Columns

50 Years Without Jimi: A Love Letter to the Enduring Magic of the World's Greatest Guitar Player

In an era where there’s more rockstars dropping off their perch than there are emerging from the mud, it’s all too easy to throw...

19 Sep

Paranoid: Celebrating 50 years of Black Sabbath's heavy metal catalyst

Today we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid. The album helped elevate heavy metal to new heights,...

18 Sep

Ten steps for musicians to overcome creative block

Let's face it: creativity isn't all too hard to come by in the middle of a pandemic. If you, like me, tend to find...

15 Sep

Interviews

Paid Salvation: A. Swayze & The Ghosts chat the making of their debut

A. Swayze & The Ghosts are one of Australia's best live acts - that's a fact. Hailing from Tasmania, the punk four-...

18 Sep

Mixdown Presents: 'Isolate and Innovate' Content Series

Make no mistake, Immersive Audio is going from strength to strength, and there is perhaps no bigger name in the space than Dolby...

17 Sep

Automatic: Chatting jazz, gear and the cosmos with Mildlife

In 2018, Mildlife stepped out into the light in a big way with Phase: a woozy, addictive debut album that saw the Melbourne four-...

17 Sep

Backstage

Five Melbourne music shops doing things differently in isolation

It should come to no surprise that it's currently an incredibly weird trading period for a lot of music retailers out there...

6 Apr

In The Studio With: Joshua Moriarty

Joshua Moriarty is one of the Australian music industry's finest quiet achievers. For 15 years, the multi-talented...

9 Oct

Brand Focus: ZAOR Studio Furniture

Front running company ZAOR is paving the way in constructing an exotic array of studio furniture that is becoming ever...

3 Oct

On Tour

Reviewed: Golden Plains Music Festival, 2020

Golden Plains is like an adventure video game. Akin to Far Cry or Red Dead Redemption, walk through the front gates and a big...

12 Mar

Reviewed: Steve Lacy - Melbourne, Friday February 14

You know those artists who make you feel really lazy as a creative? Steve Lacy's probably the epitome of this archetype....

17 Feb

Reviewed: Meredith Music Festival, 2019

A feeling of uncertainty hung over Meredith the minute the 2019 lineup dropped. Before you knew it, festival tickets, originally...

17 Dec