Matt Joe Gow: Break, Rattle And Roll
- Break, Rattle and Roll is the third album from alt-country artist Matt Joe Gow. Gow is based in Melbourne but originally from New Zealand. If country music isn’t the first cultural export we might associate with our Tasman neighbours, it’s worth remembering that Australia’s original country star Tex Morton made that same trip across the ditch many decades ago.
Bitumen: Discipline Reaction
- It’s nice to hear a band differentiate themselves from the masses of post-punks out there these days, by pushing on over the red warning line and into the savagery of industrial. Melbourne’s Bitumen do exactly that. Fronted by Kate Binning, I first came across them a bit after they released their debut, self-titled full-length, back in 2016, when they followed it up, a year later, doing a split with No Sister.
Basement: Beside Myself
- Look at Basement’s trajectory on either side of their four year hiatus and you could easily make a strong argument about them being two separate bands. Prior to 2009, the Ipswich -no, not that Ipswich- gents would see packed rooms with the crowd surging like a tide pool as they bellowed their emotional vulnerability. Since returning with Further Sky, all hints of flannel, stage dives, and hype have been sidelined in favour of a more measured output. It’s an output that emphasises Basement’s ear for melody and anthemic, sing-a-long choruses.
mewithoutYou: [Untitled]
- American post-hardcore band mewithoutYou have returned with an untitled seventh album. The previous six have been musically and thematically varied, from acoustic folk to hardcore, circus-themed concept albums to dense introspection. They are united by the band’s carefully constructed soundscapes around the mostly spoken poetry of vocalist Aaron Weiss.
Requin: The Noisy Miners Swoop Him
- Let’s get the large, grey animal in the room out of the way. Requin is French for shark and you can pronounce that reh-khan, Francais-ing it up as much as you like. People will probably judge you. Why are they called that? Well a couple of the soon-to-be band members were in a fish-and-chip store and encountered an ancient television there, glitching uncontrollably between The Price Is Right and a French news report about a shark attack. One of them said,
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Toxic waste investigation continues
The Queensland Environmental Department is investigating the removal and dumping of toxic waste from Amberley air-force base in 2017.
Civex Energy confirmed its vacuum truck operators took firefighting chemicals from a “red-zone” on site, instead of keeping them “encapsulated".
The investigators are proposing sanctions over the unauthorised operators, but no action has been made against the companies who were undertaking work at the site.
Kidneys of the coast renew Moreton Bay waterways
A marine scientist is working with traditional owners to restore the biodiversity and water quality in Moreton Bay, using recycled oyster shells as filters.
Oystering was once one of Queensland’s most important industries, but water quality in the bay and devastating floods 120 years ago drove the habitat to extinction.
Recycled oyster shells act like kidneys, filtering up to 100 Litres of water a day, and allowing the return of fish and baby oysters to the waterway.
Union protest stops traffic in Melbourne
The Melbourne CBD has been closed this morning as thousands of union supporters protest for a increase in minimum wage and job stability.
The protests, held in every capital, were an attempt to fix the "broken" industrial relations system says CFMEU spokesperson Sean Reardon.
Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations Kellie O Dwyer called the rallies a "glimpse of a bleak industrial relations future’ where unions have the ability to ‘break any laws they like."