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Premieres / Exclusives
Premiere: Kathleen Halloran unveils enigmatic video for the sultry track ‘Wolves Like You’ ahead of new album and live dates.
We are very honoured to provide you with an exclusive look at the stunning new video for the über cool single ‘Wolves Like You’ from guitarist Kathleen Halloran. The release…
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Premiere: ‘Melt’ – Townsville-based Poison Oak exclusively unveil their soaring single ahead of launch date.
We are very honoured to bring you an exclusive early listen to the radiant new single ‘Melt’ from Townsville-based band Poison Oak. ‘Melt’ is a shimmering indie pop…
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Premiere: Grace Turbo Questions Time and Heartbreak on New Single ‘Linear’
Sydney alt-pop artist Grace Turbo has released ‘Linear’, a dark synth-driven single from her forthcoming album Yes, And. Built around pulsing electronics and exposed vocals, the track…
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Premiere: BB Sabina exclusively unveil haunting, shimmering new single ‘In between’ ahead of launch date.
Naarm/Melbourne shoegaze band BB Sabina came onto our radar last year with their single ‘Multitude’ (see our review here) and we are very honored to bring you an exclusive listen…
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Premiere: ‘Ready For It’ – after 28 years, The Remotes exclusively unveil their dreamy, evocative new single.
Some things age like a fine wine. Originally a duo comprised of Ollie Browne (Art of Fighting/The Hoodangers) and Kristian Brenchley (S:Bahn, Degreaser), The Remotes released their debut…
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Track / Video
Track: Tractor Beam’ finds Snail Mail exploring dissociation and distance
There’s a moment in Snail Mail’s new single ‘Tractor Beam’ where everything seems to lift, not in triumph, but in escape. It’s a feeling that runs through the track like a…
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Track: ‘Mother Please Forgive Me’ – Electro goth maestros Caligula reign supreme with their new emotional anthem.
It’s playtime again for the magnificent Caligula they follow up last year’s live gigs celebrating thirty years of sonic success and their comeback single last year (see my review…
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Track: Julia Cumming captures the fragility of memory on ‘Please Let Me Remember This’
There’s a fragile kind of clarity running through ‘Please Let Me Remember This’, the new solo offering from Julia Cumming. Built around trembling piano and gauzy, slow-drifting guitars, the…
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Album Reviews
EP Review: STAHR interrogate memory and momentum on debut EP BLIP
There’s a particular elasticity to memory that STAHR tap into on BLIP, their debut EP that treats emotional upheaval less as permanence and more as distortion. What once felt…
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Album Review: Pan•American – ‘Fly The Ocean In A Silver Plane’: An intricate set of guitar blessed ambience which steer the emotions.
It’s sobering to think that Mark Nelson aka Pan•American has been diligently considering and creating musical radiance for over twenty-five years now. Guitarist, vocalist and founder member of…
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Album Review: Matthew Sigley’s The Daytime Frequency releases ‘Colorgravure’: a glittering and euphoric sonic journey.
Matthew Sigley is constant star in the antipodean indie musical firmament, providing a range of musical talents from bass to keyboards to a number of iconic bands ranging from The Lovetones,…
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Album Review: New Age Doom & H.R.– ‘Angels Against Angels’: Metal experimentalists meet Bad Brains legend and shape one massive rock/dub prophesy.
Experimental rock duo New Age Doom, drummer Eric Breitenbach and guitarist Greg Valou, thrive on collaboration and collectivism. Since the early drone metal improv of their debut, their…
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Album Review: Fabels create a mystical sonic storm in their new album ‘Ophera’.
The sounds of Fabels have always been wrapped up in a sort mystical pagan fugue, mysterious, raw and, incongruous given the electronic delivery, organic. Fabels are Hiske Weijers from Berlin…
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Album Review: ‘Men Are A Luxury Item’ but The Petrov Affair prove their immeasurable worth with their debut album.
We’ve been closely following the magnificent The Petrov Affair for a few years, enticed by their brand of jingle jangle shimmering pop. It is a great pleasure therefore to listen to…
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Interviews
Feature: Fokofpolisiekar Reflect on Swanesang at 20 as Australian & NZ Tour Extends Legacy
South African punk band Fokofpolisiekar reflect on Swanesang 20 years on, as Hunter Kennedy discusses identity, rebellion and taking the band's music to audiences in Australia and New Zealand.
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Meet: A.S. Fanning Talks About His New Album ‘Take Me Back To Nowhere’
On his fourth studio album Take Me Back To Nowhere, A.S. Fanning sounds both unmoored and quietly resolute. Drawing inspiration from science-fiction, experimental sound worlds, and a newly…
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Meet: Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys Talk Us Through New Single & The Upcoming Album ‘Pale Bloom’
With a body of work that thrives on tension, restraint, and emotional depth, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys have built a reputation for music that lingers long after it’s heard. As they move…
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Meet: John Witherspoon Talks Through The Elegant New Single ‘My Baby’ & Upcoming Album
Liverpool’s John Witherspoon is back with his most emotionally intricate single yet, ‘My Baby’, releasing September 19th as the final preview of his third studio album, One Of…
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Meet: Ash frontman Tim Wheeler – “If it wasn’t fun and playful, we’d have quit long ago”
Ash frontman Tim Wheeler is in reflective but upbeat mood as he talks about the band’s new album To The Stars, their first since 2021. “It’s the shortest gap we’ve had since our first and…
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Feature: Newton Faulkner – New Shapes, Old Joys, and the Art of Playing
Newton Faulkner tells us about OCTOPUS, experiments and the joy of playing
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Features / Playlists
Feature: Fokofpolisiekar Reflect on Swanesang at 20 as Australian & NZ Tour Extends Legacy
South African punk band Fokofpolisiekar reflect on Swanesang 20 years on, as Hunter Kennedy discusses identity, rebellion and taking the band's music to audiences in Australia and New Zealand.
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Meet: We chat to the living legend Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens and solo) about his renewed lease of creativity, the bands and the good old days, ahead of the release of his new album ‘Strawberries’.
Ahead of his new album ‘Strawberries’ due for release on 23 May 2025, I had a thoroughly entertaining chat via Zoom with living legend Robert Forster about the past, the present,…
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Feature: effe releases her debut single, the swirling psychedelic ‘Chokehold’, and a list of her ten favourite things ahead of debut launch.
effe is formerly one half of Brisbane pop duo WIIGZ and the nom de plume for Naarm/Melbourne based alternative pop artist and producer Hannah Brydon. Her debut single ‘Chokehold’…
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Live review
Live Review + Gallery: Hawthorne Heights – Knitting Factory – Spokane, Wa – 2026.03.15
The Knitting Factory in Spokane, Washington was sold out and rocking out to emo mainstays Hawthorne Heights. The band are out on the road celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the the album…
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Live Review: Sigrid – O2 Academy Leeds. 18.03.26
Sigrid's breezy charm captivates Leeds O2 Academy
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Live Review & Gallery: Mieliepop – A Multiverse Of Sound And Movement
Mieliepop unfolds as a kaleidoscopic three-day escape where music, connection and chaos collide, transforming Mpumalanga’s hills into a living, breathing multiverse of sound.
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Live Gallery: It’s The End Of The World As We Know It-Electric Six Turn Manning Bar Into a Sweaty Disco-Punk Pressure Cooker 20.03.2026
Electric Six transform Manning Bar into a heaving, chaotic dancefloor, delivering a set that feels equal parts absurd theatre and end-of-the-world celebration.
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Live Gallery: Lloyd Cole Rewires His Legacy At Sydney’s Factory Theatre 19.03.2026
Lloyd Cole takes to a packed Factory Theatre in Sydney, delivering an electric solo set that reworks classics from Rattlesnakes through to On Pain with sharp clarity and quiet force.
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Say Psych: Live Review: Louder than War Festival, Manchester – 14.03.2026
Louder Than War are three words that have become synonymous with excellent music taste, and trusting that taste has seen me heading over to the University of Manchester student union building…
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Film
News: The life and times of William Arthur and his iconic Sydney band Glide is explored in ‘Disappear Here’, a film by Ben deHoedt.
Glide were a seminal Sydney band that burned brightly and all together too briefly in the nineties, beset by tragedy when their singer and songwriter William Arthur died at the end of that…
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Film Review: January
Winter can be a magical time of year and there’s nothing more atmospheric than a sprinkling of snow. In many places, that light covering becomes something different entirely. In Eastern…
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Sundance Review: Iron Butterflies
As we approach the first anniversary of the full Russian invasion of Ukraine, it’s easy to forget that this war didn’t start in 2022. Indeed, the (recent) troubles with Russia can be traced…
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Sundance Review: Slow
Cinema reflects the age, society and country it’s made in. For example, 1950s Hollywood portrayed romance as straightforward love between a man and a woman. They meet, get to know each other…
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Sundance Review: When It Melts
Trauma is a terrible thing. It’s not something you can outrun or escape from. It doesn’t matter how many years you bottle it up inside, it will suddenly resurface when you least expect it. You…
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Blu-Ray Review: Villa Rides
The line between good and evil has always been a little blurred in Mexico. Whilst American cinema likes to have a clear delineation between its heroes and villains, the reality is often much…
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