Journalist and Photographer
UTSoC, September 2018 From politics to pop culture, Eliza Spencer shares her top podcasts that make the shit show that is 2018 more bearable. It’s a truth universally acknowledged that podcasts are good for the soul. Seemingly overnight, these conversation-based earworms have eclipsed their boppy...
Aussie indie rockers Ball Park Music are riding the high of their latest release GOOD MOOD all the way to Splendour and back before hitting the road with San Cisco in September for an Australian tour. We sat down with Ball Park’s Sam Cromack and Jen Boyce to chat Nirvana, politics and keeping one foot in...
Music Insight, 2018. Image Courtesy of Sydney Opera House/Prudence Upton New York’s queen of indie, Regina Spektor, received a rapturous welcome at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Monday night. Debuting her 2016 record Remember Us to Lifeto Australian audiences in her first visit in six...
Music Insight, 2018 Aussie roots icon Xavier Rudd is set to release his latest album, Storm Boy, on May 25. Six years since his last solo project, his spiritual, indie-folk sound combines complex multi-instrumentation and an overarching connection between soul, land and spirit. We caught up with the...
UTSoC, 2018 Eliza Spencer recounts her encounters with sunflowers and recovery in a personal reflection on her path through depression and anxiety. Sunflowers follow the trajectory of the sun, moving their heads to soak up the optimum amount of light and converting to energy before...
Music Insight, 2018 A lullaby for existentialists, There Is A Presence Here is the debut album from Brianna Hunt, known as Many Rooms. After the critical acclaim received from the release of her single ‘Which Is To Say, Everything’, which debuted on NPR’s All Songs Considered, Hunt has authored an album...
Music Insight, 2018 Stella Donnelly and Alex the Astronaut have swapped noodles and astronaut suits for guitars in the first of their two sold-out shows at the Oxford Art Factory. They were supported by local artist JEFFE, and the ladies-only lineup delighted the crowd on Wednesday night.
A late start didn’t stop LANY from dazzling crowds at Luna Park’s Big Top on Sunday. The band made an impressive entrance through thick haze and humidity to the cheers of a rain-soaked crowd, lead vocalist Paul Klein standing with arms outstretched as he thanked audiences for braving the...
Music Insight, February 2018 Ten years after releasing his first record, English pop-folk artist Newton Faulkner believes he has found his sound. Describing his latest release, Hit the Ground Running, as a ‘fully updated version’ of his debut album Hand Built by Robots, Faulkner’s newest record is an engaging...
Music Insight, 2018 Few indie artists can say they’ve performed to a packed Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House, and the wonder wasn’t lost on Los Angeles native Moses Sumney. A soulful mix of R&B, folk, and jazz, Sumney was accompanied by Sam Gendel (Percussion, Woodwinds, Electric...