News Music heals all wounds, right? Labor’s Seven Step Plan is showcasing how live music may resurrect Sydney’s night life by Agnes O'Dwyer The Sydney live music scene, in the wake of a seven step plan put forward by the Mike Baird’s Labor government, may be resurrected from a death caused by lockout…
News Everyone’s feelings about Tony Abbott lingering in politics is summed up perfectly in this Dr. Seuss rhyme by Happy ICYMI, Tony Abbott has been jettisoned from his job as Prime Minister, by his own party no less, but that hasn’t stopped him from traversing the globe speaking about his…
Features The race card and racism in Australian music by Dustin Calder If the current media landscape is to be believed there are many things that can turn an average Australian into a radical bigot. Public transport is one. Another is the perceived…
Lists 7 Songs The Socialist Alliance Used to Dry Their Tears When They Heard Joe Hockey’s Budget by Nick Hartman It must have been interesting times in Newtown (and in Fitzroy and Fremantle too, I guess) when Joe Hockey released his debut budget. The cigar-chomping, former banker of a treasurer…
Music Interview with NO GOOD + Maatzi by Alex Gordon No Good are one of Sydney’s freshest little labels, specialising in the arcane arts of weird hip hop, alternative electronica and all round artsiness. We caught up with Jasper Clifford-Smith…