IN THE AFTERLIFE there should be a special spot for the records that were just what we wanted, just when it was called for.

BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEEnmore Theatre, October 22 THE SHOPWORN CLICHÉ “from the sublime to the ridiculous” is more a tired ...

BEYONG ITS ROLE as a kind of pleasure spring, the thing that is triggered by activities that offer rewards of joy or warmth or satisfaction or achievement on one hand, or dissolution, disengagement ...

Here we have the next instalment in What Comes To Mind, an alternative series in the Wind Back Wednesday space, based on the ...

IN A LIST OF LIFE acts/achievements for one person, being an ER specialist doctor, a navy pilot and medico, an adult initiate ...

SBS On Demand IT IS PERVERSE but somehow apt, distressing but not wholly devastating, and both the perfect ending to and ...

As The Avalanches have announced a March 2027 tour on the heels of a two-date festival start in Perth next February, Wind ...

IN HER NASHVILLE HOUSE, displaced New Jersey-ite Nicole Atkins is sharing with some regular irregular visitors, three cats – ...

IF TRADITIONS, Fanny Lumsden’s fifth album, has a subtext beneath its close examination of what and why we choose to cherish and what think we should jettison of our family’s past and our culture’s ...

AS THE LINE CONNECTS, the camera boots up and the sound eventually works, I am greeted by Fanny Lumsden singing. Not one of her own songs, not even the new single, Traditions, but a jaunty little ...

This week, the wicked fun and graciousness of Paul Hester, pictured in Tim Finn’s garden looking like an antipodean Noel Coward with mischief on his mind and a cup of tea at hand, sits between the mid ...

Directed by Matt Wishnow. Screening as part of First Films festival. DON’T LIVE WITH A music critic, I strongly advise you. Just don’t. Yes you may be tempted by their general handsomeness, equanimity ...