Live, Music, Reviews MOFO Review: A weekend of protest music in 14 acts (MONA, Hobart) Benjamin Woods The 2018 edition of MOFO was a transitional one. Events were split between its longstanding home, Hobart’s MONA (Museum of …
Live, Music, Reviews, Stage Green Day’s American Idiot musical review (Sydney Opera House) Benjamin Woods A punk musical is an oxymoron if ever there was one. Is it even accurate to call the American band Green …
Live, Music, Reviews Feist Live music review (Sydney Opera House) Benjamin Woods There was a time when a rock ‘n’ roller handing over a tune to be used as an advertising jingle …
Live, Music, Reviews Holly Throsby Live music review (Brass Monkey, Sydney) Benjamin Woods Holly Throsby has returned to music with a new album, After a Time, released this year. She wore the hat of a …
Live, Music, Reviews ROCKIN’ FOR WEST PAPUA 2017 (Frankie’s Pizza, Sydney) Benjamin Woods War and conflict has been a constant of human civilisation. Mass agriculture brought wealth, power and poverty and if the TV news …
Live, Music, Reviews At The Drive-In, Le Butcherettes music review (Hordern Pavilion, Sydney) Benjamin Woods Hardcore band At the Drive-In formed in El Paso, Texas in the mid-’90s and called it a day in 2001 …
Music, Recorded, Reviews Prophets of Rage – album review Benjamin Woods Supergroups are the new black or even the new little black dress. Every rocker who’s anybody is in one, or …
Music, Recorded, Reviews Living Colour album review: Shade Benjamin Woods The fourth track on Living Colour’s new Shade album, Program, begins with a sample of rapper Scarface humming the tune …
Live, Music, Reviews Death Grips Live (Enmore Theatre, Sydney) Benjamin Woods Uber-hyped and noisy Californian experimental hip hop trio Death Grips, have just begun a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it tour of the east coast. …
Live, Music, Reviews Beth Orton (Sydney Opera House) Benjamin Woods English singer-songwriter Beth Orton has returned to play the Sydney Opera House for the first time since 2005. She came to …
