Music

  The first thing you notice when you hear Central Coast, NSW-based, alternative folk/pop duo Winterbourne play is the sheer, unstoppable energy that seems to roll off them like waves. Its borne of what can only be described as an infectious enthusiasm for the music they make, a passion that Continue Reading

  The year may be screaming to a close – well not so much screaming as lushly and compellingly flowing fast if you take this wonderful collection of five artists and their amazing songs into account – but there is music, so much music to listen to, which truth be Continue Reading

  Animals, in all their multitudinous variety and multi-faceted expression, have always made for some pretty potent imagery. Snakes have long been associated with either potently eternal evil (Judeo-Christian) or “gracious morality and great wisdom” (Chinese Zodiac), lions with nobility and bravery, and elephants with mindfulness and the power of memory. Continue Reading

  So I wonder who that person was who predicted technology would set us free from day-to-day drudgery and endless stress, allowing us to allow ourselves in that which makes us happy, relaxed and chilled? Clearly they were smoking something at the time, and not the kind of something that Continue Reading

  In the grand scheme of musical things, the idea that P!nk (aka Alecia Moore) and Dallas Green (City and Colour, Alexisonfire) would ever come together and record an album was not the first thing that sprang to most peoples’ minds. After all, one is a bona fide rock god superstar, bestriding the Continue Reading

  All hail the music-listening Australian Kelpie! He has had the good sense to pick out, along with some help from my good self,  four Aussie artists (plus one more than worthy American ring in) to populate this instalment of Now This is Music. All five of the artists are Continue Reading

  Something altogether unexpected happened to Western music charts in 2012 when Korean singer PSY‘s song “Gangnam Style”, a viral phenomenon on social media (he became the first Korean artist to top the iTunes Music Video Charts), shot to #1 in countries around the world, including most importantly the world’s Continue Reading

  It doesn’t take much for life to get crazy busy does it? One extra project at work here, an unexpected errand there, and suddenly your calm and well-planned day goes spiralling out of control and with it your peace of mind and low blood pleasure. Which is why we’re lucky Continue Reading