A lifetime of listening to experimental music is excellent preparation for an MRI. "Yes, all fine, thanks. I've got albums like this."
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A lifetime of listening to experimental music is excellent preparation for an MRI. "Yes, all fine, thanks. I've got albums like this."
My other choice for the best arts of 2025: the Devo documentary: “‘Whip It’, like much of their work, was meant as satire, an apple pie in the face of America’s misogynistic, good ol’ boy culture. Instead, it became their ‘Born in the USA’. ” #docohomo www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
October 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
My other choice for the best arts of 2025: the Devo documentary: “‘Whip It’, like much of their work, was meant as satire, an apple pie in the face of America’s misogynistic, good ol’ boy culture. Instead, it became their ‘Born in the USA’. ” #docohomo www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
For my favourite arts event this year, I chose the Common People Dance Eisteddfod in Brisbane, because we can all use a bit of sparkle, right? “Remarkably, the whole affair achieves the high-wire act of ‘no judgement’ in an environment that’s literally judged.” www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
For my favourite arts event this year, I chose the Common People Dance Eisteddfod in Brisbane, because we can all use a bit of sparkle, right? “Remarkably, the whole affair achieves the high-wire act of ‘no judgement’ in an environment that’s literally judged.” www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
"The surviving civilians of Gaza might be excused for their ingratitude at being handed back a part of the parking lot Israel has spent the past two years reducing to sea level." A sober appraisal from @marquelawyers.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/17/d...
The chorus of people congratulating buffoon Trump on Gaza peace deal are wrong, and here's why
Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan relies on ahistorical nonsense imposed on the Palestinian people, who are told they should be grateful. He deserves no applause.
www.crikey.com.au
October 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"The surviving civilians of Gaza might be excused for their ingratitude at being handed back a part of the parking lot Israel has spent the past two years reducing to sea level." A sober appraisal from @marquelawyers.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/17/d...
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Michael Nolan’s best of culture 2025: Netflix’s ‘Devo’ directed by Chris Smith and the Common People Dance Eisteddfod
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On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera
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October 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Michael Nolan’s best of culture 2025: Netflix’s ‘Devo’ directed by Chris Smith and the Common People Dance Eisteddfod
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“Your memory of Devo might not stretch much further than the perversity of ‘Whip It’ ... a bunch of dorks doing synth pop. Men 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 Hats.”
The Devo documentary on Netflix – one of my choices for The Monthly Awards 2025:
www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
The Devo documentary on Netflix – one of my choices for The Monthly Awards 2025:
www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
On our selection: The Monthly Awards 2025
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, from visual arts, books, film and TV, music, dance and opera
www.themonthly.com.au
September 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
“Your memory of Devo might not stretch much further than the perversity of ‘Whip It’ ... a bunch of dorks doing synth pop. Men 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 Hats.”
The Devo documentary on Netflix – one of my choices for The Monthly Awards 2025:
www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
The Devo documentary on Netflix – one of my choices for The Monthly Awards 2025:
www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
Those aghast at how Trump administration functions can take comfort in the knowledge that one day Karoline Leavitt will write a tell-nothing book about her experiences in the White House.
July 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Those aghast at how Trump administration functions can take comfort in the knowledge that one day Karoline Leavitt will write a tell-nothing book about her experiences in the White House.
If you’re incredulous Spurs could sack Ange after winning the Europa League, consider that fans have had to stifle a feeling of dread before every match for a year, then watch through their fingers no matter the opponent. #thfc
June 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
If you’re incredulous Spurs could sack Ange after winning the Europa League, consider that fans have had to stifle a feeling of dread before every match for a year, then watch through their fingers no matter the opponent. #thfc
Feel like the record store's taking the piss with the condition description.
June 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Feel like the record store's taking the piss with the condition description.
A semibreve rest from the furies and disappointments of the world: Sarah Krasnostein on coming together to make a good sound.
June issue out Monday (online today for subscribers)! Featuring Sarah Krasnostein on brass bands and community and Sam Roggeveen on submarine policy. Plus Don Watson, Quentin Sprague, Nam Le, Ozploitation, Didion’s ‘Notes to John’, Pee-wee Herman and more.
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May 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
A semibreve rest from the furies and disappointments of the world: Sarah Krasnostein on coming together to make a good sound.
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Chimps drum like people do. Here’s what that tells us about evolution
www.independent.co.uk
May 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
You dirty left-behindies are too easy. Enjoy your weekend.
May 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
You dirty left-behindies are too easy. Enjoy your weekend.
I thought I'd heard "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" enough times, but there's a building site next door and I've discovered greater depths of enough.
March 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I thought I'd heard "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" enough times, but there's a building site next door and I've discovered greater depths of enough.
What are the odds, having been corrected on Zelensky being a "dictator" because elections can't be held in wartime, Trump will try to direct states to suspend elections in four years, because "unfortunately America is at war" – fighting a resistance in Gaza, bombing Yemen, and who knows what else.
March 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
What are the odds, having been corrected on Zelensky being a "dictator" because elections can't be held in wartime, Trump will try to direct states to suspend elections in four years, because "unfortunately America is at war" – fighting a resistance in Gaza, bombing Yemen, and who knows what else.
I'll always call it the Gulf of Twitter.
February 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I'll always call it the Gulf of Twitter.
Welcome, #Grammys, I see you (and Janelle Monae) caught up with my proposal for a Michael Jackson reset. #isthatcurvefollowingme
February 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Welcome, #Grammys, I see you (and Janelle Monae) caught up with my proposal for a Michael Jackson reset. #isthatcurvefollowingme
Somehow, it is the year 2025.
January 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Somehow, it is the year 2025.
Another New App re-up, regarding #EricChenaux's latest album: “The sound of Chenaux’s guitar playing will likely catch you unawares at first … In the context of his dreamy mood-making, it’s like blowing raspberries all the way through ‘In the Wee Small Hours’.” www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/j...
Set the controls for the heart of the song: Eric Chenaux Trio’s ‘Delights of My Life’
The Canadian-born musician’s latest woozily minimalist album is a further exploration of the outer reaches of jazz and soul
www.themonthly.com.au
November 21, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Another New App re-up, regarding #EricChenaux's latest album: “The sound of Chenaux’s guitar playing will likely catch you unawares at first … In the context of his dreamy mood-making, it’s like blowing raspberries all the way through ‘In the Wee Small Hours’.” www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/j...
As year's-best lists roll out, I offer to the New App my music highlight, #JulesReidy – ‘Instants & Their Echoes’: “The first track chimes like some Hyperborean timepiece, discordant at times, though one person’s dissonance is another’s richness of harmony.” www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/o...
November 21, 2024 at 4:20 AM
As year's-best lists roll out, I offer to the New App my music highlight, #JulesReidy – ‘Instants & Their Echoes’: “The first track chimes like some Hyperborean timepiece, discordant at times, though one person’s dissonance is another’s richness of harmony.” www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/o...
"More than a musical set in Bunnings": Australians pop up surprisingly frequently in my story on Einstürzende Neubauten and their latest album, ‘Rampen’.
#einsturzendeneubauten #rampen www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/a...
#einsturzendeneubauten #rampen www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/a...
Heady metal: Einstürzende Neubauten’s ‘Rampen: apm (alien pop music)’
Forty-four years on, the German experimentalists continue to forge an unconventional path, delivering a double album of works improvised on tour
www.themonthly.com.au
April 5, 2024 at 7:33 AM
"More than a musical set in Bunnings": Australians pop up surprisingly frequently in my story on Einstürzende Neubauten and their latest album, ‘Rampen’.
#einsturzendeneubauten #rampen www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/a...
#einsturzendeneubauten #rampen www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/a...