Live Gallery: Rising Festival – Liv.e and Obongjayar, Forum Theatre, Melbourne, 15.06.2023
Feature photograph: Ian Bickerstaff
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Live Gallery: Peni Parker at the Vic On The Park, Sydney 30.06.2023
PENI PARKER EP Launch at the Vic on the Park.
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Track: Naarm/Melbourne artist Eilish Gilligan make a welcome return with a harder edge in new single ‘Involved You’
It has been nearly two years since Naarm/Melbourne multi-talented artist Eilish Gilligan released her EP ‘First One To Leave The Party’ – reviewed by me here and described as being…
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News: Interpol & Bloc Party Announce co-headline Australian Tour
Interpol and Bloc Party announce co-headline Australia tour this November!
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Track: In a brilliant antipodean collaboration, BENEE and Mallrat unveil the ultra pop track ‘Do It Again’, Official Song for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ with live dates ahead.
Aotearoa/New Zealand’s BENEE and Australia’s Mallrat have joined forces to release the Official Song for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™, ‘Do It Again’. Could there ever be such a…
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Live Gallery: Polyphia at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney 28.06.2023
Polyphia rock Sold Out Enmore Theatre with their musical virtuosity.
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News: New Zealand’s Clementine Valentine (fka Purple Pilgrims) announce new album and unveil the elegant single ‘Time and Tide’ as a taste of what’s to come.
Clementine Valentine, the New Zealand-based art-pop duo formerly known as Purple Pilgrims, today announced their upcoming album, ‘The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor’, out on 25 August via the…
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Premiere: Wade Jackson’s dramatic ‘The Sweetheart’ now has a fittingly evocative and cinematic video.
We are very honoured to bring you an exclusive look at the brilliant new video for the track ‘The Sweetheart’ from troubadour extraordinaire Wade Jackson – a tune we astutely…
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Premiere: Melbourne’s The Woodland Hunters give us exclusive access in going all-out with Double-A sided release of ‘Golden Boy’ and ‘The Arrangement’ amid news of impending fourth album ‘Small Mercies’
Ten years together as a band, The Woodland Hunters, with an EP and three albums already in their arsenal, are now set to deliver their next communique from the Woodshed. …
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Premiere: ‘How I Miss Home’ – Max Aurora & The Southern Lights deliver a dreamy and poignant paean to Aotearoa from a wandering sailor
We are very honoured to premiere the new dreamy, floaty track ‘How I Missed Home’ from Naarm/Melbourne-based band Max Aurora & The Southern Lights. Drenched in sweet poignancy, it’s a…
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