The thing about the George Telek/David Bridie collaboration is that it has gone on for years. Twenty years in fact.  So not a superficial “world music” bandwagon thing then. This collaboration could not have taken place anywhere else in the world. It is wholly and completely an Australasian sound. It is a genuine exchange between [...]

In a guest post on behalf of the One Movement For Music festival blog at OneMovementWord.com, Brisbane-based music writer Andrew McMillen examines the digitally-inspired shift in consumer habits away from the long-established album format. There’s an enormous nostalgia value attached to your record collection, whether in actual LP format or CDs. Few cultural topics are [...]

If you haven’t read the comments on the ‘Eat to the Beat‘ post, it is worth heading over there and doing that.  The basic issue — which I admit is something that I’m only starting to seriously come to terms with — is how to properly remunerate musicians for their work, especially in a era [...]