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24.05.12 INTERVIEW: MARINA & THE DIAMONDS
In a world where pop stars such as Rihanna and Lady Gaga appear to live in airbrushed fantasy realms beyond regular social anxieties, Marina Diamandis is an anomaly.
15.05.12 LIVE REVIEW: FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS
Nothing Compares 2 Frank Turner, according to Rip It Up's reviewer Owen Heitmann.
10.05.12 I AM GIANT AUSTRALIAN TOUR
New Zealand and UK-based rockers I Am Giant have announced plans for a second headline tour around Australia this June to promote their latest single Purple Heart.
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.
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.
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.
24.01.12 Danny & The Champions Of The World
Hearts And Arrows (Longtime Listener) ***1/2.
06.12.11 REM
Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage 1982-2011 (Warner) **** .
09.11.11 BIG DAY OUT & HEARTBREAK
Kanye West, The Living End and Mariachi El Bronx will no longer be appearing at the Adelaide or Perth leg of the 2012 Big Day Out due to a decision by organisers for Adelaide to only have one main stage instead of the usual two for next year’s music festival.
27.10.11 INTERVIEW: RYAN ADAMS
Off the drugs, out of Manhattan and happily married to Mandy Moore, Ryan Adams stresses to Rip It Up that these days he’s far from the alt-country problem child of legend.
20.10.11 LIVE: DEF LEPPARD & HEART
Editor Scott McLennan went along to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre to see the bombastic aplomb of 80s rock heroes Def Leppard, supported by Heart.
15.09.11 Massivan
Massivan Family With Three Hearts (One World Music/Beat Broker) *** ½ .
07.07.11 DEF LEPPARD & HEART AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Iconic rockers Def Leppard have announced that they will be jetting down to Australia this Summer joined by rock bands Heart and Choirboys.
12.04.11 LIVE: TIM BARRY
Enigma - Thu Apr 7 The events and memories of last year's Revival Tour have become mythologically ingrained into the hearts and minds of those who experienced it.
18.10.11 Def Leppard & Heart at Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Def Leppard & Heart at Adelaide Entertainment Centre
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.
