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The ninth iteration of Pitch Music & Arts took place from 6-10 March on the stolen lands of the Djab Wurrung and Eastern Maar people. The lineup included Bitter Babe, Yu Su, Sleep D b2b Jennifer Loveless, OK Williams, Eris Drew & Octo Octa, Estella Boersma,...
Sydney duo INAUGURAL want to tell stories about real people. The band’s new EP, Stone Tapes Vol. 1, includes stories of redemption, revenge, trauma and suicide, as well as a love song to disgruntled black sheep, and an 80s ballad about armed security guards. “The...
Bluetile Lounge appeared fully formed to me in a vision at the UWA Refectory sometime around mid 1993. I was a 19 year old stripling in Perth, occasionally waking up in time to attend uni lectures, when this friendly guy from my English Lit class told me he was...
Recently, I have been interrogating my reflex cognitions, trying to slow down my conclusions. If, for example, someone makes a sound that annoys me, rather than deeming the sound inherently, objectively annoying, I take a breath and consider what else might be going...
“What percentage of the crowd do you think will be men?” I asked my brother a couple of hours before going to see The Streets at Palace Foreshore. I got us the tickets, thinking it’d be the perfect activity for a sibling date. The Streets’ music pulls in many of our...
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...
The last time Pulp played in Melbourne, in 2011, a feeling of temporariness surrounded the whole affair. The Sheffield band, led by Jarvis Cocker, were back together for a one-off reunion tour. They hadn't made music together in a decade, and they didn't have any...
Iconic, energetic and anarchic, such was the atmosphere at Grace Jones' gig on a beautiful moonlit night in the Harbour City. Opening with “Nightclubbing,” the 77-year-old singer hasn’t lost any of her moxie, teasing the crowd with her ever-more revealing costume...
Spotify, famously, sucks. But Spotify is also, famously, very popular. Despite a year of bad press and calls for a mass boycott, Spotify still claims close to a third of the streaming market, which is roughly the equivalent of Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon...
Belgian electronic musician Peter van Hoesen and the MESS Synthesiser Ensemble performed a new live score to Terminator 2: Judgement Day at Hamer Hall. Given our present-day geopolitical and technological reality, James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi was a fitting choice for...
