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News: Sunk Loto Return With Crushing New Single Dead Shadows

Nearly three decades after first forming on the Gold Coast, Sunk Loto are still refusing to fade quietly into legacy status. New single “Dead Shadows” proves exactly why. The track…

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News: Charli XCX Swaps Brat Chaos For Guitars On New Single Rock Music

For the past year, pop culture has largely existed inside the fluorescent green afterglow of Brat. Now, Charli XCX appears ready to kick the whole thing through a wall of distorted guitars.…

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Track: Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Ringlets release new single ‘Hard Evidence’ ahead of UK/European tour

Last year’s delightfully entitled ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies)’ from the magnificent Ringlets (reviewed by me here) was followed by a few appearance across the ditch…

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News: Swervedriver Return To Australia To Perform Raise In Full

By the early 1990s, British guitar music had split into strange new shapes. Some bands disappeared inward into shoegaze abstraction, others chased grunge heaviness or baggy euphoria. Swervedriver somehow absorbed…

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News: The Church Announce A Psychedelic Symphony With 30-Piece Orchestra

Few Australian bands have built a catalogue as atmospheric and quietly influential as The Church. More than four decades after first emerging from Sydney’s underground with their unmistakable blend of…

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Track: Too Late To Go Outside Continues kate moth’s Rise In Sydney’s Indie Underground

While most post-punk bands chase urgency through sheer noise, kate moth seem more interested in atmosphere: the strange emotional space between isolation and euphoria, where staying home on a Saturday…

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Track: Sydney Alt-Pop Artist Liliana de la Rosa Returns With Cinematic New Track

Sydney alternative pop artist Liliana de la Rosa has been carefully constructing her own world one release at a time. From the spectral atmosphere of “Haunted by Roses” through to…

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Track: Tkay Maidza Dives Into Afrobeat And House On New Single Pressed

Tkay Maidza’s songs tend to feel like they’re constantly reshaping themselves mid-flight, pulling from rap, club music, R&B and electronic production without settling fully into any one space. New single…

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News: Angus & Julia Stone Announce New Album Karaoke Bar And Release Title Track

For nearly two decades, Angus & Julia Stone have built music that feels suspended somewhere between memory and drift, songs that move slowly but leave a lasting imprint. Now, the sibling duo…

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Premiere: Grace Turbo Unpacks Emotional Fallout On New Single Bleed Again

Sydney’s indie underground has always had a way of turning emotional confusion into something strangely beautiful, and Grace Turbo leans directly into that tension on her new single Bleed Again, premiering today on…

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