Tuesday, September 14, 2010

THE QUEEN IS THE KING - An interview with Kaki King

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About to embark on a return trip to Australia, KAKI KING talks about her new album Junior , the merits of Ovation guitars, scoring for film...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

An analysis of the online community ‘Mess+Noise’ using the theory of Symbolic Interactionism

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Although efforts have been made to define community in many disciplines, there is yet to be a clear conceptualization of the construct...
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CD Review: BANDE MAGNÉTIQUE – ninetynine

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(Patsy Records) Continuing their seemingly unstoppable mission to musically define an indefinable genre, ninetynine’s seventh album is yet ...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

BACK TO THE ROOTS - An interview with DC Root aka Damian Cowell aka That Guy From TISM

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At the inception of their final show, frontman of irreverent Melbourne country institution Root! and one-time TISM honcho gives his last in...

A TRUE STAR - An interview with Todd Rundgren

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After producing Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell,  fronting The Cars, redefining prog-rock and releasing the world’s first interactive CD, TODD R...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

CD Review: VULTURES OF VENUS - Vultures of Venus

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(Independent) Reportedly, Lillian Wightman, founder of the boutique fashion store Le Louvre on Collins St, was so infatuated with Parisian ...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

DVD Review: EDGEPLAY: A FILM ABOUT THE RUNAWAYS

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(Shock Entertainment) Picked up by Shock for release five years after it’s US bow, to coincide with the middling biopic, ex-bass...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

NEW BEST FRIEND - An interview with Kate Nash

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With a new album, a world tour and an obsessive approach toward writing, KATE NASH still has time for catching up with Riot Grrl and modern...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

CD Review: FANFARLO - RESERVOIR (Warner Music)

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England’s Fanfarlo are an indie pop group who rode a bracing wave of online journalistic hyperbole late last year following a glowing David ...

CD Review: WHITE WOODS - BELLPLAY

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(Sensory Projects) The funereal stomp underpinning many of the tracks on the début release from Melbourne’s White Woods seems to emerge fro...

Live Review: EARL GREY POLICY, THE GALLANT TREES

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Monday, June 28, 2010 WESLEY ANNE The importance of musical ability in composition, and as a part of putting on a decent show, is thr...

Live Review: THREE MONTH SUNSET, IOWA, THIEVES

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 CHERRY BAR Let’s get this out of the way right now: yes, these bands are united by a love of big swirly guitar soun...

CD Review: DEAR DARKLY – THE BOAT PEOPLE

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(MGM) Quite why this band hasn’t yet ‘broken’ (should that be what they want to do, and judging by the production on Dear Darkly it is), i...

CD Review: ZULYA – TALES OF SUBLIMING

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(Unstable Ape Records) Since her arrival in Australia in 1991, Zulya Kamalova has been awing, bewitching, educating and captivating audienc...

CD Review: CLAIRE HOLLINGSWORTH – CRAFT SAVVY CRIMINAL

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(Independent) With her début release, Claire Hollingsworth, bandleader at Brunswick’s School on the Hill, follows on from her two EPs with ...

MADE TO LOVE MAGIC - An interview with Romeo Stodart of The Magic Numbers

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ROMEO STODART , singer and songwriter with London’s THE MAGIC NUMBERS tells ANDY HAZEL about repressed accents, working with the late Robe...