Doug Wallen

City Fallen Leaves, by Comet Gain 16 track album

So glad to see that Tapete has reissued one of my favourite albums, Comet Gain's "City Fallen Leaves". I already had it on vinyl from a previous run, but now it's back on streaming comet-gain.bandcamp.com/album/city-f...

and now it's on SBS On Demand for free

My first book, Currents - a @3313books.bsky.social Ocenia title on Tame Impala’s game-changing album - is out today!🪣✅

Available at your usual major book retailers and via @bloomsburyacad.sky.social here:
www.bloomsbury.com/au/tame-impa...

Sci-Fi Classic Terminator 2 Is Getting a New Soundtrack – Performed Live in Sydney and Melbourne Over the past decade Hear My Eyes has enlisted King Gizzard and Sampa the Great to perform new live scores at screenings of No Country for Old Men, Wake In Fright and more. Next up: T2.

I interviewed Hear My Eyes founder/curator Haydn Green about 10 years of thrilling live scores and his most ambitious multi-city staging to date www.broadsheet.com.au/national/ent...

Waste the Alphabet (16/2/26) Listen to Waste the Alphabet (16/2/26) on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

and cheatsheet music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

handwritten playlist for Waste the Alphabet episode #373

tonight's radio www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ind...

3.5-star review of Sleaford Mods' album "The Demise of Planet X" for The Weekend Australian

I also reviewed the new Sleaford Mods record for The Weekend Australian

4-star review of Dy Cleaning's album "Secret Love" for The Weekend Australian

I reviewed the new Dry Cleaning record for The Weekend Australian

Earth Tongue too: great Aotearoa NZ band!

Delved deep into Dungeon Vision with Gussie from Earth Tongue ⚔️

Watch Paris, Texas Watch Paris, Texas for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!

PSA: SBS On Demand has just added "Paris, Texas" www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...

cover image of The Big Issue Australia #755, featuring a smiling vendor in their signature yellow vest for The Big Issue's annual Vendor Week

I wrote about Sally Seltmann's new album (out Feb 20) and sterling back catalogue for The Big Issue Australia. Support your local vendors!

Melbourne’s Cosmic Funk and Jazz Scene Punches Above Its Weight The musicians here draw on their experience as immigrants to create their dazzling music.

Shaped by the "each one teach one" mentality shared amongst the diverse multicultural community of Australia's artistic capital, Melbourne’s Afro-Latin funk and jazz scene has quietly evolved into something special and distinct.

PSA: “Harold & Maude” is only a $5 digital purchase via Apple in Australia

Brain Dead (1990)

Pumping Iron (1977)

Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)

Brewster McCloud (1970)

Images from films starring Bud Court (RIP)

Brain Dead (1990)
Pumping Iron (1977)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)
Brewster McCloud (1970)

The first single off of White Fence's Ty Segall-produced new album exits the Barrett/Ayers era of the past in favor of something a bit more downy, a bit more plush. “Your Eyes’ is shot through with thick shots of percussion and an aura that feels far bigger than he’s sounded in years. bit.ly/4qMbo25

we now return to itchy & the nits The Australian trio on wielding giant puppets, fearing giant jellyfish, and finding inspiration in Betty, Veronica, and H.R. Pufnstuf.

the wildly fun Aussie garage punk trio Itchy & the Nits return with a new album and a second band theme song. a conversation about their process, enormous jellyfish, which cartoons they love, making puppets, and H.R. Pufnstuf.

Waste the Alphabet (9/2/26) Listen to Waste the Alphabet (9/2/26) on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

and cheatsheet music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Waste the Alphabet (9/2/26) Hear new music from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Billy Cart, Mia Wray, Mach Pelican and more. Full playlist here.

tonight's radio www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ind...

I finally got around to listening to this beautiful revisitation of a record that meant so much to me 20 years ago (and still does)

You Are In My Dreams, by kisses 10 track album

totally hooked on the new album by Melbourne's folky indie pop ensemble Kisses: highly recommend kisses5eva.bandcamp.com/album/you-ar...

Destroyer’s Rubies by Destroyer, turns 20 this February, and will receive a repressing befitting its status as one of the jewels of the Merge Records catalog. The 20th Anniversary Edition of Destroyer’s Rubies is now available for pre-order from the Merge Records store or Destroyer’s Bandcamp page.

4-star review of Sunscreen's album "Everything You Gave Me"

I reviewed Sunscreen's debut album for The Weekend Australian

In response to ongoing ICE activity in Minnesota and around the country, Superchunk is reprinting their "Abolish ICE" T-shirt, with profits from the sale benefiting The People’s Laundry Minneapolis and the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.

punk this week podcast: indirekt grell + en kernaghan band That’s right, we read books. Well...one of us reads books plural. The other one reads book singular.

for the new episode of the PUNK THIS WEEK podcast, @ninacorcoran.bsky.social talks being a library regular and the multiple books she’s read so far this year. meanwhile, I have read part of one singular book. get in the van, bookworms, and then listen to a wide swath of punk + rock'n'roll.

lovely stuff zoltanfecsoannamorley.bandcamp.com/album/desire...

one of the best music writers we have

8 Great New Films and TV Shows to Watch This Month This month’s movie and TV slate mingles healing laughs and cathartic cries with transmittable body horror, low-key superheroes and one downright quaint BDSM romance.

I wrote about some things to watch in February www.broadsheet.com.au/national/ent...

I can happily report that Send Help is super fun

3.5-star review of Youth Group's album "Big Whoop" for The Weekend Australian

I also reviewed Youth Group's latest album for The Weekend Australian