THE CARAVAN MOVES ON!
By Brian Wise A Goodbye To The Caravan Club , Archie’s Creek Hotel, Sunday March 31, 2024 ‘The dogs may bark but the caravan moves on,’ Paul Keating once famously remarked and, after five years […]
Feature Stories
Elvis Costello: Rusty Never Sleeps!
By Brian Wise. Elvis Costello has returned to Australia for Bluesfest and sideshows but last year he released an album of songs he used to play as DP McManus with his friend Allan Mayes 50 […]
Rickie Lee Jones: Jazzing It Up (Touring This Week And Appearing At Bluesfest)
By Brian Wise. Last year when we spoke to Rickie Lee Jones about her beautiful Russ Titelman produced jazz album Pieces of Treasure she wasn’t feeling embraced by the larger jazz community. Festival and club […]
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Blackberry Smoke – The Here And Now
By Bernard Zuel It may be true that the principal calling card of Charlie Starr is that he is singer/guitarist and principal songwriter of Atlanta southern rock/Americana band, Blackberry Smoke, which is no small thing. […]
Mickelson – Now A Known Unknown! Touring Here Soon.
By Michael George Smith Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, philosopher, producer, exhibited artist, children’s book author, husband, father, failed “rock star”, successful roots/folk artist, Grammy nominee, NYC escapee, San Franciscan… Scott Mickelson is all these things […]
Reimagining the Past: Calexico Brings its Feast of Wire 20th Anniversary Tour to Australia
By Brett Leigh Dicks Twenty years ago, Tucson, Arizona was a very different place. Local representative Gabby Giffords had just been elected as the youngest woman to serve in the Arizona Senate, Wavelab Studios was […]
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LUKA BLOOM – BRINGING 50 YEARS OF SONGS TO AUSTRALIA
By Brian Wise Irish folk-singer Luka Bloom is on his 15th Australian tour, a visit that will keep him here until April. Since his last journey he has released three albums – Live De Roma […]
Todd Rundgren – Still A Wizard, A True Star And Touring In February
By Steve Bell For almost 60 years now Philadelphia-born and bred singer-songwriter/producer Todd Rundgren has marched resolutely to the beat of his own drum, conceiving and making music across a vast array of musical styles […]
Rebecca Lovell Talks Gretsch Guitars On Company’s 140th Anniversary!
Rebecca Lovell of Larkin Poe talks about her guitars and her relationship with Gretsch on its 140th anniversary. By Brian Wise. “It was incredible,” says Rebecca Lovell of the recent Larkin Poe tour of Australia […]
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From The Archives: Play It Again Sam! By Tony Hiller
With the Rolling Stones well into their umpteenth world trek in 2012, TONY HILLIER caught up with a man who was pivotal in the success of the band’s first fair dinkum tour. The late Sam […]