Here we have the next instalment in What Comes To Mind, an alternative series in the Wind Back Wednesday space, based on the ...

As The Avalanches have announced a March 2027 tour on the heels of a two-date festival start in Perth next February, Wind ...

IN HER NASHVILLE HOUSE, displaced New Jersey-ite Nicole Atkins is sharing with some regular irregular visitors, three cats – ...

AS THE LINE CONNECTS, the camera boots up and the sound eventually works, I am greeted by Fanny Lumsden singing. Not one of her own songs, not even the new single, Traditions, but a jaunty little ...

Here we have the next instalment in What Comes To Mind, an alternative series in the Wind Back Wednesday space, based on the ...

IF TRADITIONS, Fanny Lumsden’s fifth album, has a subtext beneath its close examination of what and why we choose to cherish ...

MOMENTS DON’T TELL YOU EVERYTHING; too many things happen, have happened, can still happen to be definitive. We know this, right? See someone at their worst and that’s not them; catch a slice of bad ...

SHE WAS, WELL, FINE. Adequate seems harsh, good seems flattering, and middling is about right, but the show was probably elevated beyond the implications of that term by Suzanne Vega’s efforts to ...

Worker bee musician, organiser, promoter, friend of Joni & Elton & Tanya, collaborator with dozens more, ultimate Pacific Northwest represent, and no mean songwriter and singer, Brandi Carlile can do, ...

LOOK AROUND AND IT IS EASY to find some well-meaning or well-remunerated type telling us how what we need to build – in ourselves, in society, in our sporting team – is resilience, that somewhat ...

THE NIGHT BEGAN AND ENDED with a voice in an expanse of emptiness, firstly with piano and then an acoustic guitar, but otherwise just the humid air and an internalised hum of expectation. It began ...

HOLY BLUES TO DAMN YOUR SOUL Sister Ferdinand! So this is what it sounds like in 2025 when God is asked to make room for some not always exactly godly things to sit next to Him (or Her or, you know, ...