Live Review & Gallery: Burning Witches Bring Classic Metal Energy to Manning Bar 23.05.2025
Burning Witches brought their brand of classic metal to Sydney’s Manning Bar—see what went down
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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…
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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…
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Track & Video: DIIV Confront Hope and Loss Amidst Californian Wildfire Aftermath With New Release ‘Return of Youth’ + UK/EU/AUS Tour Dates
A year after ‘Frog in Boiling Water‘, DIIV return with their first new release – ‘Return of Youth‘, a quietly devastating single that trades widescreen collapse for something far more…
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Live Review + Photo Galleries: The big guns continue to fire as Bluesfest Byron Bay heads into Day 2
Having made my way to 10 artists on the day before, I upped the ante on the second day trying to get to as many artists as I could before…
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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…
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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…
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Live Review & Gallery: The Lemonheads turn Sydney’s Enmore Theatre into a ’90s time machine with back-to-back album show 20.05.2025
The Lemonheads played two cult classics in full tonight – and every hook still stings in the best way
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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…
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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…
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