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News: Reneé Rapp Announces First-Ever Australian Shows for 2026

Reneé Rapp will make her long-anticipated Australian debut next year, announcing two headline shows and an Australian Open performance as she brings her acclaimed BITE ME album to fans Down Under for the very first time.

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Premiere: oWo exclusively unveil new rock anthem ‘Cause Way’ ahead of new EP and launch date.

Eora/Sydney post punk and noise rock trio oWo have announced their new EP ‘Emerger’, due out in February 2026, and we are honoured to bring you an exclusive early listen…

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Live Gallery: Sydney’s Month of Mega-Gigs Peaks with Metallica’s M72 Tour Stop at The Accor Stadium 15.11.2025

Metallica’s M72 tour hits Sydney with a sense of inevitability and scale, arriving in a city already heavy with huge shows. Evanescence and Suicidal Tendencies prime the room, but when Metallica step out, the stadium shifts. Their precision, history and weight turn Olympic Park into a study in what stadium rock can still feel like when a band refuses to coast.

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Album Review: ‘Soft Monstrous Masses!’ – 208L Containers deliver an anarchic dose of sardonic humour on a bed of angular post punk with a buzz-saw blast

Lutruwita/Tasmanian outfit 208L Containers have just released a blast of iridescent joy from the intense furnace of their creative minds in ‘Soft Monstrous Masses!’. Sardonic and unashamedly Australian-accented voices sing…

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Live Gallery: Evanescence Strip It Back in a Rare, Intimate Sydney Show at The Metro Theatre 14.11.2025

At the Metro Theatre, Evanescence trade stadium grandeur for something far more revealing. On the eve of supporting Metallica at Acer Arena, the band deliver a taut, emotionally charged set that strips their gothic-metal hybrid down to its core—Amy Lee’s voice, the band’s shifting dynamics, and the enduring volatility of their two-decade catalogue.

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News: What So Not and Buunshin Unite for New EP The Quiet That Hurts

Australian innovator What So Not and Dutch producer Buunshin join forces for The Quiet That Hurts — a genre-defying EP exploring silence, creation, and connection. Featuring Lucy Lucy, Alina Pash, Aiko, and Mara Necia, the project blends heavy bass with meditative emotion.

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News: Mike Scott & The Waterboys To Bring “The Big Music” Back Down Under

After more than ten years away, The Waterboys will return to Australia and New Zealand in May 2026 for a long-awaited tour celebrating their new album Life, Death and Dennis Hopper — and a legacy that continues to shape the sound of modern rock.

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Live Gallery: Pixies at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion 13.11.2025

At the Hordern Pavilion, the Pixies remind Sydney why their sound has endured. Sharp, taut, and emotionally charged, their set feels less like a throwback and more like a statement of continued purpose.

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Live Review + Gallery: Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, with Cash Savage in support, light up the Odeon Theatre, Hobart, 13 November 2025

A little slow on the uptake, the single ‘Seventeen’ was an entry drug for me, and then seeing Sharon Van Etten live at the Dark Mofo Festival a few years…

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Track: There is a luscious beauty in ‘grace’, Joey Sachi’s new track, released ahead of EP ‘RISE’.

We have been tracking with great fascination the musical path of Tokyo-based Sydney-born artist Joey Sachi ever since we premiered her single ‘Fractured’ back in 2023. Her new single ‘grace’…

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