Elton John: Brilliance at A Day On The Green
ELTON JOHN: FAREWELL YELLOW BRICK ROAD A DAY ON THE GREEN, ROCHFORD WINERY – SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2020 By Brian Wise It seems astonishing that Elton John has been coming to Australia since 1971 and, […]
Reviews
Tribute to Jazz Guitar Legend Ike Isaacs
Review by Des Cowley. VARIOUS ARTISTS: We Like Ike: 100th Birthday Tribute to Jazz Guitar Legend Ike Isaacs (Triangle 7 / The Planet Company/MGM) While guitarist Ike Isaacs (1919-1996) is not exactly a household name, his […]
Xylouris White: The Sisypheans – A Wondorusly Odd Beast
Xylouris White is a wondrously odd beast. A duo birthed in Melbourne, comprised of a Cretan lute devotee, and one of the most joyously unorthodox drummers in modern music, their immersive, deeply resonant records – a deep, […]
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Bob Dylan’s Country Life: In a Nashville studio with Johnny Cash!
TRAVELIN’ THROUGH 1967-1969: THE BOOTLEG SERIES, VOL.15 By Michael Goldberg. Bob Dylan had vanished. In the midst of a 1966 world tour in which he played his recent rock music with the future members of […]
Out On The Weekend
By Brian Wise. All photos by Stephen Boxshall. OUT ON THE WEEKEND – SEAWORKS, WILLIAMSTOWN – SATURDAY OCTOBER 12, 2019 If you want to know what the ideal size for a music festival is then […]
The McNammar Project
THE MCNAMARR PROJECT – HOLLA & MOAN (Only Blues Music) By Chris LambieSometimes you find the perfect recipe simmering right under your nose. When longtime friends Andrea Marr and John McNamara were encouraged to record […]
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MICHAEL WAUGH – THE WEIR
By Chris Familton. MICHAEL WAUGH – THE WEIR (Compass Bros Records) Michael Waugh’s last album The Asphalt & The Oval found him refining his blend of vivid Australian storytelling with impressive results. Now, just a […]
Rainforest Festival, Sarawak
Rainforest World Music Festival (Sarawak, July 2019) By Chris Lambie On trips across Vietnam in 2012 and 2103, I was surprised to hear very little traditional music. The closest I came – outside Ha Noi’s […]
NEIL YOUNG WON’T BE DENIED: TUSCALOOSA
Neil Young’s Tuscaloosa Live recordings from The Loner’s craziest tour. By Michael Goldberg. “Neil had the wasted Charles Manson mountain man deal going, hair shaggy-uncombed past his shoulders, a wrinkled black-on-black striped film noir jacket, […]
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Revisiting Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue: By Michael Goldberg
Was it Dylan’s greatest tour? By Michael Goldberg Things were decidedly in flux for Bob Dylan. Professionally, he had fallen from the heights of both fame and artistry reached in ’65 and ’66 (Highway 61 […]