20.05.12 INTERVIEW: MAX SAVAGE
Just a few weeks ago Rip It Up 2012 Hot Six nominee, Max Savage of The False Idols, found himself picked up by the same international booking agent that hosts Annie De Franco, Graveyard Train and Cash Savage.
16.05.12 LIVE REVIEW: GRAVEYARD TRAIN
Our writer Miranda Freeman went along to The Gov Hindmarsh to indulge in tales of witches, ghouls and graveyards through a medium of - wait for it - country music.
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.
01.05.12 THE BRIDE TO TOUR 'PRESIDENT RD'
This June and July Sydney’s hard hitting outfit The Bride will see themselves performing shows across the country to officially launch their landmark 2011 record, President Rd.
05.04.12 GRAVEYARD TRAIN AT THE GOV
Melbourne’s best foot stomping, chain bashing, hell raising folk/blues outfit Graveyard Train will be returning to Adelaide following their packed out audience at Barrio this May for a performance at The Gov.
10.02.12 INTERVIEW: CHAIRLIFT
Potential Laneway stage invaders, take heed: showcasing their new album Something at New York’s famed Bowery Ballroom last week, Chairlift singer Caroline Polachek took on an overzealous intruder with a move straight out of a police training video.
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.
09.05.11 HERBIE HANCOCK LIVE REVIEW
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Wed May 4 If you are reading this as someone who attended the performance, then I would envisage you’ll relate to the sentiments to follow.
14.04.11 PAUL: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE NERD KIND
Cult big-screen hits Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz have proven that when UK actors Nick Frost and Simon Pegg appear on screen together, film trainspotters are sent into paroxysms.
14.04.11 SOUNDWAVE REVOLUTION UPDATE #473
Five more bands have joined the Soundwave Revolution gravy train since we last looked as things really start to heat up.
30.03.11 Three more join the Revolution
In what's becoming a more carefully planned out procedure than the invasion of Normandy, Soundwave Revolution have revealed the next three bands to be playing the festival later on in the year.
24.03.11 Joan As Police Woman tour
This June marks the return of sultry American songstress Joan Wasser and her band Joan As Police Woman.
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.
08.02.11 Live: A Day On The Green
Annie's Lane Winery - Sat Feb 5 They call it the Big Day Out for adults and with INXS, Train, Baby Animals and Sean Kelly from Models all on this Day On The Green bill, you couldn't really argue with them.
10.01.11 ARIA announces top 100's for 2010
If you thought consumerist trends in Australian music were changing, think again.
18.11.10 My Chemical Romance: Black To The Future
My Chemical Romance had 30 songs written and had practically finished recording the follow up to The Black Parade, but something didn’t feel right.
04.11.10 Aria keeping up with this?
The ARIA train rolled on last night with the awards for Best Dance Release, Best Urban Album and Best Jazz Album presented at a concert where Guy Sebastian sang and Amy Meredith 'rocked out'.
15.10.10 Come on baby, do the locomotive!
If you've ever hopped aboard a train on the Great Southern Rail, you'll know how long these hours seem to pass.
30.09.10 INXS for A Day On the Green 5
Just when you thought this season's Days On The Green couldn't get any bigger, they go and announce legendary Aussie rock band INXS for the first show in 2011.
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.