News: The High Kings bring folk tradition to Australia this September
The High Kings’ Step It Out World Tour begins this September, with shows already selling out in Melbourne and Perth.
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News: Fire Records announce release of Chris Bailey’s The Saints last recordings in the album ‘Long March Through The Jazz Age’, with anthemic lead single ‘Empires (Sometimes We Fall)’ unveiled.
Close to what would have been the late legendary Chris Bailey’s 69th birthday in November, Fire Records today announce the release of ‘Long March Through The Jazz Age’, essentially Chris…
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News: Lost Paradise 2025 Turns Up the Heat for NYE
Lost Paradise returns for its 11th year with a lineup spanning Ben Böhmer, Duke Dumont, Confidence Man, Underworld, I Hate Models, KETTAMA, Maribou State, Marc Rebillet and X CLUB.
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Track: Bloom Announce Sophomore Album The Light We Chase with New Single Withered
New single Withered offers a bleak but honest reflection on worth, backed by some of Bloom’s heaviest instrumentation to date.
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Live Gallery: The Used Celebrate 25 Years with a Full-Album Marathon at Liberty Hall, Sydney 17.08.2025
25 years in and The Used still tear Liberty Hall apart
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Live Gallery: Dillinger Escape Plan Prove Why They’re the World’s Most Dangerous Live Band Enmore Theatre, Sydney 16.08.2025
Ho99o9 brought the riot, Dillinger brought the demolition—Enmore Theatre won’t forget this one.
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Meet: Inside Jordan Laser’s Cinematic Alt-Pop World
"Songwriting has always felt like a form of self-examination. I see it as a wonderful way of trying to make sense of things that I don’t yet understand whether that be about myself or others."
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Track: Dive with wasted and elegant splendor into the ‘Blackwater Bay’ with the Dirty Suits.
‘Blackwater Bay’ from the Dirty Suits is a deliciously dark slab of swampy attitude-laden rock that swaggers and rolls with a sneer and an elegantly posed raised eyebrow, delivered from…
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Album Review: TILE’s Human On Hold Vol. 2 Finds Power in the Unresolved
TILE’s Human On Hold Vol. 2 channels post-punk tension and 80s shadows into five urgent tracks, ending with the explosive “Answer.” A sharp, atmospheric sequel that thrives on the space between doubt and clarity.
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News: Holly Humberstone announces Australian headline shows this November
British singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone will tour Australia in November, performing headline shows in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney.
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