Rip It Up (Australia)
First published in 1989, Rip It Up was an Adelaide-based online music, entertainment, and culture website. The site focused on the local entertainment scene of Adelaide with gigs and tour guides, local arts, album reviews, interviews, food reviews and news including bars and restaurants, food trucks, openings and more. The magazine ceased operations altogether on 30 June, 2016.
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Arctic Monkeys: It's Up To You, New Yorkies
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), August 2006
Even when you've sold millions of copies of your debut album, earned a Mercury Award nomination, had Oasis, Kanye West and Jack White sing your ...
Aztec Camera, Madonna, The Smiths, Talking Heads: Seymour Stein: Siring Greatness
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), Summer 2005
IN A WORLD where the longevity of most rock stars is fleeting, record magnate Seymour Stein has nurtured a vast array of successes across the ...
Bloc Party: Running on Bravado
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), Summer 2005
ALREADY CLUTCHING the seal of approval from Franz Ferdinand, Interpol and the Chemical Brothers, London's Bloc Party have burst onto the international music scene in ...
Brandi Carlile: The NeverEnding Story
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), August 2007
AFTER YEARS of slogging it out in any Seattle venue that would offer her a free meal in exchange for a music set, American songwriter ...
The Coral: The Invisible Invasion
Profile and Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), Spring 2005
"I HATE KNOBS who hang on the very thought of Pete Doherty being on smack and thrive off it – they're dickheads," the Coral's guitarist ...
Bob Dylan, Daniel Lanois, U2: Daniel Lanois: The Compromise You Make For Some
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2006
The "Fifth Beatle" moniker has been bandied about numerous times over the years in reference to everyone from George Martin to Pete Best, but if ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), Fall 2003
Eels frontman Mark "E" Everett is as slippery as the fish his outfit takes its name from. After weeks of interview schedules aborted due to ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2012
ELBOW'S 2011 Glastonbury performance at sunset in front of 100,000 punters was another spine-tingling moment in the history of the legendary English festival, but beefy ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), January 2013
As the promotion for Foals' third album Holy Fire ramps up, it's become apparent from press shots there's a notable new addition to the Oxford ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), October 2004
Unlike their UK dance contemporaries Faithless, the rumours of Groove Armada's imminent demise remain firmly denied by the duo themselves. While Tom Findlay recently commented ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), December 2012
IT'S TRUE: drinking to excess really does makes you rich and famous. The temperance movement might shake their heads in despair, but for Icona Pop's ...
Michael Jackson, Steve Lukather, Spinal Tap, Toto: Toto: Get in the Van…
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), February 2008
Steve Lukather's resumé over the last three decades not only showcases a prolific musician, it also suggests a wildly divergent talent unafraid of variety. The ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), July 2010
KASABIAN FRONTMAN Tom Meighan laughs when talking about how his band's fame took another delirious turn a few months ago. Winning last year's Brit Award ...
La Roux: Together In Electric Dreams
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), July 2009
ELLY JACKSON is lying under her duvet in the same bedroom she's occupied since birth, but recently something feels different. The David Bowie albums are ...
Cyndi Lauper: Still Good Enough
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), Summer 2008
It might be hard for her to break away from the wackily tressed imagery that accompanied her 1983 global smash 'Girls Just Want to Have ...
Marina and the Diamonds: Marina & The Diamonds: Inside the Outsider
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2010
AS FAR AS revelatory points in music history go, the moment Marina Diamandis points to as her breakthrough seems impossibly inane. In late 2007 the ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), Spring 2005
With her father formerly a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel and her debut album Arular referencing bombs, warfare and violence, hot new UK star M.I.A. is ...
My Chemical Romance: Saviours Of The Damned
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), November 2006
With talk of ghosts, pesky kids and freaky cartoons, My Chemical Romance's year to date could almost be a warped Scooby Doo cartoon. Although recording ...
Kate Nash: Singing oh oh on a Friday night
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), January 2008
WHILE TOM MORELLO strums away in his Nightwatchman guise around the corner, British newcomer Kate Nash is sitting backstage in her dressing room at the ...
The Prodigy: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2005
AFTER A SEVEN year wait for the follow up to 1997's The Fat of the Land and more than a decade on from the career-transforming ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 2009
Robyn's fronting on mighty pop moments such as 'Konichiwa Bitches', 'U Should Know Better' and 'Criminal Intent' have projected the Swedish star as a bad-ass ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), November 2012
If Santi "Santigold" White's strong and independent voice on her two studio albums Santogold and Master Of My Make-Believe hadn't already marked out the performer ...
Regina Spektor: A Sorta Fairytale
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), April 2010
IT'S A LITTLE-KNOWN fact, but D-grade celebrity oaf David Hasselhoff taught Regina Spektor English. After emigrating from Moscow to New York in the late 1980s, ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), May 2013
Although Canadian duo Tegan & Sara have previously notched up collaborations with artists as diverse as Against Me!, Tiësto and Kaki King, it was still ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), April 2009
IN 1997, THE world of commercial music was experiencing a notable change. After five years of indie rock raking in the cash, cheery pop made ...
TV On The Radio: Golden Agents
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), January 2009
Big Day Out commitments might have prevented TV On The Radio's Jaleel Bunton from attending Barack Obama's presidential inauguration last week, but he'd already played ...
The Vaccines: Kicking Against The Pricks
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), January 2011
AFTER A WHIRLWIND 2011, the Vaccines' Árni Hjörvar is retreating to his Icelandic homeland for a festive feast of smoked lamb and Christmas ham. Set ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), October 2009
IF CHICAGO'S Wilco sound at ease on their current release Wilco The Album, perhaps it's due to the climes in which the album was recorded. ...
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Dasher! Dancer! Blitzin'!
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), December 2009
THEY'RE PERHAPS the least rural-looking band to emerge in the last decade, but Brooklyn art rock superstars Yeah Yeah Yeahs found solace in the Texas ...
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