It’s All About The Bass! (Part 3)
A Bassist’s importance in a band is on occasions overlooked by music enthusiasts in favour of lead guitarists and drummers. I don’t know, I guess it’s in our DNA to […]
Interview: Americana artist Mitch Hayes talks about his inspirations and passion for music.
Mitch Hayes has always had an ear for a good melody and a good song idea. On his sophomore release Heroes, he takes his audience down a road of personal […]
Greenlight on Lorde’s Melbourne show.
A turbulent weekend of storms and lightning threatened to drench and dampen Lorde’s final show of the Australian leg of her Melodrama world tour at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Musical Bowl […]
Baring her soul and music to the world: Interview with folk singer songwriter Anna Tivel.
From the outset, Portland-based Anna Tivel has been a singer songwriter with an explicit goal of telling her captive audience the stories of the lives of ordinary people. As a […]
Cut Above The Rest: Interview with classical pianist Anna Fedorova.
Whether it is the thrill of rock n roll or the magical overtures of the great composers, I couldn’t imagine life without music. The latter is, of course, a genre […]
Interview with Jazz Bassist Linda May Han Oh
Born in Malaysia and raised in Perth, Western Australia, as a teen Linda May Han Oh discovered the upright bass. It wasn’t long before the talent musician was receiving rewards […]
Meg Mac on fans, touring and her acclaimed album Low Blows.
Songwriting as a form of therapy is how Meg Mac deals with her emotions. She seems to let it all out, whether it is behind the keys of her piano […]
A Different Version of Herself: Erin McLaughlin talks about life as Ruby Force and her album Evolutionary War.
To family and friends and the people she interacts with on a daily basis, she is simply the down to earth Erin McLaughlin. But once you get Erin up on […]
Quick Music Reviews: Latest Releases October 2017
Pink – Beautiful Trauma (RCA Records) Prior to the release of I’m Not Dead (2006) I didn’t care much for Pink musically. I was certainly aware of her growing popularity of […]
Introducing Roses & Cigarettes.
The overtones and credibility with which Roses & Cigarettes’ bring to their classic California sound is rich and rewarding to any music fan prepared to open their hearts and minds. From […]
Will the real Lady Godiva please raise your hand?
Did the real Lady Godiva actually ride through Coventry naked is a question that we have all been asking for centuries. If it is true, it may be the most […]
Underrated Movies of the 1990’s: Romper Stomper (1992)
Whether you agree with me or not, the 1990’s were an amazing decade of titanic hit and sinking duds at the movies. (I know, the puns bad.) For me, the […]
Film Review: Blade Runner 2049
It was a surreal feeling a few years ago now when I heard that Harrison Ford would be reprising his role of ex cop Rick Deckard from the original Blade […]
Review: Pearl Jam’s ‘Let’s Play Two’.
Incredibly this year Pearl Jam have been in the news quite a bit thanks to their Rock And Roll Hall of Fame induction back in April. But while awards and […]
What’s new, right now: Watergod and their otherworldly vision.
Musically speaking, Austin, Texas, has thrived on a robust live music, centred around country, blues and rock, for much of its history. It has been fertile ground for touring bands […]
Quick Music Reviews: Latest Releases September 2017
Neil Young – Hitchhiker (Reprise) I was first introduced to Neil Young, when he teamed up with Pearl Jam, to perform Rockin’ in the Free World in 1993. Two years later […]
