Dunja Nedic
love out loud: the lady doth protest unwanted advances in bars
As of yesterday, I have been “off the shelf” for 16 months. While I’ve never previously been in a relationship for this long, I have often found in the past that my skills (or whatever) with the opposite sex rather diminish while I am with-partner and I’ve been left feeling rather rusty when I’ve re-entered [...]
q&a: mildlife
It’s an exciting time for General Pants Co.’s Major Label! It’s their second birthday and they’ve just signed Melbourne band, Mildlife, with their single, ‘Milk Wool’. Lip had a chat to Tom Shanahan about electro music, advice from fatcats, and David Bowie in Labyrinth! Describe your sound in five words or less. Post-prog-yacht-rocktronica-no-fi. How many [...]
interview: ainslie wills
Music, particularly good music, can mean many different things to different people. Too often it’s relegated to the role of simply background noise or something to groove to, and while there is certainly a place for this kind of enjoyment, so much is overlooked when we don’t take the time to scratch below easy lyrics [...]
q&a: jennifer kingwell (the jane austen argument)
What’s a girl (or several) to do when there are so many wonderful front women in the world? Why, get them together for a night of solo performances, of course! Lip had a chat to Jennifer Kingwell of The Jane Austen Argument about Ladies Singles (an event comprising an impressive line-up of five solo women [...]
lena dunham and meritocracy
By now, just about everyone in the feminist blogosphere has seen and/or read about Lena Dunham’s new HBO show, Girls. This is because we feminists in particular get super excited about anything that might change the representation of women in the media. And Girls, with its awkward self-awareness and even more awkward sex scenes, seemed [...]
q&a: reef
The mention of British indie rockers, Reef, tends to elicit responses like, “Is that the ‘Place Your Hands’ band?” and a brief rendition of Gary Stringer’s distinct vocals; they have a solid decade-long career under their belt in addition to a couple of seminal songs, and reformed in 2010 to again tour together and share [...]
film review: titanic in 3d
I didn’t know if I was going to like Titanic. I loved it when it came out; I saw it twice in the cinemas, and my parents wisely pre-ordered it on VHS from Target. When I tell people how many times I’ve seen it, I keep to the lower end of my estimate range (around [...]
love out loud: post-breakup shake up
There are a number of things I find troubling about the video clip for Katy Perry’s latest single, ‘Part of Me‘. One is that its “timely” release and blatant references to her relationship with Russell Brand (no matter what she says about having written the song years ago) lend weight to the suggestion that their [...]
q&a: the maple trail
Alongside being a member of Belles Will Ring, Aidan Roberts has managed to record three solo albums under as ‘The Maple Trail‘. The third and most recent, Cable Mount Warning, was created across a number of locations, including New Zealand, the Blue Mountains, and Roberts’ home in Sydney, and the result is a sound that [...]
q&a: stonefield
Making a career in the music industry is no easy feat. Doing it when you’re in an all-girl rock quartet and half of your members are still in high school however, is a different ballgame altogether. Over the span of their short career, Stonefield have compiled quite an impressive resume; they won Triple J Unearthed [...]
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