The Melbourne International is on now and running until August 24. Details at miff.com.au Review by James Bell. The Extraordinary Miss Flower (Directed By Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard) Screening: Friday August 22 and Sunday […]
Review by Bernard Zuel TRAVELLING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL By Ann Powers (Harper Collins) The cliche about a good biography or book about a musician is that it makes you want to put […]
Review by Des Cowley. Orstralia: A Punk History 1974-1989 By Tristan Clark (PM Press, p/b) There are those who believe punk music died off in the early ‘80s, having morphed into a range of user-friendly […]
Reviewed by Bernard Zuel. JIM MOGINIE The Silver River (Harper Collins) There are many things in this book, by Midnight Oil’s founding member/songwriter/guitarist, could be called, but one that does not and never was intended […]
BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE Written & edited by Mark Davidson and Parker ‘There is such pleasure in dipping into the images and scatterings – the morsels of a giant public presence – […]
Review by Des Cowley. Sonic Life: A Memoir – By Thurston Moore (Faber, dist. by Allen & Unwin) Let’s deal with the elephant in the room first. If you are coming to Thurston’s book hoping […]
Review by Michael Goldberg. Lyon Street, Marc Zegans (Bamboo Dart Press, 54 pages) Marc Zegans, a fan of punk rock since the late ’70s, has just had his seventh book of poetry published. Lyon Street […]
The Whole World In a Song: An Interview with Critic Greil Marcus on Bob Dylan, His New Dylan Book, the Role of the Critic and Much More By Michael Goldberg Greil Marcus writing or talking […]
Heylin comes out of his corner fighting at the get-go, castigating other Dylan biographers for their failings. The Dylan that emerges from Heylin’s book is indisputably possessed by genius. At barely twenty, he was penning […]
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