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EP Review: The Night Packers’ ‘Invisible Ink’ shines with a pop sensibility and a wry humour.

The Night Packers are literally one of those The Marrickville Sound bands I always go on about – based around the very same inner city suburb of Sydney and still…

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Track: Tkay Maidza returns with explosive new single ‘Must Be’

Tkay Maidza doesn’t ease back in on ‘Must Be’. The track opens like a warning shot and follows through on it, snapping into motion with a jagged, high-voltage energy that feels…

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News: Split Enz expand their Forever Enz Tour with new Brisbane and New Zealand dates

The Forever Enz Tour is gathering pace, with Split Enz announcing additional New Zealand dates and a brand new Brisbane show in response to growing demand. What began as a tightly mapped…

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EP Review: STAHR interrogate memory and momentum on debut EP BLIP

There’s a particular elasticity to memory that STAHR tap into on BLIP, their debut EP that treats emotional upheaval less as permanence and more as distortion. What once felt seismic now flickers in…

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Track: VAN PLETZEN and SOSSI reimagine ‘Maia-hee’ as a hyper-colour dancefloor revival

Some songs don’t just exist, they haunt the collective memory, looping endlessly through car radios, dance floors and the internet’s more chaotic corners. VAN PLETZEN and SOSSI’s take on ‘Maia-hee’ knows exactly…

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Track: Tractor Beam’ finds Snail Mail exploring dissociation and distance

There’s a moment in Snail Mail’s new single ‘Tractor Beam’ where everything seems to lift, not in triumph, but in escape. It’s a feeling that runs through the track like a current, a quiet…

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Track: ‘Mother Please Forgive Me’ – Electro goth maestros Caligula reign supreme with their new emotional anthem.

It’s playtime again for the magnificent Caligula they follow up last year’s live gigs celebrating thirty years of sonic success and their comeback single last year (see my review here),…

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Track: Julia Cumming captures the fragility of memory on ‘Please Let Me Remember This’

There’s a fragile kind of clarity running through ‘Please Let Me Remember This’, the new solo offering from Julia Cumming. Built around trembling piano and gauzy, slow-drifting guitars, the track moves with…

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News: Escape The Fate return to Australia with The Word Alive for June tour

This June, Escape The Fate return to Australia not as a band still operating at full throttle, bringing two decades of hard rock muscle back into rooms that have been waiting far…

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News: Sunk Loto return with new single ‘Dead Shadows’ and intimate August shows

here’s a particular kind of return that doesn’t rely on nostalgia so much as it destabilises it. Sunk Loto’s re-emergence has carried that energy since 2022, not a reunion framed as revival,…

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