Royal Headache – High (Distant and Vague Recordings)
In 2009, I put out a call on social media asking what people’s favourite albums of that year were. A friend living on the East Coast, Matt Bellair, shot me…
Mac Demarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
For all the ways Another One is a simple, polished little edible derived straight from countless artists before him, Mac Demarco’s whole thing as a popstar who’s the sum of…
Federal Emissions Targets Are Totally Inadequate
Today the Federal government has announced that it will aim to cut carbon emissions by 26-28% of 2005 levels by 2030. With Julie Bishop heading to the COP21 Paris climate…
Hard Times: What Socialist Alternative Can Learn from Wrestling
The first thing you notice about the Socialist Alternative-led protest against cuts to Arts majors is that none of its speakers, despite their presumed experience, know how to cut a…
Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing – Scrying in Infirmary Architecture (Muzai Records)
I was prepared to be disappointed on my first listen of Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing’s, Scrying in Infirmary Architecture. From the album’s two preceding singles ‘A Fraud Abroad’ and…
Proposal to cut Arts majors passes through Academic Council
The UWA Arts Faculty’s proposal to cut its Gender Studies, European Studies, and Medieval & Early Modern Studies majors has passed through Academic Council this afternoon, despite student dissent. UWA…
Competing political groups campaign against proposed Arts cuts
Two separate protests against rescinding three UWA Arts majors took place today on campus. The first, endorsed by the UWA Student Guild and their ‘UWA has Major Issues’ campaign, was…
Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
I saw Kevin Parker the other day. It was a Thursday, he was drinking with his girlfriend at the Norfolk, doing his best to be remain anonymous in the mixed…
Short story: An Incident at the Glove Factory
Nosing at the Selangor canals in the industrial zone of Setia City, there is a large, grey, squat building of a dour aesthetic which one passer-by of no consequence to…
Railsea by China Miéville
An imaginative reworking of the classic tale of Moby Dick by a daring and experimental author, Railsea (2012) is a fantasy work steeped in false science and the drama of…