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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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Track: Astrals releases the gorgeous, shimmering dream pop melodies of ‘Infinity Room’

Dreamy languorous vocals floating distantly above simple dappling guitars sum up the beautiful track from Sydney artist Astrals (Claire Simpson). The track evokes sunbeams and dreams with its delightfully fey…

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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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Track: Eilish Gilligan turns up the volume with the delicious dancefloor filler ‘Up All Night’

The last time we visited Eilish Gilligan was in ‘Hospital’ – her epic EP that was a dark and sombre reflection with close and personal imagery born from the claustrophobia…

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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: Helvetia – ‘Rocks On The Ramp’: a lo-fi basement shuffle sidles into your affections

HELVETIA – besides being the female national symbol of the Swiss, we’ll leave that aside for now, is the latest musical doings of Jason Albertini, otherwise known to your American…

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Track: Emma Kupa – ‘Happy Birthday’: loving your nearest and dearest and yourself with a sweet indie-folk tune for Lost Map

NOW THERE’S a good match between two of these isles’ loveliest indie-folk musical forces. Lost Map, the cottage caravan industry label run by Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch from his fastness…

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Track: Cradle Of Haze – Wie Der Wind

German gothic rockers ‘Cradle of Haze’ are set to release their 14th studio album, ‘Zehntausend Seelen’ on 21st May via DarkSign Music. The band have shared the track ‘Wie Der…

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: Bo Moore of The Peacers brings the groove

SAN FRAN’S Sic Alps, living guitar legends, were one of those bands which, with the amount of the talent in its ranks, could only burn bright and, like an unstable…

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

Track: Astrals releases the gorgeous, shimmering dream pop melodies of ‘Infinity Room’

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

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

Track: Eilish Gilligan turns up the volume with the delicious dancefloor filler ‘Up All Night’

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

See: Helvetia – ‘Rocks On The Ramp’: a lo-fi basement shuffle sidles into your affections

Track: Emma Kupa – ‘Happy Birthday’: loving your nearest and dearest and yourself with a sweet indie-folk tune for Lost Map

Track: Cradle Of Haze – Wie Der Wind

Soundtrack of Our Lives: Bo Moore of The Peacers brings the groove