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News: Sam Fender Announces Massive 2025 Australian Tour with Holly Humberstone

Deb Pelser May 16, 2025

Sam Fender + Holly Humberstone = an unmissable night under Australian skies.

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Track: The Petrov Affair make a welcome return with the silken melancholy of ‘White Out’, with launch date announced.

Arun Kendall May 16, 2025

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 …

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News: Wolf Alice announce new album ‘The Clearing’ and lead off with explosive single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’.

Arun Kendall May 15, 2025

Driven by hands claps and a rolling piano, the new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ from north London band Wolf Alice is a driving, vibrant track with singer Ellie Rowsell’s vocals soaring across the surface, falsetto and urgent at times, raw and raucous at other times, with an extraordinary range. It’s a thrilling and dynamic blast …

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Live Review + Photo Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay turns it on during first day of festival

Andrew Fuller May 15, 2025

It was great to get back amongst a full-blown festival once again, and Bluesfest delivered in spades as the Thursday saw huge crowds in attendance. As always, the festival begins with a traditional Welcome To Country, a sign of respect for the traditional owners of the land upon which the festival operates, the Bundjalung people. …

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News: Chameleons announce new album Arctic Moon, out this September

Jim F May 15, 2025

Post-punk icons Chameleons have announced Arctic Moon, their long-awaited new studio album, set for release on 12th September 2025 via Metropolis Records. The album follows a triumphant 2024 and builds on last year’s Where Are You? and Tomorrow Remember Yesterday EPs. Frontman Mark Burgess (aka Vox) describes the record as “a positive step forward” that …

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EP Review: Brisbane’s Lucy Francesca Dron releases ‘Leftovers’: a collection of jazzy, intimate and beautiful songs

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