T's most recent reviews
Jesse Fink
Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black, 2017
Ronald Belford “Bon” Scott.Lyrics, the personality and presence – it is not merely because of his vocal range and the band he headed that he is considered to be one ...
Daniel Miller and Terry Burrows
Mute: A visual document from 1978 – tomorrow, 2017
For the uninitiated, and if you are, you might want to look at changing that immediately – shame on you: Mute Records (commonly known, referred to and stylized as “mute”) ...
NOFX
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories, 2017
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is a comprehensive autobiography from one of the world’s most prominent punk bands that worked its way up. New aficionados as well as die-hard ...
Mark Lanegan
I Am the Wolf, 2017
I came late to the party when it comes to Mark Lanegan and his career. It was him opening for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 2013 and I ...
T's most recent features
Music Dark Mofo Festival 2018
Posted July 2, 2018, 3:44 p.m.Hobart, Tasmania Australia Dark Mofo is unlike any other festival on this earthround. Never merely l’art pour l’art. Dark. Weird. Sexy. Transcendent. Joyous. Provocative. Unapologetic. Curious. Challenging. Surprising ...
Music Review: Iron & Wine (Sydney Opera House)
Posted May 29, 2018, 12:22 p.m.Alright. Full disclosure: While the moniker Iron & Wine blipped here and there on my radar and your humble narrator thinking that it would not be the worst name for a ...
Music MONA FOMA Festival 2018
Posted Feb. 6, 2018, 4 p.m.19-21 January 2018 Hobart, Tasmania – Australia Nine is fabled to be the number of completion and fulfillment. After nine incarnations in Hobart and not only adding spark but providing much ...
Regular Columns Guest Column: T (Vegas) - Portable Loudspeakers
Posted Nov. 23, 2017, 3:47 p.m.As the good ole shock jock Plato so eloquently put it, music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Loudspeakers are instrumental ...
T's most recent news stories
Tours Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley in Australia
Posted Aug. 6, 2018, 5:44 p.m.
After postponing his first ever Australian solo tour, Maestro Simmons a.k.a. the long tongued 4-string demon of the legendary KISS, will incarnate down under in August and September ...
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Tours Bruce Dickinson Australian Tour 2018
Posted Aug. 5, 2018, 10:01 a.m.
If Andrew W.K.’s empowering message is not inspiring enough to become a more ambitious being that is trying to escape the confines of fate, the following gentleman and ...
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Tours Andrew WK Australian Tour 2018
Posted Aug. 5, 2018, 9:42 a.m.
It is official: The riddle hidden inside an enigma, i.e. Andrew W.K., will hit the shores of Australia to incarnate with the one-man fireworks that embodies in an ...
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Shows Come Together Recharged 2018
Posted May 12, 2018, 10:07 a.m.
Come Together returns on Queen Elizabeth’s long weekend to Big Top Sydney at Luna Park. Sydney Festival Come Together returns in 2018 on June 10 featuring, Spiderbait, The Superjesus ...
T's most recent blogposts
Rembrandt's Roughness by Nicola Suthor
Posted Aug. 19, 2018, 11:09 a.m. by T
Rembrandt's Roughness Nicola Suthor Princeton University Press Ah, roughness. It was not only Benoit Mandelbrot who discovered that there is at least some roughness everywhere. Now, focussing merely on ...High Adventures in the Great Outdoors - Part 4
Posted Aug. 18, 2018, 3:16 p.m. by T
High Adventures in the Great Outdoors Performance Enhancing Gear, Digestive Health and Moisturisation Alight, are you firmly in touch with your feminine side? Gird your loins, alpha males – this ...Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Political Writings
Posted Aug. 17, 2018, 7:54 p.m. by T
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fundamental Political Writings Broadview Press A philosopher – both in the realms of politics as well as morality and psychology. The influence Rousseau has exerted cannot possibly ...Spirit of the Wild - Wild Turkey Pop-up
Posted Aug. 16, 2018, 8:18 p.m. by T
Spirit of the Wild - Wild Turkey Pop-up Sydney, Australia There are pop-ups abound. There is hardly a multi-national brand that has not at least dabbled in providing an experience ...
