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Reviews /First Pictures by Joel Sternfeld
Eggleston, eat your heart out. Sternfeld is the new, the original American landscape. He is the man of colour who, armed with a 35mm and a Kodachrome slide film, gave each era its own palette. At... read more -
Reviews /Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Return To The 36 Chamber
A more unhinged voice had never come before, and most definitely hasn’t been heard since. ODB was the sound of insanity before it was clinically proven, and still sounds as exhilarating as... read more -
Reviews /The Kinks’ The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Have a glass of good times with Ray Davies and the gang why don’t you? What a quaint pastoral frolic this is. An ode to Ye Olde English country life, this collection of wistful vignettes is... read more -
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Reviews /Brian Eno And David Byrne’s My Life In The Bush of Ghosts
David Byrne’s always been a dab hand at primitive tribal voodoo, but never was it as disorienting and beguiling as this. Rather than have it anchored with his own voice as in his career in... read more -
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Reviews /William Fitzsimmons' Gold in the Shadow
Gold in the Shadow is the kind of gutsy folk that could only emerge from the lungs of William Fitzsimmons: Illinois-based, bearded master of the quietly powerful hymnal. Raised by blind parents... read more -
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Reviews /Patti Smith 1969-1976 photographs by Judy Linn
“I took these photographs before I knew how. In the beginning, it wasn’t so much about who we were but who we were going to be” – Judy Linn. Before they were somebodies,... read more -
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Reviews /Architecture in Helsinki's Moment Bends
Genuine surprises in music are rare and pretty bloody magic. Architecture In Helsinki have been mainstays on the Australian music scene for close to 10 years, now four albums deep into an always... read more -
Reviews /Please Kill Me by Legs McNeal and Gillian McCain
"Music’s never loud enough. You should stick your head in a speaker. Louder, louder, louder. Do it, Frankie, do it. Oh, how. Oh do it, do it.” – Lou Reed.This is exactly that:... read more -
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Reviews /William Eggleston's Before Color
In his grainy black-and-whites, Eggleston captured the America that was endless service stations and empty lots, burning cigarettes and popcorn machines, empty beds and fresh-cut grass, fairy... read more -
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Reviews /Family Photographs by Andrew Cowen
Photographer Andrew Cowen’s family is Emma Balfour, Bruno the Brave and Elliot the Electric. His family photographs hold the beauty in ordinary moments, each with its own story. Bruno on... read more -
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Reviews /The Misfits by Arthur Miller and Serge Toubina
It was the last Western, the film that killed Clark Gable, and an unlikely collaboration of those who others forgot – or who they simply chose not to remember – set in the Reno of... read more -
Reviews /Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town
There’s more than one reason why Bruce is The Boss, but Darkness on the Edge of Town is a fairly major one of them. After the all-conquering Born to Run slayed the world, The Boss’... read more -
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Reviews /Max’s Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll
A New York tradition, Max’s was a place that drew the drifters from The Chelsea Hotel. Here, David Bowie met Iggy Pop, and Blondie played to a room of 25. Max’s was a place where you... read more -
Reviews /Where Children Sleep by James Mollison
Bright red nylon carpet with black stripes, one wall for Duran Duran, the other for Madonna – this was the stuff James Mollison’s personal kingdom was made of. Now, with a little help... read more -
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Reviews /Jerry Hall: My Life in Pictures
Jerry Hall – she’s instantly recognisable, so deliciously old school, with her perfectly arched eyebrows, toothy smile and half-closed eyes. And this is her story – from... read more -
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Reviews /Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Alex Ebert, the lead troubadour of the sprawling, stage-filling band Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, is tall and slim with a mop of brown hair that he keeps tied in a topknot at the crown... read more -
Reviews /Flowers, Skulls, Contacts by David Bailey
Some people will read deeply into this leather-bound book. You know the kind. They’ll say the eclectic juxtaposition of the cult photographer’s recent still-life snaps of flowers and... read more -
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Reviews /Within Arm's Reach by Ari Marcopoulos
Ari Marcopoulos’ work is intimate, real, raw, austere – Jean-Michel Basquiat in the bath, Miles Davies leaving Avery Fisher Hall, LL Cool J, Robert Mapplethorpe. He beat Larry Clark... read more -
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Reviews /Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes
American literature’s Dirty Old Man. Drunk and disorderly. Deviant. Poet, prose writer, postal worker. All as pieced together in this, Bukowski’s biography, by Howard Sounds. ... read more -
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