Van Morrison: Latest Record Project – Vol.1
By Brian Wise. VAN MORRISON – LATEST RECORD PROJECT VOL.1 (EXILE/BMG) On his Australian tour of 2000, Lou Reed insisted on playing only recent songs. You can imagine how well this went over with the […]
Reviews
Ed Kuepper & Jim White – Live @ The Triffid
Thursday June 17, 2021 Review By Steve Bell / Pics by Scott Myers A decent throng has turned out early to catch a brief warm-up set by local musician Greg Charles fronting his titular four-piece band. Charles […]
THE PLAYLIST – JUNE 7, 2021
THE PLAYLIST JUNE 7, 2021 What I’ve been listening to this week. Outside Child – Allison Russell Leftover Feelings – John Hiatt & Jerry Douglas Downhill From Everywhere – Jackson Browne The Waylon Sessions – […]
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Tori Forsyth – Provlépseis (Island/Universal)
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Review: John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong
By Bernard Zuel. JOHN KENNEDY’S LOVE GONE WRONG- Always The Bridegroom (Foghorn) In one of the reissue iterations of his 1984 album, Goodbye Cruel World, London’s Liverpool-born Elvis Costello began the liner notes with the welcoming […]
An Impressive Surprise: Tom Jones – Surrounded By Time
By Bernard Zuel TOM JONES: Surrounded By Time (Universal) Temptation is rife to riff on the incongruity of a Tom Jones album getting serious attention in 2021. And not because the man is 80 (and […]
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Womadelaide 2021 – Midnight Oil Triumph!
Womadelaide 2021 – King Rodney Park – March 5-8 Midnight Oil was perhaps the perfect band to close this year’s Womadelaide. Carrying the message that the country needs to change they strode triumphantly onstage in […]
Review: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage
NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS – Carnage (Goliath) In which the Old Testament – its god of anger and violence; its human extremes; its permanent threat; its catalogue of fears only just tethered by the […]
Review: Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians – Hunter And The Dog Star
By Bernard Zuel. Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians – Hunter And The Dog Star (Thirty Tigers) It’s not just old man speak here when I say that longevity has its benefits. Not least, when […]
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Glen Hansard – Live At Sydney Opera House (Dublin Vinyl)
By Bernard Zuel Some things are meant to loosen their grip. But they don’t. I was at this concert, in the concert hall of the Sydney Opera House, and there was in theory nothing to […]