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Carole King

Carole King 13.01.13 Brisbane Entertainment Centre The last time Carole King passed through Brisbane it was part of a double-header with James Taylor. It was a helluva gig: one the

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Big Day Out 2013

  Big Day Out   20.01.13 Gold Coast Parklands It’s not an Australian music festival if it’s not either scorching hot (Woodford every year) or damn near flooding (Splendour 2012). Big

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Missy Higgins

Missy Higgins  1.12.12 Brisbane Convention Centre Missy Higgins is a woman I’d like to have a drink with.  Brash, natural, loud and distinctly aussie, her return to the stage after

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Coldplay

  Coldplay Suncorp 21.12.12 From the opening strains of ‘Mylo Xyloto’ Coldplay fans knew they were in for something special. Not since the opening scene of the mini-series Lost, where

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Ben Harper

Ben Harper manages to transform the Brisbane Convention Centre into a cozy and casual evening of intimacy, the kind you’d find at a tucked away side street cafe, not a

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The Beatles On Vinyl

The Beatles are back with their entire catalogue re-released on vinyl. Better still, there’s a magnificent box set to boot. Manufactured on 180-gram, audiophile quality vinyl with replicated artwork, the

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Black Keys

The Black Keys 26.10.12 Brisbane Entertainment Centre All it took to make the Entertainment Centre go insane was two guys, a drumkit and a guitar.  That’s how good the songs

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Billy Bragg

BILLY BRAGG QPAC 25.10.12 A smidge over two decades ago Billy Bragg lobbed into East Leagues Club and played a blinder of a gig that people still talk about. That

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Let’s Go Naked

Let’s Go Naked Emotion Engine [Trust] Coming out of Brisbane in the mid 1980s with a kit bag full of literate melodic pop songs, a girl drummer and a striped sunlight

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Mumford And Sons

Mumford and Sons Riverstage 17.10.12 Ladies and gentlemen, you have been warned. Mumford and Sons will hit you like an indie-folk freight-train.  Stay captivated and relish every second because an

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Puberty Blues

Various Puberty Blues Soundtrack (Sony) Whereas Howzat! Got it so wrong, Puberty Blues gets it so right. We have to admit to getting a little obsessed with the lives of

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Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys Elysium (EMI) This reviewer spent most of the weekend bathing in the Pet Shop Boys’ eleventh studio outing, Elysium. It’s that kind of record. It literally washes

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Matchbox Twenty

Matchbox Twenty North (Warner) For the last decade Matchbox Twenty have been filling stadiums and commercial radio with big hooks and big CD sales. Here Rob Thomas continues to craft

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Green Day

Green Day Uno! (Warner) Green Day are back with a triple punch. Uno! has arrived and it will be followed, in two monthly intervals, by Dos! and Tre! Their heroes

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Clare Bowditch

  Clare Bowditch The Old Museum 11.10.12 Clare Bowditch’s devoted following regard her as an Australian treasure: and rightly so. Filling the Old Museum, Bowditch was supported by Andrew Morris

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The Angels

The Angels Take It To The Streets [Liberation] The Angels return with their first album in the best part of a decade and it’s the first not to feature former

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The xx

The XX Coexist (Remote Control) Never has a traditional set up of drums, bass, keys, guitars and vocals been so hauntingly memorable. Their distinct style of stripped down beats and

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Howzat!

Various Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War [Sony] Okay, we were glued to the mini-series and loved the music featured. If you missed it, Howzat! dramatised the emergence of Kerry Packer’s World

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Blur 21: The Box

Blur 21: The Box (EMI) [rating: 4.5/5] There seemed a strange finality to British band Blur’s announcement back in April that they would be issuing this wonderfully exhaustive and elaborate

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James Reyne Live

It’s just after 10pm at the Hamilton Hotel and there’s a sense of expectation in the air. There’s a jockeying for position in the crowd and then the lights dim.

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Tina Arena Live

Tina Arena and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Lyric Theatre, QPAC 06.07.2012 For a time there, in the early to mid-90s, Melbourne-born songstress Tina Arena was the closest thing Australian music

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MADONNA – MDNA

MADONNA  MDNA (Universal) Madonna returns with her first album since the misfiring 2008 effort Hard Candy. That album was a misstep where the Queen of Pop tried her hand at hip-hop.

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