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News: Jimmy Eat World Bring Bleed American 25th Anniversary Tour To Australia

Twenty-five years after Bleed American helped redefine alternative rock, Jimmy Eat World are returning to Australia for a headline tour celebrating the landmark album in full. The Arizona outfit will perform in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide…

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News: CAKE Return To Australia For First Tour In 15 Years

For the first time in 15 years, CAKE are heading back to Australia, bringing one of alternative rock’s most distinctive catalogues to stages around the country. The Sacramento outfit will…

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News: Dinosaur Jr. Announce New Album There Near And Tease Australian Tour

Few bands have shaped alternative rock quite like Dinosaur Jr. Four decades after first redefining the possibilities of guitar music, the Massachusetts trio have announced their new album, There Near, due…

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News: Glasswaves Push Into Darker Territory With New Single ‘doomed:2:DIE’

SharpTone Records continues to expand its roster of rising heavy artists with the arrival of Glasswaves, the Rochester, New York trio whose collision of dark pop, alternative rock and industrial…

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Track: PJ Harvey Looks To The Stars On Expansive New Single ‘Voyager’

Three years after the release of her Grammy-nominated album I Inside the Old Year Dying, PJ Harvey has offered the first glimpse of her next creative chapter with the release of…

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Track: Dream-Pop Trio Deux Visages Release New Single

Few young bands have experienced a rise quite as rapid as Deux Visages. Formed by vocalist Daphney Hanono, guitarist Jack Chiu and bassist Tony Jouvin after striking up a friendship…

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Album Review: Looking For People To Unfollow Finds Ecca Vandal Refusing Every Genre Boundary

When Ecca Vandal released her self-titled debut in 2017, it felt like somebody had kicked a hole through the polite boundaries of Australian alternative music. Hip-hop, punk, electronica, metal and pop all…

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Meet: Kirk Brandon predicted the future. But no-one was listening

Spear of Destiny's Kirk Brandon is on tour right now. We got together to talk about Chelsea, reclaiming the music and seeing into the future... #kirkbrandon #spearofdestiny #interview #rockmusic #backseatmafia

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ALBUM REVIEW: KID KAPICHI ‘FEARLESS NATURE’

Kid Kapichi is a band known for hard-hitting and pointed music that isn’t afraid to express a distaste for aspects of modern politics and society. Their new album, ‘Fearless Nature’,…

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Album Review: Yelka – In a Rose Hat

A strikingly different take on contemporary America—YELKA’s In A Rose Hat offers an artistic perspective far removed from stadium rock or trap trends. It’s an intimate, almost cinematic interpretation that…

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