Rock City – City of Melbourne Record Stores In The Pandemic
By Jeff Jenkins. Record Store Day is this Saturday and if you live in Melbourne you have plenty of choice. Jeff Jenkins looked at how some of the inner city stores have been faring over […]
Feature Stories
Justin Townes Earle – Our Final Interview
By Brian Wise. The first time I saw Justin Townes Earle was in early October 2008 at San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. It was only six months since the release of his debut album […]
Justin Townes Earle – Rebel With A Cause
Justin Townes Earle passed away in Nashville on August 23. The talented son of Steve Earle had fought his demons for many years, by his own admission, but had come out the other side and was […]
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The Shadow Knows What He Knows
After eight years Bob Dylan returns with his first double album of original songs since Blonde On Blonde and it’s an absolute masterpiece. By Michael Goldberg. Bob Dylan is 79 years old and he knows it. […]
Mick Thomas & Roving Commission Send A Postcard From 2020!
Mick Thomas has documented life in lockdown in the best way he knows how – with an epic single and new album as ‘postcards’ of the time, writes Jo Roberts. February 2020. Mick Thomas and his […]
Jason Isbell Faces His Past and Looks To The Future.
Jason Isbell’s latest album with his 400 Unit , Reunions, helps him exorcise some demons. By Brian Wise. There’s no doubt that Jason Isbell has done a lot of growing up in the past few […]
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BETWEEN THE DARKNESS AND THE SLOW DAWN
Mark Seymour changes things up for his 10th solo album. And the result is a career highpoint. By Jeff Jenkins. In ‘Against My Will,’ one of the many standout tracks on his new album, Slow Dawn, Mark […]
Lucinda Williams – Soul Music!
By Brian Wise. “I always wanted to write the kind of songs that Bob Dylan wrote. He used to do that back in the ‘60s, like ‘Masters of War.’ So, it was his time to […]
THE BREADMAKERS’ 30 YEAR BLUES HANGOVER
“When I saw that Bob Dylan had to wait sixty years for his first Billboard number one single it made me think that, being together only 31 years, maybe we’re getting a bit ahead of […]
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Vale Tony Allen – Drummer Supreme
Tony Allen was an ace in the Afrobeat pack. By Tony Hillier. The pulse of Afrobeat may have stopped momentarily when drummer Tony Allen died suddenly in Paris on the last day of April, but the […]