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New releases from Australia and New Zealand

Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne Twin Sisters, Idol Minds, Enchant with ‘Needed You’ – A Mystical Odyssey Through the Intricacies of Love

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Live Gallery: Warpaint at the Oxford Art Factory 23.10.2023

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Live Gallery: Barkaa at SXSW Sydney 20.10.2023

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We are very pleased to be able to bring you an exclusive look at the new video for the track ‘Lights On’ from the legendary Grinspoon singer Phil Jamieson. ‘Lights On’ is a pacy and exuberant little number: inveigled with the kind of spicy bravura and attitude we could expect from the singer of one …

We are very pleased to provide an exclusive early listen to the new album ‘Wanderer’ from Queensland’s Darcy Kate. With a voice of smoky velvet and a slow burning sparkle to the sound, Kate is a prodigious talent: her songwriting is melodic and tinted with a touch of melancholia and her voice glides and floats …

Meanjin/Brisbane-based electronic artist and producer Du0 is releasing his gorgeous debut EP ‘LIFT’ (produced by the artist himself and mixed by Mario Borgatta – alt-J, Major Lazer, Foster The People). and we are very honoured to be able to bring you an early listen before its release tomorrow. The music is shimmering and cinematic: wide …

Dark Mofo 2022 headliner, Kim Gordon and her band performed songs from her latest (and surprisingly, debut) solo release, 2019’s ‘No Home Record’. The sold-out crowd had come from all across Australia to see this one-off appearance with her band at The Odeon Theatre, and they would not have been disappointed, as she had assembled …

Tonight, Cate Le Bon dedicated the song ‘Miami’ to the late great Julee Cruise: a fitting reference to the style and enigmatic sounds of the Lynchian favourite – elements that Le Bon herself displayed throughout this bavura performance as part of the Dark Mofo Festival. The creaky old Odeon Theatre played its part on this …

Jason Pierce (aka J Spaceman), the lead creative force behind Spiritualized, brought his 9 person juggernaut to Australia to play 2 exclusive headlining events, one of those being at Dark Mofo 2022. Spiritualized played an extraordinary set, covering 30 years worth of material, from their beginnings on 1992’s Lazer Guided Missiles through to this year’s …