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Lo Carmen

@locarmen.bsky.social
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Words & music. New album ‘Transatlantic Light’. Weekly newsletter Loose Connections on music/culture at www.locarmen.substack.com

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Lo Carmen @locarmen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
kd lang once said it was harder to come out as vegetarian than it was to come out as lesbian. Today in Loose Connections I wrote about weirdos, plant based diets, outrage & influence! locarmen.substack.com/p/the-v-word
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The V Word
On Weirdos, Plant Based Diets, Outrage & Influence
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Lo Carmen @locarmen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
So happy & honoured for our new album Transatlantic Light to be on the Post To Wire Favourite Australian/NZ Albums of 2024 in such good company 👌🌹🎉https://posttowire.com/category/album-reviews/
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Lo Carmen @locarmen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
‘When Lo hits her high notes and she is accompanied by that perfect sad piano, it makes me weak in the knees and causes the hair on my arms to stand on end.’ Grateful for such a deeply felt review from the brilliantly named Twangrila. twangrila.com/2024/11/26/l...
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Lo Carmen Shines Brightly on Transatlantic Light
Lo Carmen & The Great Beyond: Transatlantic Light (Album Review) Reviewed by Harry Kaplan I have described that feeling in the past when I listen to music for the first time and it appeals to m…
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Lo Carmen @locarmen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I dreamt I got a snarky live review that called me ‘the Collins dictionary of the music world’ and spent the rest of the dream trying to work out if that was a compliment or an insult.
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Lo Carmen @locarmen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Cross-app resource here for music writer & music lovers/readers - go forth & multiply! 🎶
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Lo Carmen - accomplished actor, songwriter, musician, all-round Renaissance Lady - is also one of the very best music writers I know; her memoir Lovers Dreamers Fighters is vivid and enviably free. Here she writes (at length) about the ongoing legacy of underground Australian music in Europe, esp
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Lo Carmen @locarmen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Today I wrote about Kangaroo Rock, The Melbourne Sound & the Australian musical pioneers that set the world on fire! open.substack.com/pub/locarmen...
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Something In The Water
On Kangaroo Rock & The Impact Of The Australian Underground Sound Around The World
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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 15/11/2024
Well, now…
Typographical error
Due to a typing error, Saturday's story on local artist Jon Henninger mistakenly reported that Henninger's band mate Eric Lyday was on drugs. The story should have read that Lyday was on drums. The Sentinel regrets the error.
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Lo Carmen @locarmen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I often misread text on signs and find myself greatly amused - I just read something about audiences nabbing ‘set lists’ post gig as souvenirs but misread it as ‘sex lists’ and have a feeling that’s what I’ll be writing for my shows from here on out. (Metallica setlist for your consideration)
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Lo Carmen @locarmen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Careering across the blue skies of Honolulu on my way home to Oz and this view felt like an appropriate way to say hey over here… flying never fails to blow my mind.
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