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Track: FISHER and Tones And I unite on explosive new single ‘Favour’

Timing, in dance music, is everything. The right drop, the right room, the right moment. FISHER and Tones And I clearly understand that equation, and on ‘Favour’, they hit it…

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Track: Super American Eagle turn up the noise with ‘Anxiety Nightie’, a heavy new psych-rock cut.

Some bands feel engineered. Others feel like they’ve been struck by lightning and left to buzz in the aftermath. Super American Eagle fall firmly into the latter, a trio born…

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Track: WHO SHOT SCOTT drops high-octane single ‘FAST CAR’

There’s a point where memory stops behaving like nostalgia and starts sounding more like distortion, loud, messy and impossible to tidy up. WHO SHOT SCOTT leans straight into that space on ‘FAST…

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News: Ringlets head to the UK and Europe for their first international tour this May.

Ringlets have been gathering momentum since 2021, and now they’re taking that slow-burn ascent out of Aotearoa and into the wider world. This May, the quartet will set out on their…

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News: Guts Touring returns with 2026 Northern Territory run

There’s a version of the Australian touring circuit that rarely gets written about. Not the capital-city carousel, but the long roads out, where gigs feel less like stops on a…

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Track: Sepultura unveil ‘Beyond the Dream’ from final EP The Cloud of Unknowing

There are farewell tours, and then there are endings that feel like tectonic shifts. Sepultura have spent more than four decades reshaping heavy music from the margins outward, and now, as their…

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News: Joan As Police Woman announces Real Life Evolution for 20th anniversary

Two decades on from the album that quietly set everything in motion, Joan As Police Woman is returning not to rewrite the past, but to sit with it, reshape it, and let…

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News: Mad Cool Festival returns with one of 2026’s biggest lineups

There’s a point where a festival lineup stops feeling like a schedule and starts reading like a dare. Mad Cool Festival 2026 crosses that line early. Set to mark its 10th anniversary…

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Track: Zipper reveals stunning post punk new single ‘Hiko’

Originally from Eora/Sydney, Zipper first appeared back in 2019, releasing their debut EP ‘Dreamer’s Gate’ the following year. It was something I sadly missed at the time but on the…

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News: Against The Grain returns to Brisbane with stacked line up including Stereolab, Pond and others

Some festivals arrive fully formed. Others return like a signal cutting back through the noise. Against The Grain does the latter, re-emerging after eight years to reclaim its place in the fabric…

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