Way Out West
Meredith Music Festival’s Activist Heart is an Illusion (and That's Okay)
Meredith 28, featuring Yaeji, Mental As Anything, Billy Bragg and the mighty Jnett, was a dream. But the radical ideas onstage can't necessarily translate into real life.
Indie’s Dead But Bloc Party’s ‘Silent Alarm’ Tour Was Beautiful Anyway
At Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Tuesday, Bloc Party put on a stunner of a show (even if it exposed the faults in our former indie lifestyles).
Australian Punk Accidentally Gentrified Itself
On Dick Diver, Courtney Barnett, and the ever-crushing malaise of 'punk life' when you live in a changing city.
At Splendour In The Grass, Boys Will Be Boys and Capitalism Will Be Capitalism
Splendour 2018 represented the best of our current cultural shift in acts like Stella Donnelly, Lorde and Kendrick Lamar. At times, it also represented the worst.
Dark Mofo Made Me Feel Good About Art and Awful About Australia
How can David Walsh's "subversive adult Disneyland" exist at the same time as a homelessness crisis?
Dark Mofo’s Hymns to the Dead Was Life-Affirming
Portal, Batushka, Numenorean, Blasphemy and Spire came to Hobart for one night of crushing, life-affirming metal.
Frank Ocean’s New Live String Section Is Great Even on Shitty Phone Footage
Attempting to appreciate magical countermelodies through the hindrances of modern technologies.
Way Out West Is a Paradise – Part One
Concerts, club nights, rooftop parties, barbecues and open-air parties.