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Gallery: Electric Six at The Croxton 03.03.2023
Detroit’s Electric Six returned to Australia to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of ‘Fire’ (Danger! High Voltage, Gay Bar, Dance Commander, Synthesizer) + Fan Faves, at The Croxton in Melbourne on 3 March 2023 for a sold out show. Supported by Fancy Face. View galleries of the show by Suzanne Phoenix below. Happy Face supporting Electric …
News: World is a Vampire festival – new dates added
The World is a Vampire Festival, featuring the Smashing Pumpkins and others has added more dates & announced some venue changes.
Review: Jen Cloher’s ‘I am the river, the river is me’ is an album of startling beauty
Jen Cloher’s ‘I am the river, the river is me’ is an album of stark and startling beauty
Track: Sydney’s End Scene wish everything could be ‘New’ again – track that simmers with an epic sparkle.
End Scene highly impressed us with their debut album ‘All My Ghosts‘ way back in 2021 and they are back with the shimmering ‘New’: a gentle reflective piece that wishes for a form of renaissance or rejuvenation, growth after a period of stagnation. ‘New’ is an ethereal and haunting track augmented by weeping strings and …
News: The Ramona Flowers announce EP and release new single ‘Hey You’
Fresh from a jam-packed Winter of touring supporting both Circa Waves and Reverend and the Makers, The Ramona Flowers are back with the announcement of their upcoming EP, Hey You, out 4th May, and the title track, out now via Distiller Records. Listen to the new single here and pre-save the EP here. The 5 …
News: Indie folk-rock darlings, The Paper Kites unveil the wistfully beautiful The Sweet Sound Of You
Winter of 2022 saw Australian indie folk-rock band, The Paper Kites take themselves away from the lights of the big city to begin the process for writing and recording a new album, their sixth. While working on the album, the band performed an unannounced month-long residency in the small Victorian town of Campbells Creek. Word …
News: Wollongong’s Leadfinger release ‘Find The Words’, a song of haunting indie goodness
Leadfinger are one of those bands that perhaps tend to slip under the radar outside of their usual confines along the central to southern coasts of New South Wales. They were formed in 2006 by Glasgow-born singer/guitarist Stewart ‘Leadfinger’ Cunningham, and have 6 albums to their name to date. The band consists of Stewart Cunningham: vocals, …
News: Gina Birch of The Raincoats Releases Debut Solo Album
Legendary post-punk musician, artist, and filmmaker Gina Birch, has released her debut solo album
News: Melbourne industrial goth duo Velatine release new album ‘I Won’t Be Civilised’ and unveils thundering ominous title track
Purveyors of a gothic pop industrial sound infused by an ominous darkness, Melbourne outfit Velatine have just released the album ‘I Won’t Be Civilised’ accompanied by the vivid and dynamic title track. The track has a funereal, elegiac quality propelled by thundering drums and an insistent drone that stabs underneath the surface. Singer Maggie Alley’s …
Track: Sydney’s Royel Otis appoint themselves the ‘Sofa King’ in a splendid, yearning blast of sonic pleasure ahead of EP news.
With a refrain that sings out you’re so fucking gorgeous with an impish, exultant delight, the new single ‘Sofa King’ from Sydney duo Royel Otis is utterly enchanting. The rambling refrain and the floating melodies mark out something that is euphoric and joyous with a raffish demanour and a thread of melancholy desire. The lyrics …