Turducken for one, anyone? For sure, but only if you’ll “Drink with me/ ’cause I hate my family” … It seems like a fair swap, especially in the midst of the crazy frenetic, brain-melting busyness of the festive season when all the stresses of life seem to be distilled Continue Reading
Music
Festive FUNX3: Jingle Bell Rocks! documentary, Kristen Bell’s “Text Me Merry Christmas” and Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever
I am a Christmas music junkie. Hell I am a Christmas junkie full stop. But one of the things I love most about the season, and which I appreciate many other people hate (especially those in retail who are listening to festive tunes from October onwards), are the Christmas Continue Reading
Now this is music #42: POOM, Ghost Loft, MyLyricalMind, Pomplamoose, Misun
The theme of the latest collection of musical riches to grace this series is diversity, reflected not only in the spread of sounds offered by the musicians featured but also in their willingness to play around with said sounds, to push and squeeze and cajole into all manner of sonically-pleasiong Continue Reading
Now this is music: Winterbourne (band profile)
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
Now this is music 41: The Lighthouse and the Whaler, Banoffee, Vanic X K. Flay, Dream Police, A Rainmaker
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
Animal-themed rock songs roar to life with artist Tracy Worral/Dorothy’s Rock and Roll Zoo
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
Now this is music #40: Moodoïd, LOUDS, Kyle Woods and Khallee, Ataractic, Kacy Hill
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
Halloween Pop Art: Fun and easy pop culture costumes for the big night
Halloween is a ridiculous amount of time. That is pretty much incontestable, what with all the dressing up, the partying, the candy … and the candy … oh did I mention the candy? But it can be kind of tough to come up with a cool, original one-of-a-kind idea Continue Reading
Now this is music: The exquisitely heartfelt harmonies of You+Me
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
Now this is music #39: Kate Boy, Chela, Sui Zhen, BC Kingdom, Little May
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