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 Bianca Valentino

PJ Harvey @ The Tivoli, Brisbane, 27.01.2017

PJ Harvey @ The Tivoli, Brisbane, 27.01.2017

Between 2011 and 2014 English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, PJ Harvey travelled with filmmaker and photojournalist, Seamus Murphy, to Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington D.C. The pair documented their observations and the experiences of daily life and the struggle faced in these environments rife with conflict—culminating in a collaborative poetry/photo book, The Hollow of the Hand. Extensive […]

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In Photos: PJ Harvey @ The Tivoli, 27.01.2017

In Photos: PJ Harvey @ The Tivoli, 27.01.2017

PJ Harvey plays at the Tivoli in Brisbane in support of her The Hope Six Demolition Project album.

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2016: A Wonderful Soundtrack to the Worst.Year.Ever

2016: A Wonderful Soundtrack to the Worst.Year.Ever

2015 was a disappointing year of so many follow-up albums and anticipated new releases that just didn’t live up to expectations.  2016 may have been a terrible year in many respects, but for new music, it was a winner.  Here’s a selection (in no particular order) of some of my favourite albums from the year. […]

 Everett True

My albums. And songs. Of 2016.

My albums. And songs. Of 2016.

I sat in a convivial pub the other night as around me convivial sorts chattered and laughed. I could barely hear a word. Every so often, the sound of what appeared to be a band tuning up threatened to break down even that little of my personal space. I do not need, not REQUIRE an […]

 Scott Creney

Ten 90s Albums More Feminist Than Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill

Ten 90s Albums More Feminist Than Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill

By Scott Creney Look, I know the article’s probably meant to be bullshit and I’m a sucker for clicking on it in the first place (and for what it’s worth I held out a full day before curiosity got the better of me), but everything about this article stinks. And I know that in some […]

 Lucy

Another letter to the poor sods at Uncool magazine…

“Mumford & Sons’ singular importance in rock’s current moment cannot be underestimated,” is not a sentence I ever imagined I’d read.

 Everett True

The Sonic Narrative – 15 great songs

This was the penultimate lecture in Sex Drugs Rock N Roll this semester at QUT

 Everett True

Apropos of nothing, here’s a list of 20+ protest songs

Week 2 of my lectures in Creative Performer 2 at QUT. Persuasion, propaganda, attempt to change the status quo. And that’s just my teaching style.

 Scott Creney

Moments In Song #4 – Urge Overkill ‘Sister Havana’

“Dude! Oh my god! Urge Overkill’s here! They’re in the parking lot! They’re all out there! Come meet them!”

 Everett True

(Two!) classic quotes from the Australian mainstream press – 2: PJ Harvey

Fuck’s sake. How low can Australian music criticism go?

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