Track / Video
Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne band Alcotomic unveil a buoyant sliver of sunshine pop with ‘Ruby Shoes’.
We are very honoured to premiere the single ‘Ruby Shoes’ from Naarm/Melbourne indie band Alcotomic: a track so bright and boisterous you need anti-gravity boots and sunglasses to listen to it. Alcotomic formed in 1996 when John Baxter left nineties band Holocene and played to great acclaim for five years. In 2024, bassist Doug Lee …
Track: Sydney-based singer/songwriter Maia Jelavic returns with delicate and ethereal new single ‘Spanish Moss’ ahead of launch date.
Sydney-based singer/songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Maia Jelavic has followed up her last single ‘Solid and Human’ with a new track ‘Spanish Moss’. Driven by a rolling, sparkling piano, ‘Spanish Moss’ is a heart-achingly beautiful track, filled with vivid imagery and quiet reflection as Jelavic sings of the moss as a palimpsest for spirituality and permanency, where …
Premiere: We exclusively unveil the new video for Karen Vogt’s (Heligoland) track ‘Spirit’, off the shimmering album ‘Haunted Woodland Volume 5’.
Earlier this month I reviewed the new solo album from Paris-based Australian artist Karen Vogt, part of the much vaunted band Heligoland. Today we are proud to premiere the video for the track ‘Spirit’ off the album. The track has a spiritual, dreamy tone as Vogt’s yearning vocals enter above echoed, delayed crisp guitars – …
Track: It’s not over for The Insufferable Paul Scott (ex-Pop Mechanix) as he releases sparkling new single ‘Extinct’.
I often bang on about the Marrickville Sound in the southern hemisphere: members of bands that basked in the spotlight in the eighties or nineties who in later years reform or create new bands that continue to create and innovate in their later years. Paul Scott is another prime example: for those who where there …
News: Post-Y2K Panic Never Sounded So Good: Ninajirachi Drops ‘F*ck My Computer’
Electroclash revival starts here: Ninajirachi’s ‘F*ck My Computer’ is out now
News: ‘Cathode Ray’ Is Folk Bitch Trio’s Gnarled Ode to Screen Burnout and Emotional Static
If there’s any justice in the algorithm or the universe, Folk Bitch Trio are destined to be the voice of a generation too smart to stay quiet.
News: G Flip Gallops Into a New Era With Glitter-Soaked Banger ‘Disco Cowgirl’
G Flip enters their Disco Cowgirl era and it’s pure pop perfection.
Track: The Beautiful Darkness – She
Founded in 2021 by singer-songwriter Nerys John, The Beautiful Darkness is an emerging rock band that blends goth and grunge influences into a unique sound. A blend that matches haunting melodies with powerful guitar riffs, which their brand new single ‘She’ demonstrates perfectly. Vocalist Nerys states “Music artistry is the alchemy of emotion and sound, …
Track: The Petrov Affair make a welcome return with the silken melancholy of ‘White Out’, with launch date announced.
There is a crystalline delicacy to the new single ‘White Out’ from the enigmatic The Petrov Affair who make a welcome return after an absence of a few years. The track is threaded with a poignant melancholy but a soaring chorus bursts through like a ray of sunshine through the clouds. Indeed there is an …
Track: ‘This City’ – prodigious new talent ixaras releases a vibrant, exhilarating new single.
Meanjin/Brisbane-based DIY artist ixaras has just released a single ‘This City’ and indications are this is a prodigious rising talent. Using percussion, digeridoo and thundering synths, ‘My City’ is a vibrant slice of danceable pop with ixaris’s vocals soaring in the ether, ranging from delicate velvet to urgent exhortations over instrumentation that blisters with vivacity. There is …