Mallory Arbour, Journalist

Mallory Arbour is a Melbourne-based writer with over ten years of media experience, specialising in digital content. After living overseas on her gap year, she started her own lifestyle blog and soon began attending media calls for musical theatre and interviewing local talent, and later expanded to covering red carpets, festivals, gigs, and pop culture conventions. Mallory joined The AU Review in 2015, taking phone interviews with international talent during her work lunch breaks and attending events by night. In 2018, Mallory was personally chosen as one of four Victorian journalists to interview legendary US music producer Shelby J. Prior to joining Countrytown, she earned a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) where she graduated with distinction during the pandemic.

Features / Premiere
‘Boat’ by Southbound xo – Video Premiere
“We all love a good boat party, and we hope this track brings everyone as many fun vibes as it did for us when we created it!”
News / Music
Randy Houser
Randy Houser Says He Was “Scared Sh*tless” Filming A Movie With Leonardo DiCaprio And Martin Scorsese
“It was getting a little hairy... and I was like, ‘dear God, don't let that be me tomorrow!”
News / Music
Train’s Pat Monahan On New Tenille Townes Collab: "I Really Can't Believe How Pop And Cool She Sounds On This Song."
“From the first time I heard this song, it felt like this vessel of joy."
News / Music
Dan + Shay To Make U.S. History As First Coaching Duo On ‘The Voice’
Dan + Shay will have their own double chair.
News / Music
Naomi Cooke Johnson
Naomi Cooke Johnson Releases First Single Since Leaving Runaway June
"Every year summertime ushered in a free spirited, exciting, sexy, colourful energy."
News / Music
Loren Ryan
Loren Ryan, Kaylee Bell & More: This Week's Best New Music
Each week we track down the best new music and curate it into our ‘Hot Country Hits’ playlist for all our readers to enjoy. Today, we've selected our top picks of the week to celebrate the songs that stood out in the crowd.
News / Chart News
Zac & George
Hot 50 Chart: Zac & George And Darlinghurst Hit The Top 10
Plus, new Charlie Fittler, Fanny Lumsden, Megan Moroney and more!
News / Music
O'Shea
O’Shea To Return Home For Queensland’s Big Skies Festival & Mount Isa Rodeo
This marks the duo’s first Australian shows since their 2022 tour.
News / Music
Luke Combs
Luke Combs Look-Alike Fools Crowd At Stadium Show
He could have fooled us too!
News / Music
Orville Peck
Orville Peck Postpones Tour Due to Mental and Physical Health Struggles
"I have to take this time to replenish my mind and body so that I can come back stronger and healthier than before."
Features / This Album Changed My Life
This Album Changed My Life: Dylan Hutchins On Chris Stapleton’s ‘Traveller’
To learn more about Dylan Hutchins, we asked him about an album that changed his life.
Features / Premiere
‘Untangled’ by Raechel Whitchurch – Premiere
‘Untangled’ is out Friday, June 23