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Review: Sing, Swing, Get In The Mood

Opening to sounds of an air raid, The Pacific Belles introduce the wartime feel and their role in providing an upbeat tone in tough times. Dot, Betty and Mabel look magnificent in matching military skirt, jacket and caps, and are…

Review: Make Your Own Bong – And Other HAndy Hints For Winning The War On Drugs

39% of all Australians have taken illicit drugs, Mick Neven tells us. So the ‘war on drugs’ therefore is being waged against millions of Australians while, in what can seem like a double standard, millions of others who take legal…

Review: Suns Of Fred – Excited!

Suns Of Fred are three fun-loving boys from Perth wielding only a guitar and voices as their weapons of choice for their Adelaide Fringe debut. But then there are those crazy dance moves and fabulous wordplays; it’s not just the…

Review: A Gaggle Of Saints

This taut tale fits neatly into what is little more than an alcove in the wall. The tightly crafted script, spotlighting and terrific choreography create a mesmerising effect, drawing the crowd into the scenes. It’s like watching a dance, except…

Review: Hopscotch, Chooks And Slingshots

Listed under Children’s Events only because the performers are from the Prospect Theatre for Young People, this show will appeal to a much wider age range. Built around taped reminiscences from people who grew up in Prospect in the 1930s…

Review: Paul Foot – Words

If someone tells you Paul Foot is a comedian like no other, you’d best believe them. UK’s Foot has taken all the random thoughts and words he can think of and thrown them into chaos in what can only be…

Review: Mat Ricardo: Showman

London’s ‘Gentleman Juggler’ Mat Ricardo brings something a little different to a festival filled with gravity-defying feats and variety. Showing us all the tricks that he “can’t do yet” but actually can, Ricardo delights his captive audience with olde Vaudevillian…

Review: 1.1 Immermann: Buster Keaton, No Longer Silent!

Buster Keaton’s 1926 silent classic The General is given a 21st century makeover by Jarrad Payne and 1.1 Immermann. The sepia-toned masterpiece gets a brand new soundtrack, performed live at The Wheaty. The four musicians, supported by a modicum of…

Review: Australian Beauty

Tired of the grind, the noise, the clutter and the clatter of modernity? Then come inside and sit down, this is the show for you. An experienced a cappella women’s ensemble, Aurora, present a fine selection of songs with great…

Interview: Keir Dullea, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Keir Dullea (speaking by phone from his home in Hartford, Connecticut) recently took the time to chat with Rip It Up about starring in director Stanley Kubrick’s original 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), its lasting fame and influence, and how…

Pharrell Williams: G I R L

There’s no need to overcomplicate things – Pharrell Williams’ G I R L isn’t a revolutionary record. Williams helped reinvent the wheel last year with Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, Robin Thicke’s catchy-like-an-STI Blurred Lines and Despicable Me 2’s Happy, so…

triple j announces location of 2014 One Night Stand

Having roped in the likes of Illy (pictured), RÜFÜS, Violent Soho, Dan Sultan and The Jungle Giants for the 2014 instalment of the One Night Stand, triple j have this morning announced the privileged town who will host the event.

Lorde announces Australian headline tour

Kiwi wunderkind Lorde has announced a six-date all ages tour of Australia, promising “a killer light show and a few surprises along the way.”

The news is especially welcome to her Adelaide fans, who were left disappointed by Lorde’s <a…

Justin Timberlake adds new shows to Aus tour

Following in the footsteps of Katy Perry earlier today, Justin Timberlake has added a second show to each of his forthcoming 20/20 Experience Australian tour dates.

Tickets for the new shows go on sale on Fri Mar 14 at 9:30am…

Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos: Too Much Water In The Boat

The Australia Council For The Arts delivers over $200 million in funding every year to arts councils and individuals. The goal is to enrich Australia by supporting the practice and enjoyment of the arts. Some of that loot has found…

triple j Unearthed relaunches website

triple j Unearthed has revamped its online platform, introducing a heap of new feature for artists and fans alike.

Chief among the new improvements are the ability to embed videos on artist pages, better…

Biffy Clyro announce headline tour

Just days after wrapping up touring duties with Soundwave, Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro are already booking flights back here for a tour in September.

Perennially renowned as one of the biggest bands in the UK but nowhere else in the…

The most hipster bands in the world

Despite your collection of limited-edition 12” white vinyl, subscription to Juxtapoz and strict freegan diet, it’s always been hard to measure exactly how hipster someone is…until now.

The good people at Priceonomics have come…

Gardens & Villa: Dunes

I grew up in a small town in Connecticut, literally on the other side of the globe. When I was in high school during the early 2000s, there wasn’t all that much to do. Being under 21, our after-9pm hangout…

Review: Swamp Juice

Ambient music welcomed us into the darkened, murky tent where an interesting array of props adorned the stage. Canadian Jeff Achtem has a plethora of odd and discarded household items and an irrepressible and very earthy sense of humour to…

Review: Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It

Has anyone been raped? Or raped someone? Even just a little bit? This shocking introduction to Truscott’s [Wau Wau Sisters] show was just a precursor for what was to come, with stories and jokes about rape and the way society…

Review: Four Screws Loose In Screwtopia!

From the get-go Four Screws Loose give 110%. In Screwtopia! is a fast and furious series of sketches with rehashed tunes and lyrics from movies and musicals from popular culture that is totally enthralling. Like a well-oiled machine they launch…

Review: Tony Roberts – Card Magic

Tall tales, a projector and a deck of cards are the only ingredients Tony Roberts needs to cook up a magical hour of entertainment. Beginning with a story about his early family life, he masterfully sets the scene for his…

Review: Bel Canto Bowie

Comical musical theatre in which a pair of traditional Italian choirgirls bored with the daily Mozart undergo an epiphany when they discover the Devil’s music in the form of a David Bowie album. Suddenly bursting into song in Bowie-meets-Gilbert &…

Review: Bewitching Macbeth

Presented by Leofric Kingsford-Smith and The Garage International, this hybrid adaptation of the infamous Shakespearean tale Macbeth definitely stimulates conversation. Directed by Andrew Kingsford-Smith, its interspersed perspective of the classic story, although true to the original themes, infuses dance, music…

Review: Papillon

Papillon is French for butterfly – a creature of transformation and beauty, and this is exactly what the performers of Papillon brought to the stage. Initially I expected something deep and polished in the La Soiree theme of things but,…

Review: Khaled Khalafalla In Fresh

In Fresh will be a different show every night, and the night I was there Khaled Khalafalla had a very small crowd and this definitely changed the pace and delivery of the show (but perhaps that was because all of…

Review: Dan Sultan

It’s nigh on impossible not to fall for Dan Sultan. Combining powerful pipes, retro rock tunes and a good dose of swagger, the debonair performer delivered a smokin’ set sadly limited to just 60 minutes.

The ARIA winner is fresh…

Review: Windmill Theatre Trilogy: Girl Asleep

The premiere work for the Adelaide Festival from Windmill Theatre, as part of a coming-of-age trilogy of plays targeted for teenagers, is just about the most enjoyable time in the theatre anyone of any age could have. Ellen Steele plays…

Mikhael Paskalev: What’s Life Without Losers

Is it too soon to call album of the year? In March? NEVER. If I received this bundle of delightful joy as a New Year’s gift at 12:01am on New Year’s Day I would have decided it was album of…

Soundwave at Bonython Park

Another year and another Soundwave done and dusted, and it wouldn’t have been Soundwave without controversy. With bands pulling out, getting kicked off and even causing problems once Soundwave got started, it’s a cred to promoter AJ Maddah that he…

DZ Deathrays announce album launch tour

With their sophomore album Black Rat due out on Fri May 2, Brisbane duo DZ Deathrays have announced a 14-date tour of the country following its release.

Black Rat is the hotly anticipated follow-up to DZ Deathrays’ ARIA Award-winning debut…

Metronomy: Love Letters

With Metronomy‘s third ‘proper’ album, the group’s origins as experimental electronica artists are becoming a distant memory. Ever present in Metronomy’s work are the familiar bleeps and bloops of their roots, however their artistic flair can best be described as…

Lior: Scattered Reflections

Lior’s fourth independent studio album Scattered Reflections is not a Christmas album, but you would be forgiven for thinking it was given that the songs drone on as endlessly as a Shania Twain rendition of Silent Night. Feel-good lyrics to…

Roku Music: Collider

There’s a tendency with most new labels to get ahead of themselves; to sign a bunch of bands before they know what to do with them; to rush releases when they need a bit more time. Roku Music’s shoegaze-indebted Collider…

Speedy Ortiz: Real Hair EP

If there was a church of Stephen Malkmus, Sadie Dupuis would be its pope. The Speedy Ortiz singer revels so much in Pavement’s slacker bent and multi-layered lyricism it borders on deification. Real Hair isn’t about idle worship however; Dupuis…

Beck teams up with Father John Misty on SNL

Saturday Night Live musical guest Beck has performed Blue Moon and Wave off his new album Morning Phase, accompanied by a string section and Father John Misty, AKA Josh Tillman. It was Beck’s first SNL appearance in eight years.

Morning…

Lowell: I Killed Sara V EP

Lowell has lived a nomadic existence, traversing all around her native Canada and North America, before heading across the pond to London. This piecemeal upbringing shows in her debut EP I Killed Sara V, as does the high calibre of…

Fringe Weekly Awards: Week 2

The Adelaide Fringe has announced its second batch of weekly award winners and highly commended acts in various categories. All weekly award winners go in the running for the Bank SA Awards announced on the closing night of the Fringe.

Lykke Li drops teaser video for new album

Swedish pop songstress Lykke Li has announced the release date of her new album I Never Learn via a teaser video of the same name.

The video doesn’t give too much away, mostly featuring Li looking longingly into the distance.

Kanye West to release ‘Yeezus’ the movie

Following rumours he’s working on a biopic with American Psycho mastermind Bret Easton Ellis,Kanye West has released a trailer for a forthcoming movie documenting the hip hop star’s Yeezus world tour.

Yeezus has been…

Review: Movin’ Melvin Brown: The Ray Charles Experience (Edited)

Tonight was all about Ray Charles. Other popular artists of that era were also identified but the night belonged to Charles, magnificently portrayed by one of the finest exponents of his work to visit the country, Movin’ Melvin Brown. A…

Review: DNA

Lord Of The Flies meets private girls’ school. We see the pecking order and power struggles of a gaggle of girls facing moral dilemmas that aren’t appreciated until they take a few steps too far. It’s apparently murder, the stakes…

Review: Julia Clarke: Vincent Van LOL

Newish to the comedy scene, Julia Clarke, comedian and speed painting extraordinaire, entertained us with funny tales of her life and how she came to be doing what she is doing: comedy blended with art. Adelaide is home for Clarke,…

Review: The Sexy Detectives – High Status Idiots

These three gentlemen pride themselves on being the best sketch group on Earth. Big call, but certainly worthy of a chortle or 10. Their swift and well polished changes between scenes demonstrate their professional manner and the variety of sometimes…

Review: Women In Docs

Chanel Lucas and Roz Pappalardo, great gals from country Queensland, have maintained a strong presence and loyal fan base in the various folk circles they’ve travelled in. Despite living in different cities they manage to pull together some great albums…

Review: Comedy Hypnosis! Rewired

Isaac Lomman is the hypnotist of this hilarious show featuring volunteers from the audience who he hypnotises, enabling him to tap into their subconscious minds and therefore allowing him to suggest different things to make the volunteers do.

The volunteers…

Review: At The Last Gasp

At The Last Gasp, performed by the brilliant Angelique Ross, Dylan Rodriguez and Luke Hubbard, is a dark yet beautifully exciting, entertaining mix of circus and physical theatre. These talented young performers’ strength, flexibility and physical prowess is amazing to…

Review: Glory Box – Seductive Spectacle, Live Art Erotica, Wild Child Circus, Jaw-Dropping Cabaret!

With a show title that writes its own review, this production leaps fearlessly from glitzy burlesque to more edgy performance art, while visiting more traditional circus fare along the way. There is none of the promised trapeze-flying, but there is…

Review: Belly Dance On The Edge

From contemporary belly dance with Zils (finger cymbals), all the way to a Viking-inspired modern tribal spectacular complete with spine tingling attired sirens, this extravaganza dispels any doubts you may have had about the breadth and depth of modern belly…

St Vincent: St Vincent

Perhaps Annie Clark (AKA St Vincent) said it best when she said that this album is “a dance record you could play at a funeral”. Without even a hint to The Verve or a traditional ballad, what kind of funeral…

Various Artists: triple j’s Hottest 100 Volume 21

The 21st instalment of the Hottest 100 compilations comes jam-packed with 41 of the most predictably thrashed triple j jams of the past 12 months, making you wonder why they don’t just double it and get all 100 tracks on…

Skating Polly: Fuzz Steilacoom

Skating Polly’s third album can easily be described as baby punk. Their youthful screeches and classic punk instrumentals are as fresh as the Fringe feels in early February. Not to imply that this album is emotionally lacking, with rich insights…

The Holidays: Real Feel

In the three-and-a-half years since their debut album, The Holidays have been searching for a new sound. The aesthetic they created on Post Paradise was both visionary and accessible, and the reason it has taken them so long to pen…

Lola’s Pergola “fan video” is the best internet you’ll see all day

A new “fan video” promoting The Happy Motel has dropped ahead of the opening of Lola’s Pergola this Friday night (Feb 28) as part of the Adelaide Festival.

No words necessary, just don’t watch if you are sensitive to flashing…

I Killed The Prom Queen: Beloved

After an extended hiatus, I Killed The Prom Queen are back with their third studio release Beloved, and the wait was worth it.

Opening track Beginning Of The End (think Parkway Drive Sparks) introduces the gruff vocals and heavy breakdowns…

The Beards announce new album, tour

Australia’s foremost beard-obsessed band, The Beards, have announced the forthcoming release of their fourth album as well as a massive 41-date tour of the country kicking off in May.

Currently on a tour of the UK, the Adelaide band have…

Global Citizen Tickets Australia launched today

The Global Poverty Project has launched Global Citizen Tickets Australia, allowing fans to earn free concert tickets by participating in online social activism campaigns.

So far the scheme has been backed by high profile touring artists such as Bruce Springsteen…

Fringe Weekly Awards: Week 1

The Adelaide Fringe has announced its first batch of weekly award winners and highly commended acts in various categories. All weekly award winners go in the running for the Bank SA Awards announced on the closing night of the Fringe.

John Butler Trio: Flesh And Blood

Johnny Butler. He’s out and about and at it again. After hearing the latest single Only One blaring on the J’s I filed him into my ‘sold himself to the radio’ folder. But having listened to his latest compilation, Flesh…

Glen Hansard: Drive All Night EP

Glen Hansard’s second solo release, Drive All Night, is not so much a solo release as a round-up of all the folk musicians in the area. Even Eddie Vedder pops in for a spot on the opener, a cover of…

Propagandhi announce belated tour

Canadian punk stalwarts Propagandhi have an extensive tour of Australia, their first since the release of sixth album Failed States back in 2012.

Having amassed a cult following since forming nearly 30 years ago, Propagandhi finally got the pay off…

Pharrell Williams releasing new solo album

Recent chart-topper and suspected vampire Pharrell Williams has announced the release date for his second solo album G I R L, the follow-up to his 2006 debut In My Mind.

G I R L…

Review: The Magnets: All This Time

What’s not to love about this charming all-singing, all-dancing, all-amazing six-piece British vocal group? For their third Adelaide Fringe, The Magnets have again grabbed that a cappella bar and used it as a javelin; new songs, new harmonies and some…

Review: Chapel Of Love

If you look deep into the plush carpeting and the majestic drapes of the Channel 9 Chapel Of Love, you will find a love so pure that even Walt Disney would blush. Offering non-legally binding weddings, a smooth-voiced and uncharacteristically…

Review: Cal Wilson – It Could Have Been Me

Birthdays are an odd thing when one feels no different but each year a number increases. Turning 43, Wilson’s reluctance and resistance to ‘growing up’ is shared by most of us. Revelations and insightful Billy Joel-obsessed diary entries are shared…

Oisima releases free remix album

Adelaide producer/beard enthusiast Anth Wendt – AKA Oisima – has teamed up with a host of domestic and internation DJs to create a remix album of his acclaimed 2013 EP Goddess. And the best part is, he’s releasing it online…

Maximo Park: Too Much Information

Maximo Park return with their fifth album Too Much Information and thank God because they start to lose their way after Quicken The Heart. The band is renowned for pushing things creatively, often losing that sense of cohesion. For what…

Review: Nick Skeer: Secret Origins

Former Adelaide resident (and winner of Best Newcomer at the Adelaide Comedy Awards in 2012) Nick Skeer has styled his first solo Adelaide Fringe show as a ‘Secret Origin’ story. Despite drawing inspiration for this concept from DC comics, Skeer…

Review: Death Comes At The End

While improv theatre generally uses a few prompts to get started, the constraints of a murder mystery, as well as the particular manner in which the clues were delivered to the audience, slightly hampered the spontaneity. That said, the actors…

Review: A Simple Space

A deceiving title indeed – true yet not even close to the truth. How can that be! It’s true that this troupe of young aerial athletes inhabit a very simple, smallish rectangle stage lit only by corner lamps operated by…

Review: Lords Of Strut

Famous Seamus and Sean-tastic have returned to the Adelaide Fringe for a much longer season compared to last year, which is certainly appropriate given their brilliant show. These delightfully clueless and endearing Irish brothers performed some excellent acrobatics, including some…

Review: LIMBO

Wow! LIMBO is a truly breathtaking experience. I now completely understand the hype around this incredible show; it’s a magical melding together of talented dancers, contortionists, musicians, sword swallowers and acrobats in a mysterious party between heaven and hell. The…

Review: Blues And Burlesque

The scene is set: a late night bar, one last drink and a cigar. The mood rises as Pete Saunders’ piano blues snake through the room. Glamorous guest Sarina del Fuego warms the full house with luscious seduction. Vicious Delicous…

Review: Roaring Accodion

Coming all the way from Bellingham, Washington, a bearded man called Strangely graced the stage with an entertaining hour of his unique and quirky talents. Bringing with him nothing but an accordion and a trunk full of surprises, he let…

Review: The Boy With Tape On His Face: MORE TAPE

The Boy With Tape On His Face has you at “Hello”. Wait, before that. After all, he doesn’t speak. So we’ve fallen for someone who’s…silent? Boy’s got talent! How does he do it? It’s his eyes, his mock-exasperation when his…

Review: Anthropy

As David Dodgen and his beautiful assistant Katia enter the stage, anticipation builds for what this duo will dazzle us with. However, soon that excitement starts to fade. Quick costume changes, magic and burlesque dancing is thrust upon the audience…

Watch: Lorde and Disclosure team up at the BRIT Awards

UK music’s night of nights took place at London’s 02 Arena this morning local time, featuring some stellar performances from Arctic Monkeys, Beyoncé and our very own Lorde (we’re now claiming her), who teamed up with electronic heavyweights Disclosure for…

Beck: Morning Phase

Beck’s first proper album in six years veers significantly from his last effort, the beat-driven, Danger Mouse-produced Modern Guilt. In fact, Beck himself has described the album as “a companion piece of sorts” to his 2002 album Sea Change, and…

Various Artists: Girls Volume 2: All Adventurous Women Do…

Storm Chasers: Hey Girl EP

From the opening notes of this awesome little EP you know you’re in for something special. With dub-esque reverb, ’60s Bond-style jazz guitar and soul-shaking baritone sax all within the first two seconds, the bar is immediately set high, and…

Issues: Issues

Issues, hailing from Atlanta and Los Angeles, show signs of serious identity issues on their debut effort. On the one hand, when the album is heavy and the band is in their groove, the album has serious potential to be…

Greenthief: Voyage

You can too easily imagine sonic rock band Greenthief in tie-dyed bandanas and baggy sack-cloth shirts, waving loose arms at the ceiling as they play. But there is also a heavier element to the band which suggests leather jackets, outspoken…

Broken Bells: After The Disco

On July 12, 1979, one of the most infamous promotions in baseball history occurred at Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox. Dubbed Disco Demolition Night, the White Sox offered discounted tickets if fans brought a disco album with…

Russian Circles announce Australian tour dates

Atmospheric rock trio Russian Circles have announced an Australian tour following the release of their fifth studio album Memorial last year.

Last in the country in 2012, the Chicago outfit have continued to push the boundaries of their own widescreen…

Cate Blanchett wins yet another award

Cate Blanchett’s season of awards has continued, taking out the Best Actress BAFTA for her role as a neurotic New York socialite in the Woody Allen-directed Blue Jasmine.

Blanchett dedicated the award to the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

“You raised…

The Lawrence Arms: Metropole

Eight years after their last full-length release, Chicago three-piece The Lawrence Arms have finally dropped their sixth album, and it’s an appealingly sophisticated slice of Midwestern punk.

At their liveliest, the band deliver gruffly melodic punk nuggets in the vein…

Yeezus is coming

Following last week’s rumours of an impending tour announcement, Kanye West has unveiled the dates of his 2014 Australian tour.

Last here for the 2012 Big Day Out – a tour that saw him controversially withdrawn from the Adelaide and…

Various Artists: Morning Of The Earth Original & Reimagined

As if the original soundtrack wasn’t fabulous enough already! They really just had to outdo themselves didn’t they? This was the film that changed it all. Albert Falzon was the hallmark initiator of pairing crafted sound with surf films. He…

Temples: Sun Structures

Temples are England’s answer to Deep Sea Arcade, which probably isn’t the most enticing endorsement from the outset. Like Deep Sea Arcade, there are four members in Temples. Like Deep Sea Arcade, Temples play on an antiquated, ‘60s psychedelic sound,…

Crosses: Crosses

The self-titled debut effort from the LA-based trio is a curious journey. Chino Moreno’s haunted vocals and lyrics are the clear highlight of the collection; aiming to create an album both “minimal and soothing”. Crosses create neither.

While the record…

Courtney Barnett inks new deals

Hotly tipped Melbourne songstress Courtney Barnett has put pen to paper on new deals with Australian, American and British labels ahead of the release of her debut album later this year.

Locally, Barnett has signed with Remote Control, who will…

De Le Soul releasing entire catalogue for free

To mark the 25th anniversary of their debut album 3 Feet High And Rising, hip hop pioneers De La Soul are offering their entire catalogue for free download for 25 hours on their website.

“It’s about allowing our fans who…

Naomi Pilgrim: Naomi Pilgrim EP

Naomi Pilgrim is the quintessential modern pop star: cosmopolitan, cross-cultural and stylistically eclectic. On her debut three-track EP Pilgrim draws heavily from the world of R&B spins it through the prolific pop legacy of her native Sweden. Her Barbadian roots…

The Jezabels: The Brink

The Jezabels were a classy evolution of emo, dramatically distressing themselves over instruments that threatened to crush their fragile limbs, redeemed by goosebump vocals slipping and soaring over grotty, skittering drums and piano flourishes.

There’s something soulless about The Brink.…

REMi Q&A

Remi Kolawole is part of a new wave of hip hop in Australia (notice we didn’t say ‘Aussie hip hop’). The 22-year-old Melbourne MC has taken little time to rise through the ranks, and with good reason. Taking out J…

Drowners: Drowners

The Brit pop renaissance continues with yet another band that are making it extremely difficult to decipher where they come from. Drowners, who have been swimming in hype for a while now, are either a troupe of British pretty boys…

The Paper Kites hitting the road

Following successful tour stints in North America, Melbourne five-piece The Paper Kites are back on home soil and ready to roll out yet another national tour this May and June.

2013 was a landmark year for The Paper Kites, who…

St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival at Hart’s Mill

The expectations on this year’s Laneway Festival and its new site at Port Adelaide were comparable to those of its biggest-name act, Lorde. And while they both more than lived up to those expectations, you couldn’t help but feel that…

Lior confirmed for WOMADelaide

Just days after Lior’s Adelaide performance with Nigel Westlake, WOMADelaide confirms the ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter as the final addition to its incredible 2014 line-up.

“We’re thrilled to have Lior returning to the festival to round out what promises to be…