News: Better Days Ahead: Yellowcard Announce Album Produced by Travis Barker
Yellowcard announce Better Days — their first full album in nearly a decade
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News: Cult Heroes Ho99o9 Bring the Chaos Down Under
Ho99o9 don’t do social media hype. Just pure, combustible live energy.
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News: MKTO Are Back: Melbourne and Sydney Dates Locked for October
Ten years after ‘Thank You’, MKTO are still packing swagger, hooks and heart.
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Live Review + Photo Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay enters Day 3
The penultimate day, Saturday, saw a few early technical issues overcome, before leading to a slightly later start which still saw me get around to a further nine artists for…
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Live Gallery: The Singular, Spellbinding Beth Gibbons at the Sydney Opera House 30.05.2025
A rare appearance, a timeless voice — Beth Gibbons stuns at Vivid LIVE.
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Live Review & Gallery: Ichiko Aoba Brings Stillness to Vivid LIVE at the Sydney Opera House – Eora Nation, 29.05.25
It simply felt like a dream. That’s the only real way to describe Ichiko Aoba’s performance at the Sydney Opera House for VIVID LIVE. In the middle of a festival…
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EP Review: Look ‘Yonder’ – Sunsick Daisy unveil the shimmering widescreen wonder of a sophomore release.
Fresh out of school and already finalists in the 2022 JJJ Unearthed competition, Adelaide’s Sunsick Daisy released their spectacular debut EP ‘Breathe In…Breathe Out’ in 2023 (see my review here). They…
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Track: Aotearoa/New Zealand based dream pop/shoegaze exponent T.G. Shand unveils new direction and single ‘The Deadpan Break’
A firm favourite of the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, T.G. Shand is the moniker of Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident Annemarie Duff, formerly of the legendary Melbourne shoegaze band Miniatures (on the iconic…
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Live Gallery: Marlon Williams Returns to the Sydney Opera House for a Reflective Vivid LIVE Performance 29.05.2025
Marlon Williams debuts Te Whare Tīwekaweka at the Sydney Opera House
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Album Review: An aural delight ‘By Design’ – With yet another landslide of impeccable songwriting, The Electorate unveil their new album.
The Electorate are finally back with a follow-up to their magnificent 2020 album ‘You Don’t Have Time To Stay Lost’ (see my review here). ‘By Design’, out tomorrow, puts on full…
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