Classic Songs: ‘Live It Up’ by Mental As Anything.
In 2019 Mental As Anything founding member Andrew “Greedy” Smith, who wrote some of the Australian new wave band’s best-knownContinue Reading
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Top Ten Australian Albums of 2022
Curating the following list of the top ten Australian albums of the year, in no particular order, was as alwaysContinue Reading
Feel The Weight: Interview with Dear Seattle’s Brae Fisher.
Australian indie rock stalwarts Dear Seattle are back in 2022 with a rousing new single Feel The Weight. They alsoContinue Reading
Top Ten Australian Albums of 2021.
Our two major cities – Melbourne and Sydney – were lockdown for what felt like an eternity this year. AndContinue Reading
Interview with Nuria: “I just found myself in a creative hotspot and kept churning out new songs.”
In 2020, Tasmanian indie-pop musician Nuria aka Anna Maynard wooed listeners with her soulful debut album Alive. Now, with aContinue Reading
Interview with Lisa Mitchell.
About five years ago, I took a deep dive on this site into the career of Lisa Mitchell, easily oneContinue Reading
Classic songs: ‘Flame Trees’ by Cold Chisel.
There is something quintessentially Australian about rock pioneers Cold Chisel. In the early 1990s I had a University friend whoContinue Reading
Songs about overcoming adversity: ‘To Her Door’ by Paul Kelly.
It’s fair to say Paul Kelly is an icon of the Australian music scene. (He has been inducted into theContinue Reading
Top Ten Australian Albums of 2020.
It’s easy to look back at 2020 as an awful one for the Australian music industry, but in actual factContinue Reading
Interview with Indie rock legends Custard.
Led by frontman and guitarist David McCormack, Brisbane’s Custard made important inroads in Australian indie circles with their 1991 debutContinue Reading
Rearview Mirror 