Music

  It must be as obvious as the blindingly red nose on Rudolph that I am a huge lover of Christmas music. It plays when I am decorating my tree, when I am wrapping presents, on my way to work in the weeks leading up to Christmas – the right Continue Reading

  This album, released in the USA as Holidays Rule (a culturally appropriate title since the “holidays” period in the USA covers Hanukah, and Kwanzaa in addition to Christmas), but as Christmas Rules internationally, was the brainchild  of “producers Sara Matarazzo, Chris Funk and executive producer Randall Poster of bi-coastal Continue Reading

  The great Christmas album rush may have almost petered out but artists the world over are still releasing amazing music that moves, entrances and yes, hopefully sends you into a state of bliss. So here are the latest five songs that have grabbed my attention, slapped on a pair Continue Reading

  If you’re going to do a stadium show, and you’re one of the biggest zeitgeist-defining bands in the worlds at the moment, then it makes sense to open it with a bang. Which is exactly what Coldplay did as the lights across the vast expanse of Allianz Stadium in Continue Reading

  The melancholy is strong with this one. And what a gloriously sad, and beautiful journey it is. Released as part of the re-issue of her debut album as Lana Del Rey (his first album came out in 2010 under Lizzy Grant, a contraction of her real name), Born To Continue Reading

  Another week … and yes more music. So much wonderful music in fact that if your ears were boats (and pre-cosmetic surgery, it’s possible they are) they would be almost sinking in the water, loaded up to the gunwhales with melodies. But rather than sink the good ship Sonic Continue Reading

  * This post originally appeared on writringbar.com * The Words, a new movie which opened in theatres Australia-wide on October 11 starring Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Irons, is the latest in a long line of movies that feature writers, real or imagined, as the main characters, or have writing Continue Reading

  MNDR, an electronic music duo that sprang forth from New York in 2009 when Amanda Warner and Peter Wade got together to make down and dirty dance music, but which essentially functions as a solo vehicle for Ms Warner, have released an album of some of the finest synth-laden Continue Reading

  Yes the woman who won this year’s Eurovision song contest and could well be Kate Bush’s long lost Swedish cousin, is readying an album for launch, Heal, which is scheduled to drop on October 24.     In the meantime, we have a new single, “Crying Out Your Name” Continue Reading