HOTEL
Seven people, trapped in a Hotel, who don’t like each other. Lies, deceit, or just something to hide. Should make for a very entertaining evening… “People in hotels are always polite, and put on a display of the best version of themselves. People also treat a hotel as their home, and a...
Audrey Tautou is no Amelie in disappointing film adaptation of Therese Desqueyroux
Therese’s sullenness, her passiveness, and her potentially deadly behavior is fully realized but never entirely justified. And this is the major flaw with the film. Life for a 1920s provincial housewife is often depicted as a life of routine and excruciating boredom. Much the same can be said for the experience that is seeing Therese...
Aussie Rules
When WikiLeaks uncovers a sex tape of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, a general election is called. Under the slogan ‘Doing it for the Team!’ the AFL launches a political party, wins every seat in Victoria and breaks off from Australia to form an independent republic. What happens when a nation obsessed with sport...
Fall Out Boy, Save Rock and Roll
Fall Out Boy dropped their new album Save Rock and Roll in the middle of last month and it proves to be an incredible release in one way or another. As someone who has recently recovered from a two-year binge on indie pop and electronica, the whole alt rock/punk rock/pop punk is all I’ve been...
The Colour…
At its lightest it’s is the colour of packing for your first trip away on your own. A once empty suitcase slowly filling with your favourite hat and the travel books that you intended to read but ended up just looking at the pictures. At its darkest it’s the colour of the largest space feeling...
Okinawa, Japan
A sundered and worn knuckle comes crashing into a wooden step with the force of a sledgehammer. This process repeats itself not once, not twice, but throughout the entire duration of our ascent up the stairs leading to the Karate Museum. Master Dr. Hokama Tetsuhiro’s knuckles are boulders, battered and tortured dead after years of...
Lame Impala – Stuck in a chair @ Tame Impala
On what the group has termed their “Stadium Tour,” Tame Impala kicked off their national tour at Festival Hall after conquering the international stage at Coachella. Midnight Juggernauts kicked the night off in a weird twist of fate – Middi J’s undoubtedly being the bigger name in Australia not three years ago. I couldn’t hear...
Kurt Vile in a Sunday daze
The autumn chills are finally here and who else would you rather cuddle up too (metaphorically of-course..) than with the beautiful, wailing voice of Kurt Vile? Originally the War on Drugs frontman, Vile began his solo career in 2008 with the release of ‘Constant Hitmaker.’ Since then, Vile has released three albums, one being the...
Chop Squad to the Max
Max Dowling at the Brunswick Hotel I can see Max Dowling approach me, fresh off the tram from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), with his case over his shoulder and music folders poking out his bag. Playing in two bands, and studying saxophone at the VCA, the 19-year-old musician’s time is short...
Iggy Azalea – Australia’s latest forgotten music export
“Walk a mile in these Louis Vuitton’s, but they don’t where these shoes where I’m from” Iggy Azalea is the 22 year old from Mullumbimby who is best known for her “white-gurl” raps and that polarizing bum. But is she just another young Australian to be forgotten as nothing more than a music export? Or...
Creature of the Past
Matt Salisbury, 19, reflects on his role in the Sleepy Dreamers and their accelerating fame with the release of their new EP ‘Creatures’. We like to think our EP is an appropriately timed collection of over two years of thoughts and fun and everything musical. We played with the idea of just releasing it online for...
Save Community Radio
Community radio is at serious risk of being left behind the times as the radio world switches to digital signals in the coming years. Community radio stations run on a non-for profit basis and often just barely scrape enough funds together to maintain broadcasting on the analogue signals. Fundraising for this often takes the form...
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