Our Man In Melbourne

All in all, and with apologies to W.C. Fields, I'd rather be in Australia. It'd be summer, for one thing, and I could be have gone to Big Day Out on Australia Day and be watching Serena Williams and Roger Federer at a reasonable hour rather than all hours of the night. And today, I'd be seeing Florence & the Machine, The xx (that's them) and The Very Best at this Laneway Festival.

But if I'm not lucky enough to be Down Under in January, Inquirer freelancer Doug Wallen is. And nd his review of Mastodon, Passion Pit and Peaches, among others, at the massive Big Day Out is here. Meanwhile, we shivering Philadelphians will have to wait till March 29th for The xx to come back to the northern hemisphere and play the Santuary at the First Unitarian Church on March 29th.

Previously: Philly Rocks For Haiti at the Troc