Benjamin Woods, Author at Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.

Maynard James Keenan founded Tool in the early ’90s. After dropping out of the military, he became involved in the …

Primus music review (Enmore Theatre, Sydney)

1995 was a big year for me. I attended my first festival, The Big Day Out, in January and my …

I saw Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters on their first tour of Australia in 2013, before Plant had …

American band, The National, returned to the Sydney Opera House Forecourt last night (February 21) after playing there on their …

The 2018 edition of MOFO was a transitional one. Events were split between its longstanding home, Hobart’s MONA (Museum of …

A punk musical is an oxymoron if ever there was one. Is it even accurate to call the American band Green …

There was a time when a rock ‘n’ roller handing over a tune to be used as an advertising jingle …

Holly Throsby has returned to music with a new album, After a Time, released this year. She wore the hat of a …

War and conflict has been a constant of human civilisation. Mass agriculture brought wealth, power and poverty and if the TV news …

Hardcore band At the Drive-In formed in El Paso, Texas in the mid-’90s and called it a day in 2001 …