• SLIGHT RETURN

    Music festivals bring together people from all walks of life, a fusion of cultures, backgrounds and personal nuances bound by a love for the rhythm. Some address specific genres or music, others, such as Splendour In The Grass, diversify, with…

  • AIRILEKE | THE VOICE OF WANTOK

    Melbourne-based musician-producer, Airileke, is musical diversity personified. Co-founder of the Wantok Sing Sing, he took traditional indigenous music and dance to the London Olympics in 2012, but his latest album release, Weapon of Choice, unites electronic, hip hop, metal and…

  • ADAM SHOSTAK | THE MAN YOU KNOW

    Whether you are a Byron resident or have just passed through our little town, chances are you’ve seen Adam Shostak. The problem, with which Adam battles every single working day, is that, though you might have seen him, you haven’t…

  • THROUGH BLINKERED EYES

    So apparently I’m insane. Well, insane is maybe a little too strong a term, but definitely drastically eccentric. Funny – I thought I was a pretty grounded individual running my own journalism-slash-media business, not bumming off taxpayers, thinking globally, acting…

  • QUIQUE NEIRA | BOOMERANG FESTIVAL

    Through a crackly line from somewhere in the depths of the bustling Chilean capital, Quique Neira’s smooth, Hispanic voice emerges from my telephone. He is in the grips of a whirlwind, he declares, briefly returning to his hometown of Santiago…

  • THELMA PLUM

    Thelma Plum is the new girl on the Australian music scene. Beautiful, fresh-faced, a devastatingly talented songwriter and guitarist and with a delicate voice that makes your most desperate woes simply ebb away, she is what showbiz pundits would classify…