Tag: "australia"

Bayside Film Festival Returns
0 Comments. 632 Views. Posted 10 Jul 2012 @ 10:34am.
Whether you’ve got the frost bite to end all frost bite, or some headlights that aren’t exactly on cars, the winter chills don’t inspire much.  But it’s time for you to scrap your preconceived anti-everything that comes along with winter, and get a good warming from the Bayside Film Festival. With its dynamic, life-affirming selection of short films and documentaries from Australia and... Read More
Jonathan Boulet, Kindness, Tom Vek Triple Bill
0 Comments. 881 Views. Posted 3 May 2012 @ 9:53am.
One of the many highlights on Sydney's massive Vivid LIVE lineup will be hitting Melbourne, with the Modular-curated triple bill of Jonathan Boulet, Kindness and Tom Vek making the trip south at later this month. The Melbourne show will mark the Australian debut for two of the UK's hottest acts - Tom Vek (pictured) and Kindness will be making their maiden journey across the pond for the tour.... Read More
KRS-One @ The Palace
0 Comments. 699 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 12:00pm.
  For those who don’t know, KRS-One has travelled four weeks by boat to visit Australia. As imagined, the hype for his performances has been insane. Prior to his journey, I spoke to him while in the States when he explained that once he was here he would be searching far and wide for the “depth” in Australia. Simply put, he was visiting as an “anthropologist”. I appreciated his attitude,... Read More
Woody Allen: A Documentary
0 Comments. 1,032 Views. Posted 7 May 2012 @ 12:40pm.
He’s one of the most highly regarded and renowned movie masters of our time and, in such fashion, must be celebrated.  As part of its Long Play program, ACMI will present the Australian premiere of Woody Allen: A Documentary, paying homage to the remarkable career of arguably America’s premier auteur, comedian and neurotic.   For 60 years, Woody Allen has been a prolific filmmaker... Read More
St Kilda Film Festival
0 Comments. 777 Views. Posted 7 May 2012 @ 12:40pm.
Every year it comes around, and every year we love it more and more. Now in its 29th year, there seems to be no slowing down for the mature (yet still young at heart) St Kilda Film Festival.  Think about it – six days of must-see short films and industry events. Can’t get much sweeter than that, right?   Renowned as the premiere short film festival in Australia, SKFF screens Australia’... Read More
Jaytech Returns
0 Comments. 559 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2012 @ 12:57pm.
Anunjadeep favourite and Canberra success story Jaytech is a well-established name both here and abroad.  Classically trained as a pianist and a perfectionist when it comes to programming, his emotionally-laden take on deep melodies and sunny electronic grooves are a guaranteed hit, whether in the world's biggest stadiums or on your back-to-mine 6AM soundtrack. Earning himself a cult... Read More
The Tea Party Announce Australian Tour
0 Comments. 1,356 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2012 @ 9:56am.
After reforming in 2011, Canadian rock band The Tea Party have announced that they will be touring Australia in July. Though the trio disbanded temporarily in 2005, they had managed to tour Australia twelve times between 1994 and 2004 and release eight albums within their 15 years together. When the band reformed in April last year, they performed a string of Canadian shows and festivals, where... Read More
Jack Vidgen : Lean On Me
0 Comments. 892 Views. Posted 25 Apr 2012 @ 7:02pm.
  You know what, fine. You want to have your little culture-decaying reality series, you go right ahead. Get middle Australia to boo and hiss and applaud like bunch of Pavlovian Hunger Games-watching bitches while you trot out inanimate goofball after inanimate goofball with the presumption that Australia’s Got Talent and Kyle Sandilands is the right pig to sniff it out. Go nuts, please.... Read More
Get Your Garage Sale On
1 Comments. 864 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 4:21pm.
  Last year saw the inauguration of Garage Sale Trail, an internationally recognised sustainability program. It's back in 2012, and this year The City of Melbourne have jumped on board activating our fair city's streets with it.  Taking place on Saturday 5 May, Garage Sale Trail welcomes households, makers and creators, cultural institutions, charities, schools, libraries, local... Read More
The Shins Tour
0 Comments. 1,235 Views. Posted 23 Apr 2012 @ 9:12am.
Touring Melbourne in July is Portland-based quintet The Shins, in support of their most recent album Port of Morrow.    Having released their debut, Oh, Inverted World, back in 2001, Port of Morrow is the band's fourth album released in March this year. With this tour making the band's fifth tour of Australia since 2003, they will also be performing at Splendour in the Grass in Byron... Read More
One Direction Announce 2013 Australian Tour
0 Comments. 2,402 Views. Posted 19 Apr 2012 @ 10:58am.
  If you thought The Black Keys and Radiohead tours were announced a long way ahead of their dates, wait until you get a load of this bullshit. Labelled by Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe (in a yet-to-be-published interview) "Simon Cowell's sex robots", One Direction have announced an Australian tour - for September 2013. The "band" were recently in Australia for a... Read More
Q&A: Heartland Records
0 Comments. 640 Views. Posted 19 Apr 2012 @ 10:55am.
Tell us a little bit about your record store. We have been here for 18 years, and mainly specialize in import vinyl, CD and DVD. We cover quite a few genres including alternative, metal, rock, pop, gothic, industrial, punk and have approximately 20,000 new items, plus a selection of second-hand. We are open 7 days a week, located on Peel St opposite the Victoria Market.   What are you... Read More
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving : Deaden The Fields
0 Comments. 764 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 6:45pm.
Recipients of a Western Australian government grant, recorded locally but mastered in Sweden, allows the band to develop a contrary sound and engage the listener in sounds oblique enough to capture the imagination. With tracks rambling along to over ten minutes and sometimes 15 minutes in length, it is an achievement in this present age of digital quick fire play-delete almost ADD syndrome... Read More
Crunch! - April 18, 2012
0 Comments. 1,598 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 6:38pm.
  The Feckers Cover Maiden The Feckers have recorded an acoustic version of the Iron Maiden classic Wasted Years, featuring Irene Slade on lead vocals, Mathew Szkup on guitars, Chris Szkup on guitar and bass, and Dennis Leeflang on drums and mix. The track was mastered by Maor Applebaum and the artwork is by Dan Verkys. This is the second in the run of online singles that will be coming out... Read More
San Soda Tours Australia
0 Comments. 660 Views. Posted 13 Apr 2012 @ 12:41pm.
Whether through his solo work as We Play House’s San Soda, or his collaborative efforts along with the label’s head Red D under the alias FCL, Belgium’s Nicolas Geysens is not to be underestimated. Providing Red D with the inspiration to begin We Play House, San Soda’s roles as label head, producer and DJ are all inspired by a love for quality house music.  With past and future gigs at the... Read More
Pez
0 Comments. 962 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 11:47am.
  Pez is ready to tackle round two of his career as the poster child for Aussie hip hop. He’s done the hard yards, done the shows and done the touring. He has also released an album and is working on another – no mean feat. None of this is an easy slog for a rapper Down Under, but he has done it with poise, hard work, determination and a love of the scene and the music. A couple of hurdles... Read More
Stonefield
0 Comments. 830 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 2:10pm.
  What started out as jamming in the family shed soon turned into something extraordinary for Stonefield. Coming from a tiny rural town just north of Melbourne, the four Findlay sisters – Amy, Hannah, Sarah and Holly, were just coming to the end of recording their first EP, Through The Clover, when their mum mentioned that they should apply for triple j’s Unearthed competition. Apprehensive... Read More
60 Seconds With... Desecrator
0 Comments. 611 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 10:37am.
Define your genre in five words or less: Chaotic Australian Thrash Metal.   When’s the gig and with who? Unholy Good Friday is being massacred on Friday April 6 from 6pm by six of the most ungodly Thrash Metal acts in Australia. Hobb's Angel of Death are possibly the biggest cult metal act to ever come out of Australia, and right beside them are recently re-... Read More
Core - April 4, 2012
0 Comments. 1,146 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2012 @ 8:09am.
So I went to the Dead To Me/Cobra Skulls show at Northcote Social Club last weekend. It was pretty much set to be the sweetest gig ever. Frankly I was pretty stoked that someone had brought the two bands out here despite there being relatively little buzz for either headlining band. I was especially chuffed to finally catch Cobra Skulls who I’ve been harbouring quite the crush on since their... Read More
Swarm Tour @ The Evelyn Hotel
0 Comments. 789 Views. Posted 3 Apr 2012 @ 12:32pm.
  Normally reviewing a live show like this I give five or six sentences to review and critique each band. On this occasion, I will review the night as a whole. This night was a celebration of all that is good in Australian rock music in a live setting.   Jericco and Twelve Foot Ninja are kind of in similar places in their respective careers. Both belong in the Australian alternative/... Read More
Tiesto to Headline Stereosonic
0 Comments. 1,664 Views. Posted 3 Apr 2012 @ 3:00pm.
Cat's out of the bag, thanks to a sneaky tweet some of us at the Beat offices were sharp enough to catch! Stereosonic - the yearly festival synonymous with the beginning of the summer party season for many a clubber in Australia is one we all look forward to year in and year out, and with none other than Tiesto taking out the headline slot, it should be a non-stop party. Many of you would have... Read More
Oscar Mulero
0 Comments. 893 Views. Posted 30 Mar 2012 @ 3:27pm.
  Spanish DJ and producer Oscar Mulero is on his way to Australia this month for the first time this year. He was born in Madrid and started DJing all the way back in 1988. After establishing The Omen Club in Madrid in the early ‘90s – which went on to achieve legendary status – he has had appearances all over the world. Mulero came to producing fairly late and released his debut album,... Read More
Husky Announce 2nd Show
0 Comments. 947 Views. Posted 30 Mar 2012 @ 10:34am.
Missed out on getting your paws on Husky tickets for their upcoming Melbourne show?  Well fear not earthlings because the good folks are backing it up with a second performance. The local lads have been causing quite a stir on the international scene, becoming the first Aussie band to sign to legendary Seattle label Sub Pop. Following from their upcoming Australian tour, Husky will head... Read More
SXSW 2012 - How The Aussies Fared @ Austin, TX
0 Comments. 1,061 Views. Posted 27 Mar 2012 @ 1:03pm.
  Back for its third year, The Aussie BBQ has become something of an institution at South By Southwest: a day party put together by Sounds Australia and featuring over 30 home-grown acts. This year it was held on one of the last days of the conference, and if the queue out the front was anything to go by, Australians had fared damn well in Austin.   Husky’s five shows were buzzed... Read More
Wantok Stori Project
0 Comments. 743 Views. Posted 30 Mar 2012 @ 3:34pm.
Are you of an Islander background? If so, this might be just be the thing for you. Solomon Island and Australian Pacific communities are coming together to produce a film in culture and the environment for the upcoming Festival of Pacific Arts.  Wantok Stori invites Solomon Islanders and Pacific Islanders from all across Victoria to join in an online discussion of the festival theme, ... Read More
The Darkness Australian Tour 2012
1 Comments. 2,830 Views. Posted 27 Mar 2012 @ 10:41am.
  Few in the 2000s rocked harder than The Darkness. Breaking through with the fucken awesome debut Permission To Land, the band endured many bust-ups, a revolving door member policy, and a terminal case of sophomore album syndrome before combusting in a veritable snowstorm. Now in 2012, the classic lineup is back, better than ever. Fuck. Yes. With follow-up LP One Way Ticket To Hell... Read More
Supafest Adds Another Act
0 Comments. 1,257 Views. Posted 22 Mar 2012 @ 11:16am.
  If you thought the ridiculously huge Supafest 2012 lineup couldn't get any bigger, you're dead wrong. Returning to Australia will be the one and only T-Pain, which will no doubt please the rapper's massive Australian following.   T-Pain will join the stellar lineup of Chris Brown, P. Diddy, Kelly Rowland, Missy Elliot, Lupe Fiasco, Rick Ross, Ice Cube, Trey Songz, Naughty By... Read More
Core - March 21, 2012
0 Comments. 1,069 Views. Posted 21 Mar 2012 @ 5:51am.
  For the first time in yonkers, I went to JB Hi-Fi on the weekend and purchased an album – at full price– marched full speed to the counter to purchase and engage in some encouraging small talk with the sales assistant, then out to my car to careful unwrap the three layers of plastic cling, and insert the disc carefully into my car’s CD player. As the first track kicked in, I delicately... Read More
Anthony Pappa
0 Comments. 493 Views. Posted 20 Mar 2012 @ 10:31am.
It’s been a busy couple of years for Italian-born, Australian-raised dance music legend Anthony Pappa. Not only has he been busy touring and making a name for himself as one of the world’s most technically sophisticated DJs, he’s also been hard at work on the new Renaissance compilation. Now, after a stint living in the UK, he’s heading back to his home country in collaboration with Renaissance... Read More
Flight Of The Conchords To Tour
1 Comments. 2,606 Views. Posted 15 Mar 2012 @ 11:14am.
  With their incredibly successful  eponymous TV series on indertiminate hiatus, it looks like we could see none other than Jermaine and Bret, aka Flight Of The Conchords, touring Australia this year. Today on the band's official Facebook page it was announced:   "New Zealand tour dates released today. Australia coming soon...ish."   Could we even see FotC make a festival... Read More
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