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
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Music review: “Paradise” EP by Lana Del Rey
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
Sonic Bliss #15: My favourite songs of the week
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
When writers go to the movies
* 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
Music review: “Feed Me Diamonds” by MNDR
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
New song from Loreen, winner of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest
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
ABBA news: Agnetha’s back!
Once an ABBA fan, always an ABBA fan. It’s a truism that I fought for years for some reason but have come to embrace wholeheartedly as I have realised that you can take a boy quite a way from the 1970s and his ABBA obsession but you can’t take Continue Reading
Adele is happy to let the “Skyfall” on her
I am a reent convert to the Bond franchise it has to be said, and much of my new found enthusiasm for Bond, James Bond, has much to do with the actor now playing him, Daniel Craig. Lest you think it is a physical attraction only, I will acknowledge Continue Reading
Music review: “Human Again” – Ingrid Michaelson
Love is a complicated, messy, sometimes elevating, often troubling thing. At least that’s the impression you get from Ingrid Michaelson whose new album, Human Again, is filled with songs that tell of love’s power to trap, beguile, empower, and hurt in equal measure. But lest you think it another Continue Reading
My unexpected love affair with “Pop Asia”
It all started one otherwise uneventful Sunday morning a few weeks ago. Wanting something to watch after Insiders (a national political program on Australia’s government-funded ABC network that features a moderator and three journalist discussing the week in federal politics) had run its course, and I was waiting for Continue Reading