IN THE AFTERLIFE there should be a special spot for the records that were just what we wanted, just when it was called for.

BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEEnmore Theatre, October 22 THE SHOPWORN CLICHÉ “from the sublime to the ridiculous” is more a tired ...

BEYONG ITS ROLE as a kind of pleasure spring, the thing that is triggered by activities that offer rewards of joy or warmth or satisfaction or achievement on one hand, or dissolution, disengagement ...

Here we have the next instalment in What Comes To Mind, an alternative series in the Wind Back Wednesday space, based on the ...

IN A LIST OF LIFE acts/achievements for one person, being an ER specialist doctor, a navy pilot and medico, an adult initiate ...

SBS On Demand IT IS PERVERSE but somehow apt, distressing but not wholly devastating, and both the perfect ending to and ...

As The Avalanches have announced a March 2027 tour on the heels of a two-date festival start in Perth next February, Wind ...

IN HER NASHVILLE HOUSE, displaced New Jersey-ite Nicole Atkins is sharing with some regular irregular visitors, three cats – ...

YOU JUST KNOW that Benjamin Clementine, an author, a poet, a songwriter and commanding singer about to tour Australia for the first time, would smell nice. And I don’t mean his association with the ...

AS THE LINE CONNECTS, the camera boots up and the sound eventually works, I am greeted by Fanny Lumsden singing. Not one of her own songs, not even the new single, Traditions, but a jaunty little ...

OLD PEOPLE – YOU KNOW, 50 years and up: ancient types – like to reminisce about the days when out in the suburbs you didn’t have to go to the city but could see a band in a local venue or somewhere ...

THIS ALBUM IS PARCHED. Like drier than any part of a dead dingo, but especially that part. Certainly, it’s cracking underfoot a set of songs constantly scanning the horizon for any signs of a break – ...