Live Review plus Gallery: Infinity Broke Album Launch with The Gin Palace, Trocadero Room, Sydney, 24 May 2025
Infinity Broke blasted their way into the busy Enmore Road in Sydney at the Trocadero Room, offering a far more enticing fare than could be found up the road at the larger Enmore Theatre. Launching their turbo-charged album ‘This Masthead’ (see my review here), the band was preceded by Peter Fonda (sadly missed by me …
Live Review plus Gallery: Vivid Festival – Sigur Rós with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the iconic Opera House shine brighter than the festival lights outside.
In a performance that transcended the boundaries of genre and expectation, Sigur Rós, in collaboration with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, delivered a night of sonic transcendence that will linger in the city’s cultural memory for years to come. As part of the Vivid LIVE festival, this concert was not merely a musical event; it was …
Track: Take Fazerdaze’s ethereal ‘Motorway’ to a dreamy world of love and anxiety, with tours ahead.
The sun always shines brighter and the general misery of the world dissipates somehow when there is new material from the luminescent Fazerdaze (the nom de plume of Amelia Murray). Fazerdaze has just unveiled a new single, ‘Motorway’, out through Buttrfly/Virgin Music Group, a track that is delivered over fuzzy driving insistent guitars before heavenly synths drift in …
Track: ‘I’m On The Border’ – MF Tomlinson faces challenges of loss and alienation in a shimmering single.
Australian-born UK resident MF Tomlinson will be releasing a new album entitled ‘Die To Wake Up From a Dream’ on 11 July via PRAH Recordings. The new single of the album, ‘I’m On The Border’, is a deliciously melancholy observation of finding stability, infused with the feelings of alienation and anxiety as a palimpsest for the resilience of …
Track: Merpire shares the gorgeous yearning ‘Leaving With You’ off her forthcoming album ‘MILK POOL’.
Naarm/Melbourne Merpire, the exquisite work of multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt, continues to dangle sonic enticements ahead of her album ‘MILK POOL’ due out on 4 July 2025. Next cab off the rank is the soaring lush sounds of ‘Leaving With You’, exhibiting a delicate yearning romanticism over the rich guitars: I only stay in …
Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne band Alcotomic unveil a buoyant sliver of sunshine pop with ‘Ruby Shoes’.
We are very honoured to premiere the single ‘Ruby Shoes’ from Naarm/Melbourne indie band Alcotomic: a track so bright and boisterous you need anti-gravity boots and sunglasses to listen to it. Alcotomic formed in 1996 when John Baxter left nineties band Holocene and played to great acclaim for five years. In 2024, bassist Doug Lee …
Track: Sydney-based singer/songwriter Maia Jelavic returns with delicate and ethereal new single ‘Spanish Moss’ ahead of launch date.
Sydney-based singer/songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Maia Jelavic has followed up her last single ‘Solid and Human’ with a new track ‘Spanish Moss’. Driven by a rolling, sparkling piano, ‘Spanish Moss’ is a heart-achingly beautiful track, filled with vivid imagery and quiet reflection as Jelavic sings of the moss as a palimpsest for spirituality and permanency, where …
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, creativity, the legacy of The Go-Betweens and his new Swedish band. But let’s get a couple of big questions out of the way. The …
Premiere: We exclusively unveil the new video for Karen Vogt’s (Heligoland) track ‘Spirit’, off the shimmering album ‘Haunted Woodland Volume 5’.
Earlier this month I reviewed the new solo album from Paris-based Australian artist Karen Vogt, part of the much vaunted band Heligoland. Today we are proud to premiere the video for the track ‘Spirit’ off the album. The track has a spiritual, dreamy tone as Vogt’s yearning vocals enter above echoed, delayed crisp guitars – …
Track: It’s not over for The Insufferable Paul Scott (ex-Pop Mechanix) as he releases sparkling new single ‘Extinct’.
I often bang on about the Marrickville Sound in the southern hemisphere: members of bands that basked in the spotlight in the eighties or nineties who in later years reform or create new bands that continue to create and innovate in their later years. Paul Scott is another prime example: for those who where there …