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Album Review : Arthur Melo – ‘Mirantes Emocionais’ : a dazzling alt pop escapade from the Brazilian guitarist and composer.
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Meet: Music is the vice – we chat to the legendary Kid Congo Powers about danger and excitement and being an alien.

Arun Kendall April 23, 2024

Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds are in the middle of a tour of Australia and I caught up with the irrepressible Kid Congo Powers on the the day before he ventured to the deep south to play in Hobart. Born Brian Tristan, Kid likes to be called Kid – even my sister calls …

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Album Review: The ‘Heathen Sound’ of Big League is a deliciously fuzzy onslaught filled with melody and chainsaws.

Arun Kendall April 23, 2024

The Breakdown ‘Heathen Sound’ is a collection of urgent vibrant tracks that thunder with a fuzzy passion, squealing guitars and the sweetest of melodies that thread their way through the swarm. There is an utterly endearing passion, a poetic force in the lyrics and a heart-pounding energy that is cathartic and joyous. Independent – 8.8 …

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Album Review : Arthur Melo – ‘Mirantes Emocionais’ : a dazzling alt pop escapade from the Brazilian guitarist and composer.

John Parry April 22, 2024

The Breakdown As an album it may pack a lot in emotionally as well as musically but Arthur Melo has the vision to guide you through to leave you feeling refreshed and restored. WONDERFULSOUND – 8.9 In the same way that last year Bala Dejeso and Ana Frango Elétrico swung the spotlight back on the …

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EP Review: ‘Accelerator’ – life speeds up for the brilliant HighSchool in this haunting epic release ahead of European tour.

Arun Kendall April 22, 2024

The Breakdown ‘Accelerator’ is a chilly, spacious and poised EP that reverberates with its icy guitars and dispassionate vocals. There is a dark gothic hue to every track that freezes the blood, a reverberation that echoes like a wind through a ravine. HighSchool is a band that effortlessly conjures up a haunting, striking atmosphere with …

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Live Review and Gallery: The Ronson Hangup, George Lane, Melbourne 19.04.2024

Arun Kendall April 22, 2024

Melbourne psych-pop supergroup The Ronson Hangup – featuring members of The Anyones, Dallas Crane, The Church, Even, Paul Kelly’s band and Courtney Barnett’s band, launched their most recent single ‘SSDD (Same Shit Different Day)’ at the very Bohemian George Lane venue in the equally Bohemian St Kilda suburb of Melbourne. The venue was intimate enough but the …

Track: Motionless In White cover The Killers’ ‘Somebody Told Me’

See: VUKOVI share behind the scenes of their debut album ahead of summer festivals

Track: Tom Chaplin – Gravitational

News: Cable Ties may have no time for the mundane, but they’ve ‘Time For You’ and a new album on the way.

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