[Kim] Sometimes people walk out of Sarah Mary Chadwick’s shows because they deem them too depressing. There is something in … More
Category: Music Writing
The Australian | Review: Gabriella Cohen
What does it mean for Gabriella Cohen to call her second album Pink is the Colour of Unconditional Love? Does it … 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
Difficult Fun | Jen Cloher Review: On love and the willingness to be fooled
And what of quieter revolutions? That’s what I want to know when it comes to Jen Cloher. Her fourth album, self-titled … More
RealTime Magazine | Xiu Xiu and Twin Peaks: Derivatively original
Though it’s known for its mysterious imagery and disquieting phenomena — chevron stripes, inexplicable crying, clairvoyant logs, lessons of adolescence, … 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
Collapse Board | Review: Amanda Palmer and friends in all their glory, live at a house party in Lutwyche
When we arrived outside the house in Lutwyche to see Amanda Palmer, it was 6.30pm and eerily quiet from where, … More
Collapse Board | Review: Go Genre Everything, Scrabbled, Gravel SamWidge, The Legend!, Nana Vigilante + Bent
Nine photos and nine extended captions for Go Genre Everything, Scrabbled, Gravel Samwidge, The Legend, Nana Vigilante and Bent on … More
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