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LATEST READS

Forever Five: Tania Doko (Bachelor Girl)

Column

Bachelor Girl’s Tania Doko reveals the five albums she can’t live without, spanning Donny Hathaway’s soul, John Farnham’s warmth, Robyn’s emotional pop, Chris Stapleton’s country grit and Sam Fender’s urgency.

Thirty Years Down the Wrong Road: Modest Mouse Keep Moving Through the Maze

Album Reviews

Thirty years in, Modest Mouse are still following the crooked road. An Eraser and a Maze is messy, haunted, funny and stubbornly alive.

Ed O’Brien Finds His Wings on Blue Morpho

Album Reviews

In his first ever review for Waxx Lyrical, Rhys Mackenzie takes on Ed O’Brien’s Blue Morpho, a meditative, textured journey through crisis, nature, spirituality and quiet transformation.

Deep Dive

August and Everything After didn't arrive with swagger. It arrived with uncertainty. In this Waxx Lyrical deep dive, we explore the stories, songs and emotional honesty that transformed Counting Crows' debut into one of the defining albums of the 1990s.

Deep Dive

It didn't produce a major hit, but it introduced one of Australia's most important bands with astonishing confidence. We explore the stories, songs and legacy of Midnight Oil's extraordinary debut.

ARTICLES

30 May 2025
Record Of The Month Deep Dives

Mk.gee, The Reluctant Virtuoso and His Dream Police

We trace Mk.gee's rise, his sound, and Two Star & The Dream Police, the record that’s already reshaping what a breakthrough can look like.

28 May 2025
Forever Five

Forever Five: Lachlan Rose (Cousin Tony's Brand New Firebird)

Five albums Lachlan Rose (Cousin Tony's Brand New Firebird) can't live without.

13 May 2025
Live Reviews + Photos

Sound and Light and Slowdive Live

Slowdive’s music feels like memory — hazy, intimate, and achingly beautiful. Photographer Yejin Cho sees the world much the same way.

6 May 2025
Forever Five

Forever Five: Timothy Carroll (Holy Holy)

Forever Five: Timothy Carroll (Holy Holy)—five albums he can't live without.

30 May 2025
Written In Reverb

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.

27 May 2025
Long Looks

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.

12 May 2025
Forever Five

Forever Five: Diesel

Five albums Diesel can't live without.

30 Apr 2025
Record Of The Month Deep Dives

Metronomy's The English Riviera: Seagulls, Synths & Soft Power

Metronomy’s The English Riviera is a cult classic of British electronic pop—sun-drenched, subtly weird, and quietly influential.

28 May 2025
Live Reviews + Photos

Sigur Rós with the Brisbane Philharmonic, Through Yejin Cho’s Lens

Experience the haunting beauty of Sigur Rós’s 2025 Brisbane performance through the lens of photographer Yejin Cho.

20 May 2025
Forever Five

Forever Five: Steve Kilbey (The Church)

Five albums Steve Kilbey (The Church) can't live without.

8 May 2025
Book Reviews

How I Found Bruce Springsteen in Atlantic City And Never Left

THERE WAS A TIME when the idea of being a Bruce Springsteen fan seemed unlikely on so many levels for me...

29 Apr 2025
Forever Five

Forever Five: Matthew Caws (Nada Surf)

Forever Five: Matthew Caws (Nada Surf)—five albums he can't live without.

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