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Almanac Music: Best Albums and EPs of 2016

January 10, 2017 by 13 Comments

Luke Reynolds with his top albums and EPs of 2016. Fair to say there’s an Australian bias here…

Almanac Music: Ten Favourite Australian Albums of 2016

January 9, 2017 by 3 Comments

Andrew Fithall is a true music lover – and will sniff out new talent and take a tip and suss out anything and travel anywhere and has his finger on the pulse. Just like Luke Reynolds who was part of the inspiration for this piece.

Stereo Story: Rick Kane. Ben Lee. Good grief.

January 6, 2017 by 4 Comments

A mix tape for mourning? Rick Kane’s latest Stereo Story is typically candid and insightful.

Almanac Music: Slightly Different Teenager’s Review of 2016 Music

January 2, 2017 by 1 Comment

Sean Mortell gives a 16 year old’s take on the music year that was 2016. [I suspect Sean is not your average 16 year old – Ed]

First kiss: New Year’s Eve poem for an unknown song

December 31, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Vin Maskell shifts the goalposts a little in this short poem about a long ago New Year’s Eve, a kiss, and table-tennis.

Almanac Music: Springsteen – in his own words

December 30, 2016 by 6 Comments

Neil Drysdale, when feeling down on the year that has been 2016, is given a lift by a Springsteen doco. [Sounds excellent – Ed]

Stereo Story: Status Quo and Black Saturday

December 28, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Rick Parfitt, singer and rhythm guitarist with Status Quo, died on December 24, aged 68.

Our partner site, Stereo Stories, pays tribute via a story about listening to Status Quo in the aftermath of surviving the Black Saturday bushfires.

Almanac Music: Desert Island Discs

December 27, 2016 by 2 Comments

Here’s Swish with a BBC Special for those of you with time on your hands.

Stereo Story: goodbye George Michael

December 27, 2016 by 1 Comment

The death of a musician always drives us to their back-catalogue. On hearing the news about George Michael, like millions of others, Lucia Nardo spent the day listening to his albums again, and the song They Won’t Go When I Go in particular.

Stereo Story: making sense of Making Gravy

December 21, 2016 by Leave a Comment

As a young teenager Cassandra Atkinson enjoyed but misunderstood the Paul Kelly song How To Make Gravy. Then things changed.