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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.
04.04.12 GET MAT MCHUGH’S NEW ALBUM FOR FREE
It’s been a decade since the rise of The Beautiful Girls.
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.
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.
24.01.12 BARRIO ANNOUNCES LATE NIGHT MUSIC LINE-UP
With March not far away it's time to get excited for Barrio, the new late night festival club opening at Hajek Plaza as part of the Adelaide Festival.
05.12.11 DURAN DURAN HUNGRY FOR AUSTRALIA
With their Mark Ronson produced album All You Need Is Now returning ‘80s superstars Duran Duran to the sound of their glory days, the creators of anthems such as Hungry Like The Wolf, Rio, and Girls On Film have announced an Australian tour, which will see the Simon Le Bon-fronted group hit this country in March.
04.11.11 SUPERMODELS IN MUSIC
When you’re a famous musician you really do get all the girls - just look at some of the more deformed microphone-wielding weirdos out there like Jarvis Cocker and Billy Joel.
10.10.11 ADELAIDE LANEWAY FESTIVAL 2012 LINE-UP
Laneway will arrive back in Adelaide with a new expanded site at UniSA and a line-up that includes Austra, M83, SBTRKT, Girls and the Neil and Sharon Finn band Pajama Club.
27.09.11 NEW MUSIC VIDEOS THIS WEEK
This week's new music videos include tasty videographic morsels from Bjork, Dum Dum Girls, tUnE-yArDs, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Girls, The Grates and The Fearless Vampire Killers.
11.08.11 FIRST ACTS FOR KANGAROO ISLAND SURF MUSIC FESTIVAL
Rip It Up can exclusively reveal the first line-up of acts for The Kangaroo Island Surf Music Festival with Eskimo Joe, The Beautiful Girls, Ash Grunwald, The Holidays and Hungry Kids Of Hungary among the first announcement of acts for the music and surf event to be held in early November.
22.03.11 Live: Clipsal Tracksounds (Friday)
Eastern Parklands - Fri Mar 18 The Clipsal 500 might be best known for its almighty gathering of rev heads, beer guts and handle bar moustaches, but the silver lining is its annual Friday night concert, which brings out some of the best names in Aussie rock.
17.03.11 ROLLER GIRLS, COME OUT TO PLAY
The 2011 Adelaide Roller Derby season will jam off on Sun Mar 20 with this year’s season promising plenty of action from the tough girls of the rink.
23.02.11 Interview: Super Wild Horses
In the past six months Melbourne duo Super Wild Horses have released their debut album Fifteen through Aaghrt! (owned and operated by Mikey Young from Eddy Current Suppression Ring), toured America, released Fifteen in America through Hozac (Smith Westerns, Dum Dum Girls) and played their first ever Big Day Out.
17.02.11 Fringe Wrap: Fri Feb 18
As we prepare for the biggest street party this side of Mardi Gras, we're looking at a bunch more shows that you could be checking out once the Adelaide Fringe officially gets under way tonight at the Fringe Parade.
23.12.10 Kisschasy return for Australia Day Concert
Melbourne pop punks Kisschasy will play their first Adelaide gig in almost a year at the free Australia Day in the City concert in Elder Park.
20.12.10 The Beautiful Girls' Australia Day bash
Australia Day in Adelaide means one of three things: getting silly at the cricket, getting silly at a Hottest 100 party or getting silly on the beach.
14.12.10 Birds Of Tokyo for Clipsal 500 Tracksounds
The Friday night Jim Beam TrackSounds concert at the Clipsal 500 has been announced to add to The Doobie Brothers' closing night performance.
13.12.10 The Forgotten 10 of '10
Every year it baffles and bemuses us that a selection of sonic delights somehow manages to slip through the cracks and go by unnoticed and under-appreciated.
10.07.10 The Beautiful Girls and Washington at Thebarton Theatre
The Beautiful Girls and Washington at Thebarton Theatre
26.01.11 Sand City featuring The Beautiful Girls and The Salvadors
Sand City featuring The Beautiful Girls and The Salvadors
