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Pauline Bailey Blues Portrait: a profile of the Australian blues scene 2019 The blues. By its very nature this genre ...

The sure fire rule of thumb at any ADOTG winery show is that there will be three distinct demographics present ...

Three piece kings of Lo-fi Sebadoh were born out of the prolific nature of Dinosaur Jr back in 1988. Founding ...

Truckfighters, Sweden’s finest fuzz-rock band, somehow make the desert/ stoner rock sound ‘fun’ when plenty of their equals are far ...

Evan Dando -photo by Maryanne Window By Dan McMahon Note to self – next time Evan Dando announces a last ...

By Ellie van Werkhoven Christmas would not be the same without the annual Milk! Christmas show. On the 22nd of ...

On this warm Spring evening, many eschew their jackets, and those driving, take delight in the multitude of parking spaces, ...

When Ride last toured here in 1992, The Palace in St Kilda was a thriving live music venue, and the ...

Following on from successful seasons in New York, London and Toronto, Melbourne is currently hosting the Australian premiere of Come ...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Melbourne’s Her Majesty's Theatre is purely magical. Roald Dahl’s classic story has been brilliantly ...

The Melbourne Guitar Show, Caulfield Racecourse 3rd August 2019 Having attended a few previous Melbourne guitar shows at Caulfield Race ...

The Melbourne performance of Thoroughly Modern Mille has been brought to us in all its splendor by seasoned professionals The ...

As Portishead blares through the speakers, Sharon Van Etten and her five-piece band make their way to the dim lit ...

The Palais has probably hosted all of these artists at one time or another over the decades but the APIA ...

Lazaruswritten by David Bowie and Enda Walsh officially opened at the Playhouse at Arts Centre on the 21stof May 2019 ...

How the hell did that happen? Well that’s a good question! We thought it was a good question anyway and ...

Muriel’s heart-warming tale takes a flamboyant leap onto stage! It’s been 25 years since PJ Hogan grabbed our attention with ...

If there was such a genre of music called ‘art punk’ Do Re Mi certainly qualified. I last saw the ...

By Byron Boukouvalas EMINEM 2019 Photo Credit: Jeremy Deputat Marshall Mathers, EMINEM, touted as a Rap God, lived up to ...

From the outset, this bill of Mental As Anything, Do Re Mi, Sunnyboys, The Church and Icehouse promised to be ...

With the recent tour announcement of Butterfingers' 15 Years of Fatboys, we throwback to a CD review by Mary Boukouvalas ...

Melbourne's iconic Her Majesty's Theatre was filled with an infectious, buzzing energy on Friday night as the highly anticipated rock ...

William Shatner is one of those actors who have rarely disappointed. When he’s good, he’s good… And often, when he’s ...

It has been 29 years since The The last toured Australia in 1989. Here as part of the Melbourne International ...

Not everyone is a songwriter, just like everyone is not a singer, instrumentalist, sportsman/woman or rocket scientist. Let’s take a ...

Jimmy Webb is a living legend as one of the great songwriters of the modern era. The average Joe probably ...

Upon walking into the Melbourne Guitar Show this year the first thing I noticed was a sign saying "first 15 minutes ...

There is always something warm and inviting about walking into the Palais Theatre on a cold winter’s night. The plush red ...

Words Fail is the third solo album to be released by Melbourne guitarist Shannon Bourne. While usually known for being ...

How do we create meaning from experience but by comparing comparing polar opposites? To see light we need darkness, to ...

It's a long flight from Boise Idaho to Melbourne but American singer songwriter Eilen Jewell has made the journey twice ...

Many a year ago Royal Blood only existed in the veins of royals, and then in 2013 on the way ...

As the lights dim, an excited punter screams out in the most ocker vernacular, "Smash it Deano" to chuckles and ...

It's been a long time since I've seen Beck live in Australia. I remember first seeing him play solo acoustic ...

Okay, so looking up Gogol in a dictionary is an absolute mind-fuck. We all know the meaning of Bordello but ...

Sadly, many of the grungy pubs and music venues of yore have been gentrified or pulled down. The Curtin is ...

David Duchovny has accomplished quite a lot in his 57 or so years on the planet - actor, writer, director, ...

There's nothing like seeing a classic rock band and finding out that they're still at the top of their game ...

American Idiot doesn't seem to quite know where it stands. Not quite Rock Opera, not quite Musical Theatre. The cast ...

The atmosphere electric, the crowd buzzing with a deafening quivering ambience waiting for the undeniably best harmonising vocal group, consisting ...

​​​​​​​You know a show is going to be something special when the star of the show gets a standing ovation ...

Punk is not an anachronistic genre. With its raw, unadulterated sounds and lyrics telling of corruption, inequity, war, disillusion, power ...

1. Heroes Following the sad news of David Bowie's death we decided to cover one of his songs at our ...

Perhaps it's totally wrong to describe the Red Hot Summer tour as a snowball, picking up more snow and other ...

It's clear from the thick British accents in the crowd that there is a huge contingent of expats packed into ...

Nothing says Australian summer more than an outdoor concert held at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens with mozzies a flutter, an ...

The weather was not looking good as I drove towards Rochford Estate nestled in the heart of the Yarra Valley ...

Geelong has an interesting culture when it comes to rock music. Having spent quite a good percentage of my life ...

On February 9th 2016, Stephin Merritt, the man who is The Magnetic Fields, sat down and wrote a song. The ...

Margaret Court Arena October 7, 2017 Alison Moyet began "The Other Tour" with the poetic April 10th- an apt introduction ...