Tag: "Left-wing politics"

Mantra
0 Comments. 749 Views. Posted 2 Mar 2012 @ 9:31am.
  We’ve all heard of boat parties before – but this one is a little bit special. Themed around hip hop, Soulcity Productions have put their effort into delivering a fresh and unique experience, with something for every taste. To that end, and in the spirit of Beats, Rhymes & Life – one of the great Tribe Called Quest albums to grace the shelves of the hip hop section in the music store... Read More
These Kids Wear Crowns : Jumpstart
0 Comments. 1,492 Views. Posted 28 Oct 2011 @ 8:24am.
If this is what pop royalty is in 2011 then bring on the revolution and the guillotine. Pop music is built on novelty, but this is 35 minutes of your life that you will never get back. Like watching Glee over and over and then adding some Eurovision and long forgotten catalogue of minor leaguers, The Kids would have benefitted from some harsh parental discipline when the chance was... Read More
Make Do And Mend
0 Comments. 761 Views. Posted 29 Sep 2011 @ 9:09am.
Every now and again, without the slightest hint of fanfare, a band comes along and changes the game. God knows it won’t be Pitchfork that outs them. It won’t be any other certified bastions of cool that proclaim them to be saviours of a genre. Instead it’s a whisper that starts from the ground up. It’ll be a band that’s evolved organically. Put simply, it’ll be that band that you’ve grown to love... Read More
OSH10: One Hundred To The Ground
0 Comments. 978 Views. Posted 16 Sep 2011 @ 10:33am.
Osh10 (aka Aimee Chapman) is a local lass who, with her second album One Hundred To The Ground, brings a very ambitious array of electronic music to the table. The consideration with ambitious music however, is that all too often strong ideas are not always hit right or completely nailed down. Shrapnel opens proceedings with a consistent sonic backdrop to the cat-scratchy sassy vocals that sound... Read More
Xenograft : Exit
0 Comments. 2,252 Views. Posted 12 Aug 2011 @ 9:17am.
Yet another act in the burgeoning Australian avant garde experimental rock scene, Xenograft are a Melbourne band who are possibly even more idiosyncratic than most of their contemporaries in the genre. And that's saying something.   You really have to admire artists such as these. They are immensely talented and skilled at what they do, and could probably write more commercially orientated... Read More
MIFF Week One: Reviewed in Limerick
0 Comments. 1,868 Views. Posted 1 Aug 2011 @ 8:17am.
We've almost hit the halfway mark of the Melbourne International Film Festival - how many films have you seen? While I'm only just getting started, here's a quick review of the films I've seen so far. Feel free to send in your own limerick reviews or visit The Limerick Review for regular festival updates.   13 Assassins (Japan) Honour's not something that's bought, But from family and peers... Read More
Glasfrosch : If You Go Far Enough into the Sky, You’ll Come out Under Water
1 Comments. 3,189 Views. Posted 13 Jul 2011 @ 2:37pm.
This is one of those works of art that has the reviewer thinking to himself, 'Man, where do I even start?' Behind the long and bizarre title lies a journey of truly epic proportions across soundscapes of almost unknown origin. 12 tracks of dreamy yet powerful, atmospheric yet catchy pop/rock/ambient/experimental/whatever else they can possibly throw at it. This is yet another incredible Aussie... Read More
David Quirk - The Day I Ate Wombat
0 Comments. 1,216 Views. Posted 7 Apr 2011 @ 12:07pm.
David Quirk's worked in retail too long. He's come to that point where he's playing tricks on the customers to entertain himself. It's not pretty, but it's pretty funny. What's that got to do with wombats? Good question. The marsupials in The day I ate Wombat are present in a short-lived reading of Marcia Vaughan's Wombat Stew and a childhood adventure where Quirk met a mate's dodgy Dad who fed... Read More
I Dream In Transit : Everything Will Be Deleted
0 Comments. 1,845 Views. Posted 1 Feb 2011 @ 2:16pm.
Another lush and atmospheric track from I Dream In Transit, in which ghostly girly vocals swell and drift. Guitar chords echo and pan from left to right, with only the stoic drum slap and maudlin bassline to anchor the song. There is something very late nineties about it – a kind of trip hop feel without the funk. Read More
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