Music Art and ideology with Laibach Benjamin Woods Slovenian provocateurs Laibach are embarking on their first tour of Australia. Ahead of an appearance at Tasmania’s Mona Foma festival, …
Live, Music, Reviews U2 Joshua Tree Tour review (Sydney Cricket Ground) Benjamin Woods Are U2 still relevant? Surely, if rock n roll is a serious art form, artists must continue to be innovative …
Music, Reviews ‘Woman’ by Wallis Bird review Benjamin Woods Irish singer songwriter Wallis Bird’s first release Spoons (2007), and much of her early work, has been compared to Ani …
Music, Reviews Amyl and the Sniffers review (Lansdowne Hotel, Sydney) Benjamin Woods When I first heard about Amyl & the Sniffers I was sceptical. The hype was that they were a great …
Music, Reviews Tool – Fear Inoculum album review Benjamin Woods It’s been 13 years since Tool’s last album. I can imagine that there are rabid Tool fans out there who …
Live, Music, Reviews King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Live review (UNSW, Sydney) Benjamin Woods Melbourne’s King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are a rare breed in that they are post-Generation X hard rockers who are actually doing …
Music, Reviews, Screen, TV Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax Records documentary review Benjamin Woods Wax Trax Records was a record label based in Chicago that was so cool that they said no to the demos …
Live, Music, Reviews The Cure Live Vivid Festival review (Sydney Opera House) Benjamin Woods This year of our Lord 2019, marks the 40thAnniversary of the release of the debut album by the seminal English …
Live, Music, Reviews Iggy Pop live review (Sydney Opera House) Benjamin Woods Iggy Pop is perhaps the last of his kind. Certainly, the last of his kind still recording new music and …
Music, Recorded, Reviews Amanda Palmer’s ‘There Will Be No Intermission’ album review Benjamin Woods It has been seven years since the release of Amanda Palmer’s masterful Theatre is Evil album she recorded with the Grand Theft Orchestra. …
