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Twenty Years Wide Awake: A Love Letter to Bright Eyes’ I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning

Column

Bright Eyes’ I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning album cover, used for Annette Geneva’s Written In Reverb column on the beloved 2005 indie-folk record.

Mental As Anything Live in Brisbane: The Hits Were Alive, Even If the Ghosts Were Just as Loud

Live Reviews + Photos

Mental As Anything return to Brisbane for their 50th anniversary tour with the hits intact, the ghosts impossible to ignore, and a crowd more than ready to sing along.

Because She’s Good: Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love Reviewed

Album Reviews

Bernard Zuel reviews Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, a clever, understated and quietly impressive album shaped by love, doubt, The Cure and sharp pop instincts.

Deep Dive

A Waxx Lyrical deep dive into our January 2026 Record of the Month — a record of disconnection, hypnosis and human groove.

Deep Dive

A Waxx Lyrical deep dive into Lykke Li’s Wounded Rhymes — exploring desire, damage, control, and the album that reshaped modern pop heartbreak.

ARTICLES

30 Jan 2026
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.

17 Jan 2026

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.

3 Jan 2026
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.

23 Dec 2025
Waxxing Lyrical

The Best 25 Albums of 2025

Whatta great year for new music!

28 Jan 2026
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.

11 Jan 2026
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.

3 Jan 2026
Heatseekers

HAMMERS: Riding the Death Wobbles to Debut Album

Post-hardcore grit, dark humour and concrete-bowl chaos — Lucas Stone of HAMMERS unpack Death Wobbles and their long-awaited debut.

17 Dec 2025
Written In Reverb

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,.

18 Jan 2026
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.

3 Jan 2026
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.

31 Dec 2025
Record Of The Month Deep Dives

Wounded Rhymes: Lykke Li’s Ritual of Power, Control, and Survival

A Waxx Lyrical deep dive into Lykke Li’s Wounded Rhymes — exploring desire, damage, control, and the album that reshaped modern pop heartbreak.

17 Dec 2025
Forever Five

Forever Five: Polish Club

Waxx Lyrical's Forever Five with Novak and JH from Polish Club — five albums they can't live without.

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