Music News Stella Parton hits out at AI ‘garbage’ after Dolly Parton’s death by Happy Stella Parton calls out fake AI content circulating after Dolly’s death Dolly Parton’s sister Stella Parton has spoken out against ‘AI and endless garbage’ posted online following Dolly Parton’s death….
Music News Grace Mitchell releases her debut album Daughter of The King by Maya Quinn The Melbourne songwriter brings a decade of experience together on her first LP. After more than a decade of making music, Australian-born, American-raised singer-songwriter Grace Mitchell has finally released her…
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Lists Music New Music Radar: Partisan, Drugstore, Factory and more by Niamh Farrell Consider this your sign to find something new to listen to. This week’s New Music Radar is packed with fresh sounds, jumping from dreamy indie-pop to punchy alt-rock, hazy electronica…
Books News Pop Culture World Madonna, Patti Smith and Carole King remember Gloria Steinem: ‘The O.G. Baddie’ by Tammy Moir Musicians pay tribute to Steinem, remembering the doors she helped open for generations of women. There are some people whose work becomes so embedded in culture that you forget there…
Music News New Music Radar: The Amoebas, Hotel Romeo and KOATS by Tammy Moir Fourteen tracks worth putting on your radar this week. There’s always something new worth finding, and this week’s New Music Radar is a pretty good reminder of that. From fuzzy…
Film and TV Amelia Dimoldenberg is saying goodbye to Chicken Shop Date by Niamh Farrell Amelia Dimoldenberg has spent her twenties at the chicken shop. Now she’s moving on After more than a decade of awkward silences, deadpan flirting and some of the biggest names…
Film and TV The Runner’s getting absolutely savaged by critics by Niamh Farrell It’s not looking great for The Runner. The new PG-13 film has barely made it out of the starting blocks, and critics are already lining up to tell audiences to…
Music News Brazil’s “Taylor Swift law” to change the concert experience forever by Niamh Farrell Three years after a fan died at Taylor Swift’s concert, Brazil has changed the rules Taylor Swift fans have done something rather extraordinary: they turned the tragedy of one concert…
Music News Oliver Downes finds beauty in domestic life and the mundane by Alex Cooper There’s so much more. Melbourne songwriter Oliver Downes has always had a knack for finding the strange beauty tucked away in ordinary life. On his third album While the Sun…
Music i give my friends flowers finds light in the wreckage on DOGSTAR 1 by Maya Quinn DOGSTAR 1 sounds like memory itself – fractured, intimate and beautiful. There’s something about DOGSTAR 1 that feels a little like sitting inside someone else’s memory. Not the big memories…
Music Charisma Club gets personal on new single ‘Better on your own’ by Alex Cooper The soft glow of letting go. Auckland-based artist Josh Stewart has been steadily carving out a space for himself under the Charisma Club moniker, and his latest single marks a compelling…
News Simran Sultana on power, pain, and dancing through it all by Alex Cooper Simran Sultana is done playing it safe. Simran Sultana is tired of pretending everything’s fine. Not that her music ever sounded defeated, far from it. But somewhere beneath the glossy…
