Ross Clelland, Journalist

Features / Music

Briggs' Rugby League Theme Is About More Than Footy; It's About Pride & Solidarity

'Briggs' urgency and sincerity makes this yet another thing of his that needs to be heard.'

Live Review: LCD Soundsystem

"Thanks for coming, but please - you have a memory, don't watch everything through your screen. Your eyeballs are the sharpest lens of all."

Features / Music

Don't Worry, Nine Inch Nails Still Have It... And Then Some

'They remain eminently capable of making music for a darkened room for you to rock back and forth in the foetal position.'

Features / Music

These Dark Political Days Bring Out The Best In Billy Bragg

'Bragg ponders a world where his own little England seems intent on trying to ignore those several million foreigners across the Channel.'

Features / Music

The National. Pic by Graham MacIndoe

The Single Life: The National, Sarah McLeod, Neil Young & More Deliver New Hits

Here are the new tracks out this week that you need to hear.

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Charlie Marshall & The Curious Minds - Sublime

"He looks out into the cosmos and tries to explain something of our place in it."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos - The Last Polaroid

"The former Icecream Hands member here offers a collection of his classicist pop that occasionally longs for simpler times and technologies."

Live Review: Mike Noga

"Sometimes you want more than old mate yowling Dylan covers, or noodling like George Benson. Someone to entertain and engage. Someone like Mike Noga."

Features / Music

Calvin Harris' New Track Will Melt Out Of Your Consciousness Like The Musical Fairy Floss It Is

'Perhaps because it has no real personality of its own.'

Features / Music

Chris Cornell's Final Music Video Shows He Was A True Old School Rock Singer

"A voice that came up from his toes, via the groin, through his heart and guts."

Live Review: Radio Birdman, Died Pretty, Kim Salmon

"At times he seems about to completely throw himself into the maelstrom of the racket - then pulls back, as if worried he might pull a hammy."

Features / Music

Why The Weeknd is The Epitome Of 'Modern Popular Music'

His new track is "smooth, but somehow still a bit edgy 'alternative R&B' – yeah, that’s a thing now."

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