Philip Selway, best known as the drummer in Radiohead, has released his third solo album revealing an affinity for the elegant and artful, technologically enhanced, somewhat experimental, larger than life arrangements that has long been part of his main band’s largest works. Surprisingly, Selway and producer Marta Salogni brought in Italian drummer Valentina Magaletti, due…
Opera Australia’s Handa Opera Madama Butterfly sears with emotion. It is a splendid and spectacular offering, with surprises, against the backdrop of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. The story concerns a US navy lieutenant named Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton who takes advantage of a beguiling former Japanese geisha, Cio-Cio-San, in Nagasaki. While she – nicknamed…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 24 March 2023. Recorded in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic and in the wake of a series of tornadoes that wreaked havoc on his Nashville neighborhood, I Survived, It’s Over sees Rich Ruth pushing his music even…
Gramercy Arms is a NYC musical collective brought together around the songwriting of Dave Derby, who keeps the focus of this third album locked in on polished power/pop that’s inspired, as the band bio says, “by the artistic heyday of the 70’s and 80’s-era.” Derby sings, plays guitar and occasionally holds down the bass, while…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 17 March 2023. Daddy Long Legs, New York City’s most diabolical rhythm & blues street gang, have released their eagerly anticipated new album Street Sermons via Yep Roc Records. The band’s fourth studio album represents a wellspring of bottled-up…
Manzanita is the common name for a kind of small evergreen tree endemic to California which has strong medicinal properties. It is a fitting title for the newest solo album from La Luz’s Shana Cleveland as the record displays a gorgeousness that will instantly change your state of mind in one setting. The lyrics, the…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 10 March 2023. Lonnie Holley’s new album, Oh Me Oh My, is both elegant and ferocious, sharpening the work contained on his 2018 release MITH. It is stirring in one moment and a balm the next. Intricately and lovingly…
Three disaffected young men are at the centre of punk rock band Green Day’s rock opera American Idiot. The story is expanded from its album of the same name, (released in 2004) and also features music from its 2009 album 21st Century Breakdown. The band – formed in 1986 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and…
Ron Gallo has been a very well known name on the indie circuit since his solid 2017 record Heavy Meta was released. He has earned a loyal live following and shared the stage with plenty of big names like Spoon, Parquet Courts, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Wilco, and J. Mascis to just name a…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 3 March 2023. Metropolis Metropolis is an abbreviated version of the most recent electronic music soundtrack for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) by the techno music producer and cultural icon Jeff Mills. Unlike his first soundtrack where tracks addressed specific…
