Live Gallery: Alright Again-Supergrass Celebrate 30 Years of I Should Coco at the Sydney Opera House 10.06.2025
Sirens, nostalgia & a packed house—Supergrass just brought Britpop back to Sydney.
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Live Review & Gallery: Short Stack’s Debut ‘Stack is the New Black’ Turns 15 and Yes, It Still Slaps – Roundhouse, Eora Land/Sydney, 07.06.25
I was never a scene kid, and I’ve accepted this as a huge loss on my part. I wasn’t allowed to hang out at a Westfield, nor was I on…
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Live Gallery: Kamasi Washington’s Jazz Odyssey Shakes the Walls of Sydney’s Carriageworks 8.06.2025
Beneath the towering beams of Redfern’s old railway workshop, Kamasi Washington brings the spirit of LA to Sydney.
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Live Review: Dark Mofo Festival – Cold Cave provide an injection of heat into the Winter Festival, The Odeon Theatre, Hobart 7 June 2025
Cold Cave’s performance at Hobart’s Odeon Theatre on 7 June 2025, created an incandescent ray of light in the deepest darkest winter at the southern capital at the very edge…
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Live Gallery: Clown Core Hit Sydney: Nevada’s Weirdest Export Brings the Mayhem to the Metro Theatre 5.06.2025
You haven’t lived until you’ve screamed along to jazz-metal in a room full of clowns.
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Track: Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird ease into the universe with the expansive statuesque ‘My Ghost & Its Crawling’ ahead of new album ‘Rosewater Crocodile’
The sonic behemoth that is Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird (CTBNF) roll into our universe, foot flat to the floor, with the grand expansive and enigmatic single ‘My Ghost &…
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News: Wunderhorse Drop ‘The Rope’ and Set Sights on Australia
Wunderhorse are bringing their Midas tour to Australia this September — and they’ve just dropped a new single to prove it.
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Live Gallery: Ezra Collective Light Up the Opera House From All Sides for Vivid LIVE – Eora Land/Sydney, 31.05.25
One moment the Concert Hall was full of chatter, the next it was all brass and a single giant spotlight – Ezra Collective had arrived to perform their Vivid LIVE…
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Track: TEENS are interred in a ‘Shallow Grave’ and the earth is moving ahead of new album.
Careering along like a fully loaded semi-trailer that’s lost its brakes, the new single ‘Shallow Grave’ from Tasmanian sensations TEENS is a visceral cavalcade of guitars and melody ringing out…
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Premiere: Moderate Lovers unveil a passionate paean to things that have passed in the stunning debut ‘Lost City’.
With an onslaught of fuzzy rumbling guitars that has a buzz-saw edge, the debut single from Eora/Sydney trio Moderate Lovers is a poignant reminder that change and evolution aren’t always…
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