Culture

Rock duo Sleater-Kinney’s new album, Little Rope, explores feelings of loss in songs layered with contradictions, complexity and wildness.

For Tasmanian practice Taylor and Hinds, developing deep and long-term relationships with specific Aboriginal communities is a process of discovering the truth of Country.

In a life haunted by the shadow of death, Naomi Saalfield – best known as Nai Palm, lead singer of Grammy-nominated Melbourne band Hiatus Kaiyote – has learnt what she values most.

The moment I walked in, he said that’s what I was. That was before I even told him the sob-story of how shit went south with the government job. How the exec video-called us to say there was no need for a team of writers, that all our work could be done by some younger prick. Before my brother Leonard got drunk and jumped in front of the 351 and practically sawed himself in half. ‘It’s easy,’ he said to me at the time. ‘You just sit there in the crowd, they put the camera on you, and you do something that people will share online.’

For filmmaker Madeleine Blackwell, Eve Sussman and Rufus Corporation’s The Rape of the Sabine Women lays bare the originary violence of imperialism.

Melbourne Theatre Company’s first show for the year, Seventeen, is charming in many ways. But is that enough?

Inkle Studio’s charming narrative game A Highland Song has a seemingly effortless beauty.

The scaling back of revered music review site Pitchfork reflects a dwindling critical culture that is catastrophic for the future of artistic diversity.