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News: Five Finger Death Punch Announce ’20 Years Of Five Finger Death Punch – Best Of Volume 1′ And New Single ‘I Refuse’ ft. Maria Brink

Multi-platinum hard rock powerhouse Five Finger Death Punch are celebrating their 20th anniversary with the release of ‘Best Of – Volume 1’, a collection of re-recorded versions of their most iconic chart-topping…

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Track & Video: DIIV Confront Hope and Loss Amidst Californian Wildfire Aftermath With New Release ‘Return of Youth’ + UK/EU/AUS Tour Dates

A year after ‘Frog in Boiling Water‘, DIIV return with their first new release – ‘Return of Youth‘, a quietly devastating single that trades widescreen collapse for something far more…

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Live Review + Photo Galleries: The big guns continue to fire as Bluesfest Byron Bay heads into Day 2

Having made my way to 10 artists on the day before, I upped the ante on the second day trying to get to as many artists as I could before…

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Track: Merpire shares the gorgeous yearning ‘Leaving With You’ off her forthcoming album ‘MILK POOL’.

Naarm/Melbourne Merpire, the exquisite work of multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt, continues to dangle sonic enticements ahead of her album ‘MILK POOL’ due out on 4 July 2025. Next cab…

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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…

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Live Review & Gallery: The Lemonheads turn Sydney’s Enmore Theatre into a ’90s time machine with back-to-back album show 20.05.2025

The Lemonheads played two cult classics in full tonight – and every hook still stings in the best way

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Say Psych: Live Review: Our Top 5 bands of Fuzz Club Festival, Eindhoven

The annual pilgrimage to Eindhoven is a foot, those into psych and its many sub genres are heading there from all over the world for the forth edition of Fuzz…

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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…

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Meet: We chat to the living legend Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens and solo) about his renewed lease of creativity, the bands and the good old days, ahead of the release of his new album ‘Strawberries’.

Ahead of his new album ‘Strawberries’ due for release on 23 May 2025, I had a thoroughly entertaining chat via Zoom with living legend Robert Forster about the past, the…

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Album Review: Brian Bilston & The Catenary Wires – Sounds made by humans; Guest review by Sarah Records founder Matt Haynes

Should Bob Dylan have got the Nobel Prize for Literature? Of course not, he wasn’t a poet; as he famously said, he saw himself more as a song and dance…

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News: Five Finger Death Punch Announce ’20 Years Of Five Finger Death Punch – Best Of Volume 1′ And New Single ‘I Refuse’ ft. Maria Brink

Track & Video: DIIV Confront Hope and Loss Amidst Californian Wildfire Aftermath With New Release ‘Return of Youth’ + UK/EU/AUS Tour Dates

Live Review + Photo Galleries: The big guns continue to fire as Bluesfest Byron Bay heads into Day 2

Track: Merpire shares the gorgeous yearning ‘Leaving With You’ off her forthcoming album ‘MILK POOL’.

Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne band Alcotomic unveil a buoyant sliver of sunshine pop with ‘Ruby Shoes’.

Live Review & Gallery: The Lemonheads turn Sydney’s Enmore Theatre into a ’90s time machine with back-to-back album show 20.05.2025

Say Psych: Live Review: Our Top 5 bands of Fuzz Club Festival, Eindhoven

Track: Sydney-based singer/songwriter Maia Jelavic returns with delicate and ethereal new single ‘Spanish Moss’ ahead of launch date.

Meet: We chat to the living legend Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens and solo) about his renewed lease of creativity, the bands and the good old days, ahead of the release of his new album ‘Strawberries’.

Album Review: Brian Bilston & The Catenary Wires – Sounds made by humans; Guest review by Sarah Records founder Matt Haynes