by Joseph Earp | May 27, 2026 | Reviews
For all their constant reinventions and subversions, the secret weapon of art pop duo Sparks has always been their sly but deep sincerity. Yes, brothers Russell and Ron Mael have songs with titles like “Dicking Around” and “Running up a Tab at the Hotel for the Fab,”... 
by Joseph Earp | Mar 11, 2026 | Reviews
If there’s one band from the Britpop era that has been pretty much guaranteed artistic immortality, it’s Pulp. That might sound like heresy to those who picked the Gallagher brothers as their avenging angels in the much-discussed Britpop wars. But listening to a song... 
by Joseph Earp | Feb 17, 2026 | Reviews
It was the absurdist New York poet John Ashbery who once wrote, “All the wolves in the wolf factory paused at noon, for a moment of silence.” But it could just as easily have been Cameron Winter. Winter’s got the same shaggy sense of humour. The same mix of the... 
by Joseph Earp | Feb 10, 2026 | Reviews
Alex G is one of those rare artists who began his career on the outskirts of culture and then watched as the culture slowly inched closer towards him. The fact that he now regularly goes viral on TikTok, and that his show at the Sydney Opera House was populated with... 
by Joseph Earp | Jan 27, 2026 | Reviews
Much has been written of Nick Cave’s shift from Old Testament lyric-writing to depicting the principles of the kinder, gentler God of the New Testament – a gradual move away from the fire, fury and pestilence of an album like Tender Prey, to the gentle soul-shattering...