Columns
Shuffle: Australia – Part 2
Last time I explored my Australian music journey through the rearview mirror. This time I’m going to bring everything up to date with a look at the contemporary scene which must be as strong as it […]
The Go-Betweens
Columns
Shuffle: Australia – Part 1
I recently took the plunge and purchased a load of new music from Bandcamp, and one thing that I noticed was that there were a lot of Australian bands, which got me thinking about my interactions […]
Columns
Shuffle: Funeral Music
These dark days of the global pandemic have not in any way increased the number of times I think about the music I want to be played at my funeral. I have been thinking about it […]
Columns
Introducing “Shuffle”
Long-time AUK writer David Cowling returns with a new fortnightly column as he digs into his collection of leftfield americana. There are moments in my life when I have connected directly with a song or a […]
Album Reviews
Tim Hart “The Narrow Corner” (Nettwerk, 2018)
Hart is Australian. I’m not sure why but I expected to be able to discern this from the music. I couldn’t, though there are some explicit lyrical references that make this clear. Musically the record is […]