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Album Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain reveal their stunning ‘Glasgow Eyes’ – an intoxicating mix of swagger and attitude with just a hint of reflection.

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News: Viji’s debut album is far from “Vanilla”

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Album Review: Oh crap! There’s a new Evil Blizzard album

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The new EP ‘New World Colour’ from Le Shiv offers a bright start to the year, and, quite frankly, boldly stands out in the post festive season deluge of releases. The band has been garnering a lot of attention with their unique brand of indie rock, including writing with Grouplove’s Andrew Wessen on their latest …

Every so often a band resurfaces, and people proclaim them as some sort of ironic “guilty pleasure”, as if good music should be embarrassing! We’ve seen it loads in recent times with the likes of ABBA and Sparks. Now, I’m not about to join the trend but I did bloody love this band back in …

Of all the iterations of “punk rock”, it’s “Oi” that probably divides the fans more than any other genre. Whilst the biggest hitters from the scene, the likes of Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer and Angelic Upstarts have always been crowd pullers and led from the front, there has always been a darker underbelly on the …

The mysterious and criminally underappreciated Mako Bron is the moniker of one Chris Brookman whose work we have followed assiduously now for years – his EP ‘Cloudbites’ made our list of favourite antipodean releases for 2021 and, now, his debut album ‘Halfway Home’ has just slipped in under the barriers as a late entry to our …

From Australia comes the indie collective Pop Filter, featuring members from The Ocean Party, Cool Sounds, and Snowy Band. Their latest musical masterpiece, ‘CONO,’ is a testament to spontaneity, charm, and absolute understated brilliance. ‘CONO’, their third album, emerges three years after the release of ‘Donkey Gully Road’. The album came to life through weekly …

Sydney supergroup Victoria‘s debut album ‘Treats’ perfectly captures the vicissitudes of life with warmth and compassion, wrapped up in a series of tracks that positively sparkles. Sometimes, all that glitters is in fact gold, and this album is pure gold from start to finish. Released through legendary producer Wayne Connolly’s label Scenic Drive Records, ‘Treats’ is simply …

Austrian-Brazilian artist Viji, released her debut album, So Vanilla, on Speedy Wunderground on 27th October. A contemporary of Heartworms and Pretty Sick and others currently on the London Scene, Viji, real name Vanilla Jenner, has been causing quite a stir with her brand of riff laden layered guitar melodies on the slower end of Sonic …

So often in life, if you keep your head down and stay in your own lane, you remain oblivious to what’s going on a round you, when a simple glance to the left or right, could change your direction for the better. So here I am reviewing The Only Life Worth Living, the third album …

Tamar Valley-based Gareth Koch (in lutruwita/Tasmania) has released an sparkling album of instrumentals entitled ‘Ghost Stories’ and it takes you on a magnificent journey. Koch has, of course, impressive form – he has collaborated with Steve Kilbey (The Church) and Martin Kennedy (All India Radio) in the past in a sort of triumvirate of sonic …

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 – have launched their second album ‘Centaurus’ and given the constituent ingredients, it is no surprise it is an album of distinction. Opening title track ‘Centaurus’ blasts off proceedings with a bit of …