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News: Steve Kilbey announces tour and double album ‘The Hall of Counterfeits’ with Steve Kilbey & The Winged Heels

The busiest and most creative man in the music industry is at it again. Not that long after releasing the magnificent ‘Jupiter 13’ with Martin Kennedy (see my review here),…

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News: Sydney’s legendary indie giants RATCAT announce 30 year anniversary gig

RATCAT will always have a special place in any indie band’s heart in Australia for the way they muscled their way into the general commercial charts in the early nineties…

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News: The iconic Dark Mofo Festival – Come to the Cross – returns to Hobart from 16–22 June 2021. And there was much rejoicing.

We have been assiduously covering the glorious Dark Mofo Festival in the deepest south of the Southern Hemisphere almost since inception – a record blighted by the festival’s necessary cancellation…

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News: Erasure to release ‘The Neon Remixed’ to end July – watch the lyric video for a new track, ‘Secrets’; British and European dates announced for the autumn

STRIDING across the synthpop world for 36 years now in a career absolutely without parallel, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell are back with a remixes take on last year’s album,…

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See: Brisbane’s iconic The Goon Sax unveil video for track ‘In The Stone’ and announce new album ‘Mirrors II’ and Australian/UK tour

Steeped in the legendary vibes of Brisbane’s proud and influential indie history, The Goon Sax are exemplary standard bearers for the new generation. They have an arch sensibility, a fey…

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Track: The Mountain Goats drop ‘The Slow Parts On Death Metal Albums’ and announce a tour Stateside

IS IT time that John Darnielle’s purveyors of the great Americana dream, The Mountain Goats, received an award for industry? In the accursed year of our Lord, 2020, when the…

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See: David Devant & His Spirit Wife – ‘Putting My Demons To Bed’: eccentric, theatrical Brighton popsters return with their fourth album in July

CASTING an eye back over the Britpop years, there was a little subset of bands which decided to forego the tracksuits, the bulldogs and the lager to explore the headier…

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See: Restless Leg unveils evocative video for ‘The World’s A Room’ and announces tour dates

Last month we premiered the glorious jingle jangle pop of Restless Leg‘s ‘The World’s A Room’: an archetypal antipodean indie rock classic with its lilting melodies and indelible refrain. Now…

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News: The Nivens are the latest to get a loving and lovely Optic Nerve 7″ repress with ‘Yesterday’

OPTIC NERVE, the Preston label which is repressing indie 7″s with love and care in its singles series, version 3.0 of which is with us now, have just added a…

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Premiere: Seasurfer showcase stunning new video for ‘Pretend’ and announce limited vinyl release of album ‘Zombies’

Hamburg psych goth band Seasurfer released a magnificent and epic double album ‘Zombies, reviewed by me earlier this year. I wrote that it is an album packed full of anthemic…

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