Classic video of the week: Turnstyle – “Spray Water on the Stereo” (Live on The 10:30 Slot)

Casiotone indie crew Turnstyle visited Dylan Lewis on The 10:30 Slot in 2000 to perform two tracks from their debut album, Turnstyle Country.

Classic video of the week: The Go-Betweens – “Streets of Your Town” (Live on Hey Hey It’s Saturday)

The Go-Betweens joined Daryl, Ossie and the crew on Hey Hey It’s Saturday in 1988 to perform “Streets of Your Town.”

Classic video of the week: The Reels – “After The News” (1980)

The perky new wave song “After The News” was the lead single from Dubbo band The Reels’ second album, Quasimodo’s Dream, released in 1980.

PREMIERE: Kat Edwards is her own worst enemy in the video for “Waiting Room”

Kat Edwards can’t escape the negative voices in her head in the video for new single, “Waiting Room,” premiering on Check Check.

Classic video of the week: The Black Sorrows – “Never Let Me Go” (1991)

Revisit the video for The Black Sorrows’ “Never Let Me Go,” featuring the stunning lead vocals of Vika Bull.

Classic video of the week: Tiddas – “Inside My Kitchen” (1992)

Revisit Tiddas’ debut single from 1992, “Inside My Kitchen,” a stripped back and heart-rending composition by Lou Bennett.

Next Entries »

Classic video of the week: Jimmy and the Boys – “I’m Not Like Everybody Else” (1979)

Relive Jimmy and the Boys’ ecstatic performance of The Kinks’ “I’m Not Like Everybody Else” on Countdown in 1979.

Classic video of the week: The Go-Betweens – “Streets of Your Town” (Live on Hey Hey It’s Saturday)

The Go-Betweens joined Daryl, Ossie and the crew on Hey Hey It’s Saturday in 1988 to perform “Streets of Your Town.”

Classic video of the week: The Reels – “After The News” (1980)

The perky new wave song “After The News” was the lead single from Dubbo band The Reels’ second album, Quasimodo’s Dream, released in 1980.

PREMIERE: Kat Edwards is her own worst enemy in the video for “Waiting Room”

Kat Edwards can’t escape the negative voices in her head in the video for new single, “Waiting Room,” premiering on Check Check.

Classic video of the week: The Black Sorrows – “Never Let Me Go” (1991)

Revisit the video for The Black Sorrows’ “Never Let Me Go,” featuring the stunning lead vocals of Vika Bull.

Classic video of the week: Tiddas – “Inside My Kitchen” (1992)

Revisit Tiddas’ debut single from 1992, “Inside My Kitchen,” a stripped back and heart-rending composition by Lou Bennett.

Next Entries »

Recent Posts

Ben Folds review – generous, intimate and occasionally rambling

There are gigs, and then there are small pilgrimages. On Saturday night at the Anita’s Theatre in Thirroul, Ben Folds delivered the latter: a solo show that felt less like a concert and more like being invited into the lounge room of a man who has spent three decades...

Nilüfer Yanya review – dynamic buildups and cathartic releases

If fashion choices are any indicator, Nilüfer Yanya's fanbase is a broad church. At the London musician's first show in Melbourne/Naarm in over six years, scraggly haired rockers rubbed shoulders with young folks in tank tops and low-rise jeans and indie heads in...

Here are the playing times for Golden Plains 2026

The playing times are here for the 18th edition of Golden Plains, which is happening at the Nolan family farm on Wadawurrung Country, between Ballarat and Geelong, from Saturday 7 to Monday 9 March. READ: Meredith Music Festival review – the full spectrum of emotions...

The good, the romantic, and the freaky at Spasta’s Valentine’s Day party

“Eight-oh-motherfucking-eight.” As far as group sing-alongs go, it's an unlikely candidate to synchronise and integrate a crowd. But on multiple occasions during a no-frills and loopily eccentric set, Egyptian Lover asked the thousand-ish people at Spasta to join him...

Cameron Winter review – strange, woozy tension and unbelievable simplicity at the Sydney Opera House

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...

A celebration of humanity and its multitudinous voices and stories

The MSO took a departure from the classical world for Sonder, a collaboration with the Find Your Voice Collective at Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's annual free concert series has been bringing music to the people in an open-air setting for...

The soft glow of Maria Somerville’s Luster

Growing up in a geographically remote or culturally static region can be a lonely experience. Ideas, adventure and romance feel painfully out of reach, and the city beckons as somewhere to go and become something, invent many new selves, and find your people. Once the...

Find Your Voice Collective and the MSO bring 250 musicians to Sidney Myer Music Bowl for Sonder

A few months ago, while hosting a show on Triple R FM, I asked listeners to text in some of their favourite words. There were several excellent submissions, including sibylline (prophetic; mysterious), mephistophelean (wicked; fiendish), proselytising (advocating or...

Alex G review – two titanic hours of chaos

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...

‘I’m creating my own pop paradigm’: Local Woman on her uncompromising debut album 27

Kalyani Ellis’ debut album as Local Woman can be summed up by a line from the song "Pop Star." “Just be yourself,” the former Willow Beats member and retired DJ sings, “because everyone else is taken.” The album, titled 27, is an act of self-actualisation – and one...

The Necks: mad harmony and tortuous invention

“I’m after whatever is lurking beyond thought,” wrote Clarice Lispector in Água Viva. “No use trying to pin me down: I simply slip away and won’t allow it, no label will stick.” These words, spoken by the nameless narrator in Lispector’s 1973 masterpiece, could be a...

Nick Cave at the Domain – a towering, career-defining show

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...

‘We certainly weren’t showing off’: Essendon Airport on their minimalist masterpiece ‘Sonic Investigations (Of the Trivial)’

Repetition is not an alien concept for fans of popular music. The standard song structure goes something like this: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, double chorus (tweak the melody). Verses and choruses often use the same chord progressions. Sometimes even the...

The evergreen Underworld present a united front at Sydney’s Carriageworks

A rave, typically, will be in the late late hours of the weekend, around the time that Saturday night becomes Sunday morning, and inhabited by the young and the rash – Mark Renton types, if you will. In the middle of Sydney's Carriageworks, however, a crowd has filled...

Ecstatic Underworld headline set caps off inaugural New Year’s at the Bowl

I wanna give you everything, I wanna give you energyI wanna give a good thing New Year’s at the Bowl was a brand new music festival. Three stages. More than 20 acts. Close to fifteen-thousand people. But in the weeks leading up to the event, when asked about my NYE...

The best Australian music of 2025 (continued)

Music. It's everywhere. It's playing in your headphones when you're crossing a busy road. When you're sitting on the bus. When you're in the shower. It's on at the chemist, the supermarket, the op shop. There's a DJ at the day spa. A subwoofer in the cafe. Playlists...

Meredith Music Festival review – the full spectrum of emotions on a Supernatural weekend

One of my friends has never been to Meredith or Golden Plains. Every year, in early March and early December, she gets fed up with friends and colleagues banging on about what magical occasions these festivals are. “But I don’t like camping,” she’ll say.“But this is...

Perfume Genius review – one of the best live performers the world currently has

Twelve years ago, Perfume Genius, aka Mike Hadreas, performed a set within the fabric walls of Sydney’s Spiegeltent. A stripped-down show that reflected his stripped-down sound – the small stage contained just Hadreas and his now husband Alan Wyffels – it was one of...

If Atarashii Gakko! say jump, I’ll say how high

Fewer than 48 hours after their midnight slot at Meredith, Atarashii Gakko!’s performance at the festival was already the stuff of legend. Shortly before they came on, my friend Luke, who was taking photos at Meredith for Check Check, asked me if he should photograph...

TV On The Radio review – innovative and idiosyncratic indie rock band comes alive at Melbourne’s Forum

"We're going to participate in an energy exchange.” It's just after 9pm on Monday in Melbourne, and Tunde Adebimpe is addressing an audience of thousands at the sold-out Forum. “We put some out there, you give it back.” You'd think he was some type of guru, but he's...

Follow us on Instagram

POiSON GiRL FRiEND is coming to Melbourne for a pe

My favourite album of 2025: Maria Somerville’s Lus

Featuring Robert Goodge on electric guitar and Dav

Meredith 2025. Mostly trees. Some artists and peop

Maggie Tra is prolific. The electronic music pro

A rant of sorts about music and context and politi

“Australia’s cultural neglect of its own musical h

Musicians, Traditional Custodians and environmenta

Follow on Instagram