As The Avalanches have announced a March 2027 tour on the heels of a two-date festival start in Perth next February, Wind ...

IN HER NASHVILLE HOUSE, displaced New Jersey-ite Nicole Atkins is sharing with some regular irregular visitors, three cats – ...

IF TRADITIONS, Fanny Lumsden’s fifth album, has a subtext beneath its close examination of what and why we choose to cherish ...

Here we have the next instalment in What Comes To Mind, an alternative series in the Wind Back Wednesday space, based on the ...

AS THE LINE CONNECTS, the camera boots up and the sound eventually works, I am greeted by Fanny Lumsden singing. Not one of her own songs, not even the new single, Traditions, but a jaunty little ...

First they came back to perform, which was not the same as a previous time they came back as this time they were in (pretty much) original form. And everyone was excited and reminiscing. Then they ...

Directed by Matt Wishnow. Screening as part of First Films festival. DON’T LIVE WITH A music critic, I strongly advise you. Just don’t. Yes you may be tempted by their general handsomeness, equanimity ...

Worker bee musician, organiser, promoter, friend of Joni & Elton & Tanya, collaborator with dozens more, ultimate Pacific Northwest represent, and no mean songwriter and singer, Brandi Carlile can do, ...

WHILE THE TICKET indicated otherwise, this was not strictly speaking a Sunday night pairing. Cass McCombs played first, yet nothing suggested this was an opening act, more the first of two shows in ...