Dark-Pop Queen CXLOE and Her ‘Shiny New Thing’
CXLOE’s Shiny New Thing is hook-forward pop music, an unrelenting collection of emoto-bangers, and an arch response to a clueless music executive.
Chris Rutherford
Chris is a performing arts educator and pop cultural enthusiast from Sydney. He has been published in The Journal of Education in the Dramatic Arts and contributed artist interviews to the Australian pop music website auspOp. Chris also worked as a director and copywriter as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival program.
Rock and Ruin: The Downfall of Courtney Love’s ‘America’s Sweetheart’
Concocted in a three-year maelstrom of excess, the highly anticipated solo LP America’s Sweetheart was overshadowed by Courtney Love’s erratic behavior.
Madonna’s Celebration Tour: A Forward-Thinking Retrospective
As much as Madonna’s Celebration Tour is a meditation on her mortality, it is also a love letter to her core LGBTQIA+ audience whose loyalty has never wavered.