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This year of our Lord 2019, marks the 40thAnniversary of the release of the debut album by the seminal English gothic rock band, The Cure. This year also marks the 30th anniversary of the release of their album, Disintegration, which they were invited to the Opera House on May 24 to celebrate by playing live in
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Iggy Pop is perhaps the last of his kind. Certainly, the last of his kind still recording new music and touring – Bowie is dead, Lou Reed is dead, Lemmy is dead … Iggy Pop has been dubbed “the Godfather of Punk” for his role as frontman of The Stooges and it is his work
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It has been seven years since the release of Amanda Palmer’s masterful Theatre is Evil album she recorded with the Grand Theft Orchestra. The wait for her third solo album There Will Be No Intermission is understandable given that she’s been busy been working with other artists, publishing a memoir and becoming a mother. Amanda Palmer came to the public’s attention as the
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Angélique Kidjo is a legend of “Afro Pop” and is no stranger to our shores and especially WOMADelaide, Australia’s World Music festival of renown, where she is performing again this weekend. Born and raised in the former French colony of Benin, Kidjo enjoyed an education in music from an early age. The political turmoil in
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Sean Lennon and Les Claypool have had distinguished careers in music. Both have followed their own sensibilities regardless of trends, and their talent and independent spirits have won them admirers around the globe. Sean Lennon, son of John and Yoko, grew up a fan of Claypool’s band Primus and was stoked to find himself on
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A friend sent me a random message some time ago about “this great song that I think you’ll like called ‘Jolly Fucker’ by the Sleaford Mods”. I looked up the song and was instantly hooked. It was my anthem for a while. It is the standout track on the collection of their early singles called
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Magpie Diaries is a band hailing from the Hunter region of NSW. Its well-crafted tunes could be loosely described as contemporary-country and blues-influenced-folk rock (stated influences include Grateful Dead, Neil Young and Van Morrison). They also bring other sensibilities, such as a fair whack of sax to the table on their debut album Sanctuary. The band is fronted by Matt
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Last year I reviewed legendary indie band, The Pixies’ excellent performance at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney for Daily Review. In some quarters, the band that played that night at the Horden was a Clayton’s version of The Pixies; it didn’t include original bass player Kim Deal, who was replaced by Paz Lechantin, who does
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Nils Frahm is a classically trained German pianist whose contemporary classical and ambient records and concerts are produced via an astonishing array of synthesisers, especially Rolands and Moogs, and of course piano. I enjoy experimental music, especially live if it’s good, but at home, if I put anything on that isn’t “song” based (verse, chorus,
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The late food writer and raconteur Anthony Bourdain featured Mark Lanegan in an episode of his program Parts Unknown shot in Lanegan’s native Seattle last year. Bourdain, who famously took rock n roll seriously, was a great fan of Lanegan. His voiceover began,“Mark Lanegan is to my mind one of the greatest living singer songwriters making music
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