Music
News: Joan & the Giants find beauty in heartbreak on their greatest release yet, latest EP ‘The Five Stages of Grief’
Breakups are messy and never just one thing. Grief doesn’t arrive in a neat sequence, and Joan & the Giants’ new EP ‘The Five Stages of Grief‘ catches every jagged edge of that truth. Across six tracks, the Boorloo/Perth band chart the collapse of a nine-year relationship between frontwoman Gracie Newton-Wordsworth and the band’s now-former …
News: Tarntanya/Adelaide’s Harvest Rock Festival announces stunning lineup, including exclusive appearances by The Strokes and The War on Drugs.
Today Harvest Rock Festival has announced a stunning line up for the event being held in Adelaide over the weekend of 25 and 26 October. With exclusive Australian appearances for The Strokes and The War on Drugs, the line up is truly jaw dropping, in addition featuring Jelly Roll, Royel Otis, Wolfmother, Ministry of Sound …
Track: Sarah McLachlan Shares New Single Gravity From Forthcoming Album Better Broken
Sarah McLachlan’s Gravity offers a personal reflection on her relationship with her eldest daughter, ahead of the release of Better Broken.
Track/Video : Hip Hop duo JED & Kavzad offer up new vid “COME&GO” from their spikey debut album ‘BROKEN GLASS’.
Brighton may be best known musically as an indie outpost but fizzing around the fringes there’s some potent R ‘n B meets garage meets hip-hop alchemy going on. Step up long-time pivots in the scene, Bristol raised, Iranian rapper/songwriter kavzad and wordsmith/poet/ grass roots music champion JED with intel about their sharp-edged debut project as …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Dirt – Monkeypunch
The Dirt are back with a new album after a thirty month gap. In that time they have scaled the length and breadth of the country and now hit us with a Monkeypunch. Released on independent label Sister9 Recordings. The Dirt are Pennines based Jack and Sachiko, a marital Anglo-Japanese couple who create alternative psychedelic …
News: Meanjin/Brisbane’s People Mover transport us to a louche jingle jangle heaven with a dose of ‘Cane Trash’, title track of album due out in September.
People Mover‘s new single ‘Cane Trash’ is a deliciously louche slice of uber cool indie jingle jangle, replete with a laconic delivery and an insouciant attitude. Slotting in with local bands like Radio Free Alice and Royel Otis, or overseas, Chicago’s Horsegirl, there is a charming DIY raw feel to the delivery, mixed in with …
News: Gregory Alan Isakov announces 2025 Australia and New Zealand acoustic tour
Gregory Alan Isakov will tour Australia and New Zealand in 2025, performing stripped-back acoustic sets across theatre venues.
News: Ethel Cain Adds Australia and New Zealand Dates to Willoughby Tucker Forever Tour
Ethel Cain returns to Australia in March – presale starts 13 Aug.