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Track: Sydney’s Bellwether may be ‘Halfway Happy’, but they’re creating a lot of good fun punky pop joy. Debut EP and live dates announced.

On the back of two already very impressive singles (‘Charade’ and ‘Shortsighted’), Sydney pop punksters Bellwether are again leading the field with their new single ‘Halfway Happy’. This is all…

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Premiere: Sydney’s Winter Starlings alight with the jangling statuesque single ‘Arise’ and announce launch date.

We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Arise’ from Sydney group Winter Starlings. ‘Arise’ has a warm veracity with raw and visceral guitars that jangle into the stratosphere, replete…

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News: Dreamy popster Annie Hamilton announces debut album with release of the hypnotic and psychedelic ‘Night Off’ as well as dates in Europe.

A psychedelic fugue permeates the sparkling new single ‘Night Off’ from multi-talented Australian musician, visual artist and fashion designer Annie Hamilton. It comes as a tasty appetiser for Hamilton’s newly announced…

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Not Forgotten: We revisit Augie March’s stunning debut ‘Sunset Studies’ from 2000 – still an essential antipodean sonic milestone – which gets a belated 21st birthday party.

By 2000, by the time Y2K anxiety had dissipated and, before the events of 9/11 cast a pall everywhere, post grunge was solidifying its place in the world and the…

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Track: Sydney vibrant pop punksters A Swift Farewell reconnect with another visceral anthemic blast in new track ‘Stressed Out Ft Clay J Gladstone’.

More infective than a global pandemic (but infinitely far more enjoyable), the new single ‘Stressed Out’ from those punk pop maestros A Swift Farewell is a hyperactive, hyperkinetic bouncy blast…

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Track: Royel Otis, with new single ‘Oysters in My Pocket’, have emitted a cheeky ray of joyous light. Plus tour news,

With the joyous swagger of unruly schoolboys and a barely repressed incandescent sense of joy, the new single ‘Oysters in My Pocket’ from Sydney duo Royel Otis is like an…

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Track: Perth trio Ghost Care takes us on a bright and poptastic road trip with ‘Bussell Hwy’ and announces signing to Tiny Triumphs Management

The new single ‘Bussell Hwy’ by Perth trio Ghost Care is an effervescent indie pop delight that encapsulates the joy and sense of freedom in taking a road trip. The…

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Premiere: Late Night Therapy prescribe some smooth silky medicine in ‘Backseat Heartbeat’

‘Backseat Heartbeat’, from Yamba musician Late Night Therapy (the new musical project from Harry Suttor), is a smooth funky slice of sunshine that canters along at a high-stepping trot, tempered with…

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Album Review: EWAH & The Vision of Paradise release the stunning atmospheric chill of ‘The Warning Birds’: an epic reflection of a sense of time and place, beauty and pain.

Post punk new wave chill never sounded better than in the new release ‘The Warning Birds’ from Hobart band EWAH & The Vision of Paradise (EVoP). The much delayed album…

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News: Melbourne’s exquisite dream pop trio Dorsal Fins announce new album ‘Star of the Show’ and unveil the ethereal track ‘Sister’ as a taste of what’s to come.

The new single by Melbourne dream pop outfit Dorsal Fins is appropriately floating and ethereal with an aquatic, instistant sibilance about it. Co-lead singer Ella Thompson’s vocals are velvet soft, yearning…

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