CaliforniaCousin Interview

These siblings have been playing together since Daniella was 14, Stephanie was 11 and Josh was 10. Originally from Melbourne, they moved to Adelaide while still kids in order to be closer to their father’s family (“You can’t leave the nonnas behind!”) Now adults, they’ve dropped their old name (The…

Fear Factory Playing ‘Demanufacture’ In Full With July Tour

For the first time ever, Fear Factory will be performing their classic 90s album Demanufacture in its entirety to Australia fans this July.

Demanufacture is the second studio album from the LA industrial metal band, recorded and released in 1995. The certified…

Atlas Genius: Rocket Bar, Wed Jul 24

Adelaide band Atlas Genius are doing a lot to put our humble southern city on the map, eg; playing alongside Silversun Pickups in the US, performing on Letterman and leaving this year's SXSW showcase touted the biggest buzz band of 2013. Now, after a lengthy US stint, the Trojans…

Ben Lee: Ayahuasca: Welcome To The Work

Now that this curly headed ferret has sold his soul to become a mentor on The Voice, a show title that sends an excruciating pain down the fingertips just to type, it seems like a pretty darn good time to release an album.

Poof! There it appears on my desk.…

No Zu: Life

Life is a very appropriate title for this record from the Melbourne outfit; because it is quite literally bursting at the seams with the stuff. With its strong flavours of Talking Heads and early Roxy music, this record has a playful coolness. This is the kind of thing you might…

Mobin Master Interview

Melbourne electro-house DJ/producer Mobin Master has a new single, Dreams, a ‘versus’ with Tate Strauss featuring Russian dance divette, Polina. And they're bringing the song to the people, rather than merely winging it to influential DJ mates or quietly posting it on Soundcloud.

These days DJs rarely promote singles directly…

Rudimental: Home

Dare you to listen to Home in its entirety and not come out of it with a big stupid grin on your face. This East London lot are all about spreading the joyous vibe and radiating the love (check out the aptly-titled Feel The Love featuring John Newman). Their message…

Dialectrix Interview

There’s little mystery behind Dialectrix’s new album title, The Cold Light Of Day. Made during some particularly bleak times in the Sydney rapper’s life, the third LP is certainly a recount of dramatic events but it’s by no means a plea for sympathy. In fact, the only plea here is…

Hits And Pits 2.0 Announces Line-Up

Following a successful debut earlier this year, touring mini-festival Hits And Pits will return for a second time this November featuring a brand new line-up of punk acts.

The second line-up will include headliners Boysetsfire, No Fun At All, Jughead’s Revenge and…

San Cisco Interview

After taking a short break in their hometown of Fremantle before flying out to London that afternoon, Jordi Davieson, the lead vocalist and guitarist of Australia’s much-loved goal kicking kids, San Cisco, takes some time to chat to Rip It Up about the band’s recent overseas exploits and where San…

The Reverend Horton Heat Interview

The Reverend Horton Heat, a rockin’ trio from Texas who play a revved-up form of country music and rockabilly and are just as likely to have their followers swing dancin’ as they are to have ’em slam dancin’, are currently on a much anticipated Australian tour.

Ahead of their eight-date…

MS MR Interview

In the lead up to the release of their debut album Secondhand Rapture, Lizzy Plapinger and Max Hershenow, the New Yorkers behind dark synth-pop duo MS MR, take some time with Rip It Up to chat about their obsession with new media networks and why until very recently, their true…

A Place For Me Review

Known elsewhere under the less catchy but still pretty fitting title Stuck In Love, writer/director Josh Boone’s début is a low-key drama featuring a name cast who can’t exactly have been paid much to appear. The Borgens are a family in various crises.

The dad, William (Greg Kinnear), is a…

Primal Scream: More Light

Despite rascal bassist Mani skiving off to make a mint with the reunited Stone Roses, it’s business as usual in the Primal Scream camp. Nine-minute opener 2013’s title might infer new rules of engagement, but Bobby Gillespie’s breathy rhetoric about 21st century slaves, television propaganda and a peasant underclass suggests…

The Postal Service: Give Up (10th Anniversary Edition)

Times change. In the booklet for The Postal Service’s sole album, 2003’s Give Up, frontman Ben Gibbard looks like a fat loser virgin. A decade later the Death Cab For Cutie singer is the only person in the world who’s experienced marriage to delish Zooey Deschanel - even if the…