Thinking about Australia’s best bands while out walking, Sean Curtain was struck by how many were three-piece. He lists his favourites.
Almanac Music: ‘To Her Door’ – Songs Involving Doors
July 4, 2025 by 121 Comments
This week’s installment in KD’s epic series on popular music themes concerns songs involving doors. As usual, readers song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Music: ‘Hold your breath and count to ten’ – Songs Involving Falling
March 21, 2025 by 118 Comments
In this latest instalment of KD’s long-running series on popular song, the topic is songs involving falling. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Music : Top Albums of 2024
December 31, 2024 by 9 Comments
Luke Reynolds takes us out of 2024 with his ninth annual list of top Australian albums for the year.
Almanac Music: Two Potent Elements – Songs Involving Blood and/or Fire
September 27, 2024 by 150 Comments
This week’s installment of KD’s epic series on popular song themes concerns songs that involve blood and/or fire. As usual, readers’ song choices and comments are warmly welcomed.
Almanac Music: Let There Be Light: Ten Songs of ‘Light’ from Favourite Mainstream Australasian Artists
March 4, 2022 by 1 Comment
This week’s post from KD is a companion piece to his ‘Songs of Darkness’ article of last Friday – the topic is now ‘Songs of Light’ from mainstream Australasian artists. Again, he invites Almanackers to respond, to add to the picture.
Almanac Music: Darkness from the Mainstream: Ten Dark Songs from Favourite Australasian Artists
February 25, 2022 by 24 Comments
In this encyclopedic piece, KD analyses ten favourite mainstream Australasian songs from the ‘dark’ side, and encourages Almanackers to add some of their own.
Almanac Music: Luke Reynolds’s Top Albums of 2021
January 3, 2022 by 2 Comments
Hot on the heels of Smokie comes Luke Reynolds with his best albums of the year just gone – do yourself a favour!
Second Semi Final – Collingwood v GWS: When Jeremy Howe defies physicists and mystics
September 17, 2018 by 19 Comments
David Wilson and the buds are at the MCG to see what he describes as an “open savanna of a match” and “a 1500 metre race of a match”. But it’s Jeremy Howe’s moment that is the focus of his poetic prose. What a moment! What a mark!
Dear Gillon, here’s a Grand Final day idea…
April 6, 2016 by 11 Comments
Sean Mortel provides a template for Gil McLachlan to consider when selecting the entertainment for this year’s AFL Grand Final.
The Ballad of Shaun Marsh
November 23, 2015 by 14 Comments
James S & the Jolimont Street Band have released their latest single. But it’s a 33 not a 45, just like the subject’s average.
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