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Live: Wha Cup – Snails, Palmerston North, 25.03.2022

Powerhouse duo, Wha Cup, showed their hometown what they are made of at Snails in Palmerston North on Friday night for their first ever hometown show. Supporting Wha Cup and kicking…

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Track: Brisbane’s Dopamine return with the anthemic blast of ‘Turn You Heart’ and tour news.

Following up last year’s effervescent single ‘Strange Situation’, Brisbane indie band Dopamine return with the thumping track ‘Turn Your Heart’. Chiming guitars and mountainous choruses combine to create a rousing…

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Track: Sydney’s legendary nineties heroes Caligula return with the blistering single ‘World on Fire’.

Caligula‘s brand of thrilling electro grunge reached its apotheosis in the early nineties with the album ‘Rubenesque’, and having burned so brightly, the band went into hiatus until reforming to…

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Track: Christchurch’s T.G. Shand is back to transfix us with her mesmerising lush sounds in new track ‘Little Sieve’.

Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident Annemarie Duff, formerly of the legendary Melbourne shoegaze band Miniatures (on the iconic Saint Marie Records label) sends out the most delightful sonic missives in the name of T.G. Shand. We here…

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EP: Auckland’s Silk Cut shape out another elegant dream pop delight in new EP ‘panda’.

Last year’s ‘astronaut’, the debut EP from New Zealand’s enigmatic Silk Cut (reviewed by me here) was a hazy dreamy introduction to a band that has, amongst its constituent members,…

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Album Review: Aldous Harding – Warm Chris – Fire Walk with Me

Aldous Harding's 'Warm Chris' is an early contender for album of the year.

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News: Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters drummer dead

Taylor Hawkins dead at 50.

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News: Is there anything this man cannot do? Perfume Genius announces new album & short film

Perfume Genius is no mere mortal - embarks on global tour and releases new album and short film.

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Live Review: Courtney Barnett lets us into her room

Courtney Barnett delivers blissful set at the Enmore Theatre

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News: Sydney legends The Clouds announce 30th Anniversary tour for Australian indie classic album ‘Penny Century’

In the late eighties early nineties, The Clouds were one of the most formobale indie bands in Australia with their fusion of thundering, jangling stop/start guitar sounds burnished with glorious…

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