19th August 2019
Local Artists:
FELIVAND: Waitin’ For You (Single)(Independent)
Keelan Mak: Sleep Talker (Single)(Independent)
Private Function: St Anger
- It’s hard to find a debut album rollout which has been so befitting of a band as Melbourne band Private Function’s new record St Anger. The name, a piss-take of the Metallica album of the same title, features a suspiciously similar album cover, and when Metallica tweeted asking fans their favourite track off of the original St Anger, Private Function responded with their debut LP’s lead single Talking To Myself.
Ride: This Is Not A Safe Place
<p>- The huge resurgence in popularity for the ‘90s guitar indie sub-genre known as “shoegazing” has resulted in a wealth of young bands from all over the world clutching their copies of old <strong>Slowdive</strong> and <strong>My Bloody Valentine</strong> albums on the way to rehearsal. As a result, both of these acts have enjoyed a second wind, most notably Slowdive with their triumphant comeback album of 2017.</p>
Sleater Kinney: The Center Won't Hold
- The Center Won’t Hold is the tenth album from iconic American punk band Sleater Kinney, and the second following their reformation in 2015.
Marika Hackman: Any Human Friend
- Marika Hackman has slowly but surely risen to the top of the indie underground scene since 2013. Despite originally focusing on folk music, 2017’s I’m Not Your Man saw Marika embrace the popular aesthetics of the late ‘10s indie sound with a spin entirely her own. A continuation down this path has resulted in her latest effort Any Human Friend, presenting the most introspective side we’ve seen of her yet.
Review: The New World QSO
The New World: Majestic Music Inspired by America
Presented by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Alondra de la Parra
Percussion Martin Grubinger
Dorman Frozen in Time I Indoafrica
II Eurasia
III The Americas
Dvořák Symphony No.9 Op. 95 (From the New World) I Adagio-Allegro molto
II Largo
III Molto vivace
IV Allegro con fuoco
Review: Queensland Theatre's L’Appartement
L’Appartement presented by the Queensland Theatre
Written and Directed by Joanna-Murray Smith
Visually entertaining and humorous with a French twist
Playwright Joanna-Murray Smith claimed she wanted to stick pins in a doll of Sam Strong, the Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre, when he coerced her into also directing her play L’Appartement. Although initially unwilling, she successfully helped incarnate the play with the four experienced actors from words on paper to the stage.
Purple Pilgrims: Perfumed Earth
- Purple Pilgrims are a mysterious quantity. They’ve been drifting around the world -from New Zealand to Hong Kong to the US and back again- in a hazy cloud of echoes, donning vaguely cultish trappings and gently spinning out the jams. That’s been happening for the best part of a decade and yet their soft, fey presence has largely passed unnoticed here in Australia. That may be about to change with their new record, Perfumed Earth; we may get to find out exactly how weird the Purple Pilgrims are.
Ainslie Wills: All You Have Is All You Need
- Ainslie Wills is one of Australia’s real musical treasures and still, after all these years, a bit of a hidden one. As I’ve said before, this small town girl is a musician’s musician, completely focused on pursuing music-making before all else. Actually, that may not be quite accurate, Ainslie’s new record, is a personal document, suffused with dissatisfaction.