Review by Des Cowley. KYM ALEXANDRA DILLON – VENDESTINY (Amica Records, CD, vinyl and digital release). Amica Records is a newish label founded by Melbourne pianist Nat Bartsch. It was initially created as a vehicle […]
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 25 of On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie begins where so many arguments in roots music eventually end up: Bob Dylan. Specifically, the minor detail of him turning 85 (born 24 […]
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 […]
Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone by Peter Richardson (University of California Press) A close look at Rolling Stone’s first ten years. By Michael Goldberg Author/ university professor Peter Richardson is on […]
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 […]
By Des Cowley. LORETTA PALMEIRO & MARK ISAACS – SONATA FOR SOPRANO SAXOPHONE AND PIANO (Gracemusic/MGM, Digital release) Sydney duo – pianist Mark Isaacs and soprano saxophonist Loretta Palmeiro – are something of a dream […]
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