Clare Bowditch 's 2011 EP Are You Ready Yet has served as something of a career placeholder, putting the Aussie singer/songwriter back in solo mode again after 2010's electro-poppy Modern Day Addiction with her band The New Slang. Ready boasted a couple new songs, reworkings of older titles and a pair of a capella renderings, but it was the seven-minute title track that really turned heads, a sprawling prog-pop masterpiece of epic proportions that recently premiered as an interesting new video (watch below). Bowditch, who won an Aria in 2008 for Best [...]

I'm tired, I say. What should I write about tonight? Flowers, she says. It's almost spring. And she smiles at me, as if to say I love you. Another Valentine's Day come and gone, and now I'm running ragged against our usual Sunday deadline after a rare evening out without children, just my love and I amidst the white linen and wineglasses, a dozen other couples, and a small cadre of harried, presumably single servers. It's time well spent, though I regret [...]

I have a terrible confession. It's pretty bad...brace yourselves...I watch Australian Idol . When questioned I blame my mother (as I do with most things) and say that I only watch it because she does. But this simply is not true as I actually quite enjoy it and have watched almost every series. Why is it that I am made to feel ashamed to admit that I enjoy watching people of varying skill enjoy an evening of karaoke? Need I say more... But in the same way that I [...]

The original MOKB Covers Project post of Hallelujah has been dead for many moons, but it is still one of the most commented on, linked up and talked about posts we've put together here at MOKB. I've promised many a reader that I would one day re-host all the files for everyone to enjoy. We revisited the song and found a plethora of new versions since last we posted it. There are even more we saw but couldn't find. As always , if you have a [...]