On the banks of the Hawkesbury River, Playground Weekender was now in its fifth year. In both 2008 and 2009…
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It was a night of checkered shirts, torn skinny jeans, unzipped hoodies and gazing down at your converse sneakers as…
In a post Laneway Festival haze, this solo mission to The Enmore Theatre on a Monday night was daunting to…
The morning of the Good Vibrations festival the sun didn’t so much as peek its face out – you’d be…
Sia nearly gave me a heart attack the first time I laid eyes on her. I thought I’d walked into…
Having just taken in cities as far reaching as Singapore and Auckland, it was Rozelle’s picturesque College of The Arts…
A Thursday night hip hop gig wasn’t really where I wanted to be last night but at the behest of…
I wasn’t at your average indie rock show on Monday night. I was disco dancing in the neon illuminated Amazon…
Detroit techno exemplars Octave One headlined Mad Racket’s party at the Beck’s Festival Bar at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum…
Entertaining a sizeable crowd has long been a hard thing for musicians to master. To do so with a broken…
For this reviewer it was 13 years since he’d been to a Big Day Out. That fact alone made me…
I had always labelled Sufjan Stevens as a lo-fi indie pop artist in the same category as Elliot Smith or…
Opening act Paris Wells is an amazing vocal talent. Her strong powerful voice is what made me pay attention when I…
As a Sydney BDO virgin I was wide eyed with anticipation and Australiana overload walking past that monumental Olympic flame fountain (remember,…
To say I was excited to see British break-beaters The Freestylers in Sydney’s Chinese Laundry is an understatement! Having already…
The legendary Datsik aka Troy Beetles, a 21 year old dubstep producer from Canada, played at the Manning bar on…
Photos by C.Rale Arriving late at Sydney’s Lower Town Hall, I was immediately shocked and disappointed. There was an open…
The Blues is Number One! Yes, indeed – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are Number One. Forget all the imitators…
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