Not far from where St Kilda beach forms a firm line against the land, inside the Palais Theatre, which is … More
Category: Music Features & Essays
Swampland (Online) | Pure Performance: The Glittering Intensity Of V
Like Madonna, Beyoncé, Cher or Rihanna, V is simply V. The pop references might seem incidental for an artist who … More
Swampland Magazine | Under the Underground: Audiopollen Social Club
Do you remember T.A.D.? Hanging from the ceiling, swinging from beam to beam, conducting a bizarre aerobic exercise. Some people … More
Difficult Fun | Kylie Minogue: Fragments of a watery icon
A French house-inspired verse shimmers along, gloating with the smoothness of its own repetitive, euphoric possibility; a woman pouts, sending … More
Difficult Fun | Sarah Mary Chadwick: The Case for Melancholia
[Kim] Sometimes people walk out of Sarah Mary Chadwick’s shows because they deem them too depressing. There is something in … More
Difficult Fun | Totally Mild: How limitlessness is not a given condition
The images are strong. The album cover shows a slinking, naked woman, half-submerged in a bathtub of green water. The … More
Swampland Magazine | New music again? On the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre
In 1981 Melbourne band Essendon Airport released their second album Palimpsest. If you’re lucky enough to have the original vinyl, … More
Overland | One baby to another: twenty-five years of Nevermind
This piece originally appeared on Overland (online). Twenty-five years since the album’s release, it is very easy to become wistful … More
The Lifted Brow (Online) | “Many things I, I musn’t say”: Approaching the mystery and uncertainty of Xiu Xiu’s “Plays the Music of Twin Peaks”
This piece was originally published by The Lifted Brow. There were strange things happening, and without any decent coherency events … More
