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  Album review: Lana Del Rey, Born To Die

  02 February 2012

  TMN review the most scrutinised album in recent memory.

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  Live review: Kanye West, Sydney

  31 January 2012

  Your opinion of Kanye West’s live show hinges on what elements of his work you admire.

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  Live Review: OFWGKTA, Enmore Theatre

  30 January 2012

  I'm incredibly aware of how utterly indefensible Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All are towards anybody who has already dismissed them either as offensive juvenilia or just plain untalented hip hop artists. If you belong in these groups then you'd be right to assume that this show would have done little to change your opinion.

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  Live review: Das Racist, Sydney

  30 January 2012

  If you’re going to watch Das Racist in action, you’d better come equipped with a solid sense of humour

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  Big Day Out 2012: Sydney

  27 January 2012

  For a day that was picked to be shadowed by dark clouds and intermittent rain, Big Day Out Sydney hosted a fair few sunburnt snozes and Southern Cross tattoos.

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  Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Enmore Theatre

  24 January 2012

  The elder Gallagher wasn’t afraid to look back, with more than half the set made up of Oasis songs.

• Album Review: The All-American Rejects, Kids In The Street

  23 January 2012

  It seems the band have plucked the grittiest guitar riffs and the catchiest refrains from their previous albums and melded them into a creative congress that pushes the boundaries of their pop/punk/rock image.

• Live review: Arctic Monkeys, Sydney

  13 January 2012

  Arctic Monkeys’ sweat-soaked, smoke-blanketed fans were left with new-found respect and new hair-cut ambitions for the unofficial dukes of indie.

• Live Review: 2011 Meredith Music Festival

  15 December 2011

  For the uninitiated, Meredith Music Festival isn't quite like anything else that happens in Australia. It's essentially one stage with three days of music.

• Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, Immersion Box Set

  14 December 2011

  “Gotta keep everyone buying this shit.” So sings Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour to a packed crowd at Wembley in 1974. Thirty-seven years later, the fact this this track is included in a massive and overly-indulgent box set reissue of Wish You Were Here is more than a little tongue-in-cheek.

• Live Review: Foo Fighters, Tenacious D

  09 December 2011

  “You know we don't play those fuckin' one hour 45 minute shows,” he yelled. ”We don't do that shit. We play until the neighbours call the fuckin’ cops!”

• Album Review: Steve Smyth, Release

  07 December 2011

  A solid debut from an indie-folk singer in an over-saturated market, Steve Smyth's songs are endearing but it’s clear the best is still to come.

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