Category: Bands / Music

Another serve of Hot Chip, and the synthesiser hounds are back with a smaller portion but all the flavour
Electro-pop wizards Hot Chip are inbound with a trunk full of synthesisers and A Bath Full of Ecstasy. The seventh ...

Ahead of their launch of new single ‘Desk Chair’ at Transit Bar, Teen Jesus and The Jean Teasers reveal their influences, highlights, and which film is responsible for their existence
[hero pic by Claire Warren] Band name and origins: Teen Jesus began one night in year 10 at a sleepover ...

Courter of Controversy and Bearer Of Soul – Amanda Palmer Comes To Canberra
By Ruth O'Brien (hero pic by Gabrielle Motola) I’ve got to admit, I didn’t go into my interview with Amanda ...

Turner & Brown Wield The Sacred Steel With Zeal
Back by popular demand, the March gig in Tuggeranong forms part of The Turner Brown Band's seventh Australian tour and ...

The Presets’ Julian Hamilton talks changes, challenges, and collaboration ahead of their Castaway Festival show
IN CONVERSATION WITH JULIAN HAMILTON: ON CHANGES, CHALLENGES, AND COLLABORATION Relationships can be forged through music in ways which take ...

Holly George-Warren spent four years gathering new material for ‘Janis: Her Life and Music’
Janis Joplin. If you don’t know her, hit up YouTube, because her voice is one of those things that can’t ...

Questioning… The Decade with Cody Atkinson
Decades are damn long periods of time. There’s 120 months there – that’s a lot of months according to experts ...

Cody Atkinson’s Top 10 Albums of 2019
Questioning columnist and music reviewer Cody Atkinson knows his way around an album, and can share a considered and thoughtful ...

Dance: The Drop Awards with Peter O’Rourke + the year of EDM that was
Climate apocalypse and rising fascism aside, 2019 has been a fantastic year for electronic dance music. Yes, I know - ...

Vince Leigh’s Top Poptacular Tracks of 2019
Vince Leigh has been a blessing for BMA since he joined about a year ago. His wisdom and musical erudition ...