Album Review: Ministry, "Psalm 69"

A real barrel of laughs this one. How to describe it? Tyrannical repetitive rhythms, a hornets’ nest of grungy, buzzing guitars, distorted v...

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Live Review: Pistol Daisys, Irvine HAC, 21st February, 2026

Pudgy Zoomers I’m always dubious about getting behind “chick” bands. This is because chicks in rock are flaky as fuck. Blokes stay in bands ...

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Interview: Eddie Macdonald, The Alarm

GOING (BACK) OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY The ALARM were one of the bands from the "Celtic fringe" that surfed the post-punk energy tha...

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Preview: The Genbaku Onanies, Tokyo 2026

Since 1982, the GENBAKU ONANIES (rough translation: "The Atomic Pussies") have been carrying the flame of J-punk, bouncing short, ...

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Album Review: Arcade Fire, "Neon Bible"

ARCADE FIRE’s breakthrough 2007 record. God, this is awful! Pretentious as fuck, twee, maudlin, vaguely preachy but without ever making eye ...

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Album Review: Taylor Swift, "The Life of a Showgirl"

The dying eggs have taken over ! What are we to make of TAYLOR SWIFT's latest album, The Life of a Showgirl ? The best way is to take a ...

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PREVIEW: GLASS BEAMS, TOKYO, OCTOBER 2025

GLASS BEAMS are a Melbourne-based trio led by Indian-Australian multi-instrumentalist Rajan Silva. After you get over the fact that they pla...

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PREVIEW: VIAGRA BOYS, JANUARY 2026, TOKYO

Variously described, VIAGRA BOYS sound mainly like dance punk/ surf music to me. They also sound the way you'd expect a "punky...

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Live Review: These New Puritans, Duo Music Exchange, Tokyo, 4th June, 2010

There’s a bit of an anti-showbiz thing going on here tonight. Instead of the band taking the stage all guns blazing, the hunched and rather ...

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The Pimp Fascism of Rihanna

Three orifices held together by an intermediate biomorphic mass. I've never really seen what all the fuss is about RIHANNA, who...

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Live: Loud Park 2010, Day Two

DAY TWO As day two dawns, I realize that I have now used up most of my heavy metal clichés. But metal, if anything, is the willful...

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Interview: Keith Jarrett

ZEN IN THE ART OF JAZZ Most musicians anchor their star to some specific quadrant of the musical galaxy, but piano virtuoso and ...

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Noel Gallagher's "Magpie Melodies"

Noel picking John Lennon's pocket round about the time he wrote "Don't Look Back in Anger" When all's said and done, O...

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