Kerrie O'Brien

Spectrum deputy editor

Stories of hard labour and hard drinking form the heart of a new gypsy-folk influenced album.

Musical highlights from the Melbourne Recital Centre.

This year's Metropolis New Music Festival , with the theme "Music in the city'', could have been created with Paddy Mann in mind.

Cibi is a little slice of Japanese gorgeousness in downtown Collingwood.

Cultural identity is closely tied to where we grow up, so what happens when that place comes to symbolise evil?

The creation of music is an alchemy between the artist and their instrument.

David Sedaris' observations about the ordinary, the random and the minutiae make for laugh-out-loud entertainment.

To say Nancye Hayes is Australia's equivalent of Broadway royalty is something of an understatement.

A new book is all about the body in art, featuring works from the ancient to the present day, the traditional to the downright trippy.

Laura Dunemann envisages her own death more than most 30-year-olds. She thinks about it to the point of obsession and pictures it in graphic detail.

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