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News: Mudhoney Bring Their Enduring Grunge Legacy Back To Australia

Few bands can claim to have altered the course of rock music as profoundly as Mudhoney. Long before grunge became a global phenomenon, the Seattle quartet were laying its foundations…

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Track: Phoebe Bridgers Begins A New Chapter With ‘Lost Boys’

Less than 24 hours after announcing her long-awaited third album Lost Weekend, Phoebe Bridgers has unveiled its first new single, ‘Lost Boys’, offering listeners another glimpse into the next chapter of…

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Track: Girl and Girl Return With Explosive New Single ‘It’s Dead’

Queensland garage-rock outfit Girl and Girl have returned with a ferocious new double offering, unveiling the visceral single ‘It’s Dead’ alongside companion track ‘Hell’, while announcing an East Coast Australian…

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Track: ‘When I Dress For You’ – Team Building unveil their shimmering bemusement at life

With links to another antipodean band we have covered in the past (Yeevs), Eora/Sydney band Team Building have just released their second single, the gentle, simmering, shimmering ‘When I Dress…

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Track: Uh Huh Her Release New Single ‘Shook’ And Nocturnes: Redux

For much of the late 2000s and early 2010s, Uh Huh Her occupied a singular corner of alternative music. Blending shimmering synths, understated guitars and intimate songwriting, the duo quietly…

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News: Parkway Drive Celebrate Two Landmark Albums With Exclusive Australian Shows

Few Australian bands have shaped modern heavy music quite like Parkway Drive. From Byron Bay metalcore upstarts to one of the genre’s defining global acts, the quintet have spent more…

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News: The Screaming Jets Announce Tamworth Return And BONFEST Debut

The Screaming Jets are proving that few Australian rock bands can bridge worlds quite like they can, announcing two very different but equally fitting live appearances that will take them…

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Track: PJ Harvey Looks To The Stars On Expansive New Single ‘Voyager’

Three years after the release of her Grammy-nominated album I Inside the Old Year Dying, PJ Harvey has offered the first glimpse of her next creative chapter with the release of…

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News: You Am I To Reimagine Hourly, Daily With String Quartet On Special Tour

Few Australian bands have left a mark on the nation’s musical landscape quite like You Am I. Three decades after the release of their landmark album Hourly, Daily, the Sydney rock…

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News: Manchester Icons James Announce First Australian Tour Since 2018

Manchester legends James will return to Australia and New Zealand this October for their first tour of the region since 2018, celebrating one of the defining albums of the 1990s…

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