Tag Archive: review

Bluesfest 2014, live review

Liana Gow-Killingbeck checked out legendary festival, Bluesfest: Bluesfest 2014, what a delicious way to spend Easter! I was lucky enough to trot down to Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm (just a smidge north of Byron… Read More →

Yellow Ostrich, Cosmos – album review

Hatched from the 2009 home recordings of 21-year-old Alex Shaaf, New York band Yellow Ostrich have taken huge sonic leaps throughout their six EPs and three studio albums – now landing themselves on… Read More →

Eleanor Dunlop in Sydney – Gig Review

Carol Bowditch headed to Brighton Up Bar to see New Brutalists supporting ex-Cameras vocalist/keyboardist Eleanor Dunlop: The gig began with Nic Cassey singing songs that were conceived in the wildest of places, from the… Read More →

The Vickers, Ghosts – album review

Italy’s new psych-poppers, The Vickers, have released their first longplayer. Titled Ghosts, it’s a winding and colourful record that weaves together a sugarsweet musical tapestry. There’s plenty of sixties love bubbles floating by… Read More →

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia, Part 3

Marcus Thaine and Carol Bowditch headed to Carriageworks in Sydney for the final two days of MBFWA:  Emma Mulholland takes the mundane things in life, catapults them through her pop-art-powered mind-collider and creates… Read More →

The Afghan Whigs – Do To The Beast review

The Whigs were among my favourite bands of the 90s. Though part of the grunge explosion, their brand of muscular, masculine and misanthropic alt.rock had an altogether different feel to it. The influence… Read More →

SHUK, Sydney – Restaurant Review

‘The Shuk’, commonly known to locals in Jersualem as the ‘Mahane Yehuda Market’ is a marketplace with hundreds of vendors flogging their fresh produce to locals and visitors. Taking from this, SHUK is… Read More →

Teebs, E s t a r a – album review

California-based electronic producer and artist, Mtendere Mandowa, better known as Teebs, makes his return with his sophomore album. Jess Matthews checks it out: It was with a lazy expectancy and a classic case of… Read More →

The Murlocs, Loopholes – Album Review

Victoria’s surf-coast garage-gems The Murlocs have just polished off their debut longplayer, Loopholes. Chloe Mayne reviews the record and has a chat with the boys: Loopholes has been a truly extended labour of… Read More →

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia – Day 2

An annoyingly-scheduled university lecture meant I regrettably had to forgo seeing the gorgeous pastel drapery featured within Michael Lo Sordo’s show, meaning my first runway show of the day was Cameo. This was a… Read More →

Visitors (Die Besucher) – Film review

Visitors (Die Besucher) directed by Constanze Knoche, was screened in Sydney recently as part of the annual Audi Festival of German Films. Somethingyousaid.com’s Chloe Mayne gives it the once-over: Visitors is the kind of… Read More →

Tycho, Awake – Album review

I first uncovered Tycho while searching the net for inspiration as a graphic design student. The ambient shimmering electronic tones produced by Scott Hansen surrounded my university days. I was enthralled with his… Read More →