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Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 4 – Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria and Belgium (Semi-final 2, part 1)

Posted on April 15, 2023April 16, 2023 by aussiemoose

What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs 85: Miley Cyrus, Mae Muller, half·alive, Alison Goldfrapp and Birdy

Posted on April 14, 2023April 14, 2023 by aussiemoose

We all need music to make the world go round. Some more than others, of course, but music provides a soundtrack for our lives, an emotional articulation that sometimes we can’t manage on our own, and it often comes with lyrics that hit home in short, sharp three-minute bursts that Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 3 – Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden and Switzerland (Semi-final 1, part 3)

Posted on April 8, 2023March 29, 2024 by aussiemoose

Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 2 – Israel, Latvia, Malta, Moldova and Netherlands (Semi-final 1, part 2)

Posted on April 1, 2023March 22, 2024 by aussiemoose

Songs, songs and more songs #84: BENEE, Stace Cadet, Jessie Ware, Jason Mraz + Girli

Posted on March 31, 2023December 18, 2023 by aussiemoose

You need to dance your troubles away! Yes, you do! But don’t take my word for it – there are five artists in this post who have poured their hearts and souls into songs that not only get you off your seat and onto the dancefloor of your choice, even Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 1 – Azerbaijan, Croatia, Czechia, Finland + Ireland (Semi-final 1, part 1)

Posted on March 25, 2023March 26, 2023 by aussiemoose

Songs, songs and more songs #83: Rose Gray, Jake Shears, Maisie Peters, Loïc Nottet and Anne-Marie + Eurovision 2023 update!

Posted on March 17, 2023March 18, 2023 by aussiemoose

Life is HARD. For all the ups, and they are sweet, there are plenty of downs and struggling can be everything. It helps then to have singers like the five featured here to not only help you make sense of it all, but to set their thoughts and ruminations to Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #82: Noah Kahan, Leanna Firestone, Arlo Parks, Gracie Abrams and Låpsley + new ABBA lyric video

Posted on February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 by aussiemoose

Life comes with a LOT of emotions.Expressing them can sometimes feel all but impossible but that’s where we are lucky to be gifted with talented music artists who ponder and feel and articulate the deepest feelings of the human heart and pair it with music resonant it’s hard not to Continue Reading

Time for some Trustfall – P!NK previews new album with Kelly Clarkson

Posted on February 8, 2023February 8, 2023 by aussiemoose

SNAPSHOTTrustfall is the upcoming ninth studio album by American singer Pink. The album is scheduled to be released on February 17, 2023, through RCA Records. The album features guest appearances from The Lumineers, Chris Stapleton and First Aid Kit. (courtesy Wikipedia) A new album from one of your favourite music Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #81: YARLIE, Ava Max, Sgt Slick, Laura Mvula and Montaigne + new ABBA lyric videos

Posted on January 27, 2023January 23, 2023 by aussiemoose

Love is supposed to be always wonderful. That’s the PR anyway, and yes, it can be absolutely glorious when everything goes well as some of this post’s artists attest, but sometimes it’s a car crash in the midst of a natural disaster cratering towards an apocalypse, and we have no Continue Reading

One last roll of the planetary dice … Project Hail Mary releases its first gripping trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAstronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awakens with no memory of himself or his mission. He deduces he is the sole survivor of a crew sent to the Tau Ceti solar system in search of a solution to a catastrophic event on Earth. In his search for answers, Grace must Continue Reading

This just ain’t his story. It’s our story.” Washington Black makes the leap from book to screen

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFollows the 19th-century odyssey of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose prodigious scientific mind sets him on a path of unexpected destiny. When an incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges & Continue Reading

Book review: Thoroughly Disenchanted by Alexandra Almond

(Harper Collins Publishers Australia) What great longing rests in the depths of our seemingly endless hearts and soul? For most of us, it’s really no more than a guess though if pressed we could likely name a few wished and longed-for things that we would like to see manifest like Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Appearances, as we all know and have been instructed about repeatedly, can be deceiving. For one reason or another, people project one thing while living quite another, a white lie in most cases that avoids emotional entanglement, vulnerability or the need to share in something that Continue Reading

Book review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

(courtesy Penguins Books Australia) Delving deep into someone’s life over a long period of time is something rarely afforded to us unless they are a family member or close friend. We might know people well and converse, laugh and cry with them over all sorts of life events but really Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #124: GRANT KNOCHE, MO, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Lil Nas X + Miley Cyrus

(via Shutterstock) Life is a LOT. And while there’s no escaping that, you can find ways to work through the myriad of emotions that summons, including of course channeling it into some highly cathartic music. These five artists do that brilliantly and well and the resultant songs manage to get Continue Reading

Book review: Salvage by Jennifer Mills

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) What would happen if the world “ended” in slow motion? In other words, rather than the big bang and boom of the usual fall of civilisation that we have seen documented in all kinds of apocalyptic storytelling, what if the cataclysmic hell of the end of Continue Reading

Movie review: Flow

(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a rare thing indeed to emerge from watching a movie of any kind and feel both soothed and euphoric. Surely the two states are antithetical, with the more active one bludgeoning the other into emotional oblivion with boundlessly energetic vivacity? Or the former chilling you the Continue Reading

Breaking free: How Jim Henson and his team made the Muppets magic happen

(courtesy Muppet Wiki / (c) The Jim Henson Company / Disney) SNAPSHOTThe illusions that have baffled me for years is when muppets go outside when they seem to break free from their puppeteers and become little sentient creatures….These movies were released before CGI was ubiquitous. These are in-camera effects. What Continue Reading

Book review: The Emilie Adventures by Martha Wells

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Growing up should be a time of limitless optimism and possibility, a temporal place where imagination runs riot, adventure is the order of the day and all the burdens of the world don’t fall upon your still small shoulders. But sometimes, all those good and wonderful Continue Reading