Eora/Sydney alt-rock powerhouse RedHook have exploded onto the global stage with their debut album Postcard from a Living Hell, released 21 April. Having toured extensively with In Hearts Wake last year, the band are currently in the middle of their own national headline tour before playing at Unify Off The Record in June. We caught … [Read more…]
Angel City FC’s eponymous HBO documentary is drenched in sunlight. It’s full of gorgeous slow-motion shots of players mid-game, bringing you in close to the action, trying to fill you up with the roaring crowd sounds. That’s why it’s so jarring to go back to actual NWSL broadcast footage, where the visual and audio quality … [Read more…]
Renaud Nattiez is what is known as a “tintinophile”, or Tintin lover. A former diplomat and teacher, he has devoted himself to the character since 2016, writing seven books about him and managing an imprint of the Harmattan publisher dedicated to Tintin and Hergé. And yet, Nattiez agrees the 24 albums featuring the young Belgian … [Read more…]
TORONTO — The billboard struck my eye immediately. I was returning to Toronto from the States, still a stranger in a new country, a visitor on a work visa who landed a lottery ticket job to co-host alongside the most popular sports-talk host in the country. This was August 2018. Kawhi Leonard’s legendary bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-in to … [Read more…]
Five songs into his spellbinding set, Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice genuinely lets the crowd decide what he’s going to play next. There are screams. Many. And just about every single one of them are shouting out a different song title (the winner was “Woman Like A Man”) Such is how highly regarded Rice is amongst … [Read more…]