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Last modified on Wed 28 Apr 2021 08.40 EDT Anita Lane, the Australian singer-songwriter best known for her collaborations with Nick Cave, has died. A representative for her label confirmed the news. No cause of death was given, and her age – believed to have been in her early 60s – could not be immediately confirmed. Lane was born in Melbourne and attended art school where she began dating Cave in the 1970s. The pair later moved to Europe together and they collaborated, initially for Cave�...

Kurt Cobain died by his own hand April 5. The alternative nation’s voice was suddenly, shockingly stilled. After three years of the most popular music being an agonized scream over heavy guitars, people wanted something shinier and more upbeat. But they didn’t want to lose the overamplified six-strings and acknowledgment that life was complicated and messy. Dookie had that in spades. Now grunge aside and finally dominated rock culture as it threatened to in 1977. A third of these records...

Stranger Than Fiction, Arrow Team For Documentary River, Dogwoof to Sell at Berlin EFM (EXCLUSIVE) Naman Ramachandran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Australia’s Stranger Than Fiction Films and the U.K.’s Arrow Pictures have teamed for theatrical documentary “River,” commissioned by ABC Arts and BBC Arts. Exploring the relationship between humans and rivers, the documentary spans six continents. It is directed by Jennifer Peedom, co-directed by Joseph Nizeti and produced by Jo-anne M...

Spooky presence … Natalie Walker in A Ghost Waits Chock full of delightful narrative surprises, imaginative genre tweaks, and warming performances from its two leads, this low-budget romcom-horror story is worth seeking out. Director Adam Stovall, who co-wrote the script with the film’s star MacLeod Andrews, makes an impressive feature debut with an obviously teensy budget. It’s smartly deployed to cover essentially one set, some theatrical makeup and kit ...