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2014 ARIA Awards, Red Carpet interviews

The sold-out 2014 ARIA Awards took place at The Star Event Centre in Sydney this Wednesday and was broadcast nationally/internationally. Big winners included Sia, who scored multiple awards (Telstra Album Of The Year, Best Female… Read More

Evil Ed Interview – Part Two

In part one of his interview with 25ThC, Evil Ed discussed his album, The Enthusiast, which is now available digitally for the first time at his Bandcamp page. In this second-half of the interview, he… Read More

New Music: Introducing Stax Osset

If you’re digging on the likes of Grimes and Banoffee then you’ll probably want to check out Melbourne-based Anthropology student and 90s baby Stax Osset, otherwise known as Megan Kent. Her self-produced debut… Read More

Album review: Celestial Shore – Enter Ghost

Liana Gow-Killingbeck checks out the latest longplayer from the Brooklyn-based trio: I’m going to be honest with you. Before yesterday, I had never heard of Celestial Shore. I was bored out of my brains… Read More

Fractures in Sydney – Live Review

Spending Saturday night in a church might not sound like the most exciting of pastimes, but when it involves being serenaded by Melbourne-based singer/songwriter Mark Zito, better known as Fractures, then it’s actually pretty… Read More

Documentary review: Particle Fever

Particle Fever delivers a front-row seat to this generation’s most significant/inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happened. No, not the invention of Snapchat, but rather the launch of the Large Hadron Collider. In case… Read More

The Smith Street Band in Sydney – Review

Matt Lengren caught the Melbourne-based Smith Street Band at The Factory Theatre. Photos by Adam Davis-Powell, taken at their Manning Bar gig, two days previously: All things being equal, The Arrogance of the Drunk… Read More

Video Premiere: Peter Calvert, Red Shoes

Start your Wednesday off in magnificent fashion with the Premiere of the new video from Sydney-based singer/songwriter, Peter Calvert. Having built a name for himself on the Australian music scene over the past… Read More

This week in Newcastle = awesome

Somethingyousaid.com’s Ruth Hodge gives you the heads-up on some excellent things to see and do in Newcastle (the Australian one, not the British one) this week: Newcastle has had a wave of reclamation… Read More

FBi Radio’s Brush With Fame

If you’re looking to purchase fame at a reasonable price and you’re regretting that impulse purchase of celebrity nail clippings you brought that one time, we’ve got the perfect solution: Sydney’s not-for-profit radio station,… Read More

Interview: Guy Pearce overcomes his fear

Guy Pearce recently released his debut longplayer and, as he tells Bobby Townsend, it required him to overcome a longstanding fear of putting his music out there: “I always knew that I would eventually release… Read More

Upstairs and Underground launches

It’s always a challenge relaunching a venue, particularly one with such a vivid history as the Gaelic Club’s Upstairs and Underground, a venue associated with Sydney’s underground music scene. The Gaelic had hosted… Read More