Just like the political press gallery, the showbiz beat reporters love to have a predictable narrative for artists, especially female performers, and she just doesn’t play that game.
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Sunday Singalong: Pussy Riot
So, I did have somebody else lined up for the Sunday artsy fartsy post this weekend but jumping right to the front of the queue is my newly discovered find, Pussy Riot. Russian, feminist, punk riot band with anti-Putin lyrics…. Read More ›
Gratuitous Tim Minchin blogging: Not Perfect
Because I went to see his show in Sydney last night, and it was hugely enjoyable, and he sang this song which I’d temporarily forgotten about, and it’s just lovely.
Mamapalooza is coming to Sydney
The hugely popular Mamapalooza: Artists Celebrating Motherhood is coming to Australia – Sydney, at Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst for the week of 7-13 May 2012, and right now they’re looking for performers who are mothers – singers/poets/dancers/songwriters/actors/performance artists/stand-up etc, as… Read More ›
Sunday Singalong: Remembering Etta James
Lots of folks have been playing her ballads or her blues songs of lost love, which are classic Etta, but I especially loved her when she got playful. This is one of my favourite versions of You Can Leave Your Hat On.
Sunday Singalong: Violeta Parra
OK, this one is Violeta Parra, an incredibly haunting Chilean folk singer who saw folk music as a “weapon against oppression”. Yeah which revolutionary didn’t? She and her children became the song-writers of the left-wing political movement of her country…. Read More ›
Sunday Singalong: Chicks on Speed
Here is Chicks on Speed with the ultimate anti-cock rock song; joyfully poking fun at the hyper-masculinity of the rock music scene and the way in which DIY punk-electronica is perceived as less than ‘real music’. “We Don’t Play Guitars”,… Read More ›
Sunday Singalong: Cyndi Lauper
We love Cyndi!
Possibly the most Extreme act of Rugby World Cup Avoidance evah
I meant to post this last week when my friend in Auckland first linked to it on our seekrit mailing list. But I forgotted.
Copyright hell: larrakins and astrologers
Warner’s copyright troll acquisition Larrakin Music won the right to “Land Down Under” royalties in the High Court, and Astrolabe Inc shut down the widely used zoneinfo timezone database. Not the public interest’s best day in copyright-land.
Hoyden About Town 