Julian Lage – Melbourne Recital Centre, Sunday September 13, 2026 Reviewed by Steve Hoy. Whilst I thought Julian Lage’s evening concert in support of the tenth anniversary of his album World’s Fairwould be a Federated […]
By Darren Lowe Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (Vilnius, Lithuania – August 18, 2026) Kalnų Parkas, in the beautiful city of Vilnius, Lithuania, is an amphitheatre amidst a parkland with nearby stunning views of […]
By Chris Lambie Rainforest World Music Festival 2026 – June 26-28, Sarawak Cultural Village, Borneo One of the things I love most about a World Music festival is being among a diverse crowd when unfamiliar […]
Review by Brian Wise Al Jardine & Pet Sounds Band – Hamer Hall, Melbourne – Sunday June 28, 2026 For two hours at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall, Al Jardine and his superb Pet Sounds band transported […]
Episode 26 of On The Record is the first fully international edition—Brian Wise filing from Melbourne, Michael Mackenzie beaming in from the ancient fortified town of Monemvasia, deep inside the Peloponnese. The contrast isn’t just […]
Episode 24 of On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie opens not in a record shop or a green room, but in the unglamorous reality of domestic collapse: Brian’s gas hot water service […]
By Brian Wise. The Waterboys – The Palais Theatre, Melbourne, Saturday May 16, 2026 With a history dating back to the early 1980s, a catalogue of 16 albums and a string of memorable hits, expectations […]
On The Record’s Episode 23 leans in to great songs, better stories, and the strange afterlife of pop careers. Michael Mackenzie’s big night out is Split Enz at Rod Laver Arena, a reunion-sized crowd of […]
By Nick Corr After his stripped-back solo tour a few years ago, this orchestral tour leans firmly in the opposite direction – full band, full orchestra. As Beck jokes at the start of the show […]
On his final night in New Orleans, Brian Wise files a slightly frayed dispatch that captures Jazz Fest’s defining tension: a festival big enough to feel infinite, and a schedule brutal enough to make you […]
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