July 2010

Basement Birds album review

Supergroups have been one constant of the past forty years of popular music. Having past success with their own respective projects, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young played their second ever gig to the million-odd filthy hippies at Woodstock and a...

Darren Hanlon - I Will Love You At All

Darren Hanlon's forth solo album sees the artist settle into a cosy, intimate sound. I Will Love You At All, recorded in Portland, Oregon with Adam Selzer (M. Ward, The Decemberists), is an acoustic journey that sees Hanlon hone his skills as an i...

Jackie Marshall - Ladies' Luck

Truly the antithesis of seemingly every female vocalist out there milking the affected "cute voice" fad, one thing is consistent with Marshall's voice, and that is she has a hell of a set of lungs. Bouncing seamlessly from angelic to ballsy to spo...

Getting your hands on Splendour in the Grass tickets

Missed out on Splendour tickets? Given up hope on scoring resold tickets -- or the illusive camping tickets -- because the festival is only a few weeks away? We here at Soulshine HQ have been following the system pretty closely and have plent...

Jimmy Webb - Just Across The River

For his latest release, Jimmy Webb has revisited his impressive catalogue to reimagine a whole slather of his past hits as a series of duets. It's an interesting proposition, if not a daunting one. So many of these songs have had formidable succes...

The Thrill Is Gone

Forget your Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page or Slash riffs. No guitar solo in history comes close to B.B. King's The Thrill Is Gone. This brooding 1969 hit is unquestionably one of the most recognisable pieces of R&B history -- alongside perhaps a ...

Ash Grunwald - Tivoli Theatre (June 19)

On the road right now for his 'Hot Mama Vibes' album tour, Ash Grunwald played Brisbane's intimate Tivoli Theatre recently.

Interview with C.W. Stoneking

Chatting with C.W. Stoneking is an interesting proposition. I picture him calling on something that sits somewhere between a wall-mounted crank telephone and a tin-can and string on the technology spectrum. That I'm on the other end on an iPh...