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Track & News: Naarm’s Surprise Chef Return With New Release ‘Bully Ball’ and Album Announcement

After spending 2024 immersed in the live re-scoring of the 1971 Australian cult classic Wake in Fright, the Naarm/Melbourne outfit Surprise Chef have turned their focus back to their own…

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Track & News: Djo Is Getting Busy! Fast Approaching Laneway Performances, Exclusive Side Show, ‘Basic Being Basic’ Release, Upcoming Album AND World Tour Announcement

2024 sent Joe Keery’s Djo project stratospheric. ‘End of Beginning’ was the song of the moment, streamed over 1.5 billion times, racking up 60 billion TikTok views, and landing on…

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News: Courteneers and Shame added to Yours and Owls Line Up

Yours & Owls 2025 Lineup: Britpop Icons, Post-Punk Rebels, and Local Legends Unite

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Premiere: lutruwita/Tasmania artist Lasca Dry radiates some dazzling sunshine in ‘Sunset Baby’, ahead of live shows.

Lasca Dry is an exciting artist coming from the southern edges of the world in lutriwita/Tasmania with an established reputation for her sparkling form of iridescent pop. We are therefore…

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Track: lutriwita/Tasmanian duo Future State release the atmospheric single ‘Serve Yourself’ ahead of debut album ‘Everything Is Temporary’

Future State are an electronic trip hop duo from southern edge of the world in Tasmania, and their sound is suitably chill and Antarctic with its combination of thundering percussion,…

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News: New Bloom Festival Returns in 2025 With a Stacked Lineup & Drain Headline Sideshows!

After a wildly successful debut in 2024, selling out in Naarm/Melbourne, New Bloom Festival is back for round two in 2025, bringing a fresh wave of alt-rock, post-hardcore, grunge, and…

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Live Review & Gallery: Soft Play Lay Waste to The Factory Theatre – Gadigal Land, Sydney, 29.01.25

Soft Play’s return to Australia hit like a damn battering ram and the sold-out crowd at Factory Theatre didn’t stand a chance. The second Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent tore…

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News: Great Southern Nights Returns with Over 300 Gigs Across NSW in 2025

Australia’s Musical Powerhouses and Rising Talent Unite for Great Southern Nights 2025

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News: The life and times of William Arthur and his iconic Sydney band Glide is explored in ‘Disappear Here’, a film by Ben deHoedt.

Glide were a seminal Sydney band that burned brightly and all together too briefly in the nineties, beset by tragedy when their singer and songwriter William Arthur died at the…

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