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Premiere: Sydney supergroup The Finalists unveil evocative video for the shimmering track ‘Hunting Knife’

Last year’s debut album ‘First’ by The Finalists (reviewed by me here) was a highly impressive entrance: I summed it up as being a collection of deeply personal songs that…

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Track: Born A Ghost Share Two New Singles ‘Shun The Believer’ and ‘Neurotic’

Heavy doom metallers Born A Ghost have released two singles, “Shun The Believer” and “Neurotic”, taken from their upcoming album “The Beginning To An Ending”. ‘Shun The Believer’ is an…

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Track: Blackberry Smoke – All Rise Again (feat Warren Haynes)

Blackberry Smoke have shared their new song, ‘All Rise Again’, taken from their hotly-anticipated seventh studio album, You Hear Georgia, out now via 3 Legged Records/Thirty Tigers. The track features Govt Mule’s Warren Haynes.…

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Album review: Raoul Vignal – ‘Years In Marble’: a solid third chapter in an accomplished songwriting career

A small miracle of the independent European songwriting scene

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Meet: LYR on their new music, post-pandemic life, working with Simon Armitage, and more

THE genre-splicing LYR, comprised of Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, musician and vocalist Richard Walters, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick J Pearson, fuse their three distinct but complimentary musical selves into…

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Film Review: Drunk Bus

In countries like the United States or the UK, the top universities have become big business. Whether that’s attracting the brightest and the best (not to mention richest) students from…

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Track: Bronx Slang – ‘Happens A Lot’: examining the rise and fall of the rhymer with tough old-skool breakz

STILL rhyming with power, truth, rhythm; still living it in the Big (Rotten) Apple, Beeks and Miggs of Bronx Slang keep the gems coming from street-level observations as they shape…

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Track: Chloe Foy – ‘Work Of Art’: vulnerability and the joy of gig-going all expressed in a three-minute folk-rock nugget

Come gather round and hear this latest lovely; it’s a yearning folk-rocker, paced placidly, harmonies lofting with an ethereal glow – and it’s not afraid to kick out the guitars…

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Track: Hear Christina Vantzou’s spectral mash-up and remix of LEYA’s ‘ABBA’ and ‘Mary’

CHRISTINA VANTZOU, the Belgian-based vocalist, composer and film-maker who began her career with Stars of the Lid’s Adam Wiltzie in The Dead Texan and who’s gone to establish a powerful and…

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Track: New Zealand’s Voodoo Bloo unleash ‘MMA’: a caustic blast of untrammelled energy and attitude

Like a projectile from a cannon, Voodoo Bloo‘s ‘MMA’ blasts out with indiscriminate intent and an ultimate sense of hedonism and thrills. It’s wild and anarchic, visceral and unhinged and…

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Premiere: Sydney supergroup The Finalists unveil evocative video for the shimmering track ‘Hunting Knife’

Track: Born A Ghost Share Two New Singles ‘Shun The Believer’ and ‘Neurotic’

Track: Blackberry Smoke – All Rise Again (feat Warren Haynes)

Album review: Raoul Vignal – ‘Years In Marble’: a solid third chapter in an accomplished songwriting career

Meet: LYR on their new music, post-pandemic life, working with Simon Armitage, and more

Film Review: Drunk Bus

Track: Bronx Slang – ‘Happens A Lot’: examining the rise and fall of the rhymer with tough old-skool breakz

Track: Chloe Foy – ‘Work Of Art’: vulnerability and the joy of gig-going all expressed in a three-minute folk-rock nugget

Track: Hear Christina Vantzou’s spectral mash-up and remix of LEYA’s ‘ABBA’ and ‘Mary’

Track: New Zealand’s Voodoo Bloo unleash ‘MMA’: a caustic blast of untrammelled energy and attitude