News: RISING 2025 – Melbourne’s After-Dark Festival is Back and Bigger Than Ever
Beth Gibbons, Suki Waterhouse, Black Star: RISING Drops a Stacked Lineup
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News: Vivid LIVE 2025: A Clash of Icons, Innovators & Clubland Chaos at Sydney Opera House
Vivid LIVE 2025 is shaping up to be Sydney’s most electric music takeover yet. Get ready for a festival that collides past, present, and future in one kaleidoscopic explosion.
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Track: Thornhill Share Final Preview of New Album ‘Bodies’ with Single ‘Tongues’
Thornhill Set for North American Tour Following ‘Bodies’ Release
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Live Review & Gallery: Nine Bands, One Unrelenting Day at New Bloom Festival – Roundhouse, Eora Land/Sydney, 09.03.25
Nine bands and thousands of punters, all more than willing to throw (nay, hurl) themselves headfirst into a day of hardcore goodness. From the jump, the crowd was locked in,…
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Meet: From Coffins to Cosmic Fire: Hendriek Bleik’s Electrifying Afrikaans Rebellion
Lichtenburg’s Loudest: How Hendriek Bleik is Dragging Afrikaans Music into the Future
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Live Review & Gallery: A Truly Enchanting Night at Oxford Art Factory With Bess Atwell, Ruby Gill and Sarah Levins – Eora Land/Sydney, 06.03.25
From the first note to the last, Bess Atwell’s night at Oxford Art Factory was never about spectacle, it was something rawer, more tangible. No theatrics, no backing band, just…
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Live Review & Gallery: Knotfest Sydney Ignites: A Day of Chaos, Hardcore, and Heart 8.03.2025
Knotfest storms into Sydney with relentless energy, as bands from hardcore upstarts to metal veterans ignite the pits, industrial chaos rumbles under ominous skies.
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Live Review & Gallery: Metro Feels Like Manchester as Courteeners Take Over – Metro Theatre, Eora Land/Sydney, 05.03.25
There was no mistaking the excitement in Metro Theatre ahead of Courteeners‘ headline show, and the air was thick with a cacophony of British accents. Fresh off their Yours and…
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Live Gallery: Ice Cube’s Legacy Roars On at the ICC Theatre, Sydney 7.03.2024
Ice Cube Brings the Fire to Sydney—Even a Cyclone Couldn’t Stop Him
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Live Review & Gallery: Shame Revel In Punk Devotion, Giving Australia Stage Dive Sermons – Metro Theatre, Eora Land/Sydney, 04.03.25
I’d heard along the grapevine that Shame’s set at Yours and Owls Festival was the one to catch, best of the weekend, unfiltered punk energy carrying the day forward ahead…
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