The SMH yesterday paid tribute to Professor Wilfrid Mellers, composer, critic and musicologist who “caused a stir in classical and popular music circles by giving serious consideration to the music of the Beatles and Bob Dylan as much as Bach and Beethoven” (SMH, 2008). Mellers introduced popular music into his teachings at Universities and was [...]
Music Emissions Indie Music Review Site
Greetings all! Check out this Indie music review website I found – Music Emissions – it has a whole host of CD & music reviews. It’s been around for a fair few years, I managed to find a CD review of That 1 Guy, who I’ve blogged about before, dating back to 2005. What’s cool [...]
Mixmag’s interactive Website
Searching through the myriad of websites I discovered an online magazine called Mixmag http://www.mixmag.net/. I has a hard copy version that is based in the UK but can be ordered and bought in Australia. I was totally impressed by the gallery section of the online Mixmag as there is a virtual magazine, set out in the same format as the hard [...]
“Musings on Music Journalists”
I didn’t know where to start collecting information for this BLOG as I’m neither overly passionate about any particular genre that is underrepresented by music journalists, nor do I read huge volumes of reviews, band profiles etc. I have, however, been lucky enough to find some funny critiques (BLOGS are a popular medium for this) [...]
