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Masterpiece Mixtape columnColumn by Steven Lochran Masterpiece MixtapeMelbourne-based writer Steven Lochran pontificates on the nature of music, the media, and all manner of murky matters.  If you've been following The Cheers for a while now, you might remember a column I did a while back called Masterpiece Cinema. A weekly exploration of under-appreciated films, Masterpiece Cinema would look at a single movie and discuss both its posit..read on Masterpiece Mixtape - Thrown Away Chances are you've heard the music of Jon Crosby. Chances are you also have no idea who he is. Crosby is the driving force behind the critically-lauded, popularly-ignored industrial rock band VAST. I call VAST an industrial rock group for la..read on Masterpiece Mixtape - (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night Tom Waits is an interesting figure in the landscape of popular music. Rarely do we find artists who are so highly influential and yet so anonymous. Often, when I mention Tom Waits in conversation with people I'm met with only blank stares. Those unfa..read on Masterpiece Mixtape - Lover, You Should\'ve Come Over Picking just one song of Jeff Buckley's to represent his body of work is a tough choice. Everyone has their favourite. I think if you were to ask most people, they'd probably choose his cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, which is generally regarded..read on Masterpiece Mixtape - Midnight Radio I've never really been a fan of musicals. I think it's that I find the song writing in them, generally, to be too fanciful. But as much as I dislike musicals, I really, really dislike rock musicals. For the longest time, however, I couldn't work out ..read on Masterpiece Mixtape - Let\'s Stay Together A lot of the songs that have been focused on in Masterpiece Mixtape up until now have been – for lack of a better way of putting it – white boy rock epics. I thought this week it might make for a nice change of pace to turn down the lights, scatter t..read on |
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