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.
04.03.11 Cloud Control take out the AMP
Blue Mountains quartet Cloud Control have won the sixth annual Australian Music Prize, announced at a ceremony in Sydney last night.
14.02.11 Live: St Jerome's Laneway Festival
Fowler's Live - Fri Feb 11 As Laneway reaches its carrying capacity with successive big name line-ups, it's time to think about moving this event somewhere bigger.
03.02.11 Australian Music Prize 2011 Shortlist
The nine albums nominated for the 2011 Australian Music Prize (more economically referred to as the AMP) were announced in Sydney yesterday.
24.01.11 The Holidays announce April tour
Following their $15,000 AMP Red Bull Award for debut album Post Paradise last week, The Holidays have announced they'll be taking their summery pop jams back on the road in the last hot days of the season.
19.01.11 The Holidays take out Red Bull Award
Sydney's The Holidays have won the fifth annual Red Bull Award for their 2010 debut album Post Paradise, as part of the Australian Music Prize celebrations.
30.11.10 Internet Killed The Video Star
Tue Nov 30 If A Clockwork Orange was re-written by JG Ballard and directed by David Finch, it would turn out something like our video of the week.
26.10.10 Live: The Holidays
Jive - Sat Oct 23 The hard part is almost over for Sydney's The Holidays.
30.09.10 Bag Raiders: Glass Action
The haunting and atmospheric Way Back Home is currently hijacking radio stations and nightclubs around Australia, reminding us that, indeed, Bag Raiders are making one hell of a comeback since last year’s Shooting Stars.
17.09.10 Ripped Apart: The Holidays - Post Paradise
There are some albums that instantly make you want to know more about them.
16.08.10 The Holidays moonlighting fans with debut album
Sydney's beloved indie four-piece The Holidays have announced their debut album Post Paradise will be coming out in September, followed by a month-long national tour with fellow upstarts Papa Vs Pretty.
08.07.10 The Fresh 50
Have you ever stopped to think just how awesomely exciting the Australian music scene is? No? Well we here at Rip It Up Digital certainly have, so much so that we just couldn’t keep it to ourselves.