Melbourne artist Aida Sabic wields her pencil (usually, though all mediums are her playthings) to create darkly and beautiful feminine realistic portraits and intricately captured moments in time. The various displays of elegance, raw winsomeness and symbolic measures of darkness all coalesce perfectly in the hands of Sabic. How did you first discover your passion…
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The work of Sydney artist Anna Madeleine would best be described as anachronistic; melding the new and old, the archaic and the modern, Madeleine’s art shows that even objects and people and places in time can be connected, even tenuously. Or, perhaps, in ways you and I had never suspected – but Madeleine has. How…
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(Or: How I learned to stop worrying…as much). It took giving a couple of spiky-haired strangers the finger to finally figure out what was wrong with me. I was at the ripe, bugger-off confusing age of seventeen; I was on the bus, heading to my fluorescent-lit retail job. The sun was setting in that bright,…
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I am not one to normally fight fire with fire, but once I was old enough to ‘get’ the 20 Fingers song that bares this article’s title (and not just giggle with uncomfortable shock and awe at its easy use of profanity) I was secretly overjoyed that chicks were ‘getting their own back’. For so…
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When I was sixteen, I decided to become a punk. After an early adolescence of grammatically specious urban pop, rap and boy bands- and having hit the dreaded years of ‘middle high’ at a public girls’ school- my identity and self-image were in disarray. Then I discovered a band; a band that would, without resorting…
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Loon Lake, a Melbourne indie-garage band consisting of “three brothers and two mates”, are quickly but stealthily crawling into your life. Much like their namesake, they have been flowing through the local scene, making headway and friends as they go. I do so loathe the term “next big thing”, but… I chatted to Nick, drummer…
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Melbourne’s Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes are officially my favourite Aussie band- hands down. Congrats, dudes. This is a special moment for us all. Clairy and Co. have just finished up their month of Tuesday residencies at Melbourne The Toff in Town with the launch of their new 7”, She Plays Up To You,…
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Al Newstead knows music; freelance music journalist and Triple J favourite by day, comedian by night. Write about what you know, as they say. I chatted to Newstead about blunting hipsters, sex in music and fighting Beatles….to say the least. ‘I’m a freelance music journalist and a comedian,’ Newstead explains. ‘I’ve written for the likes…
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World/folk-pop sextet My Friend the Chocolate Cake may sound, thanks to their flippant appellation, like a children’s party band; but, in listening to their aural wares, you will find a six-headed Eastern European-flavoured folksy combo, lovingly wrapped in traveller’s charm. MFTCC are nice and, luckily, so is founder David Bridie. ‘We’ve been together a while,’…
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