CD Review Tom Waits Glitter and Doom Live (thru Shock Records) This is a catch-up review of an album released late last year. Listening to the new live Tom Waits album I really became confused about how seriously to take it. Or rather him. I genuinely wondered whether I should just join the happy throng [...]
With the new Apple iThingy (pictured) apparently being released this week, and with that tablet device being held out as perhaps as a way — if not the way — we are all meant to read books, magazines and newspapers in the future, it is worth considering what that might mean for our hip pockets [...]
CD Review The Eels End Times (thru Shock Records) Is there anything more snobby/elitist than music? I swear to god that it’s worse than politics sometimes in its ability to generate the sort of pointless arguments over which people are just about willing to come to blows. Spend any time talking to people about music, [...]
If you saw the Golden Globes the other day, you might’ve noticed that Jeff Bridges won the best-actor gong for his role in the music movie Crazy Heart. Quite looking forward to seeing it: Crazy Heart is a 2009 American musical-drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the [...]
Andrew Crook covered the story about the closing of the Tote earlier this week on Crikey, and talked about the possibility of it continuing under new management/owenership. We’ll keep an eye on that, but in the meantime I thought I’d pop up a link to this recording of the final song played at the venerable [...]
A couple of deaths to catch up with. Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle died on Monday. She has been fighting cancer since 2006. I notice a lot of the obits are referring to her as, first and foremost, the “mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright”, which is fair enough, I guess, given that their careers [...]
I was sent Charlie Parr’s new album at the end of last year and am pleased now to have a chance to say a few things about it. It’s great. Really good. Terrific. You might remember I raved a bit about Seasick Steve’s latest outing, and without wanting to take anything away from Steve, I [...]
Happy New Year, everybody. Let’s get started. As far as I can tell, my colleague, Luke, over at Cinetology hasn’t reviewed the new Australia movie Bran Nue Dae as yet, so I hope I’m not creating a demarcation dispute by offering up some views on the show, which I saw with the family yesterday. I [...]
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