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Environmental stories tied up in splendid orchestral moments
The Australian World Orchestra’s world may have shrunk without expat musicians and conductors, but the Australian-based musicians produced a dawn sequence of atmospherics.
- by Peter McCallum
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Liz Phair is back, sober(ish) but still breaking the rules
The Chicago singer-songwriter loves playing the guitar while high. But she prefers, these days, to actually get some work done.
- by Cat Woods
Liz Phair reclaims her sound from Indie-imitators plus Crowded House
Liz Phair out of retirement, Crowded House’s Dreamers Are Waiting, Arthur Grumiaux’s Complete Philips Recordings and The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Time OutTakes.
- by Kish Lal, Craig Mathieson, John Shand and Barney Zwartz
‘I don’t quite fit’: Shirley Manson takes on the trash in new Garbage album
The former It Girl has always felt like an outsider in a music industry built on misogyny.
- by Cat Woods
Olivia Rodrigo - traitor
Olivia Rodrigo's music video for traitor, which may be about her High School Musical: The Musical: The Series co-star Joshua Bassett and his girlfriend Sabrina Carpenter.
★★★★
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The dream isn’t over: no duds on Crowded House’s ‘perfectly formed’ new album
It’s fair to say the state of the world circa 2021 has lured Neil Finn to a darker turn of mind. The future’s so bleak he needs Crowded House. Turns out so do we.
- by Michael Dwyer
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Splendour In The Grass
Can’t get to Splendour in the Grass? Buy a ticket for your virtual self
Is an Australian “world-first extended reality” festival the future of music?
- by Michael Dwyer
Music, arts and books: The culture you can enjoy from your couch
With lockdown four dragging on, we’ve collated the pick of the culture you can access from the comfort of your couch. Crank the heater up and bunker down.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
★★★★
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Hypnotic loops and a cult classic
Two impressive interpretations of contemporary works take centre stage.
- by Peter McCallum
Runa Cara review: Irish and Scandinavian folk meet and mingle well
A new partnership between Irish-Australian singer-songwriter Bonnie Stewart and Danish-Australian cellist Freya Schack-Arnott showed our musical world is smaller than we think.
- by Michael Bailey
★★★½
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Musical magic mired in poor acoustics
Melbourne’s lockdown and poor sound knocked the edge off the return of the Sydney Con Jazz Festival’s Gala Concert.
- by John Shand