebration of their artistic and academic achievements at post graduate level across their chosen fields of studio specialisation.
16.01.10 Celadore
At the Grace Emily
20.01.10 The Handsome Family (US)
At The Grace Emily