Dark Cafe Daze

2009: the year that the radio and my personal tastes started to collide. If you’d told me a year ago that I would stumble into my kitchen and hear some ...

A little (a lot) slack on the postings recently. Indeed. So, to bring you up to speed… a few live clips that have captured my imagination/attention/soul over the past few ...

‘Live and Honest’ is a new little segment here on Dark Cafe Daze and is effectively the culmination of my many hours crawling online video sites for rare live videos ...

Red Ghost (aka Rosa Agostino) is a Sydney-based artist who happened to put out one of 2007’s unheralded gems. Largely guitar based, this lo-fi EP, Brittle Times, inhabits the same ...

One of the stranger parts of my personality is my ability to know obscure facts about former pop stars. Does everyone remember Aleesha Rome? No? See clip below. What then, ...

I’ll lay it bare from the outset: I do not have a history of love for Lisa Mitchell. Mark Holden was obsessed with her on that talent show but I, ...

The best song from Kate Miller-Heidke’s ‘Curiouser’ album now has a lovely (if not slightly heartwrenching) video. Forget any Neighbours preconceptions: this song was brilliant long before Steph Scully cried ...

A well respected colleague of mine, Mr Nick Crocker, published a piece today on The Punch regarding the state of the music industry. (It is well worth a read, so ...

I have been meaning to cast my vote in the Hottest 100 Women poll (on Twitter and Facebook) for some time now, yet, as expected, have been stuck in periods ...

“Big in the UK” but yet to make a major splash here in Australia, this is the clip for La Roux’s ‘Bulletproof’ – a glorious, 80s inspired pop cataclysm.