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Track: The inimitable Johnny Hunter confront toxic masculinity in their new brilliant single ‘Cry Like A Man’.

In my humble opinion, Johnny Hunter, now signed to Cooking Vinyl Australia, are one of the most exciting bands in Australia at the moment – one we have been following…

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Track: Adelaide’s George Alice releases the cathartic ‘Hold On’ and announces tour dates.

George Alice, the artist from Adelaide who won Triple J Unearthed in 2019, with ‘Circles’ is backwith a new release. Her latest single, ‘Hold On’ was written back in 2019,…

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EP: The implausible combination of Lime Cordiale and Idris Elba release ‘Cordi Elba’: a veritable sunshine-filled aural tonic for the troops.

I don’t know about you, but the past two years have been pretty awful, what with pandemics and blighted putrescent politicians injecting that little extra layer of pain with their…

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News: The Teskey Brothers and Emma Donovan cover Archie Roach’s ‘Get Back to the Land’: East Coast tour kicks off this weekend

Those brothers in blues The Teskey Brothers have started the new year with a wonderfully soulful rendition of Archie Roach’s 2016 single, Get Back To The Land, featuring acclaimed singer-songwriter…

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News: Methyl Ethel announces new album ‘Are You Haunted?’ for 18 February 2022 and parades swinging new single ‘Proof feat. Stella Donnelly’.

Western Australian’s Methyl Ethel (the project of Jake Webb) has today announced the release of their new album ‘Are You Haunted?’ for 18 February 2022 via their new label home, Future…

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News: New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma announce their fourth album ‘Present Tense’ with the unveiling of effervescent new track ‘In The Eyes Of Our Love’ and news of North American tour.

New Zealand pop merchants extraordinaire Yumi Zouma have today announced the release of their fourth album ‘Present Tense’ via Polyvinyl Records and PIAS Australia on 18 March 2022. To whet our…

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See: Sydney’s visceral Infinity Broke unveil video for the single ‘From The Belly of the Whale’ from last year’s magnificent album ‘Your Dream, My Jail’

With 2021 disappearing fast in the rear view mirror, its presence in our memory and impact on our lives seems so ephemeral. And yet for all the misery, there was…

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Premiere: Christopher Coleman & the Great Escape reveal poignant video for the slow burning waltz ‘Amelia’.

Christopher Coleman & The Great Escape provided an eloquent and moving finale to 2021 with the expansive and beautiful single ‘Paloona’ (reviewed here), and we are absolutely delighted to be…

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Track: Julienne Harvey’s ‘Rot’ is an enigmatic and thrilling gothic trip.

In her new single ‘Rot’, Sydney artist Julienne Harvey‘s soaring vocals seem aged in a whiskey-soaked barrel, and delivered with added melancholia in some darkened cavern in the early hours…

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Premiere: Mako Bron’s ‘cloudbites’ EP is an effervescent and glorious pop masterpiece, with a dark heart and uplifting melodies.

Mako Bron is the brainchild of one musician/producer Chris Brookman, and the single ‘Straight Down’ went to straight up to my top five Australian/New Zealand single releases for 2021. We…

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