Music
Track: Day Dreamers Confront Modern Panic with New Single ‘y2k’
Melbourne alt-rockers Day Dreamers return with ‘y2k’, a self-produced anthem of anxious reflection and melodic grit, recorded entirely from home and built for the stage.
Album Review: Yara Asmar – ‘everyone I love is sleeping and i love them so so much’ : Extraordinary electro-acoustic stories crafted from simple things.
Tinkering, testing, tuning and transforming, Yara Asmar is a restlessly inquisitive multi-instrumentalist. Since her debut release on Hive Mind, ‘Home Recordings 2018-2021’ the Beirut- based musician has used music boxes and metallophones, accordion and toy pianos to sculpt her sonic narrative. It’s not Art Ensemble avant or Cage-ist experimentalism powering her practice though, the pull …
News: US independent folk-punks, Rent Strike and Doom Scroll announce extended double-bill Australian tour
Folk ‘Til Ya Punk Records have a proud history of bringing international folk-punk bands to tour Australia off the back of their annual festival, HOBOFOPO. Over a number of years they have brought The Taxpayers, Days N Daze, Apes of the State and Pigeon Pit to Australia, as well as working with AJJ and Crywank …
News: Oklou Expands Her Vision on choke enough Deluxe with FKA twigs Collaboration
French producer and composer Oklou returns with choke enough Deluxe, featuring four new tracks and a collaboration with FKA twigs, expanding her acclaimed debut into something even more intimate and immersive.
Album Review: Sliver Fleet Ships set sail into the darkness with their atmospheric debut album ‘Before Never, After Forever’.
Nipaluna/Hobart band Silver Fleet Ships are signed to the tremendous Meanjin/Brisbane label False Peaks Records, and this is a sure guarantee of the quality you can except in their debut album ‘Before Never, After Forever’. It’s an album which bleeds atmosphere from every pore: statuesque and gilded with an Antarctic chill exacerbated by the sharp expressive guitar …
News: Molchat Doma Bring Mystifying Brutalism to Australia’s Cold Wave Revival
Belarusian post-punk outfit Molchat Doma are returning to Australia this December, bringing their uniquely brooding sound to the East Coast for three shows only. The trio will play Naarm/Melbourne’s Forum on December 17, Gadigal/Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on December 18, and Meanjin/Brisbane’s Tivoli on December 20. It’s their first visit since their meteoric rise from underground …
News: Vinted Vineer Announce East Coast Tour and Unveil Dreamy New Single ‘you’
Vinted Vineer return with ‘you’, a tender love song floating between dream-pop and alt-indie hues. Recorded at home and rich with warmth, the single arrives ahead of the band’s East Coast tour, kicking off with a hometown launch at Brisbane’s Black Bear Lodge on October 18th.
Track: The Belair Lip Bombs Announce New Album Again and Drop Soaring New Single “Back of My Hand”
Australia’s The Belair Lip Bombs return with Again, a glittering collection of indie-rock anthems. New single “Back of My Hand” captures the band’s signature “yearn-core” sound — fuzzy, heartfelt and irresistibly melodic — as they gear up for their US co-headline tour with dust.
News: Morcheeba Mark 30 Years of Trip-Hop Majesty with 2026 Australian Tour
Morcheeba return to Australia in 2026 to celebrate 30 years of genre-bending brilliance, joined by UNKLE’s James Lavelle for a night of hypnotic grooves, nostalgia and visual splendour.
Album Review: Fiona Boyes & The Fortune Tellers – Live at Bluesfest 2004 featuring Hubert Sumlin and Chris Wilson
It was with a huge amount of anticipatory excitement that I listened to this album from one of Australia’s premier blues players, given the extraordinary legacy that this particular recording contains. Not only is this an early recording of Fiona Boyes which follows on closely from being the first non-American, and first female, to win …