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Album Review: Fcukers’ Ö is a 28-minute rush of sweat, speed and downtown chaos

Fcukers Ö album review – There’s no gentle way into Ö. Fcukers don’t open a door, they flick the lights on and drop you straight into the middle of it. The debut album…

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Album Review: Truly great – The Great Emu War Casualties unveil their soaring debut album ‘Public Sweetheart No. 1’

The brilliantly, if rather enigmatically, named band The Great Emu War Casualties have just released their debut entitled ‘Public Sweetheart No. 1’ after a series of EPs and singles released since the…

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Live Gallery: DMA’s Celebrate 10th Anniversary of Debut at Metro Theatre – 27.03.26, Eora Land/Sydney

A one-off, completely sold out, hometown show celebrating the 10th anniversary of their debut album ‘Hills End’, performing it front to back (including tracks that had never been played live)…

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Live Review & Gallery: Counting Crows balance nostalgia and new blood in a career-spanning Sydney set 29.03.2026

Counting Crows Enmore Theatre review – The Enmore Theatre fills early tonight, the room already humming before a note is played, and Kingswood waste no time leaning into it. There’s nothing tentative…

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Live Review + Photo Galleries: The Brian Jonestown Massacre bring the zing to The Odeon, Hobart 26.03.2026

For the second time in 18 months, an uncompromising Anton Newcombe and his cohort of highly talented musicians brought their special brand of psychedelia to Hobart as the Brian Jonestown…

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Live Gallery: Anthrax prove their enduring power with high-velocity show at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre 28.03.2026

Anthrax Enmore Theatre Sydney review – The Enmore Theatre feels like a pressure cooker tonight. Long before Anthrax appear, the floor is already shifting with anticipation, bodies packed tight, voices…

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Live Gallery: Avalanche and The Datsuns crash headfirst into Sydney’s Crowbar with high-octane sets 27.03.2026

The Datsuns Crowbar Sydney review: high-octane rock at full throttle.

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Track: CAVS expands his sonic palette on new single ‘First Light’

Michael ‘CAVS’ Cavanagh steps out from behind the kit and further into his own orbit with ‘First Light’, a track that trades impact for immersion, unfolding with a quiet, deliberate patience.…

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Track: Liliana de la Rosa expands her cinematic world on ‘High Like Heaven’

Sydney-based Liliana de la Rosa leans fully into atmosphere on ‘High Like Heaven’, a track that doesn’t so much unfold as it drifts, slow and deliberate, into something more immersive. Her second release…

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Track: Bachelor Girl rework ‘Treat Me Good’ with Jessica Mauboy

Bachelor Girl revisit ‘Treat Me Good’ with a renewed sense of purpose, teaming up with Jessica Mauboy to reshape the track into something both familiar and newly resonant. Originally released in 1998, the track has…

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