WHITE RING ANNOUNCE EU TOUR DATES
New York Witch House pioneers White Ring are coming to European shores for a run of tour dates through October. Starting off in the UK with support from Ventenner and…
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Album Review: Low Hums – Zzyzx
There’s a happening taking place in Seattle, helmed by Low Hums’ “band-guru” Jonas Haskins. Or is it Sanoj Snikhas? Before the references to Manson Family occur though (who are back…
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Live: Ride, Enmore Theatre, Sydney, 6 September 2019
It’s a spectacular thing to see a band pick up from where they were twenty seven years ago in the same venue with a seamless evolution and imbued with the…
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Album Review: DZ Deathrays – Positive Rising: Part 1
It would appear some of my fondest memories of Auckland (New Zealand, Aotearoa) have managed to follow me to Backseat Mafia. I recall there was a buzz about a band…
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Not Forgotten: Jethro Tull – Under Wraps
The mid 80s were a fascinating and fractious time for what would become known as classic rock. The two giant super bands of the 70s were no longer with us,…
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Say Psych: Live Review: Fuzz Club Eindhoven Day 1; Friday 23.08.2019
Following the success of last year’s event, the news that a second Fuzz Club Eindhoven festival would take place this year was greeted with great fanfare. As the line-up has…
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Album Review: Pixies – Beneath The Eyrie
How many subsequent releases after hiatus subjugate the lineage of a band? Is it one? Two? Three? Should they even reform and create new material anyway? What if it’s bad?…
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Interview: Mark Gardener (Ride)
The legendary Ride are back in Australia and New Zealand after more than a twenty-five year gap as well as a long hiatus in the intervening time. During this time,…
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Album Review: Cassels – The Perfect Ending
Cassels are woke. That’s at least what the media surrounding their new album, The Perfect Ending, centres on. Climate change, victim-blaming, the far-right, millenial liberalism, sexual assault. These are all…
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Classic Album: Iron Maiden – Powerslave
Few acts in the long and often fractured history of Heavy Metal have been able to achieve the sustained hot-streak that Iron Maiden managed to pull off during the 80s.…
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