The Breakdown: 2012 in Aus releases

It’s been some months since this column itemised good new releases, perhaps because the year has been slow in throwing up exciting tracks and records thus far. Not so the Continue reading →

The Breakdown: Frente! and other less ordinary pop angels

Published by Street Press Australia, March 21 2012. It was an easy line to the front barrier when Angie Hart and Simon Austin walked onto the outdoor stage at Brisbane’s Continue reading →

The Breakdown: American Pie Reunions

Published by Street Press Australia, March 14 2011. At a clothing store on the second floor of an inner-city shopping complex, a teenage girl is hanging cargo shorts on a Continue reading →

The Breakdown: Emma Russack and the sound of Melbourne

Published by Street Press Australia, March 7 2012. To name Emma Russack’s debut album, Sounds Of Our City, the first great local release of the year says little about Australian Continue reading →