Browsing Tag Music
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Australian Rules
The small, strange canon of Aussie Rules songs just got bigger with “Bob Chitty’s Blues”
FOR all that Australian Rules football is played, watched, discussed, argued over and thought about, it resonates surprisingly little in the wider culture. There are some poems by ...
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Pop Culture
So you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll star: The guide to DIY music
How’s your drive-time commute? Enjoying pushing the pedal to the metal as “Life in the Fast Lane” oozes its pus fueled mediocrity through your Clarion speakers? Still jerking ...
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Pop Culture
Trout Mask Replica: Our 8 Step Guide to appreciating an “unlistenable” masterpiece
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky Deep in the semi-fashionable Woodland Hills of Los Angeles, an ...
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Pop Culture
Hitting the “brown note” with Swans
Imagine waking from your beauty sleep to find that your face had been grated off with a coarse wood rasp. The laxative you took the night before is ...
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Pop Culture
Record Store Day: Learning to love Swedish electroacoustic music while staring into the vinyl abyss
Most ears only hear a succession of disconnected blips, bleeps and whooshes. Occasionally, a disembodied voice floats in reciting an apparently random piece of text in a foreign language. Swedish maybe? ...
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Pop Culture 1
Who killed the Gods of Rock?
My first exposure to the Gods of Rock was the Robert Plant poster in my stepbrother’s bedroom. It must have been about 1980, my brother was 16 or ...
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Pop Culture 5
John, Paul, George, Ringo and … Kanye
A survey conducted in 2009 by the Institution of Engineering and Technology found that up to a quarter of the people asked had no idea who first walked ...
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Pop Culture
How a Teenage Sharpie Girl found Rock ‘n’ Roll Salvation in the Church of the Coloured Balls
There were plenty of pop stars around in the early 1970s to keep a teenage girl entertained: dreamy Partridge Family beau David Cassidy, the clean-cut Mormon charms of ...
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Football 1
Football Songs: The Shoot Farken Top 20
Here at Shoot Farken, we travel to the beat of a different football drum. We are marking the start of the A-League season with a countdown of football ...
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Pop Culture 1
Send in the Clowns: Campbell Newman vs Insane Clown Posse
American hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse are touring Australia next month, but Queensland Premier Campbell Newman might have something to say about the self-proclaimed “wicked clowns” disgracing ...
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