In this closed-door new world where readers have become the smug go-to gurus of iso entertainment advice, may we point you in the direction of your App store. Photos x 2 by Jessica Lewis from Pexels If your local council library service is modern and amazing like mine, you will have a whole host of…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 10 April 2020. April was supposed to be when The Dandy Warhols went on the road to play a US tour. Instead, like so many of us, they find themselves bunkered down in isolation, beginning the journey of adjustment…
So you’ve subscribed to last week’s 5 Australian podcast recommendations and you’re looking to listen to socially distance yourself with something different. You don’t want to lean in to the pandemic, you’d rather lie down in a dark room with your eyes shut and your ears fully immersed in all the bells and whistles of…
It’s too easy to look at a band (long established as an arena-filling commercial force) in its 30th year with cynicism when they release their 11th studio album as an attempt to hold on to past glories or as tired veterans taking advantage of fans with one more attempt to cash in. Here in a…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 3 April 2020. When Anna Burch introduced herself on her 2018 debut Quit the Curse, and now follows up with If You’re Dreaming (released 3 April). The new album takes a different path from its predecessor, shedding some nervous…
Black Market Brass perform their own brand of originally composed Afrobeat/Afrofunk music, and Undying Thirst is the group’s sophomore album. The instrumental group is comprised of eleven musicians that form such a powerful force together that this record will blow you away. Some might think that you need to be really into Afrobeat or soul…
One thing to add to the list of our new first world problems is the lack of commuting time that we’d normally have to devote to podcasts. Maybe that’s been on the drive in, or as you studiously ignore making eye contact with anyone on the train. You may have to get a little more…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 27 March 2020. Somewhere in the middle of making Are You In Love?, Basia Bulat took almost a whole year off. Because she had fallen in love, because her father died, because she had lost her sense of beauty…
We are currently in really strange times so the smooth soul of the Monophonics fifth record, It’s Only Us, brings on a very comforting vibe that just blankets you with its harmonizing background vocals. The West coast band has dubbed their sound “psychedelic soul” and I feel more than previous records their own labeling really…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 20 March 2020. If you’re isolating, or just feeling isolated, tune in every Saturday night (starting 6:30PM, AEST), Ella Fence will be performing a one-hour set that you can live stream from the comfort of your own home. The…
