Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 10 February 2023. Barefoot On Diamond Road is the third album from Dutch singer/songwriter Amber Arcades (a.k.a Annelotte de Graaf). A record of engaging maturity, filled with slow motion builds and epic lifts that elevate it to dizzying heights….
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 3 February 2023. Acclaimed Australian singer–songwriter and founding member of The Go-Betweens, Robert Forster has released his 8th solo album, The Candle and the Flame. Featuring the first single ‘She’s A Fighter’, The Candle And The Flame consists of…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 27 January 2023. Phoenix is the highly-anticipated, expansive new album in the musical evolution of alto saxophonist and composer Lakecia Benjamin. The album was produced by the multi-Grammy-award winning Terri Lyne Carrington and features a star-studded line up of…
After 16 years, Todd Field makes a long-awaited return to the director’s chair with Tár. Having made two under-appreciated gems of the early 2000s with In the Bedroom (2001) and Little Children (2006), he hurtles back into the cultural conversation with this challenging but dazzling film. Tár is set in the rarefied world of Western…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 20 January 2023. MC and producer Oddisee has released his latest full-length project To What End on his Outer Note Label. The 16-song project features Phonte, Freeway, Oliver St Louis, Bilal, Toine Jameson, Noochie, Haile Supreme, Saint Ezekiel, Kay…
Whatever else you might think about writer-director Damien Chazell’s first two films – Whiplash and La La Land – they definitely had a very clear narrative drive. And, even though it was grander in scope, you could say the same about his third film, First Man. But with Babylon, he replaces sharp linear narrative with…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 13 January 2023. Yo-Yo Ma’s new album with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos, Beethoven for Three: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5, is available now on Sony Classical. The album presents two of Beethoven’s iconic symphonies in intimate arrangements that…
Terry Pratchett was a prolific writer, and still commands a massive fan base. You could think of him as a kind of Roald Dahl or J. K. Rowling with a more surreal edge. His audiences tend to be more Monty Python than Harry Potter. But in the animated romp The Amazing Maurice, co-directors Toby Genkel…
In the conversation around the greatest living movie director, Steven Spielberg is very much in the mix. From his feature debut with Duel, through his trademark films like E.T. and the Indiana Jones series, to his serious works in Schindler’s List and Lincoln, few directors can match his filmography. Now he takes his audience back…
After two years of disruption, movie-going in Australia pretty much got back to normal in 2022. After a slow start, loosening of COVID-related restrictions saw audiences coming back to the big screen. Box office receipts were up according to BoxOfficeMojo, though the increase over the pretty miserable 2021 figures was perhaps smaller than studios and…
