Browsing Tag Pop 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
I went to see Taylor Swift and she was great – but us “Wogs” do it better
I was never a Taylor Swift fan. Me? A fan of Taylor? Pfft, please. I’m 30 years old! In the words of Cher Horowitz, as IF. Recently, though, I found myself at one of her sold-out Melbourne concerts. ...
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Pop Culture
Are We Not Entrepreneurs? We Are Devo: Welcome to DEVO-land
Times Square, NYC, became some sort of cerebrally discordant Mecca for ageing post-punk nerd types this past week as Devo performed live as part of the annual CBGB’s Music & ...
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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
Getting NSYNC with Justin Timberlake (even after the teen hormones have gone)
Memphis, Tennessee. It doesn’t get more legit than that, right? It’s a music mecca, a cradle and nest, a breeding ground for stars past and present. There’s the ...
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Pop Culture
Six Musical Steps from Justin Bieber to a Late 19th Century Minstrel Troupe
Justin Bieber, a 21st century minstrel Here’s how, in six easy steps, you get from Justin Bieber to the Rabbit’s Foot Company, an African-American travelling minstrel troupe that ...
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