Pauline Bailey Blues Portrait: a profile of the Australian blues scene 2019 The blues. By its very nature this genre of music is infused with the sadness of lost love. Tales of woe and longing […]
How to begin writing about Kim Volkman’s second autobiographical publication other than to use a metaphor? Think of the mind like a mansion, and Volkman’s first book The Devil Won’t Take Charity as the entry way. Think then of the stories in For Those Who Dance with the Skeleton as the front windows. It is an unusual way to write about life experiences; the short story genre, but you will be amazed at just how well short stories work in this instance. […]
HEAVY METAL: IT’S LOUD, IT’S UGLY, IT WON’T GO AWAY. I guess if I wanted critical acclaim I’d have picked music that doesn’t ruffle any feathers…(Nikki Sixx ‘The Heroin Diaries’2007) Not a quote from Kim […]
As many people say ‘There’s no rest for the wicked’, and certainly the wicked have been insanely busy over the past few months, making music that is now spewing forth from the bowels of hades. […]
Vale Chester Bennington. Suicide is an atrocious way to depart. Loved ones never recover…ever. Who knows what makes people believe that everyone would be better off without them (or whatever it is that makes people […]
Dear metal friends, the gods have been good to us this week with an absolute shitload of goodies, so sacrifice your hearing and turn the speakers (amps) to eleven. Part of the joy of metal […]
It seems to be the right time to be reading and writing about ‘Music Wars, the sound of the underground: the untold story of Central Station Records’ by Rell Hannah and Peter Coombes, seeing as […]
Welcome to the new column for those punters who order their music ripped. Melbourne (and Aussie) peeps have always supported talent that has crawled out of spaces so small as to be forgotten by the […]
A lot has happened between the time of the intimate gig the newly reformed band The Tea Party played at Melbourne’s Cherry Bar a few years ago and the concert The Tea Party performed with […]
The greatest thing about the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is that there’s something to please everyone who likes to laugh, and perhaps the thing that every show has in common is the thread of humanity […]
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