Standing out from the crowd can be tough. It’s often not enough to look the part, especially these days; you also have to sound the part, live the part, and have something fresh and interesting to say. These five artists most definitely do, taking life events and observances about Continue Reading
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Can you tell me how to sing … 5 favourite Sesame Street musical moments
Sesame Street does so many things right. From its brilliantly-imaginative teaching of the ABCs and 123s to its hilarious parodies of pop culture touchstones through to its life lessons, it is the gold standard in education for kids (and more than a few adults too). To that illustrious list. Continue Reading
Now this is music #118: Wafia, Kero Kero Bonito, Dillon Francis, Demo Taped, Raleigh Ritchie
We’re in love. Out of love. Trying to find it. Watching others find it. Wishing we had some time in a tree (this will make sense later, trust me). As always, music has a way of taking myriad emotions, all of which swirl in and out of hearts and Continue Reading
Now this is music #117: NONONO, Metric, Smith & Thell, Chloe Lilac, Lauren Aquilina (+Eurovision update)
Life is lots of things. That may sound the opening line of Captain Obvious’s treatise on life and living but that’s because it’s true – every day we rise and fall, laugh and cry, fall in and out of love and ride the emotional rollercoaster of being human. What Continue Reading
Now this is music #116: Barrie, Prismo, girl in red, Lauv, SYML (+ Eurovision 2019 update)
You know what I like about life? It is a source of endless and amazing variety – sure there’s pain and loss and sadness but there’s also, hope, love and all kinds of very good stuff, a spectrum of human experience that finds expression in the work of these Continue Reading
You’re a musical one Mr Grinch! First Tylor the Creator soundtrack song released
SNAPSHOT For their eighth fully animated feature, Illumination and Universal Pictures present “The Grinch,” based on Dr. Seuss’ beloved holiday classic. The Grinch tells the story of a cynical grump who goes on a mission to steal Christmas, only to have his heart changed by a young girl’s generous Continue Reading
Now this is music #115: Aurora, Jodie Abacus, Pool, Rebecca & Fiona, Amanda Tenfjord
Life, love and all those less than ideal messy bits in-between. We all live them, struggle or dance through them and come to our own accommodation with them but sometimes it can feel like we’re the only ones caught in the midst of all the emotional back-and-forth. Not so, Continue Reading
Eurovision update: Bulgaria in, Australia decides … and more
It’s just 7 months to the middle of Eurovision – yes my number of days to … work could do with a little finessing – and while that may seem like a lifetime away, if history is any guide, we’ll be having glitter and glamour and fabulous tunes rained Continue Reading
Let your heart be light: It’s beginning to look like A Legendary Christmas
Christmas makes me happy. Very happy. And Christmas music makes me even happier. There is something ineffably beautiful and wondrous about it that makes me feel like absolutely everything is going to be OK; it may not be, but oh, it feels that way and that’s enough for me. Continue Reading
Onward into moody dystopia: Blade Runner 2049 continues on in comic book form
SNAPSHOT The comic series will continue to unravel the future-set continuity of the Blade Runner universe, picking things up after the events of the long-awaited 2017 movie sequel, director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, which followed the exploits of replicant blade runner K (Ryan Gosling), whose circuitous existential crisis leads him into Continue Reading