Austra News

 
The List
Austra, The Unthanks and Richard Hawley set for No Direction Home 2012
The List
Musical choice nuggets across the fest's two music stages include Austra, Best Friends, Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny, Cold Specks, Django Django, Moon Duo, Other Lives, Peaking Lights and Veronica Falls. Line-up: Richard Hawley, ...


 
Austra set for UK tour
The List
A virtuoso musician with several years of classical training behind her, plus stints in riot grrrl band Galaxy and a solo album, Stelmanis puts the lavish praise heaped on Austra's debut LP Feel It Break down to it being the most 'normal' sounding ...


 
World Goth Day: So How Goth Are Skrillex, Paramore, Austra and Florence?
Spinner
Click on the gallery below to find out how the likes of Austra, Florence and the Machine, Paramore, Skrillex and other dark-hued musicians rate on our goth scale of 1 to 10 skulls. Aspiring goths looking to purchase Encyclopedia Gothica should go here.


 
Parental Advisory: Austra
Exclaim! (blog)
This instalment features Canadian electronic band, Austra. We sat down with front woman, Katie Stelmanis as she talked about her childhood, how the music in her life changed over time and the growing success of the band. Watch out for more Parental ...


 
Austra to Head Back Out on Canada/U.S. Tour
Exclaim! (blog)
Then, after a smattering of dates in August, including appearances at HARD Toronto and Montreal's Osheaga, the North American leg will begin in earnest in September, when Austra will start on the West Coast before heading east and wrapping things up ...


 
Austra announce US tour dates
Fake Walls (blog)
Toronto's Austra have been laying low for a little while, but that will change late summer when Kate Stelmanis and her crew hit select US cities. The West Coast and East Coast dates include stops in: Salt Lake City (opening for Passion Pit), Seattle, ...


 
Dancing In The Dark
theMusic
The dark mood and emotional richness that stems from the band's industrial, primitive synth and new wave influences shares similarities with other contemporary artists like Austra and Zola Jesus. Funchess sees their style as part of an identifiable ...