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as someone who’s been scoring so many great cheap dvds from op shops lately, this pleases me

big day for Australian releases: The Prize, Mouseatouille, Platonic Sex, Piggietails, Winter McQuinn, Wiles, RONA., Paul Grabowsky & Mindy Meng Wang, Birdz & Fred Leone and probably heaps more

new Peel Dream Magazine! peeldreammagazine.bandcamp.com/album/taurus

top work here from Amy

What can we glean from the last bastion of regular television book coverage? @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social finds out. killyourdarlings.com.au/article/brin...

I'm surprised nobody has sampled from the beginning or end of this song, which gets pretty trippy for an earnest little ode to Winnie the Pooh www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbt0...

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How the iconic looping video of a studying anime girl and stream of chill music became a big business. 🔗 www.404media.co/how-lofi-gir...

went op shopping

PSA: the new Jens Lekman record is really great

I've muted so many people on Facebook since yesterday that now it's just showing me everyone's happy birthday messages

Out today: my final edition as The Big Issue's Music Editor. Sadly, budget cuts have claimed the reviews page and outside arts editors. But I wrote a column about taking my son to see Tyler the Creator, and there are reviews of David Byrne, Wednesday & Nation of Language, plus a Jon Spencer feature.

career milestone: I booked Cosmic Psychos at the pub in our little country town events.humanitix.com/cosmic-psych...

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I reviewed Matt Berninger's second solo album for The Weekend Australian

2008’s SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK - a surreal masterpiece that confounds, delights and stirs - is the subject of a new podcast episode. My guest is Charlie Kaufman, the man behind films like BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ADAPTATION and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

new Hydroplane album on the way! hydroplaneband.bandcamp.com/album/a-plac...

Tropical Fuck Storm - You Let My Tyres Down (Live on KEXP) Still in the all-time top 5 songs about a child being mauled by bullants outside the Highpoint Shopping Centre while a Toorak tractor benefact bit down on her placenta

I wrote about what to watch in Australia this month www.broadsheet.com.au/national/ent...

hello! we want to speak to authors who have hated their own book covers. you will be anonymous (unless you are feeling brave) - please DM me!

Peter Bjorn and John's WRITER'S BLOCK is one of the defining indie albums of the 2000s. We spoke to Peter Morén, Björn Yttling and John Eriksson about how it was made. Almost quitting, recording with no budget and the whistle heard round the world. Listen: lifeoftherecord.com#/peter-bjorn...

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The Big Issue's annual Fiction Edition is on sale now!

I reviewed the new Caroline album for The Weekend Australian

I interviewed Sophie Quick for The Big Issue Australia about her debut novel, "The Confidence Woman"

I also reviewed Nell Zink's novel "Sister Europe" for The Big Issue Australia

I reviewed Emma Sloley's novel "The Island of Last Things" for The Big Issue Australia

I reviewed the new Quality Used Cars albun for The Big Issue Australia

I appreciate the Albert Pyun reference (especially after their podcast about him)

Over 1 hour of clips from videotaped Other Music NYC in-store performances: Blonde Redhead, Teenage Fanclub, Ida, The Rapture, Mayo Thompson, Momus, The Clientele, Handsome Boy Modeling School and many many many more youtu.be/XEMaYswpv-I

good read, especially after I finally watched "Prime Cut" www.filmink.com.au/unsung-auteu...

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Brighter and more emotional than its cousin dungeon synth, this is music for epic quests.

I like how in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Almost Got 'Im", Batman fights a cassowary. It's not mind controlled or genetically enhanced in any way, it just attacks Batman because cassowaries are assholes.

I reviewed the new @stereolabgroop.bsky.social album for The Weekend Australian

In honour of new albums from Superchunk & Tullycraft coming out today (AU time), here is my latest Big Issue music column

The second single is still awash in pop, but lets it slip below the hazy horizon. The band leans back into the foam and fuzz this time around, jettisoning the jangles that have often found their way to the forefront of Massage’s works in favor of a welcoming oblivion. bit.ly/45MN1sp

I made my @letterboxd.social debut writing about the genre that handcuffs sex to danger, noir to romance: the Erotic Thriller. This primer body doubles 10 classics with 10 rarities. Make a new watchlist as this long, hot summer draws to a close--films meant to be watched in, and by, the dark.

one of my favourite current writers talking about one of my favourite late writers podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/r...

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In the latest Big Issue Australia, I interview author Sophie Quick, review novels by Nell Zink & Emma Sloley and review the new Quality Used Cars album. It’s also my second edition back as Music Editor. Out now!

I loved Weapons but for a movie that’s meant to take place in Pennsylvania, the liquor stores are a dead giveaway

massive op shop haul

I also reviewed the Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke collaboration album for The Weekend Australian

I reviewed Meg Washington's album "Gem" for The Weekend Australian

here's my first column since stepping back into the Music Editor role at The Big Issue Australia

I reviewed the "Weird Sisters" pulp anthology for The Big Issue Australia

I think I speak for all Australian film fans in saying how important David Stratton was in building the foundations of film culture here. Fighting film censorship, the @sydfilmfest.bsky.social, championing Australian cinema and taking film criticism seriously. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

I got to see this band when I was back in PA recently: great stuff (and a proper Elephant 6 release)