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Album Review: The ‘Heathen Sound’ of Big League is a deliciously fuzzy onslaught filled with melody and chainsaws.
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Live Review and Gallery: Pandemonium Rocks Festival, Caribbean Gardens, Melbourne 20.04.2024
Album Review : Arthur Melo – ‘Mirantes Emocionais’ : a dazzling alt pop escapade from the Brazilian guitarist and composer.
Live Review: The Zutons / Casino – Leadmill, Sheffield 19.04.2024
Tracks: My Dying Bride – Her Dominion
EP Review: ‘Accelerator’ – life speeds up for the brilliant HighSchool in this haunting epic release ahead of European tour.
Live Review & Gallery: STUMPS Embarks on Nationwide Tour, Celebrating Sophomore Album ‘Arcadia’ – Factory Theatre, Gadigal/Sydney 20.04.24
Live Review and Gallery: The Ronson Hangup, George Lane, Melbourne 19.04.2024
Live Review + Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay – Day 4, Sunday 31.03.2024
Live Review & Gallery: Australia Bids Farewell to Beloved Post-Punk Ensemble Johnny Hunter – 19.04.24, Low 302, Eora/Sydney
Album Review: Big|Brave – ‘A Chaos Of Flowers’ : The Montreal rock trio craft a post-metal touchstone.
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Premiere: Joseph Luca is looking for ‘One Last Dance’, new EP out today
News: Cincinnati Singer-Songwriter Lydia Shae Shines Bright with Debut Album ‘Decade Diaries’
Premiere: Terry Jones speaks up in ‘Silent Like Chaplin’ video; new EP out next month
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Track: Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Heartbreak (Kerri Chandler Remix)

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Arun Kendall January 27, 2021

Gallery and set-lists: Wider Than Pictures series featuring YUNGBLUD / Rat Boy – Collins Barracks Dublin 23.08.2023

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Album Review: The ‘Heathen Sound’ of Big League is a deliciously fuzzy onslaught filled with melody and chainsaws.

Arun Kendall April 23, 2024

The Breakdown ‘Heathen Sound’ is a collection of urgent vibrant tracks that thunder with a fuzzy passion, squealing guitars and the sweetest of melodies that thread their way through the swarm. There is an utterly endearing passion, a poetic force in the lyrics and a heart-pounding energy that is cathartic and joyous. Independent – 8.8 …

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Album Review : Arthur Melo – ‘Mirantes Emocionais’ : a dazzling alt pop escapade from the Brazilian guitarist and composer.

John Parry April 22, 2024

The Breakdown As an album it may pack a lot in emotionally as well as musically but Arthur Melo has the vision to guide you through to leave you feeling refreshed and restored. WONDERFULSOUND – 8.9 In the same way that last year Bala Dejeso and Ana Frango Elétrico swung the spotlight back on the …

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EP Review: ‘Accelerator’ – life speeds up for the brilliant HighSchool in this haunting epic release ahead of European tour.

Arun Kendall April 22, 2024

The Breakdown ‘Accelerator’ is a chilly, spacious and poised EP that reverberates with its icy guitars and dispassionate vocals. There is a dark gothic hue to every track that freezes the blood, a reverberation that echoes like a wind through a ravine. HighSchool is a band that effortlessly conjures up a haunting, striking atmosphere with …

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Live Review and Gallery: The Ronson Hangup, George Lane, Melbourne 19.04.2024

Arun Kendall April 22, 2024

Melbourne psych-pop supergroup The Ronson Hangup – featuring members of The Anyones, Dallas Crane, The Church, Even, Paul Kelly’s band and Courtney Barnett’s band, launched their most recent single ‘SSDD (Same Shit Different Day)’ at the very Bohemian George Lane venue in the equally Bohemian St Kilda suburb of Melbourne. The venue was intimate enough but the …

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Live Review + Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay – Day 4, Sunday 31.03.2024

Andrew Fuller April 21, 2024

If the Saturday at Bluesfest Byron Bay had been fairly hectic with me getting to 11 artists, then Sunday would turn out to be even busier. With the crowds still buzzing, I tried to make sure that I captured as many artists as I could across this day. I opened my day by catching the …

Track: Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Heartbreak (Kerri Chandler Remix)

Track: Barley Passable bottle the essence of a Sydney summer with new single Turnaround

Premiere: The Tibbs release new video for The Main Course

Blu-Ray Review: 3 From Hell

Book Review: The Ballad of Jethro Tull