Music Reviews

The Teskey Brothers roll through Union Chapel

It’s 7:00pm, and in an Islington eatery down the road from Union Chapel, a motley crew is gathered. Label PRs, bloggers and journalists, they have convened to w... Read More...

Mavis Staples – Live In London Review

Real musical power is found in human tissue, not in computer chips. That’s why B.B. King could put chills down your spine with a clean amp and an old guitar. It... Read More...

Festival Review: St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2019

It was the day of St Jerome’s Laneway Festival (9 Feb) and the rain had been pouring for a few hours. Fortunately it’s Melbourne, so within an hour the rain had... Read More...

Duke Street Block Party Delivers

Reflecting back from this dreary midweek vantage point, it’s easy to say that Duke Street Block Party thoroughly blew away my already high expectations. It was ... Read More...

Busted – Half Way There Review

If Busted’s 2016 comeback album Night Driver served as a testament to the band’s more sophisticated, evolved sound, then Half Way There strips all of that back ... Read More...

William the Conqueror – Bleeding on the Soundtrack Review

5:45 on a Monday evening in January. Blue Monday, the ad men tell us. Stumbling out of the office blocks, workers pile themselves into the Tubes like they’re on... Read More...

Live Music Review: Idles at The Croxton

It’s peak summer in Australia and the country is currently experiencing a heatwave, made that bit hotter by the arrival of punk-rock band IDLES. The five piece ... Read More...

The Steel Woods – Old News Review

American country rockers The Steel Woods release their second album Old News via Thirty Tigers today (18 January, 2019) The fifteen-track album opens on a co... Read More...

Festival Review: Celebrating the New Year at Beyond the Valley 2018

With the car packed and the BTV 2018 playlist on, we set off to Lardner Park to celebrate the New Year in a way I’ve always dreamed of: at a festival. One of... Read More...

Paul McCartney: the godfather of rock at the O2

At stage right, a small platform is rising out of the floor. On it, bathed in yellow-pink spotlights, stands a grey-haired DJ, head ducking like a superannuated... Read More...

Live music review: Carmody spellbinds at Oslo Hackney

Sometimes, if you go to too many concerts, you forget how special they can be. You know that feeling of wonder you got when you went to gigs as a teenager – eve... Read More...

Live music review: Honne come home to the Brixton Academy

Honne write love songs; songs about commitment and appreciation and honesty. Tonight at the Brixton Academy, four years to the day since their first London gig ... Read More...

Film

Win a copy of Red Joan by Jennie Rooney

Monty Python’s Life of Brian – 40th Anniversary We-Welease Review

Last Breath Review

TV

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 2 review: Darker, bolder and more self-assured than ever

Win Trapped Season 2 on DVD

TV Review: Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots

Music

Bear’s Den – So That You Might Hear Me Review

The Lumineers re-illumine us with the glories of ‘Gloria’

All Tvvins – Just To Exist Review

Books

Book Review: Vicious Rumer by Joshua Winning

Book Review: The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts

Book Review: Emily Eternal by M. G. Wheaton