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News: Westlife Announce First Australian And New Zealand Tour In Two Decades

For a generation raised on CD singles, school formal slow dances and the emotional devastation of early-2000s ballads, Westlife returning to Australia and New Zealand feels less like a reunion tour and…

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Live Gallery: HighSchool Bring Their Acclaimed Debut Album To Sydney’s Lansdowne Hotel 07.05.2026

Sydney finally feels like winter tonight. The cold cuts through the streets outside, but inside The Lansdowne Hotel the room is already packed shoulder-to-shoulder long before HighSchool even appear. Backseat Mafia has consistently championed…

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Track: Simon Robert Gibson emanates a ray of gentle sunshine in his new single ‘Afterdark’

Honestly at the moment things feel bleak and dark with very little sense of optimism and hope. And then Simon Robert Gibson comes along and in his vaguely naive delivery…

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News: aleksiah Releases New EP Good On Paper Alongside Australian Tour

aleksiah has spent the last few years building momentum through sharp songwriting, restless honesty and a growing catalogue of pop songs that feel equally suited to headphones and packed rooms. Now,…

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News: Lambchop Announce New Album Punching The Clown With Haunting Single Weakened

Three decades into a career built on quiet reinvention, Lambchop are still finding new ways to dismantle and rebuild their sound. Their newly announced sixteenth album, Punching The Clown, arrives on 21 August,…

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News: Plini Announces Australian Tour Behind New Album An Unnameable Desire

For years, Plini has occupied a strange and rare space in heavy music: technically astonishing without ever disappearing into cold virtuosity. Now, following the release of his new album An Unnameable Desire, the…

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News: Cat Power To Perform The Greatest In Full On 2026 World Tour

Twenty years after it first drifted out of Memphis like cigarette smoke curling through a neon-lit bar, The Greatest is returning in a new anniversary edition that feels less like a nostalgia…

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News: Ash return to Australia to celebrate 30 years of 1977

Ash’s debut 1977 is a classic, a record that arrived in 1996 with distortion pedals jammed to the floor and a generation of restless teenagers ready to run straight into it.…

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News: Jenevieve brings The Crysalis Tour to intimate Australian & NZ stages

Jenevieve has always moved like an artist uninterested in clean genre borders. Sliding between R&B, disco, soul and left-of-centre pop, her music carries a kind of late-night glow, polished but never…

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Track: MR ELUSIVE blends country and rap on raw new single MEDICINAL LIQUOR

MR ELUSIVE has spent the last few years building momentum by refusing to sit neatly inside one genre. Since emerging in 2021, the Central Coast artist has steadily shaped a sound…

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