SOTD #723 – Emily Rodgers
For a writer, the first step in any work is to earn the reader’s trust. Never mind clever wordplay, reliable narrators, action-packed plots, or even correct grammar – inherent in good prose is the promise of discovery. A fact, a feeling, a revelation, anything that the reader didn’t have from the start. We bury the […]
In Words: Mogwai + Mick Turner @ The Tivoli, 04.03.15
“This song’s called ‘Sister’, it’s for Gillian Triggs, for standing up to the bully boys.” Mick Turner throws up a long arm with devil horns at the end and smiles slightly. “Fuck Brandis”, yells an audience member and Turner turns thoughtful. “Yeah, Bookshelves Brandis,” he muses. “What a turd.” He brushes his guitar strings into […]
Xylouris White – Goats, and live in January 2015 at Howler, Brunswick
Words: Boris van de Legende Melbourne’s had a long-term love affair with the Dirty Three, and a long history of Greek migration – the largest Greek population outside of Athens they used to say, or some such rubbish. Anyway, there’s lots of Greeks – I’m married to one, for example; I live in Melbourne, so the […]
Song of the day – 645: Bill Callahan
Bill Callahan is one of those musicians I always forget quite how much I like
TAKE 2 | The Drones + Harmony @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane 26.09.13
The Drones – they don’t need commendations, they probably don’t want them. But I’m going to proselytise anyway.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Marquis de Tren – Solemns 12″ (Domino)
These masterly musicians are in top form here, ambling arm-in-arm and conversing as only decades of friendship allows.
Crime And The City Solution + Sleepy Sun + Blank Realm @ The Hi-Fi Bar, Brisbane, 24.02.13
If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime
Scott Creney’s Favorite Albums of 2012
This is what it feels like to be alive in 2012 — connected to everything and more isolated than ever.
22 of Scott Creney’s favorite songs of 2012 so far
It wouldn’t be Collapse Board without a little shambling boy-girl indiepop, now would it?
