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Adam Cohen

Adam Cohen is a superior songwriter, an engaging singer and an insightful examiner of the human condition. He’s also Leonard Cohen’s son. Adam Cohen has just released a new album in Australia called Like A Man and it’s very good. It’s also quite a surprise given that around five years ago he gave up on the music business, and on the challenge of stepping out of his fathers shadow. Now re-energized... Read the full story

Urge Overkill’s Golden Plains Sideshows

Fifteen years since their last release Chicago-born hep-cats Urge Overkill return with a brand new album Rock & Roll Submarine – and no better way to celebrate than a welcome return visit to Australia this coming March. “From Mason Dixon’s struttin’ Southern boogie and the title track’s exhilarating echo of the Stones’ Soul Survivor, through to the adorably vulnerable Quiet Person... Read the full story

Elsie – The Horrible Crowes (Shock)

Deriving their name from the protagonists in a particularly nasty 12th Century Scottish poem, The Horrible Crowes is the side-project for The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon, teaming with his guitar tech, Ian Perkins. While Fallon is one of the more authentic voices in new American rock, owing his styling to equal parts Springsteen and The Clash, on this album he narrows his focus and substitutes... Read the full story

Roky Erickson Emerges

Roky Erickson is set to tour Australia this coming March, 2012. As singer,songwriter and guitar player for the legendary Austin,TX band The 13th Floor Elevators,  they were one of the first rock n roll bands to describe their music as “psychedelic” and made an impact on the San Francisco scene,when they moved there in 1966. The Elevators unique brand of heavy,hard-rocking electric blues... Read the full story

Upon My Wicked Son – Andy Prieboy

Having replaced Stan Ridgeway as lead singer in Wall Of Voodoo and then launching a solo career, the self styled Dark Prince of the LA Underground Andy Prieboy arrived at this album in 1990. Although several Wall Of Voodoo members contribute Prieboy had clearly moved on from the band and even though the first song is a cover of Canned Heat’s On The Road Again, this album is very much Prieboy creating... Read the full story

Live Review – Heart – Rod Laver Arena

I turn 49 on Tuesday. Heart’s debut album Dreamboat Annie turns 35 next February. That makes it older than my wife. It also means that for over two thirds of my life I’ve been a fan of Ann and Nancy Wilson. Now for a good part of that time it wasn’t necessarily all that cool to be a fan of Heart – partly due to the fact that punk and indie-rock and grunge and any number of other genres and... Read the full story

R.E.M. – A Personal Reflection

When R.E.M. made the typically dignified announcement that they were disbanding after 31 years, my first reaction was almost a sense of relief that they had managed to complete their career without ever embarrassing themselves, and by extension, without embarrassing me and the other fans that had made the journey with them. Even allowing for one album that maybe didn’t reach the highest of standards... Read the full story

Nick Lowe Returns in 2012

Nick Lowe will embark on  an Australian tour in March – April 2012. The 62-year-old singer-songwriter, who last toured here with Ry Cooder in 2009, will be joined on stage by drummer Robert Treherne, keyboardist Geraint Watkins, guitarist Johnny Scott and Matt Radford on upright bass. Last month Lowe released his first studio album in four years, ‘The Old Magic’ . The album offers eight... Read the full story

PJ Harvey Tours

This January sees Mercury Prize winner PJ Harvey make a welcome and highly anticipated return to Australia performing in Perth and Melbourne to showcase her newest, and most critically acclaimed album, Let England Shake. The themes on the album return, time and again, to the matter of war, the fate of the people who must do the fighting, and events separated by whole ages, from Afghanistan to Gallipoli.... Read the full story

Bon Iver’s Maxi-Shows

Bon Iver returns to Australian shores in March 2012 for three very special shows to celebrate the release of their highly-acclaimed, second full-length album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver Following a sold-out tour back in 2009 the band will perform dates in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane, as well as festival events around the country. Melbourne fans should take special note that they will have the opportunity... Read the full story

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