On a Friday night, Oxford Street is an obstacle course in trashbag hopscotch. Tonight there’s no solace at the Oxford Art Factory: descend the stairs and you’re in the main bar, a veritable fishbowl of Vice gloss dos-and-don’ts (emphatically dos) squashed into a cellar sized watering hole. Folk spea...
For a city so adverse to ghosts, so obsessed with a glossy veneer, so enamoured with money and the dogged pursuit of one-upping your neighbour, there’s no surprise Sydney spawns bands as deliberately contrary as Naked on the Vague, albeit in the subterranean realm. For NOTV, mere existence is enough...
The late 1960s was a time of pretty severe political and social upheaval in Brazil, so much so that Brazilians thought it necessary to assert a kind of counter-cultural element through their music. Sure, it was a sound found in a melee of external influences, but the end result was so heavily filtered through a Brazilian movement, ethos and approach that Tropicalia really couldn't have come from anywhere else. In cul...
Sydney, New South Wales. Australia
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