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21.05.12 LISTEN TO WOLF & CUB'S NEW SINGLE
Following the 70s inspired vibes of their last AA side release See The Light // All Through The Night, Adelaide band Wolf & Cub have just put forward their latest two singles Shut Me Out // Got Nothing Coming.
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.
11.05.12 LISTEN TO OLD MATE’S EP ‘WORD IS BOND’
After muscling down the past few months laying down their newest material, Keswick dudes Old Mate have finally put forward the results of their labours – their new EP Word Is Bond.
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.
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.
02.05.12 2012 APRA AWARDS NOMINEES
The Australian Performing Right Association (APRA) has announced the 2012 nominees for its highly prestigious awards ceremony scheduled to take place next month.
23.04.12 LISTEN TO SPARKSPITTER’S ‘SELF-TITLED’ EP
After months of honing their tracks, local experimental instrumental trio Sparkspitter have finally unveiled their glorious debut self-titled EP to the public.
18.04.12 THIRD BAND CONFIRMED FOR SPLENDOUR
The full Splendour In The Grass line-up is set to be announced tomorrow morning, but yet another early confirmation has snuck its way in thanks to detective work of music journalists.
17.04.12 RAGE: 25 YEARS, 25 VIDEOS
This week the iconic Rage celebrates 25 years as the ABC’s flagship music video programme.
17.04.12 LISTEN TO THE NEW BEACH HOUSE ‘LAZULI’
With the first offering Myth already all over the airwaves, Balitmore dream-pop duo Beach House have unveiled the second single off their hotly anticipated forthcoming album Bloom due out May 15.
14.04.12 INTERVIEW: LYLA'S BREAK-UP
Following last month's sudden announcement that they would be performing their last ever show, Rip It Up caught up with Anthony Callisto of Lyla to find out why, after being together since they were 16, the band had decided to call it quits.
12.04.12 INTERVIEW: KATE MILLER-HEIDKE
“I was recently recognised during a full-body massage by the bloke who was kneading my thighs at the time,” Kate Miller-Heidke recalls with horror.
11.04.12 RIP IT UP’S AUTUMN ALBUM FORECAST
With a brand new batch of albums and artists on the music horizon, Rip It Up has compiled a list of some of the best new LPs we can expect this autumn from artists like Fiona Apple, Azealia Banks, Sigur Ros, M.
04.04.12 GET MAT MCHUGH’S NEW ALBUM FOR FREE
It’s been a decade since the rise of The Beautiful Girls.
03.04.12 THE BEARDS LAUNCHING NEW ALBUM AT UNIBAR
Stints in-studio at Triple J and a spot in the Hottest 100? An APRA award nomination for single of the year? For a band that “never expected to play more than one show,” Adelaide’s own The Beards have certainly come a long way.
02.04.12 LISTEN TO NEW DIRTY PROJECTORS
It’s been nearly three years since experimental wonder kids Dirty Projectors released their acclaimed eighth studio album Bitte Orca.
20.03.12 LISTEN TO NEW ARCADE FIRE SONG 'ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTER'
Joining the likes of Trent Reznor and Karen O, Canadian indie darlings Arcade Fire are the latest musical outfit to add a big budget Hollywood film score to their resumes.
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.
04.12.09 - 19.12.09 MARK THOMPSON
One of Australia’s leading theatrical designers and artists, Adelaide-trained Mark Thompson, returns to town to exhibit a series of 19 new paintings, one of which was a finalist for the Archibald Prize.
