Joanna Newsom is an artist who is a hair’s breadth away from my heart. Milk-Eyed Mender is a startling discovery to make when you’re 15…
The video is barely worth mentioning. Everyone but Julian looks emotionless. Julian is perturbed. That's the video.…
I see the manager walking across the room and my volume dissipates. When you’re one man and making the kind thick nutritious sonic slabs that AXXONN makes, it's like having your throat cut…
On a drab arterial road in Shadwell, in an art deco theatre, we wait in silence. There's no support act or music to soothe us, just the sound of muttered conversation.…
Young Men Dead followed The Thin Kids. Their stage presence is a little awkward, but that is probably due to the lack of a giant cockroach gyrating through the stage.…
If you're familiar with Ball Park Music, tune out for a bit. If you're not, well, Sam Cromack makes jangly, slightly off-kilter, overly self-concious and highly infectious pop tunes with his band mates in BPM.…
The band members simply smiled wryly at the visual aid behind them and let it do the majority of the crowd interaction.…
If you wanted hairpin changes of direction: this freewheels straight down the line. …
To be honest, Toowoomba scares the shit out of me…
It’s hard to keep a straight face when you’re imagining these long-haired, shirtless, tattooed guys wearing hot pants and shaking their thangs…
Kaputt is a dark city with no easy escape routes. Washed-out horns blow sorrowfully into the night. …
In these end days of the overlong, the indulgent, the much wrought and the expansive, Polly’s clarity, brevity, strength and depth are much to her credit…