Charmaine de Souza, Journalist

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Rag N' Bone - A Handful Of Ash

"Punchy, grungy and unapologetic."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Various - Fifty Shades Darker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

"There's bound to be at least one song that you'll find yourself humming along to."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness - Zombies On Broadway

"It's as if the audience is privy to his innermost hopes, fears and desires."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: The Menzingers - After The Party

"Where are we gonna go now that our 20s are over?"

Live Review: Alexisonfire, The Getaway Plan, Behind Crimson Eyes, The Dirty Nil

"Get that fucking circle pit going!"

Features / Music

The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Charmaine de Souza

Live Review: Bernard Fanning, Dustin Tebbutt, Ainslie Wills

"A collective hush spread throughout the crowd as they watched on."

Live Review: Cute Is What We Aim For, Lights Of Berlin, Calm Collected

"In a matter of minutes, the entire room was 15 years old again, singing along to every word and fighting for the barrier."

Live Review: Troye Sivan, Tyde Levi, Nicole Millar

"The man was right at home on stage, showmanship oozing effortlessly from his pores."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Montaigne - Glorious Heights

"You'll be grooving one minute and bawling the next."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Dope Lemon - Honey Bones

"It's the kind of music you'd hear in an indie flick as the protagonist cruises through the countryside in a beat-up camper."

Yianni: The Simpsons Taught Me Everything I Know

"It's simply cromulent in every sense of the word."

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