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18.05.12 PATRICK WOLF ANNOUNCES ACOUSTIC TOUR
This September will see charismatic British baroque pop performer Patrick Wolf returning to Australia for a series of intimate acoustic shows.
08.05.12 INTERVIEW: JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI
Jiro Ono, an 85-year-old Shokunin (Master Sushi Chef) who operates Tokyo’s Sukiyabashi Jiro restaurant, is the subject of the new American-produced, Japanese-language documentary from director/co-producer/cinematographer David Gelb.
08.05.12 ELIZABETH ROSE AT ROCKET BAR
Sydney popette Elizbeth Rose has risen to prominence over the past twelve months with her Grimes-esque blip and bloop tunes and theatrical stage presence.
08.05.12 COOKING WITH DENNIS LESLIE
Like most people, I grew up eating rice pudding.
03.05.12 INTERVIEW: GRAVEYARD TRAIN
If Texas Chainsaw Massacre were materialised into a musical, it’d probably sound a little bit like Melbourne horror alt-country outfit Graveyard Train.
02.05.12 A Q&A WITH: KIMBRA
It's been nearly a year since we last chatted with Kimbra and since then she's had a meteoric flood of attention.
02.05.12 LANA DEL REY SPLENDOUR SIDESHOWS
American songstress and music phenomenon Lana Del Rey has announced two Splendour In The Grass sideshows for Melbourne and Sydney.
27.04.12 SPLENDOUR SELLS OUT IN 43 MINUTES
If last year's sales were a bit dismal the 2012 line-up for Splendour In The Grass has redeemed the festival’s reputation for impossibly hard-to-get tickets with the entire event selling out in under an hour this morning.
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.
19.04.12 SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS 2012 LINE-UP
After months of buzz the Splendour In The Grass line-up is finally here.
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.
16.04.12 COOKING WITH DENNIS LESLIE
Being half Filipino, this is a dish I have had on a weekly basis.
03.04.12 INTERVIEW: STEVE EARLE
American troubadour Steve Earle plays the Governor Hindmarsh tonight (Tue Apr 3) in solo mode and Rip It Up’s Robert Dunstan speak to him prior to his visit.
02.04.12 INTERVIEW: AMERICAN PIE: REUNION
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg discussed, rather chaotically, the production of American Pie: Reunion during their recent visit to Australia with several of the film’s stars, and touched upon the challenges of updating the American Pie franchise and one of the more “interesting” days on set that they’ve ever had.
08.03.12 WOMAD INTERVIEW: PENGUIN CAFE
Penguin Café Orchestra performed at the first WOMADelaide back in 1992 under leader Simon Jeffes.
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.
23.02.12 SET SAIL TO PERFORM AT BARRIO OPENING NIGHT
Following a month-long tussle involving visa mix ups and a deportation from the country back to the US, Sydney's Set Sail have finally reclaimed their American-born lead singer just in time for their forthcoming Australian tour.
02.11.10 Melbourne Cup Birdcage after party at Hotel Richmond
Melbourne Cup Birdcage after party at Hotel Richmond
03.04.11 Lionel Richie at A Day On The Green at Leconfield Winery
Lionel Richie at A Day On The Green at Leconfield Winery
29.11.09 - 23.12.09 LITTLE TREASURES
An exhibition of affordable art and craft by 46 local artists. Highlights include contemporary glass bowls by Barbara Davis and fun and quirky toys by Helen Hedding. There’ll also be vintage fabric bags, handmade toys, trinkets and decorations, photography, paintings, delicate necklaces, fine pendants, bracelets, beaded earrings, pottery, textiles, ceramic animals, wood, glass and more for purchase!
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.
05.01.10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs (US)
The American indie giants make their first Adelaide live appearance in three years
10.01.10 Midsummer Circus: 2ManyDJs, Sinden & Fake Blood, Krafty Kuts, The Proxy, Technotronic, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Ajax and more
The folks at Fuzzy and Electric Circus are putting on one hell of a party. Be amongst the first to experience the fun and frivolity of Midsummer Circus
22.01.10 Boys Of Summer Tour 2010
with Every Time I Die (US), 50 Lions (Vic), House Vs Hurricane and Mary Jane Kelly (Wollongong)
04.03.10 - 08.03.10 MYTHOLOGIES
Marlaina Read, Laura Willis and Laura Haig (AUS), and Yuula Benivolski (CAN) present works in photomedia, sculpture, and installation. Curated by Marlaina Read, Mythologies explores strange topologies, speculative spaces and reinterpretations of known places through ritual, imagination, as well as personal and historical inspired storytelling.
18.03.10 - 11.04.10 TRAFFIC
With a fascination for advertising material, a heap of artistic flair and a healthy interest in affichistes (torn poster art), Ian McFarland presents new mixed media reflecting the ebb and flow of traffic in the big smoke. Think ripped patterns, sun faded colours, residual brush strokes of application and the imprinted pattern of brick and corrugated iron.
17.03.10 - 17.04.10 IT REALLY IS PERSONAL WITH THE COKERS
The Cokers are an artist family. Three out of the family of six have their work in this show. There are Jan's figurative pastel drawings favouring colour and feeling, Richard's collages mixing common cultural images with diverse colours, shapes and textures, and Kamal's pen, pencil and marker drawings.
09.04.10 - 30.04.10 SHORT CIRCUIT
Concerned with the growing issue of electrical waste, photographer Sam Oster has photographed discarded appliances from suburban hard rubbish and local dumps. The images highlight our electrical dependency and the environmental impact of our high consumption.
24.05.10 - 16.07.10 MIRROR MIRROR: THEN AND NOW
A major exhibition of 29 classic mirror pieces from a spectrum of international movements of the 1960s and 1970s – including pop, kinetic, minimal and conceptual art – by major artists including Ian Burn, Richard Hamilton, Yoko Ono, Meret Oppenheim, Robert Rauschenburg. Alongside, are works by leading Australian contemporary artists: Robyn Backen, Christian Capurro, Peter Cripps, Alex Gawronski, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Jacky Redgate, Robert Pulie, and also Samstag alumni Mikala Dwyer and Callum Morton.
