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News: Louie Blue Shines On Third LP ‘Blood & Bones’
After a four-year hiatus, Finnish alternative artist Louie Blue is back with the anticipated third studio album, Blood & Bones, out now via Booa Music. The record marks a bold creative statement, blending alternative pop, R&B, and rock influences into a sound that is simultaneously nostalgic and refreshingly original in similar vein to Westermann and with …
Live Review & Gallery: More Music at SXSW Sydney Day 4 – 16.10.25, Eora/Sydney
By day four, we’ve stopped checking schedules. You just followed the noise and hoped you ended up somewhere good (it’s all fantastic). I caught locals Sweetie at the Heaps Normal pop-up as the sun was going down, walking from Redfern Station into Chippendale. You could hear them before you saw them, echoing down the city …
Album Review: Rianne Downey, The Consequence of Love
Scottish singer-songwriter Rianne Downey drop her sunny debut album
Track: Courtney Barnett Returns with New Single “Stay In Your Lane”
Courtney Barnett returns with “Stay In Your Lane,” a single that reintroduces her songwriting voice with guitar-forward vigour, intimate lyricism, and a displacement of comfort zones — all in service of stepping beyond the familiar.
incineration festival 2026 adds another name
American Death Metal band Of Feather And Bone joins their ever darkening lineup, bringing raw and bludgeoning Death to the Underworld Stage You can still grab tickets to the festival here www.incinerationfest.com/tickets
live review: thrash of the titans tour 2026, testament, obituary, destruction, nervosa. manchester academy 10/10/2025
Tonight in Manchester we were witness to something pretty darn special because tonight was the night that the Thrash of the Titans package had steamrolled into town and it was epic beyond belief on all levels. First up on the brutal package were Nervosa and they absolutely crushed the venue with their brief opening slot. …
Live Gallery: Bullet For My Valentine Celebrate 20 Years of The Poison at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion 16.10.2025
At Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion, Bullet For My Valentine revisit The Poison with the weight and precision of a band still sharpening their edge. Joined by While She Sleeps and The Devil Wears Prada, the night feels less like a reunion and more like a reaffirmation — proof that metalcore still breathes in full force.
live review: paradise lost, messa, high parasite. new century hall, manchester. 09/10/2025
With the autumnal evenings elongating at a rapid rate now I made my way across the Pennines for an evening of Gothic inspired Doom Metal courtesy of one of West Yorkshires most successful exports, the death-tinged Doom advocates Paradise Lost. Not long after the doors flung open we were being carved open by the iron …
Live Review & Gallery: All Night at SXSW Sydney Day 3! 15.10.25, Eora/Sydney
By afternoon Day 3 at SXSW Sydney the schedule didn’t matter anymore, it was just venue to venue, whoever was playing next, whatever was happening and where is that sound coming from? I spent the whole night running. Chippo basement, then The Commons, back to Lansdowne, Lord Gladstone, up and down stairs and through alleys. …
Live Review: Katy Perry – Lifetimes Tour. The O2 Arena London, 14.10.25
Say what you like about Katy Perry, this could be one of the shows of the year