Common: Let Love
- As hip-hop approaches the half-century mark we’re beginning to see rappers age within a youth-centric genre. Albums like Jay-Z’s 4:44 or Phonte’s No News Is Good News have been jokingly labelled ‘dad rap’ for their mature subject matter and contemplative nature.
Review: Bangarra: 30 Years of Sixty Five Thousand at QPAC
Bangarra: 30 Years of Sixty Five Thousand, performed at the Playhouse Theatre, QPAC was a captivating display of Indigenous cultural identity in the form of dance. If you haven’t seen a Bangarra show before and are wondering what to expect, I can let you know that each and every show that comes out of Bangarra Dance Theatre is worth attending. The reason I state this is because of the high level of quality of the performances and the way that traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture is represented.
Review: Spencer and QUT Gardens Theatre
Spencer presented by Lab Kelpie
Written by Katy Warner
A dysfunctional Aussie comedy obsessed with footy, fags and fighting amongst one another
Jude Joseph: Shit Keeps Happenin'
- Far from the bright lights of the music industry, a subculture of folk-punk healthily maintains its existence, played on acoustic instruments and often in informal venues.
4ZZZ Top 20
1. Thigh Master - Mould Lines (Single)
2. No Sister - Influence (Album Of The Week)
3. Asha Jefferies - Bad Kisser (Single)
4. Felivand - Waitin' For You (Single)
5. Thelma Plum - Better In Blak
6. WAAX - Big Grief
7. Dumb Things - Today Tonight (Single)
8. The Chats - Identity Theft (Single)
9. Pixies - Catfish Kate (Single)
10. Mallrat - Charlie (Single)
11. Miiesha - Drowning (Single)
12. Tia Gostelow - Get To It (Single)
13. Sahara Beck - Don't Overthink It (Single)
Tropical F*ck Storm - 'Braindrop'
Braindrops is the follow-up album from Tropical F*ck Storm's 2018 debut A Laughing Death In Meatspace and similarly, written and recorded in the bands home 'Dodgy Brothers Studio' in regional Victoria.
Liddiard’s own description of Tropical F*ck Storm’s sound is nearly as interesting and evocative as the music itself. He describes the LP’s title track as “Fela Kuti in a car crash,” and talks of creating a sonic atmosphere that “sounds like chloroform smells”
Liddiard can be a bit more taciturn when asked to get specific on the group’s lyrical themes. “It's not always a good idea to be too straightforward.” Instead, Liddiard favours a “more nebulous and mysterious” approach.
“Everything we do, we try to do it in a weird way. The whole album is full of weird beats, and just weird shit everywhere,” Liddiard explains. He cites Doc at the Radar Station-era Captain Beefheart as a key sonic touchstone, and Braindrops certainly shares the Captain’s penchant for pounding abstract grooves. Tropical F*ck Storm has achieved a uniquely off-kilter sound on Braindrops. Liddiard partly credits this to the group’s use of unconventional equipment, “We use lots of techno gear to make rock and roll because rock and roll gear is boring, and all sounds like Led Zeppelin.”
26th August 2019
Local Artists:
WAAX: Big Grief (Dew Process)
Orlando furious & IAE: Together (Independent)
Keeskea: Find Yourself Alone
- Vanessa Marousopoulos’ debut EP under the moniker Keeskea comes hotly anticipated by the two cities she calls home, Adelaide and Brisbane. If you’ve seen her in any number of local acts, including Bloom Parade and Sleep Club, you’d already be familiar with her particular brand of enchantment. With total control over the suite of tracks on Find Yourself Alone, she only grows more spellbinding.
No Sister: Influence
- “Influence”, definition: the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself.
Jay Som: Anak Ko
- Jay Som’s music has always teetered between genres, blurring their lines in a dreamy haze, even as her music sheds light on her life. Themes such as Asian-American and queer cultural intersectionality, nostalgia and millennial life are all given an effective vehicle in her signature blend of lo-fi indie rock. However, on Anak Ko, “my child” in English, Jay Som is experimenting with the music much more adventurously.