Concrete Playground

Thursday, 11th March - 7PM
@ Oxford Art Factory

Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Reheated Cabbage) is coming to everyone's favourite den of despair, Oxford Art Factory. If you've found yourself thinking that maybe there's something more to life than... Read More »

Thursday, 11th March - 8PM
@ Metro Theatre

This is a band that fans would feel need no introduction. If you are a fan --> ticket details over to the right there, but you've probably snapped one up... Read More »

Thursday, 11th March - 8PM
@ Annandale Hotel

HEAVY JAMS, MAN, HEAVY JAMS! That's what Wooden Shjips create from their psychedelic pocket of San Francisco, and lucky are we that they are bringing said jams to Sydney for... Read More »

Friday, 12th March - 8PM - Saturday, 13th March - 8PM
@ Spectrum

The Scare inhabit a truly jaunty world of post-punk swagger. Their debut Chivalry and its scuzzed-out, big-haired, big-guitared rock was largely ignored by their brothers and sisters here in Australia.... Read More »

Friday, 12th March - 8PM
@ The Metro

There are fans, and then there are Wu Tang Clan fans. They stand alone in their willingness to tattoo the Wu 'W' onto their skin, memorise every lyric and follow... Read More »

Friday, 12th March - 8PM
@ Red Rattler

Melbourne gypsy-jazz seven piece Barons of Tang are back in Sydney to drop in to our favourite warehouse (that hasn't been closed down yet, unlike Quirkz), the Red Rattler. It... Read More »

Sunday, 14th March - 8PM - Tuesday, 16th March - 8PM
@ Hordern Pavilion

When The Pixies last came to Australia for V Festival, they thought the festival and the audience wasn't the best fit for their sound. So, to make it up to... Read More »

Monday, 15th March - 7PM - Tuesday, 16th March - 7PM
@ Sydney Opera House

Incongruous fact: Massive Attack were once heavily supported by Neneh Cherry. But that Robert Del Naja and Andrew Vowles returned the favour and worked on Raw Like Sushi is not... Read More »

Friday, 26th March - 8PM
@ Enmore Theatre

Out of the supergroups and celebrity collaborations that have popped up recently, I think The Dead Weather are making the best music. They are on the other end of the... Read More »

Saturday, 27th March - 7PM
@ Big Top, Luna Park

The Bacardi Express may be an iconic 1960s relic but it certainly ain't the kind of blissed-out peace train Cat Stevens would croon about. For two solid days, under one... Read More »

Saturday, 27th March - 9PM
@ The Basement

In an awfully racist book called Voodoo in New Orleans, 1940s writer Robert Tallant describes a voodoo priest — a freed slave who claimed to be a Senegalese prince. According... Read More »

Wednesday, 7th April - 8PM
@ Oxford Art Factory

Hanging for some peyote-infused psychfolk, tinged with communal love vibes and the sounds of the desert winds as interpreted by swirling organ tones? Turns out you don't have to go... Read More »

Tuesday, 13th April - 8PM
@ Manning Bar, University of Sydney

For a long time I dismissed the Mountain Goats as a bit of a joke band; I linked them with late 90s Triple J novelty tunes — you know 'Cows... Read More »

Sunday, 2nd May - 5PM
@ Playhouse, Sydney Opera House

Long beloved by film fans, Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece Metropolis is coming to the Opera House. Showing as part of the Screen Live series, this digitally restored silent classic has... Read More »

Friday, 7th May - 8PM
@ The Forum

Spoon are a great band. I won't try to hide that I'm a fan. In fact, just then I was visiting their website and got sucked into completing my Spoon... Read More »

Saturday, 8th May - 12PM
@ Maitland Showground

Despite the funny name (sounds like a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavour to me) Groovin’ the Moo is a diamond set in what could otherwise be quite a dry... Read More »

Wednesday, 12th May - 8PM - Thursday, 13th May - 8PM
@ Enmore Theatre

Vampire Weekend's new album Contra is currently perched at #2 on the ARIAs. To celebrate, the boys from Brooklyn will be gracing us with their prepster presence once again, this... Read More »

Friday, 26th November - 9PM
@ Good God Small Club

Meet Smokey LaBeef and Exercise Mike, two dapper gentlemen who were drawn together by their ridiculous names and shared misfortune at having been born in the wrong decade.Rather that spend... Read More »