Brisbane-based Dana Gehrman has released her debut album Find A Way. The album showcases edgy blues with a mix of upbeat, rhythm-heavy tracks, and ballads. Gehrman has also announced a string of shows around Brisbane and Melbourne. The album commences with “Hands Tied” featuring Danny Widdicombe on slide guitar. The track is reminiscent of a…
The advance word on Western Stars, the nineteenth studio album from Bruce Springsteen was a major change of direction for the singer/songwriting rock star. He’s fresh a year or so back from his sold-out solo stand performing an autobiographical monologue with songs for “Springsteen on Broadway” show, that was filmed for Netflix before it shuttered….
Too often, when we think of rock music, we think of angst-filled youths filled with passion, anger and yearning. What’s missing in that equation is that this organic music has always been as much fun to listen to and play as it was liberating and cathartic. Often what gets lost is something that The Black…
What a magnificent feel good show. Come From Away restores your faith in humanity. Moving, energetic and melodic, I defy anyone not to be in raptures … because it really is that good. The story is set in Newfoundland, an island off the northeast coast of Canada, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. For…
Since “Hold Your Nerve” was released in the last couple of weeks I’ve been hearing it all over the radio. It’s great that a band like Boy & Bear is still able to pump out songs that get the radio listening public excited. And “Hold Your Nerve” deserves the success its been getting – the…
After teaming up with The Veronicas for triple j’s Like A Version, Australian melodician Allday will be hitting the road in support of his third album Starry Night Over the Phone. Released on 12 July, the 11-track album was recorded in Los Angeles and features a roll-call of Australian talent. That talent includes The Veronicas,…
I had an absolutely fabulous time watching this musical. It’s one of the best I’ve seen and while School of Rock was performed in a theatre, you could be forgiven for thinking you were at an AC/DC rock concert. It was full on rock ‘n roll: loud, energetic and loads of fun. Zack (Zane Blumeris)…
Lively, colourful and at times exhilarating, Bring It On, The Musical focuses on the competitive world of cheerleading. With music by Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, lyrics by Amanda Green and Miranda and book by Jeff Whitty, the Tony Award-nominated musical was inspired by the 2000 film of the same. On her last day of…
Jess Ribeiro is currently on tour, promoting her third album Love Hate. On the album Ribeiro has embraced the precise downstrokes and valve-amp hum of a very New York lineage, from the Velvets through to Blondie and Talking Heads. Produced by Ben Edwards (Aldous Harding/Marlon Williams), it’s capped by Ribeiro’s distinctive vocals. Love Hate traverses…
Are you ready for Bill Callahan to tell you his next set of stories? You better be because not only is Callahan one of the best storytellers of this time and Shepherd In Sheepskin Vest tells how life really is and you know Bill means it. Since his last excellent record, Dream River (2013), was…
