I’m a music hipster. I’ve tried denying it. I’ve tried arguing that such social distinctions are arbitrary and meaningless. I’ve even tried ironically appropriating the label for comedic effect, but I’m afraid that just made matters worse. Having admitted this, I have honestly strived over the years to shed my instinctual tendencies to judge others…
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Here’s what we’re listening to (and watching!) at Lip this week She – I Know Leopard This track, by the 70s influenced four-piece, is the type of song that doesn’t demand too much, instead wrapping you up gently in dreamy, feel-good summer vibes. The vocals on this track hark back to a day when beachy…
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Male artists have dominated nearly every category in this year’s ARIA Award nominations. Flume, Birds of Tokyo, and Tame Impala lead the way with eight, seven, and six nominations repectively. There are no female artists in the running for the Album of the Year gong, and Samantha Jade cuts a lonely figure as the only…
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In case you missed it: Sinead O’Connor pens open letter to Miley Cyrus, feud begins. I bet Miley thought she was paying Sinead O’Connor a compliment when she stated in her recent Rolling Stone interview that Sinead’s iconic Nothing Compares 2 U video provided the inspiration for her Wrecking Ball clip. Well, Sinead is not impressed, offering this wise feminist advice in her…
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Evelyn Tadros has achieved so much in such a short time. Just a few years ago in 2006, she founded the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival in Melbourne and since then it has expanded to include a national tour and more recently, a Schools and Community Program that provides events year round…
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I’ve been waiting a lifetime for Mazzy Star’s latest album, Seasons Of Your Day. I mean this literally, as their last release, Among My Swan came out in the year of my birth, seventeen years ago. Since then, I’ve gone through many changes, puberty being one of them. Mazzy Star’s sound has not been subject…
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Hailing from Melbourne, Big Fella and Paso Bionic are promising in their own right, as a mesmerising vocalist and deft producer respectively. It follows naturally that their collaboration, Audego, should be a dazzling symbiosis of eerie and captivating beats. Within the first year of their alliance, the duo had already received acclaim as finalists of…
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little hurricane might get compared to The White Stripes a lot, but this self-professed “dirty blues” duo’s lack of pretension sets them worlds apart from Jack White’s pet project. Formed in 2010, the San Diego-based pair have been playing songs off their debut LP, Homewreckers to crowds across the US, including appearances at SXSW, Austin…
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When asked to name a girl group, one of the first names to come to mind is the Spice Girls, or maybe The Supremes, but when asked to name one of more recent times, I have to stop and think. If you do as well, hopefully this list will help you out. 1. Haim Okay,…
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Fresh off releasing her debut single to rave reviews, life seems pretty sweet for classical musician turned DJ/producer, Alison Wonderland. She’s a regular face at festivals, sharing lineups with some of the music industry’s key players, and is steadily gaining a name for herself with her party-ready sets and ear for the hottest sounds. Lip…
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You’d be hard pressed to find a person who hasn’t seen, or at least heard about, Miley Cyrus’ performance at the 2013 VMAs. Without a doubt, it was full on, and made it clearer than ever that Miley no longer seeks the all-American image of her Hannah Montana days. The performance wasn’t to most people’s…
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Miley Cyrus no longer wants ‘Disney star’ attached to her name. The fact of the matter is, she’s twenty years old, and her work on ‘Hannah Montana’ was done when she was a young adolescent. She’s maturing into a woman, and wants the world to know it. And her recent performance at the VMAs was…
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Two years after their phenomenally successful debut, Moonfire, Boy and Bear return with Harlequin Dreams. Anyone who wondered whether the Sydney indie-folk outfit would succumb to the dreaded second album syndrome will be satisfied within the opening bars, announcing that the lads’ entrance to the scene was no fluke. The catchy opening track and first…
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We have all heard the saying ‘a picture is worth 1000 words’. For Canberra-based theatre veteran Chrissie Shaw, this rang true a few years ago during a visit to a Melbourne art gallery. There Shaw was struck by a black-and-white photograph, Madame Bijou in the Bar de la Lune, Paris (1932). This image set her…
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