Author: Dan Bigna
Columnist
Planet of Sound: Weighing Up The Musical Highlights of 2017
The previous 12 months can be placed in a ‘good but not great’ category that hopefully didn’t set a precedent ...
Planet Of Sound #498
An arrogant taste in music can piss people off in seconds, but the persistence that drives the hunt for the ...
Kim Salmon Is On A Folk Bender
On the menacingly titled opening track ‘I’m Keeping You Alive’ from the classic KIM SALMON AND THE SURREALISTS 1991 psych-rock ...
Planet Of Sound: Can Tuggeranong Arts Centre Become Canberra’s Next Best Music Venue?
Stuck in Canberra’s growing peak hour traffic on an icy winter day, I consoled myself by turning up the volume ...
Ed Kuepper Doesn’t F*ck Around: The Ex-Saints Guitarist Returns To Canberra At The Street
Ever evolving Australian musician ED KUEPPER is a regular visitor to Canberra and will be returning to the Street Theatre ...
The Beach Boys – 1967: Sunshine Tomorrow
[Capitol] A decent amount of quality music was recorded in 1967, including The Beach Boys’ albums Wild Honey and Smiley ...
Big Star – The Best of Big Star
[Concord] Big Star should have been as big as The Beatles but a lot of bad luck intervened. The outcome was ...
X, Young Docteurs, Kill Dirty Youth @ Transit Bar, Saturday July 22
Towards the end of a scorching set from hardened Australian rock ‘n’ roll band X, I momentarily stepped outside and ...
Planet Of Sound: Radio Birdman and the ANU Bar Finale
Despite the ‘controversy’ surrounding the line-up for the final ANU Bar show on Saturday June 17, I attended anyway and ...
X’s 40th Anniversary: Steve Lucas Regales How The Band Stumbled Into Music History
Tough-as-nails rock ‘n’ roll band X formed in Sydney 40 years ago, a major milestone by any standard and an ...
