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Hip Hop, A Culture of Vision and The Spoken Word!

Hip hop has gained a wide audience among mostly younger people. Hip hop music in its infancy has been described as an outlet and a "voice" for the disenfranchised youth [...]

Tame Impala – The Slow Rush

The Slow Rush is the, fourth studio album by Australian musical project Tame Impala, released on 14 February 2020. It follows the 2015 album Currents and the 2019 singles "Patience" [...]

Aussie National Hero’s – Bands of The 80’s

Various profound and personal experiences and issues as well as hedonistic abandon predominated in many of the most well known and loved Australian videos from the second half of the [...]

Clever Innovators – Bands of The 80’s

Innovation and novelty abounded in 80's music videos, often featuring multiple characters in costume, from Captain Sensible's wacky romp in 'Wot', the colourful, motley crews in Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just [...]

Roisin Murphy Live at The Forum, Melbourne

UK art pop queen Roisin Murphy has been making music of major significance since her joyous appearance with Moloko in 1995 with their debut album, 'Do You Like My Tight [...]

Alex Lloyd, Croxton Bandroom 2019

1999, a bit of an overwhelming prospect of going back to, a legendary year at the end of the fabled epic decade, the 90's. Which is what Alex Lloyd's breakthrough [...]

Live Music Review – Client Liaison, Forum Melbourne 2019

Client Liaison are perfect. You're struck as the concert progresses by what a beautiful creation this band is and grateful for the opportunity to witness Harvey, Monte and the rest [...]

If I Said Only So Far I Take It Back – Mia Dyson

Daylesford-born Melbourne native Mia Dyson has been a darling of the alt-roots and blues scene in Australia and more recently the world, especially the US, since her debut album Cold [...]

Live Comedy Review – Tom Gleeson “Joy”

Many of us have seen Tom Gleeson on the telly, whether it be hosting his highly successful ABC tv quiz show, 'Hard Quiz', his Hard Chat segment on 'The Weekly' [...]

Fleetwood Mac live, Rod Lava Arena Melbourne – Review

We'd heard the controversy of founding member Lindsay Buckingham being unceremoniously booted out of Fleetwood Mac in late 2018 primarily at Stevie Nicks' behest after a couple of unfortunate incidents [...]

Album Review – The Best Of Luck Club – Alex Lahey

27 year old Melbourne punk pop singer-songwriter Alex Lahey burst onto the scene in 2017 with her debut album 'I Love You Like A Brother' with its winningly driving, jaunty [...]

Album Review – Phantastic Ferniture – Phantastic Ferniture

Clever Sydney indie pop garage band Phantastic Ferniture have taken a cheeky major Australian inner city it could be Newtown in Sydney, Fortitude Valley in Bisbane or Fitzroy in Melbourne, [...]

Album Review – Idiot Proverbs – Tiny Little Houses

For their debut album, Melbourne's Tiny Little Houses have gone decidedly more hard rock than their previous array of singles and EP's, which, though they sounded a little like Ween [...]

Album Review: The Sun Will Come up, The Seasons Will Change

25 year-old Edinburgh electro indie singer Nina Nesbitt has gone from strength to strength since the release of her debut EP, 'The Apple Tree' in 2012. It was followed by [...]

Album Review: Still On My Mind – Dido

Dido Armstrong hails from a fine musical pedigree, being the sister of famed electronic dance producer, the equally extraordinarily talented Rollo, with whom Dido has collaborated both on her own [...]

Album Review: Map Of The Soul: Persona

BTS are one of the superstar groups of the phenomenon that is known as Korean pop or K-pop, and have held that place since they appeared in 2013, along with [...]

Bursting out of the 20th century, and, exploding into the Naughties – Emerged a raft of truly futuristic and contemporary Australian bands

While the most commercial mainstream pop has regressed into the formulaic and uninventive with warbling waifs flogging pseudo-folk and the like, only moderately left of centre of this, emerging from [...]

Damian Cowell’s Disco Machine at Northcote Social Club – Review

One of life's pleasures is that sometimes things become little rituals and traditions without them ever intending to be so. Such is the case for me with Damian Cowell's Disco [...]