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Premiere: ‘Don’t Peak Early’ – The Crystal Set provide melodic and sparkling advice from experience, ahead of tour.

The Crystal Set are about to embark on an extensive East Coast tour of Australia, and ahead of this, we are proud to premiere their new single ‘Don’t Peak Early’.…

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News: Zach Bryan announces first Australian headline tour with six stadium shows in 2027

Zach Bryan is heading back to Australia, and this time he’s going big. The American country star has announced his first Australian headline tour, bringing the Young Manhood & Other Donatable…

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Live Gallery: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard unleash sensory overload at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion 14.10.2026

Western Sydney’s Xiao Xiao are first up tonight at the Hordern Pavilion, and they’re an inspired choice to open for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. The experimental post-punk outfit…

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News: Golden Plains Nineteen locks in Geese, Miss Kaninna and Australian debut of Angine de Poitrine

Golden Plains Nineteen is taking shape, with Geese, Underworld, Angine de Poitrine and Miss Kaninna among the acts heading to Victoria’s Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre for the festival’s next edition. New…

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Track: Commoner release emotionally charged new single Passerby ahead of debut album

Arizona emo outfit Commoner are gearing up for the release of their debut album Former Self, dropping new single Passerby ahead of the record’s arrival on 13 November via Pure Noise Records. Urgent…

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News: A Perfect Circle unveil Starless live video ahead of December Australian tour

A Perfect Circle are building momentum ahead of their Australian return, releasing a new live video for Starless as the single spends its second consecutive week at number one on the Active…

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Live Review plus Gallery: Midge Ure turns a freezing Hobart spring night into a celebration of a catalogue that refuses to date – Odeon Theatre, Hobart, 13.10.2026

Hobart does spring the way Midge Ure‘s old band did melancholy: grey, bracing and faintly European. By the time the queue snaked down Liverpool Street, the wind coming off kunanyi…

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News: Death Angel return to Australia to perform Act III in full

San Francisco thrash metal veterans Death Angel are heading back to Australia for the first time in nearly a decade, bringing their influential 1990 album Act III to the stage in its…

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News: Japan’s Angel Face make Australian debut at The Breadmakers’ Half Baked #2

Melbourne’s garage-rock underground is throwing another party, and this time Japan’s Angel Face are crashing it. The Breadmakers are celebrating their 37th birthday with Half Baked #2, taking over both…

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News: Segression mark 30 years of metal with inaugural SEG FEST in Wollongong

Thirty years, six albums and countless punishing live shows. Wollongong metal veterans Segression are still standing, and they’re marking three decades of heavy music with their very own festival. The…

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