Live: Title Fight 2015
Who else got down to see Title Fight while they were out here cranking tracks from their latest LP, Hyperview? Our snapper Billy Zammit captured some ace shots in Sydney.
View ArticleRise Against Name Aussie Tour Supports
Melbourne acts Clowns and Outright have been added to Rise Against's massive east coast tour hitting our shores in December.
View ArticleI Killed The Prom Queen Shred In The Mud At Warped Tour
The Warped Tour must go on rain, hail or shine, and I Killed The Prom Queen jumped in the pit and trudged around in the mud with their fans on the Nashville date.
View ArticleBring Me The Horizon Preview New Track, Maybe?
Continuing their marketing campaign of "What the hell does this mean?", Bring Me The Horizon have just released a short preview of a new song, we think...
View ArticleBLUNT Review: PVRIS –‘Use Me’
When the third studio album from PVRIS comes out tomorrow, it should, on all counts, be a triumphant moment. The album process has seen frontwoman Lynn Gunn confront her demons and, despite being...
View Article‘The Boys’ Season 2 sticks the boot into its superheroes with relish
Based on the controversial comic series by writer Garth Ennis (Preacher) and artist Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan), The Boys is proving to be exactly the kind of iconoclastic, irreverent,...
View ArticleFilm Review: I See You
Helen Hunt’s in this thing. That might be the uncanniest element in play in this tight, clever little thriller. Oscar winner Helen Hunt (for As Good as it Gets back in 1997), whose biggest cultural...
View ArticleGlenn Danzig’s ‘Verotika’ is either a complete train wreck or an instant...
I’ll say one thing about Verotika, shock rocker Glenn Danzig’s batshit insane anthology horror flick: it proves how crude and ultimately useless star rating systems are. I shudder (and this thing is...
View ArticleFilm Review: Nocturne
Sydney Sweeney’s time in the spotlight is lasting more than fifteen minutes. With a widely regarded feature in HBO’s controversial but masterful Euphoria, it appears her best is still yet to come,...
View ArticlePolitical punks battle for Britain’s soul in ‘White Riot’
London, 1976: The Queen’s Silver Jubilee is nigh, but the country is in the grips of a massive economic depression. The social fallout bifurcates: on the one hand, the alienated urban angst of the...
View Article25 years on, cyberpunk classic ‘Strange Days’ looks like a documentary
Although it died a death on initial release back in ‘95, Kathryn Bigelow’s propulsive sci-fi thriller Strange Days is a stone cold, ass-kicking classic. You ever see that movie where the murder of an...
View ArticleMel Gibson is Santa Claus in gritty action thriller, ‘Fatman’, and words fail us
Look, some concepts are just so wild that you have to take a look just to convince yourself that it’s real. Omit a few key details and Fatman, the latest feature from filmmaking siblings Eshom and Ian...
View ArticleBLUNT review: Industry
Forget the tacky Lena Dunham credit and the overzealous substance abuse, Industry should be required watching for induction days at every corporation. There was once an episode of Skins where Effy, in...
View ArticleNew documentary ‘Zappa’ paints a compelling portrait of the Mother of Invention
“Legendary” is an adjective that gets thrown around a lot, often without too much justification. So too is “visionary”, come to think of it. But Frank Zappa was both: insanely talented, intimidatingly...
View ArticleReview: Alien Weaponry – Tangaroa
What happens when you combine indigenous Māori traditions, language and cultural tales with ferocious groove metal? You get the one and only Alien Weaponry, of course! Hailed by Metal Hammer as the...
View ArticleReview: The Used – Heartwork (Deluxe)
Wild, heart-wrenching, whimsical, aggressive… There are many words that one could use to describe Heartwork, the eighth studio album – and, dare we say it, magnum opus – from rock stalwarts The Used....
View ArticleReview: Ruby Fields – Been Doin’ It For A Bit
We knew Ruby Fields was exceptional from the moment we heard the bombastic ‘Dinosaurs’. On that track, released three years ago, Fields lamented broken promises to her childhood self – “I wasn’t...
View ArticleReview: Sleep Token –‘This Place Will Become Your Tomb’
Fusion or confusion? It’s a question that contestants are asked during MasterChef Australia when they present the judges with Vietnamese meets Italian dishes, for example. Blunt also had that question...
View ArticleReview: Trivium – In The Court Of The Dragon
It’s hard to tell if In The Court Of The Dragon – album #10 from metalcore heavyweights Trivium – is a punch to the face because it’s genuinely aggressive, or just… Loud. Trivium may talk the talk,...
View ArticleReview: Vulvodynia – Praenuntius Infiniti
Depending on where in the world you’re from, an array of things may come to mind when you hear “South Africa” – for most people it’s probably the rich history and the beauty of the country as a...
View Article