WAXX LYRICAL MEDIA CENTRE:
A love letter to music – written by those who listen closely.
COLUMNS
Live Reviews + Photos
Laneway Festival 2026 Grows Up: From Back-Alley Cool to Stadium-Sized Spectacle
A dual-city review of Laneway 2026 — from Geese and Wolf Alice to Chappell Roan’s glitter-soaked headline spectacle.
Jonesing For This One
Jonesing For This One: Midnight Oil's Earth And Sun And Moon
Matt Jones revisits Midnight Oil’s Earth and Sun and Moon in the wake of Rob Hirst’s passing — a nostalgic, heartfelt tribute to one of the band’s most underrated albums.
Live Reviews + Photos
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Prove, Again, That No One Else Comes Close
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds deliver a transcendent, emotionally overwhelming live show, blending gospel highs, grief, chaos, and communion into one of the finest performances imaginable.
Jonesing For This One
Jonesing For This One: James Iha’s Let It Come Down
Matt Jones returns with Jonesing For This One, spotlighting James Iha’s Let It Come Down — a sunny, surprising solo album that rewards time and repeat listens.
Film Reviews
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s Wuthering Heights Is Gorgeous, Guilty, and Gloriously Unfaithful
Rebecca Gisborne reviews the 2026 Wuthering Heights starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi — a visually stunning but divisive Emerald Fennell adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic.
Written In Reverb
How Manchester Orchestra Taught Us to Sit With Discomfort
A Written In Reverb essay on Manchester Orchestra’s debut, exploring discomfort, vulnerability, and why I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child still matters.
Live Reviews + Photos
Viagra Boys Turn Fortitude Music Hall Into a Sweatbox of Punk Chaos
Viagra Boys tear through Fortitude Music Hall with a blistering Brisbane set, mixing absurdist humour, brute-force punk and crowd-fuelled chaos.
Heatseekers
Holding Grief and Hope in the Same Song: Talitha Jae on ‘Ada’
Talitha Jae opens up about ‘Ada’, her most personal song to date — a raw, intimate release shaped by infertility, miscarriage, and pregnancy after loss.
Heatseekers
Duke Box Steps Gently Into The Real World With A Debut Full Of Heart
Lo-fi, keys-driven and quietly heartfelt, Duke Box’s Welcome To The Real World is a debut album built on honesty, nostalgia, and songs that feel like they’ve been waiting patiently to be heard.
Record Of The Month Deep Dives
Skeleten's Mentalized: Interior Dance Music for a Fractured World
A Waxx Lyrical deep dive into our January 2026 Record of the Month — a record of disconnection, hypnosis and human groove.
David Byrne: Still Dancing, Essential as Ever
David Byrne proves he’s still essential, delivering a joyful, high-wire live show built on movement, precision, hope, and refusal of nostalgia.
Interviews
Andy Bull: Restoring the Vision of People You Love
Andy Bull discusses revisiting People You Love as a Director’s Cut, exploring instinct, cohesion, creative risk, and what it means to truly finish an album.
Waxx Lyrical
Forever Five: Timothy Carroll (Holy Holy)
Forever Five: Timothy Carroll (Holy Holy)—five albums he can't live without.
Waxx Lyrical
Forever Five: Nic McKenzie (Deep Sea Arcade)
Forever Five: Nic McKenzie of Deep Sea Arcade—five albums he can't live without.
Waxx Lyrical
Forever Five: Jack Ladder
Forever Five: Jack Ladder—five albums he can't live without can't live without.
Waxx Lyrical
Forever Five: Andy Bull
Forever Five: Andy Bull—five albums Andy Bull can't live without.
Waxx Lyrical
Forever Five: Matthew Caws (Nada Surf)
Forever Five: Matthew Caws (Nada Surf)—five albums he can't live without.
Waxx Lyrical
Forever Five: Isabella Manfredi
Forever Five: Isabella Manfredi—five albums she can't live without.
Waxx Lyrical
Forever Five: Liam Finn
Forever Five: Liam Finn—five albums he can't live without can't live without.
Waxx Lyrical
Forever Five: Meg Washington
Forever Five: Meg Washington—five albums she can't live without.
Waxx Lyrical
Forever Five: Georgia Davies of The Last Dinner Party
Forever Five: Georgia Davies of The Last Dinner Party—five albums she can't live without.
Waxx Lyrical
Forever Five: Ben Lee
Forever Five: Ben Lee—five albums he can't live without can't live without.
Annette Geneva
The Dead Weather’s Horehound: Swamp Gospel for the Unprepared
Written In Reverb: Annette Geneva descends into Horehound — a dark, immersive exploration of power, desire, and identity...
Annette Geneva
How Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American Taught Us to Feel Loudly
A love letter to Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American — emo’s most generous masterpiece,.
Annette Geneva
Spoon's Gimme Fiction: The Album That Rearranged Me
Annette Geneva reflects on Spoon’s Gimme Fiction — a cult classic that still burns. Not a love letter, but a thank-you note to its lasting impact.
Annette Geneva
The Space Between Years: Butch Walker’s Peachtree Battle & the Shape of Losing a Parent
Butch Walker’s Peachtree Battle — an EP written in the shadow of losing a father.
Annette Geneva
On DMA’S The Glow, Sydney, and the Beautiful Stupidity of Wanting More
For AusMusicMonth, Annette Geneva writes a luminous Written In Reverb essay on DMA’S The Glow.
Annette Geneva
Still Bleeding Softly: 10 Years of Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell
Annette Geneva explores Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell in Written In Reverb: a moving look at grief, memory, and the album’s lasting emotional power.
Annette Geneva
How Manchester Orchestra Taught Us to Sit With Discomfort
A Written In Reverb essay on Manchester Orchestra’s debut, exploring discomfort, vulnerability, and why I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child still matters.
Annette Geneva
Neon on Skin, Needle Down: A Love Letter To Metric's 'Fantasies'
Through Annette Geneva’s lens, 2009 comes alive again — neon-lit nights, sticky dance floors, and Metric’s Fantasies pulsing through it all.
Annette Geneva
Still Listening: Frightened Rabbit’s Painting Of A Panic Attack
Annette Geneva's Written In Reverb is a personal column about the records that resonate through time—haunting, healing, and holding us when we need them most. In this first instalment, she writes a love letter to Frightened Rabbit’s Painting of a Panic Attack and the echoes left behind by Scott Hutchison’s voice.
Matt Jones
Jonesing For This One: Alexandra Saviour, Belladonna of Sadness
Matt Jones returns with Jonesing For This One, spotlighting Alexandra Saviour’s Belladonna of Sadness — a smoky, cinematic debut best enjoyed front to back.
Matt Jones
Jonesing For This One: Crowded House – Temple of Low Men
Matt Jones launches his new Waxx Lyrical column Jonesing For This One by revisiting Crowded House’s Temple of Low Men.
Matt Jones
Jonesing For This One: Midnight Oil's Earth And Sun And Moon
Matt Jones revisits Midnight Oil’s Earth and Sun and Moon in the wake of Rob Hirst’s passing — a nostalgic, heartfelt tribute to one of the band’s most underrated albums.
Matt Jones
Jonesing For This One: James Iha’s Let It Come Down
Matt Jones returns with Jonesing For This One, spotlighting James Iha’s Let It Come Down — a sunny, surprising solo album that rewards time and repeat listens.
Ben Preece
Prince’s Psychedelic Gamble: The Legacy of Around the World in a Day
At the height of his powers, Prince swerved left—dropping a psychedelic curveball and telling the label to hold the singles. Forty years on, it still feels like a risk only he could pull off.
Ben Preece
The Long Hard Road to Wildflowers and How Tom Petty Learned to Let Go
A deep dive into Tom Petty’s most vulnerable album, Wildflowers, its lost songs, and the story behind the music that listens back.
Ben Preece
The Last Dinner Party Serve Delicious Debut Single.
IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THESE EARS CAN STILL HEAR A #TUNE when stumbling upon one. The Last Dinner Party's most excellent debut single 'Nothing Matters' popped up randomly on my streaming platform of choice and, upon doing a little research doesn't seem like these ears are exactly taste making after all - their trajectory is already well on its way! I call this exercise of releasing this kind of debut single "to pull a Wet Leg" - that doesn't mean it shares anything more with Wet Leg than an...
Ben Preece
Heat Seeker : Mardi Lumsden, 'Never Have I Ever'
Brisbane singer, musician and writer Mardi Lumsden returns with a sparkly new single, 'Never Have I Ever'.
Ben Preece
Heat Seeker: Feign Jima, 'Ballerina Baby'
Naarm / Melbourne vocalist Feign Jima gets the Spotlight treatement for her exquisite single, 'Ballerina Baby'.
Ben Preece
Heat Seeker : Winifred, 'Fixed On You'
Hailing from Townsville, Winifred has talent of inimitable proportions and has quickly has quickly stacked up the accolades.
Ben Preece
Heat Seeker : Rose Rogers, 'Headlights'
So far criminally-underrated, Brisbane singer and musician Rose Rogers returns with one of her finest singles to date, 'Headlights.'
Ben Preece
Heat Seeker: The Terrys
Gerringong band The Terrys are the latest and greatest addition to Australia's surf indie scene.
Ben Preece
Heat Seeker : The Atomic Beau Project, 'GHOSTS'
The Atomic Beau Project's new single 'Ghosts' is a short, focused masterclass in utter badassery and spookiness.
Ben Preece
Heat Seeker : The Buoys, 'Red Flags'
Spotlight on 'Red Flags', the new single from Sydney all-female indie rockers, The Buoys. For lovers of Best Coast and early Wolf Alice.