Backseat Downunder
Track: Laura Mac unveil a blinding ray of high-stepping sunshine with new track ‘Don’t Know What I’m Thinking’, and announce debut gigs.
Laura Mac‘s new single ‘Don’t Know What I’m Thinking’ is a effervescent blast of sonic goodness, with a hyper kinetic disco shuffle in a paean to bacchanalian excess. This Sunshine Coast band certainly knows how to bottle the sun’s rays and spray serotonin over the most light-deprived individual. The sound is all blistering pop and …
News: Sydney’s fabulous Johnny Hunter release the shimmering and poignant single ‘Dreams’ and announce much anticipated debut album ‘Want’.
Sydney post punk band Johnny Hunter have long been on my list of spectacular rising bands in Australia with a series of stunning singles over the past two years and their magnificent debut EP ‘Early Trauma’ (reviewed by me here). I interviewed them back in 2020 and their intelligence, passion and creativity shone through. Now …
Track: Chats release track ‘6L GTR’ & announce new album ‘Get Fucked’
Track: Chats back with rip snorting track and announce release of new album
Premiere: Melbourne based Māori musician Samuel Gaskin unveils the luminescent, incandescent video for the glorious track ‘RĀIN’, featuring The Merindas. 
Melbourne based queer Māori musician Samuel Gaskin‘s track ‘RĀIN’, featuring The Merindas, is a mesmerising, enigmatic track filled with a sense of hope and yearning: statuesque and affecting. We are honoured to premiere today the video for this extraordinary track and it is simply stunning. The video features rich luscious colours and close ups of …
News: UK legends The Charlatans announce ‘A Head Full Of Ideas, 32nd Anniversary ‘Best Of’ Australian/New Zealand Tour’.
One of the best and most enduring indie bands out of the UK, The Charlatans have released some of the most epic albums over thirty years that has seen tragedy and triumph, while consistently producing an immense quality of material including songs such as ‘The Only One I Know’, ‘Jesus Hairdo’, ‘Sproston Green’, ‘Then’, ‘Weirdo’, …
Premiere: Lewis Goldmark unveils sparkling new single ‘In Your Room’ and announces much anticipated album ‘Cut And Flash’.
We are overjoyed to premiere the new single ‘In Your Room’ from indie pop maestro Lewis Goldmark. Lewis Goldmark is the project of Liam Judson from Belles Will Ring (and Magnetic Heads) and producer of many eminent bands, some of whom have graced our pages in the past including Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Imperial Broads, Cloud Control and …
Meet: Matthew Smith from New Zealand’s band Deep Water Creek talks about inspirations and influences.
Give us a potted history of you / the band: I started the band Deep Water Creek about four years ago, sort of as a vehicle for my own songs. Before that I was in a band called Von Voin Strum for 4 or 5 years then did a solo album and a solo EP with a different crew. Most of …
Live Gallery: Peter Bibby and the Dog Act rock Sydney
Peter Bibby and Dog Act light up Sydney crowd with incendiary show.
Track: Melbourne’s The Meltdown conjure more ‘southern soul from the great southern land’ – new single ‘River’ out now via Hopestreet Recordings
Melbourne’s Southern soul and groove band The Meltdown have released their mesmerizing new single River via Hopestreet Recordings. The song is the very first to be taken from their sophomore LP It’s A Long Road, which is due out this summer. The energy of the track is driven by a gritty authenticity, from the twangy …
Live Gallery: Full Flower Moon Band Live at the Crow Bar, Sydney
Full Flower Band rock Sydney’s Crow Bar.