Music
News: Knotfest Australia Launches International Competition
Knotfest Competition – one lucky winner and a friend will be jet setting abroad to a soon-to-be-announced international Knotfest location with all airfares, accommodation, transfers and VIP tickets included in the main prize.
Track: Sailor Hunter – Ashes
Swedish melodic death metal band Sailor Hunter are set to release a new EP ‘Evolution’ on May 24th 2024 via Finnish Inverse Records. Featuring a new lineup, with the addition of Sebastian Fingal, along with Al Rinald on guitar, Kutte Gashi on drums, Filip Jovanov on bass, the band have also shared the video for the first single ‘Ashes’. Sebastian …
Live Review plus Gallery: MONA FOMA Festival – TISM, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, Mulga Bore Hard Rock, Cataract Gorge, Launceston 02.03.2024
The Cataract Gorge is an unique geological formation almost right in the centre of Launceston where a river cuts through the rocks and a deep flat valley has emerged, replete with zip lines and a public swimming pool. It was a fitting and magnificent setting for the last finale of the MONA FOMA Festival – …
Live Gallery: MONA Foma Festival – QOTSA – MONA lawns 16.02.2024
Very privileged to have had Queens Of The Stone Age play twice in Hobart during the Museum of Old & New Art’s MONA Foma Festival 2024. These shots are from the band’s performance on the lawns of MONA on the first week of the festival, Friday 16.02.2024.
Album Review: Meril Wubslin – Faire Ça : Bluesy drones, alt-rock crunch and a world of rhythms make this band unique.
Does Bongo Joe Records have a signature sound? Well listen through the bulging rosta of releases since the label first output way back in 2015 and the conclusion would probably be a resolute ‘No’. But it does have a mission to give a platform to the extraordinary and less conventional, whether from the Swiss underground …
Album Review: Sheherazaad – Qasr
‘Sheherazaad’ translated in Hindi and Urdu means a “free city” which is at odds to her mini-album, ‘Qasr’, which translates to “castle” or “fortress” in Urdu, it was written during a time of family estrangement, grief over a lost elder, and the racial polarisation of her country as she knew it. “It was maddening” Sheherazaad says, “that the music of my origins …
Track: Tara Elliott – No Parachute
Proclaimed as the bastard child of Janis Joplin and Iggy Pop Tara Elliott has shared her brand new single ‘No Parachute’ with its infectious swagger and hypnotic harmonies the track is a powerhouse of dirty rock. Tara states: “No Parachute is throwing yourself into the wild to go for your dreams, no matter what the …
Meet: Welsh Singer Songwriter Tom Warren
Give us a potted history of yourself I’ve been writing songs for the past 5 years or so and had been playing them live with my band in Bristol before lockdown happened. We then lost a bit of momentum as a band when things reopened and so I decided to go it alone around 18 …
Live Review & Gallery: Pop Will Eat Itself Brings Four Decades of Alt-Rock Debauchery to Manning Bar – Gadigal/Sydney, 01.03.2024
Last night, Manning Bar in Sydney was transported back in time as the iconic English alternative rock band, Pop Will Eat Itself, made their triumphant return to Australia after a decade-long hiatus. The atmosphere was electric as the current lineup, featuring Graham Crabb, Richard March, Adam Mole, John “Fuzz” Townshend, Mary Byker (Ian Garfield Hoxley), …
Live Gallery and Review: The National at the ICC, Sydney 1.03.2024
The National captivate Sydney audience with lead singer Matt Berninger engaging extensively with the crowd and creating an unforgettable, intimate experience.