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Track: Brisbane’s Dopamine return with the anthemic blast of ‘Turn You Heart’ and tour news.

Following up last year’s effervescent single ‘Strange Situation’, Brisbane indie band Dopamine return with the thumping track ‘Turn Your Heart’. Chiming guitars and mountainous choruses combine to create a rousing…

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Track: Sydney’s legendary nineties heroes Caligula return with the blistering single ‘World on Fire’.

Caligula‘s brand of thrilling electro grunge reached its apotheosis in the early nineties with the album ‘Rubenesque’, and having burned so brightly, the band went into hiatus until reforming to…

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Track: Christchurch’s T.G. Shand is back to transfix us with her mesmerising lush sounds in new track ‘Little Sieve’.

Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident Annemarie Duff, formerly of the legendary Melbourne shoegaze band Miniatures (on the iconic Saint Marie Records label) sends out the most delightful sonic missives in the name of T.G. Shand. We here…

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EP: Auckland’s Silk Cut shape out another elegant dream pop delight in new EP ‘panda’.

Last year’s ‘astronaut’, the debut EP from New Zealand’s enigmatic Silk Cut (reviewed by me here) was a hazy dreamy introduction to a band that has, amongst its constituent members,…

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Live Review: Tom Walker – Omeara, London 24.03.2022

So this was my third time seeing Tom Walker live, the first being at Brixton Academy in 2019 where I classed him as the best breakthrough artist of that year…

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Live Review: James Arthur – City Hall, Sheffield 25.03.2022

A trip to Sheffield City Hall this week to see 2012 X Factor winner James Arthur. James seems to have done what few former singing competition winners have managed and…

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Live Review: Altered Images – 229 Great Portland Street, London 18.03.2022

Blame the internet. Time is warped. Everything is now….and everything then…is now too. Without the internet, the hunger and desire to see bands from “back in the day” may not…

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CPH:DOX Review: The Pawnshop

You can trace the history of pawnbrokers or pawnshops back to Ancient China around three thousand years ago. In the West, the concept was adopted by the Ancient Greeks and…

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Terry Collingsworth and a child working at a plantation

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CPH:DOX Review: The Chocolate War

Just about everyone loves chocolate. It was first introduced into Britain as a drink and reached the height of its popularity, in this form, during the 18th century. Cadbury and…

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Album Review: Aldous Harding – Warm Chris – Fire Walk with Me

Aldous Harding's 'Warm Chris' is an early contender for album of the year.

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Track: Brisbane’s Dopamine return with the anthemic blast of ‘Turn You Heart’ and tour news.

Track: Sydney’s legendary nineties heroes Caligula return with the blistering single ‘World on Fire’.

Track: Christchurch’s T.G. Shand is back to transfix us with her mesmerising lush sounds in new track ‘Little Sieve’.

EP: Auckland’s Silk Cut shape out another elegant dream pop delight in new EP ‘panda’.

Live Review: Tom Walker – Omeara, London 24.03.2022

Live Review: James Arthur – City Hall, Sheffield 25.03.2022

Live Review: Altered Images – 229 Great Portland Street, London 18.03.2022

CPH:DOX Review: The Pawnshop

CPH:DOX Review: The Chocolate War

Album Review: Aldous Harding – Warm Chris – Fire Walk with Me