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Album Review: Youth Group’s Toby Martin’s solo album ‘I Felt the Valley Lifting’ is an uplifting amalgam of mystical realism and the minutiae of everyday life.

Toby Martin (Youth Group) has a distinctive angelic voice and astute ear for indelible melodies, but more than anything his new solo album ‘I Felt The Valley Lifting’ reveals in…

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TIFF Review: The Girl and the Spider

The butterfly effect theory posits that even a slight change in an initial condition can have a much greater impact on a later event. As the saying goes, if a…

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TIFF Review: Aloners

Traditionally, anyone living alone was, at best, considered odd, and at worst, a witch, warlock or some kind of pervert. The only people who generally managed to get away with…

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TIFF Review: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

Every craft, profession or career has its wunderkinds. Those young people who seem to be lightyears ahead of their peers. Making and producing work you’d expect from someone twice their…

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The greatest comedies focus on the mundane. Those everyday events which can be hilariously funny in the right hands. The unusual relationships between people, often forced together through circumstance rather…

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TIFF Review: Mlungu Wam (Good Madam)

While slavery was officially abolished in the territory which is now South Africa in 1834, by dint of being part of the British Empire, that didn’t suddenly mean that everyone…

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Meet: We chat to John Russell from Brisbane’s glorious 4000 Records label on music, passion, mixtapes and the 4000 Records Birthday Party.

4000 Records in Brisbane is celebrating its second birthday today – an innovative boutique agency that has on its roster some of the most exciting and diverse talent in Brisbane.…

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EP Review: Lazarus Kane – ‘Psychobabble’

Just as one rainy British season follows another, the increasing excellence of another Speedy Wunderground alum is surely similarly guaranteed; Lazarus Kane perhaps no finer example. Their funk, Americanism-heavy swagger…

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Open City Docs Review: Shady River

Documentary filmmaking comes in many shapes and sizes. There are those which set-out to investigate and expose, some serve as biographies while others try to tell a story in (often)…

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PREMIERE: Canadians Dear Rouge rail against influencer culture on storming return ‘Fake Fame’

It’s been a hot minute since we heard from Canadian duo Dear Rouge; the duo of Drew and Danielle McTaggart have kept a relatively low profile since the release of…

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Album Review: Youth Group’s Toby Martin’s solo album ‘I Felt the Valley Lifting’ is an uplifting amalgam of mystical realism and the minutiae of everyday life.

TIFF Review: The Girl and the Spider

TIFF Review: Aloners

TIFF Review: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

TIFF Review: The Odd-Job Men

TIFF Review: Mlungu Wam (Good Madam)

EP Review: Lazarus Kane – ‘Psychobabble’

Open City Docs Review: Shady River

PREMIERE: Canadians Dear Rouge rail against influencer culture on storming return ‘Fake Fame’