THESE days, watching obscure music is as simple as typing “Peruvian death metal” into YouTube, but pre-internet you had to make the effort to ferret things out. In the early […]

WHEN Dana Kazhimova went to watch a couple of friends perform the traditional music and dance of her native Kazakhstan, she had no idea of the impact it would have. […]

It only seems fitting that WA’s sexually-ambiguous burlesque scene has officially entered the post-gender age. This year’s burlesque state finals in Perth will do away with its Miss and Mr […]

A SURREAL comedy featuring a man dressed as a horse is just one of the wacky highlights of this year’s Over the Fence Comedy Festival. Featuring 13 hand-picked comedy shorts from […]

ABOUT 100 saxophone players will belt out AC/DC’s It’s a Long way to the Top as part of the inaugural WAAPA Sax Festival in Perth this weekend. The two-day event […]

TO make their upcoming concert truly authentic, The HIP Company is playing music transcribed by Jesuit missionaries who lived in Beijing during the 18th century. The ensemble specialise in Baroque […]

SOME of the best art is borne out of adversity. In September 2021, Perth artist Simon Sieradzki was due to return from his studio residency in Germany, when Australia’s borders […]

• Gemma Farrell (middle) with her quintet. PERTH musician Gemma Farrell has been nominated for a humanitarian award for her tireless efforts for women and non-binary performers in jazz. Farrell […]

Is childbirth as traumatic as the scene in Alien when the creature bursts out of John Hurt’s stomach? That’s one of the questions Kaitlin Tinker tackles in her darkly comic […]

AFTER spending seven years trading licks with blues journeymen Dilip n the Davs, Andrew Pring and Daniel Wiggins knew each other’s chops inside out. So when their time playing with […]