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The MTV Revolution! Music Videos played 24/7 From 1981 til Now-A-Days, Come to an…End

In this episode! The first of many, were we drill-down to a human level to discover what it's really like to finally be switched-off to the sound of music in [...]

Air Supply Fan The Winds – Love Song Bands of The 80’s

By sheer weight of hits, Air Supply had opened up the US market to a different sound coming out of Oz: something way less ballsy than AC/DC, more intimate than [...]

London Underground – Pop bands of The 80s

Equally big on image as much as musical substance was the gender bending phenomenon that came out of the UK, primarily through the likes of Eurythmics, Human League and Culture [...]

AC/DC – 50TH Anniversary Power Up Down Under 2025 Melbourne Tour

Trailblazing Hard Rock band AC/DC step-out one more time for a fender stratocastor hell of a time at one of Melbourne's most iconic venue...The MCG. Fifty years after the boys [...]

Hip Hop, A Culture of Vision and The Spoken Word!

Hip hop has gained a wide audience among mostly younger people. Hip hop music in its infancy has been described as an outlet and a "voice" for the disenfranchised youth [...]

Aussie National Hero’s – Bands of The 80’s

Various profound and personal experiences and issues as well as hedonistic abandon predominated in many of the most well known and loved Australian videos from the second half of the [...]

Clever Innovators – Bands of The 80’s

Innovation and novelty abounded in 80's music videos, often featuring multiple characters in costume, from Captain Sensible's wacky romp in 'Wot', the colourful, motley crews in Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just [...]

Roisin Murphy Live at The Forum, Melbourne

UK art pop queen Roisin Murphy has been making music of major significance since her joyous appearance with Moloko in 1995 with their debut album, 'Do You Like My Tight [...]

Alex Lloyd, Croxton Bandroom 2019

1999, a bit of an overwhelming prospect of going back to, a legendary year at the end of the fabled epic decade, the 90's. Which is what Alex Lloyd's breakthrough [...]

Live Music Review – Client Liaison, Forum Melbourne 2019

Client Liaison are perfect. You're struck as the concert progresses by what a beautiful creation this band is and grateful for the opportunity to witness Harvey, Monte and the rest [...]

If I Said Only So Far I Take It Back – Mia Dyson

Daylesford-born Melbourne native Mia Dyson has been a darling of the alt-roots and blues scene in Australia and more recently the world, especially the US, since her debut album Cold [...]

Live Comedy Review – Tom Gleeson “Joy”

Many of us have seen Tom Gleeson on the telly, whether it be hosting his highly successful ABC tv quiz show, 'Hard Quiz', his Hard Chat segment on 'The Weekly' [...]

Fleetwood Mac live, Rod Lava Arena Melbourne – Review

We'd heard the controversy of founding member Lindsay Buckingham being unceremoniously booted out of Fleetwood Mac in late 2018 primarily at Stevie Nicks' behest after a couple of unfortunate incidents [...]

Album Review – The Best Of Luck Club – Alex Lahey

27 year old Melbourne punk pop singer-songwriter Alex Lahey burst onto the scene in 2017 with her debut album 'I Love You Like A Brother' with its winningly driving, jaunty [...]

Album Review – Phantastic Ferniture – Phantastic Ferniture

Clever Sydney indie pop garage band Phantastic Ferniture have taken a cheeky major Australian inner city it could be Newtown in Sydney, Fortitude Valley in Bisbane or Fitzroy in Melbourne, [...]

Album Review – Idiot Proverbs – Tiny Little Houses

For their debut album, Melbourne's Tiny Little Houses have gone decidedly more hard rock than their previous array of singles and EP's, which, though they sounded a little like Ween [...]

Album Review: The Sun Will Come up, The Seasons Will Change

25 year-old Edinburgh electro indie singer Nina Nesbitt has gone from strength to strength since the release of her debut EP, 'The Apple Tree' in 2012. It was followed by [...]

Album Review: Still On My Mind – Dido

Dido Armstrong hails from a fine musical pedigree, being the sister of famed electronic dance producer, the equally extraordinarily talented Rollo, with whom Dido has collaborated both on her own [...]