A 2013 review of The Rubens, winners of Triple J’s Hottest 100 in 2016
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So The Rubens won this year’s Hottest 100 with another slice of triple j-approved beige rock. Back in 2013 I had the bad misfortune to see the band play at the Brisbane leg of the Laneway festival. This is what I wrote. The Rubens are easily the worst band of the day, a country mile […]
10 Songs that should (but probably won’t) top triple j’s Hottest 100
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The Guardian asked me to provide some suggestions as to what should be topping the Hottest 100 in Taylor Swift’s stead. Now, this was before my sudden – rather alarming – conversion to Taylor Swift’s new album 1989, otherwise I might just have voiced the opinion that many share: what the hell is wrong with Taylor […]
Triple J Week – Thursday 28 October
Part of the reason to listen to Triple J for the week was to try and get a handle on the amount of cross-promoting it does. How Triple J gets away with it has always been something that no one has ever been able to properly answer whenever I’ve mentioned it in a music forum. If […]