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What are you doing this New Year’s Eve? If the answer isn’t attending the NYE In the Park festival, then here’s why it should be. Taking place in Victoria Park, Sydney, this one night only festival is promising to give attendees their best New Year’s Eve ever.
International powerhouse and recent Festival X headliner Armin van Buuren has released another huge track as he tours the globe. As one of the world’s most highly praised DJs, Armin was an innovator and pioneer of the trance genre.
Over the 22nd – 24th November, all kinds of artists, dancers, gypsies, soul searchers, students and dreamers made their way to the Bohemian Beatfreaks festival in Queensland for a lineup of bass, trance, house and techno music.
One of the year’s most highly anticipated one day festivals swept across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria last weekend. With the Saturday November 30th show taking place at the Sydney Olympic Park, Backyard Opera witnessed the event first hand.
Brumby, a prominent music photographer and videographer, is more than just the box he works within.With 2020 shaping up to be a huge year of non-music related work, we can’t wait to see how he balances his passion for music, and his desire to create outside of the industry he is most well-known in.
At the close of 2019, one Sydney group is doubling down on the work and ringing in the New Year with some serious momentum. Sneaky Sound System exploded onto the Sydney’s house scene back in 2006 and have been making music ever since.
Bo Jo Jones and the Great Lummox are back with a follow up to their debut single, Back in Time - Gods of the Gallows. The Lo-fi beats duo are once again employing sounds and production to create a cafe beats track seeks to find a shared space between laid back nineties hip hop and straight jazz.
Sydney Arts Collective Yeah Nah Yeah are no strangers to throwing a shindig or two. The group have been hosting events that bring together music and art in safe spaces throughout Sydney for the last three years now, each one seemingly more impressive than the last.
Last Saturday, Spilt Milk 2019 made its way to Commonwealth Park in Canberra and was a huge success. From the crazy outfits to festival food, with a whole lot of music in between, this year’s Spilt lived up to the expectations. Backyard Opera has full coverage of must-see acts and the places to be, just in time for the festival’s appearance in Ballarat this weekend.
We had the privilege of getting to know Canadian bedroom pop artists - Aunty Social a few months back when we caught up for one of our ‘A conversation with’ pieces.
This week’s release is a 6-minute epic from up and coming Sydney punk band 100. More than a year after the release of their debut EP, Cortisone, the band have found success in live shows and tours.
This week, electronic duo Yuma X, also known as Lucy Washington and Jake Smith, have blessed Backyard Opera with an exclusive mix.
German folk group Milky Chance is set to release their third album, Mind the Moon, this Friday. In our previous article, Backyard Opera sat down with bassist and percussionist Philipp Dausch to discuss the musical themes on the new album.
SYML AKA Brian Fennell, is a Seattle-raised musician that is known for his emotive vocals and smooth, heart-tugging melodies. He was previously part of the indie band Barcelona, before venturing on a solo project which he named SYML, meaning “simple” in Welsh
One of the best globetrotting artist of the decade is Milky Chance, a German folk group that blends reggae, indie rock and electronica to create an internationally unique sound. The group consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Clemens Rehbein, bassist and percussionist Philipp Dausch and guitarist Antonio Greger.
Neon Records are some of the biggest international artists’ management down under, promoting big names like Skrillex, Milky Chance and Rudimental to Australians. However, they also promote their own homegrown talent and this week’s release sees the debut single of Planet Vegeta.
Lil Berete had one of 2018’s strongest debuts, at just seventeen years old, with the Icebreaker mixtape. Now, the young Toronto based artist has released a highly anticipated follow up, 1 Way Out.
Festival X is coming to Sydney in just over a month and Backyard Opera is your ticket to the best line-up of 2019. The line-up includes huge names like the rare Calvin Harris, the god Armin van Buuren and the Gucci Lil Pump. Other names include Tchami, Alison Wonderland and Steve Aoki.
2019 was Ocean Alley’s year. Between winning triple J’s Hottest 100 with “Confidence”, playing at Splendour in the Grass and touring across Europe, it’s been a wild ride.
From the surface it seems that 2019 has been a quiet year for Sydney producer - Dives. The project of Josh Pearson, released three songs in the last few years, which found themselves under the attention of both the music industry and music listeners alike.
