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08/08/2018

ABRAHAM ALEJANDRO DUNOVITS

The Melbourne Critique caught up with musician Abraham ‘Abe’ Dunovits ahead of his appearance at Boite’s ongoing monthly project The World Music Open Mic; this is an event designed to connect international musicians who are trying to make Melbourne their current, temporary or ongoing home-base. Let’s paint a picture: tell us about yourself and your…
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03/08/2018

PIRATESKA REBELLION

Our awesome live music capital continues its bold celebration of culture, community and diversity. We are about to, once again, celebrate more of our local heroes. In the lead up to the Local Music Fest, at the Corner Hotel, The Melbourne Critique spoke to the leader of the band ‘The Pirateska Rebellion,’ Chilean musician Juan…
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26/07/2018

NOW SOUND

Famously known as the live music capital of the world, Melbourne has achieved iconic status. Countless local artists have launched their careers on the storied stages of the city’s inner north, even while gentrification threatens the scene’s viability and other issues, including sexism, continue to undercut it. Now Sound: Melbourne’s Listening, an immersive capsule of…
SEEN SOUND
25/07/2018

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL / X

From the 3rd of October, Melbourne International Arts Festival will ignite our city with a program which both provokes and inspires.  Melbourne International Arts Festival seeks to connect art forms, people and ideas;  this is nowhere more  present more than in the eclectic mix of shows, curated by Jonathon Holloway in this, his third year…
SEEN SOUND STAGE
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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19/06/2018

THE OTHERS

The Others are here to save jazz as we know we it. What started as an improv experiment in Wangaratta has morphed into a festival-closing spectacle, driven by the charisma and skill of the musicians involved. At first blush, taking two of jazz music’s most respected and elder statesman (keyboard impresario Paul Grabowsky and omni-brass…
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14/06/2018

CHRIS DAVE & THE DRUMHEADZ

An hour before the band is due to take the stage and already 170 Russell is packed. Clearly, Melbourne audiences are amped to see this band! Having received plenty of airplay on community radio in the lead-up to tonight’s headline performance, the crowd (which includes some of the local scene’s heavy hitters) know that their…
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14/06/2018

KLLO

Melbourne based pop-electro duo ‘Kllo’ made their ‘conservative’ debut at the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall -at the Melbourne Recital Centre, last Friday. Since their debut in 2014 with the dark single ‘Make me Wonder’, the band has gained momentum at a strong and steady pace. Their tracks have received thousands of streams on Soundcloud, and they released their debut album ‘Backwater’…
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Thew Melbourne Critique acknowledge the traditional and rightful custodians of the land on which I stand, live and work, the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to their elders – past, present and emerging. I acknowledge the ongoing legacy of sacred storytelling, ceremony, ritual and performance which has blessed this land for over 60 000 years,