Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There (Matador)
Yo La Tengo, the US’s and Hoboken New Jersey’s premier indie rock band (especially since…
Author Tony Mitchell
Tony Mitchell
Tony Mitchell is an honoraray research associate at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has edited a number of books: on global hip hop (Global Noise, 2001), on Australian Popular Music (Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now, 2008), and New Zealand Music (Home Land and Sea, 2011). He is currently co-editing a book about Icelandic music.
Secret Solstice Festival, Reykjavík Hot Spring Valley, June 17-20 by Tony Mitchell
‘Delivering Music To A Hip-Hop-Starved Nation’ was how the Reykjavík Grapevine headline described this year’s…
30th Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, Lapland 10-14 June 2015 by Tony Mitchell
While most Sydney film buffs were indulging themselves at the Sydney Film Festival, I was…
Lawrence English: ‘Room40 at 15 and The Peregrine.’ Interview by Tony Mitchell
J.A. Baker’s nonfiction book The Peregrine was first published in the UK in 1967 and…
Feastock Festival, Dunedin, New Zealand, April 11 2015 by Tony Mitchell
While Rod Stewart was regaling 250,00 people at the Forsyth Barr stadium in Dunedin, also…
Anthony Pateras: “The Murder of Place” Interview by Tony Mitchell
At the end of 2014 Australian composer and pianist Anthony Pateras released Geocidal, by tētēma,…
Jóhann Jóhannsson: “I think its very important to keep a balance between my own work and film scoring.” Interview by Tony Mitchell
Two recent projects by Berlin-based Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson relate to Australia – his music…
SolitiFest: Helsinki 30.8.2014 by Tony Mitchell
The Soliti label was established in Helsinki in 2011 by British expat Nick Triani. Born…
Flow Festival Helsinki 2014 by Tony Mitchell
This year’ Helsinki Flow Festival attracted a “nearly sold out’s 57,500. With crowds swarming around…
Dust and Grooves : Adventures in Record Collecting – Photographs & Art Direction (& Interviews) Eilon Paz – Editor Sheila Burgel (Dust and Grooves)
Eilon Paz used to be an amateur DJ in Tel Aviv, as well as a…
Feral Finnish Folk Fest By Tony Mitchell
Sääksmäki is a quiet village in western Finland on the road north from Helsinki to…
Interview: The Necks at 25 – A Changing Same?
Tony Mitchell interviews Chris Abrahams and Lloyd Swanton of the celebrated Sydney improvisers The Necks…
A bedroom community in Reykjavik – interview with Ben Frost and Valgeir Sigurdsson
Tony Mitchell talks to Australian musician Ben Frost and Icelandic “director of recording’ Valgeir Sigurdsson…