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Review: Asian Dub Foundation celebrate 30 years with a consummate compilation

Asian Dub Foundation are celebrating their 30th anniversary, and to mark this they have released a compilation of some of their finest collaborations from across their 3 decade storyline. They’re…

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Album Review: Psychlona’s ‘Warped Vision’ elicits the distinct clarity of a band on a steep upward trajectory

UK stoner rock giants, Psychlona are set to release their fourth long-player, Warped Vision in the coming days, with the album set to cement them into the upper echelons of…

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Album Review: Jack Rock – Explorations of a fourth dimension

Electronic music was always the sound of the future. Imagined soundtracks of what the world could be. The music of technology mirrored our utopian visions of the new possibilities, ideas…

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Album Review: Raffy Bushman – ‘Here Today Gone Tomorrow’: More thrilling post-bop nu jazz from the London pianist and composer.

For a musician who puts out an annual album release, pianist, cellist and composer Raffy Bushman manages to keep surprisingly under the muso-radar but you sense that’s just how he…

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Album Review: Blue Nation – Ordinary People

Blue Nation’s fifth album, ‘The Ordinary People,’ has been long in the making and sees the band bring together a collection of material that has had time to mature, grow,…

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Album Review: Ross McHenry – ‘Waves’: A deep and dynamic set from the renowned Aus-jazz bassist/composer.

It’s sobering to think that it was way back in 2013 that Ross McHenry was landed with the ‘future of Australian Jazz’ strapline. If that was then then what is…

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Album Review: Nico van Wersch – Psychose

How do I explain something I don’t fully understand? How do I introduce a music theatre piece that overwhelms but continues to elude me? Van Wersch’s musical score is part…

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EP Review: The radiant Holly Hebe releases the gorgeous EP ‘Ruby’, cementing her place as one of the most exciting indie pop artists around.

We’ve long admired the output of Naarm/Melbourne chanteuse Holly Hebe ,who has produced some of the most brilliant shimmering pop delights over the past few years. Today she releases her…

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Album Review: Kenny Wayne Shepherd gives us Vol. 2 of Dirt On My Diamonds, his epic ‘virtual’ double album.

US blues-rock guitar wizard, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, along with his band, have unveiled the second half of the Dirt On My Diamonds project. Following on from Dirt On My Diamonds…

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Album Review: WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN –’No More Apocalypse Father’: A probing, poetic and profound alt-rock record of today.

While much contemporary music of today seems required to focus on the ‘me’ some artists continue to probe wider into the things that ‘we’ do collectively, the injustices, the inhumanities,…

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