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Supergirl Doesn’t Need Your Approval

Film Reviews

Rebecca Gisborne reviews Supergirl, finding a superhero film less interested in likability than goodness, agency and the right to be messy.

Ewan Jackson on heartbreak, hindsight and finding comfort in looking back

Heatseekers

Sydney singer-songwriter Ewan Jackson talks heartbreak, hindsight, home recording and the stories behind The World From Here, as his first two EPs come together for the first time on What I've Done So Far.

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.

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

7 Oct 2024
Record Of The Month Deep Dives

How Massive Attack's 'Blue Lines' Defied Categorisation & Helped Invent Trip Hop

Massive Attack's Blue Lines remains one of the most compelling and influential albums of all time—an absolute masterpiece.

9 Sept 2024
Album Reviews

Brat to Brat: A Love Letter to Charli XCX

betNwa's love for Brat runs so deep, it has sparked her a monthly column. Welcome to her first entry!

15 Aug 2024
Waxx Lyrical presents...

Waxx Lyrical Presents ... Paul McCartney & Wings, 'One Hand Clapping'

Waxx Lyrical cordially invites you to an opening night screening of Paul McCartney & Wings: One Hand Clapping at New Farm Cinemas.

9 July 2024
Record Of The Month Deep Dives

The Velvet Underground & Nico: 25 Facts About Their Hedonistic Debut Album

With the benefit of hindsight, we've gathered 20 fascinating facts to accompany The Velvet Underground & Nico's Record Of The Month.

7 Oct 2024
Album Reviews

The Smile's 'Cutouts' Connects Everything Philosophical, Intellectual & Emotional

Cutouts refuses to catalogue neatly but the patterns really are laid out before you. They are connected. Everything is connected.

26 Aug 2024
Live Reviews + Photos

Greta Van Fleet and The Velveteers Rock Brisbane

The modern phenomena of shorter attention spans in younger people is disproved as extended jams and indulgent solos dot the set.

15 Aug 2024
Live Reviews + Photos

RIDE and Mercury Rev feed a seismic wash of melodic layering to a captured audience

RIDE and Mercury Rev feed a seismic wash of melodic layering to a captured audience

3 July 2024
Waxxing Lyrical

Best Albums : 2024 (So Far)

2024 has been a pretty blockbuster year for music so far - we've seen virtually every major pop star release something (to varying levels of quality), as well as a bunch of rising artists we're watching with a keen eye. Here is the rundown of Best Albums : 2024 (So Far), our favourite LPs of the year, unranked and in reverse chronological order, whittled down by our rabid "board" of contributors, writers, reviewers and music fanatics. In our playlist above, you'll find four songs from each...

10 Sept 2024
Album Reviews

Fontaine D.C.'s Romance eyes a world of big rooms and large-scale visions

Fontaine D.C.'s 4th album sees them sail past their roots and into a world of big rooms and large-scale visions.

23 Aug 2024
Heatseekers

Heat Seeker: HOL!DAY, 'Call On My Brothers'

Something of a men's mental health anthem, the song might be the best thing Dave Grohl never recorded.

17 July 2024
Film Reviews

'Fly Me To The Moon' : A Stylish, Funny, and Heart Warming Romp

Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, 'Fly Me To The Moon', a stylish, funny & heart warming look at the Apollo 11 mission.

1 July 2024
Live Reviews + Photos

Sharing Humanity, Madness, Possession and Billy Joel With Dirty Three

The ethereal music stirs up moments of nostalgia and reflection.

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