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News: Spirit Adrift announce tour with Corrosion of Conformity

Fred Madison June 11, 2020

Incoming: Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter

Rob Aldam February 18, 2015

NEWS: Alan McGee announces Creation Day festival for May ’21; tickets on sale tomorrow

David Bentley October 20, 2020

Blu-Ray Review: The Whispering Star/The Sion Sono

Rob Aldam April 12, 2018

New Music – Foxtrott – Meditations I-II-III

Adrian Barr October 22, 2018

Track: Jesabel releases debut single ‘Gemini’ and it’s a spinning mirror ball of a gem

Tania Ogier May 31, 2021

Premiere: Dumb Whales release chiming indie pop single ‘The Great Divide’

Arun Kendall November 5, 2020

Track: Maarja Nuut -‘Kutse tantsule / A Call For Dance’: fluid, bewitching and seductively free Estonian folktronica – it’s genius

Chris Sawle June 20, 2021

Album Review: Sydney’s Fabels weaves a shimmering and exotic cloak of many colours in their brilliant and evocative new album ‘Minds’.

Arun Kendall September 23, 2021

Premiere: Bryan Estepa’s melodic pop sensibilities shine in his new EP ‘Back to the Middle’ – have an exclusive listen here.

Arun Kendall September 23, 2021

Say Psych: Track Review: Sei Still – Extrarradio

Le Crowley September 22, 2021

Say Psych: Album Review: 10 000 Russos – Superinertia

Le Crowley September 22, 2021

PREMIERE: Royal Canoe get surreal in cinematic video for new album highlight ‘Surrender’

Gareth O Malley September 22, 2021

Track: The Zephyr Bones – Sparks

Craig Young September 22, 2021

A damaged picture cell of Mihail Žarov

Film Review – The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

Rob Aldam September 22, 2021

Album Review: Sarah Davachi – ‘Antiphonals’

John Parry September 22, 2021

Live Review: Slam Dunk North

Erin Moore September 22, 2021

Album review: The Ophelias release fantastical new album ‘Crocus’ this Friday Sept 24

Tania Ogier September 22, 2021

Music News Premiere Track / Video

PREMIERE: Royal Canoe get surreal in cinematic video for new album highlight ‘Surrender’

Gareth O Malley September 22, 2021

Back in July, Winnipeg-based quintet Royal Canoe released a rather good new record called Sidelining, the fruits of the band’s labour over the two years since 2019’s Waver. They probably weren’t planning on putting together a follow-up so soon, but seizing upon the lone upside of a pandemic putting the last year on ice sounds …

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Track: Still Corners release the driving shimmering single ‘Heavy Days’ and announce massive EU/US tour.

Arun Kendall September 18, 2021

‘The Last Exit’ from UK duo Still Corners, released earlier this year (reviewed by me here), was a magnificent and evocative collection of glittering and sparkling songs filled with magic and mystery. Still Corners are back with a new single – ‘Heavy Days’ – and an announcement of a comprehensive tour of the EU and …

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Premiere: Brisbane artist Aren’t unveils debut single, the transfixing ‘The Black from the Dark ft McKisko’ and announces debut EP.

Arun Kendall September 16, 2021

Brisbane band Requin burned brightly but tragically briefly, leaving behind an impressive body of work (see our review of the single ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’ last year). All is not lost however – Fionn Richards from the band has formed the project Aren’t, and we are honoured to provide an exclusive listen to the …

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PREMIERE: My Son the Doctor play with pop-punk tropes on spiky new song ‘Bethany’

Gareth O Malley September 16, 2021

Subversions of popular songwriting tropes, if done well, can really speak to an artist’s strengths. In the case of Brooklynite new wave bunch My Son the Doctor, their new song skewers a classic pop-punk fallback: the mutually toxic relationship. Its subject? Er… we’ll let the band explain that one. “We genuinely love pop-punk and thought, …

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Premiere: Melbourne’s Skybelly unveils the chapter of an exotic space adventure in the dreamy track ‘Sapphire’, ahead of debut album.

Arun Kendall September 15, 2021

The vivid, sparkling and unbound imagination of Sara Nelson, working under the name Skybelly, creates a whole new universe in her forthcoming album ‘A Space Tramp Odyssey’, due out on 23 September 2021. As a taste of what’s to come, we are honoured to premiere the track ‘Sapphire’ which is due out on 17 September …

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