Music - Lift Melbourne

In Australia, powerful forces from multiple origins shaped 90’s music and youth culture.

The 1990s were a decade which saw economic terms including Globalisation, Outsourcing, Downsizing & Corporate Restructure enter everyday speech, but the changes and reforms in Australia during the 1990s were [...]

Bursting out of the 20th century, and, exploding into the Naughties – Emerged a raft of truly futuristic and contemporary Australian bands

Listen Now Audio Book While the most commercial mainstream pop has regressed into the formulaic and uninventive with warbling waifs flogging pseudo-folk and the like, only moderately left of centre [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bill Withers: A Life Remembered

On Monday, March 30 2020 the world lost one of its most understated but remarkable soul music singer-songwriter, African-American Bill Withers. He was at his biggest career-wise in the early-to-mid [...]

Rock It – Little Red Rock It – Single

Little Red exploded onto the JJJ Aussie indie scene with their debut album 'Listen To Little Red' in 2008, following their very fine debut EP 'Get Ready!' in 2005. This [...]

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 [...]