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Live Gallery: Maggie Lindemann turns Sydney’s Roundhouse into an alt-pop release valve 14.05.2026

The crowd at Roundhouse tonight looks like a collision between internet-era alt-pop and early-2000s emo culture. Oversized band shirts and heavy eyeliner are everywhere, while the room hums with the kind of…

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Track: Queenie turns modern dating chaos into glittering pop rebellion

If pop has room for another troublemaker, Queenie has arrived wearing false eyelashes, go-go boots and a grin sharp enough to cut glass. The Australian artist returns with new single Pearl Necklaces, a…

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Album Review: Wolfgang Pérez-‘Só Ouço’: Bringing a new avant-pop, no-wave edge to MPB lushness.

Chance happenings sometimes take music to the right place. For Spanish-German, Cologne-based singer-songwriter/arranger Wolfgang Pérez that place is his new succulent album ‘Só Ouço’ out now via Hive Mind Records.…

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Track/Video: Lo-fi indie realists No Frills preview upcoming album with the chiming ‘Shopping In The Toothpaste Aisle’.

It’s been a while since anything’s been heard of Daniel Busheikin and his No Frills buddies. The Toronto band’s self-released debut album ‘Downward Dog’ trundled into the US college radio…

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Premiere: Coleman bursts apart in surreal video for new single ‘Cali’

In his previous guise as Coast Modern band leader, Coleman Trapp displayed a serious knack for a hook, and it’s something on full display on his second new song in…

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News: Heaven Doesn’t Wait: Isabel LaRosa to Bring Her Electrifying Tour to Australia in February 2025!

Alt-Pop Phenom ISABEL LAROSA Announces Melbourne & Brisbane Dates for 2025 Heaven Doesn’t Wait Tour

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Live Gallery: Unforgettable Moments – Girl in Red Shines Bright in Sydney Concert

Baby it's cold outside, but the Hordern Pavilion glows with the warmth of Girl in Red's performance.

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Track: ‘Something I Do’ – YAGKI delivers a languid yearning song that burns with intensity and soul.

YAGKI, the artist formerly known as Sarah Yagki (and no doubt still is by family and friends) is a firm favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, and…

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Album Review : Urvanovic – Let’s Not Be Here : expansive chamber pop which rises above the convention.

There’s always something intriguing when a band that you thought had disappeared suddenly stick their heads above the musical whirlpool with a new album. So where have Scottish pop orchestrators…

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Track/Video : More dazzling Brazilian alt pop – Arthur Melo delivers ‘Na Avenida com Benito’ ahead of new album.

The wave of new Brazilian pop continues to swell without any sign of crashing. Last year Bala Desejo and Ana Frango Elétrico hit pundits and punters’ ‘Best of 2023’ lists…

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