FUTURE VINTAGE I

Apart from being the Live Music Capital, Melbourne is certainly something of an Op-Shop Kingdom, with relics and fabrics of the past stretching before our eyes in sleepy, tasty shop windows, particularly in the inner North. At a time of various ecological and socio-economic recessions, of resources fading away by our own doing, recycling is…

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04/07/2018

XIMENA ABARCA

Boîte’s recent new venture the World Music Open Mic is turning like a well-oiled cog. Four months later, we are about to witness it opening at a second location, the iconic Wesley Anne tavern in Northcote, and the East Brunswick sessions continue to reveal some exciting international and local artists. The Melbourne Critique caught up…

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20/06/2018

CLOCKWORK BUTTERFLY

Steampunk is the new black: it is all around us. In the recent years it has swiftly moved from being an alternative genre towards becoming an aesthetic element that often punctuates many more ‘mainstream’ art ventures. And how could it not? As we move into the financial and ecological period of recession, as we witness…

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07/06/2018

AUSTRALIAN GOTHIC

Bush Gothic are a Melbourne-based trio, often described as an Australian Folk Music band with a twist. Slowly but surely, these guys have been making their mark not just on our minds or on our local music scene but, more importantly, on the emotional landscape of Australia as a whole. The work of this trio…

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21/05/2018

FEAST YOUR EARS

As we enter the days of Feast Your Ears Radio Festival 2018, The Melbourne Critique talks to Emma Peel, the presenter celebrating the first decade of her radio show ‘Switched On.’ Emma can be described as ‘The High Priestess of Vintage’ and this trend is apparent in her love and aesthetic choices across both music…

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08/05/2018

ALEKSANDAR HABUŠ

The collapse of Yugoslav Republics 26 years ago, was a little bit of a multicoloured-mushroom explosion for the world, and for Australia. The world suddenly made friends with many semi-anonymous nationalities: the Serbs, the Croats, the Montenegrins, the Bosnians & Herzegovinians, the Macedonians and the Slovenians. Some even realised that these nations are not and…

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22/04/2018

GUN SHY

Merde is auspicious and troublesome, nourishing and destructive, from merde we spring and to merde we return in cycles of deep familiarity and profound alienation. Kathryn Jamieson, Melbourne’s force-de-faux-fur takes a sexy and, at once, deeply existential plunge into all these qualities of life in the contemporary and the individualistic society that surrounds us. This very…

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04/04/2018

TANIA BOSAK

As we enter the soft days of early autumn Melbourne continues to navigate its busy ‘art and culture traffic’ swiftly and enthusiastically. Boîte’s World Music Open Mic continues this month back at its Compass Pizza Headquarters in East. Brunswick Last month The Melbourne Critique shared with you the incredible work of Gelareh Pour. This April we…

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