PAKT – No Steps Left To Trace Music Review
This work is filled with groove-heavy goodness and the double disc format allows the time to put it all across. Six-string sorcerer and electronic toys maven Tim Motzer transcends string and wire and adds an amazing amount of different tones. His atmospherics are divine while second guitarist Alex Skolnick just plain gets it on. From clean tone chicken picking to outer edge ripping and all points in between, he is not limited by boundaries at all.
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Percy Jones is ...
JB Fairfield – A Time For Heroes
Music made for music’s sake can be quite powerful and even more so with an underlying message of the heroics present in all of us. In JB Fairfield’s latest release, A Time For Heroes the cause for that feeling is presented in such a way as to inspire as well as entertain. It’s a concept work that sees each song interlocking with each other and the ebb and flow is mesmerising,
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Never short of music chops, this one-man band uses his wide range of instrumental ...
Grease is coming to QPAC this December!
Melbourne audiences are loving the brand-new production of GREASE, which opened on New Year's Eve with critics calling it “close to perfection” (Broadway World) and a “bucket list production that should not be missed” (Theatre Matters).
The hit musical is currently playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne before it opens in Sydney from 24 March 2024 and Perth from 30 June 2024.
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GREASE features an all-new set, dazzling costumes and all those ...
Stick Men – Tentacles EP Review
Tentacles lives up to its name with a riff that wraps around you without ever really resolving. This keeps you invested until the final soundscape coda gives you the blessed relief the preceding has denied you.
Ringtone lock steps you into a new sensation with bold power chords and an insistent note pattern not unlike eighties-era Crim. Pat Mastelotto’s percussive output is stellar and grounds the groove.
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Company Of Ghosts starts with a purposive funk groove ...
Anchor and Burden – Kosmonautik Pilgrimage Album Review
After the privacy of a decent bout of silence was over, an injection of art was needed. Something that forms a challenge and benefit scenario, something like Kosmonautik Pilgrimage by those provocateurs Anchor and Burden. This is music that has a logic all its own and dares one to find a place for it in their analogue. It presents an application that band members Markus Reuter, Alexander Paul Dowerk, Bernhard Wöstheinrich and Asaf Sirkis are more than happy to provide.
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Brunod, Li Calzi, Savoldelli – Nostalgia Progressiva Music Review
To this listeners delight, Messers Giorgio Li Calzi, Boris Savoldelli and Maurizio Brunod have both impeccable taste in song choices and musical chops. The don’t just cover the tunes but reinvent them. This is done through clever arrangements and instrumentation. An early example of this is the reinvention of the early eighties era King Crimson track Matte Kudasai that replaces the interlocked and floating electric guitars of the original with acoustic guitar and a haunting trumpet. It ...
Watch this fascinating featurette on the upcoming movie First Man
On the heels of their six-time Academy Award®-winning smash, La La Land, Oscar®-winning director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling reteam for Universal Pictures’ First Man, the riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong’s perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost—on Armstr...
Mark Wingfield – Tales from The Dreaming City Music Review
Mark Wingfield is just such a wizard. He strives to use extended vibrato to give his notes a wavering human voice quality that bridges the gap between the sometimes cold perfectionism that some shredders use and the inviting warmth that is at the root of accessibility. Just giving the audience finger gymnastics is not going to get it done in this day and age.
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It’s also more than just note selection, exposing fresh nuance in both melody and tone is not easy with ...
Listen to the New Single ‘Gimme The Keys’ from Maryland rockers Clutch!
The album was recorded at Sputnik Sound in Nashville, TN by producer Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather) and consists of 15 new tracks.
“With Vance Powell as producer, we were able to make a very different kind of an album. The songs feel as if they could jump out of the speakers!” says drummer Jean-Paul Gaster.
The first single from Book of Bad Decisions is ‘Gimme the Keys’, will be the first of four to be released over the coming ...
Ria Hall Debut Album Rules of Engagement Out October 27!
Drawing on the themes of not only love and war, but also revolution and change, the album which has been nearly five years in the making, also features single ‘Love Will Lead Us Home’. The track draws on themes of hope and redemption through darkness, with love ultimately shining the way.
Rules Of Engagement is a journey, and one which features Hall as the central storyteller. Aiming to create an honest dialogue about both the good and bad aspects of our cultural past, the album ...
