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Track: The Petrov Affair make a welcome return with the silken melancholy of ‘White Out’, with launch date announced.
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News: The World Is A Vampire Is Coming To Australia

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Track: The Petrov Affair make a welcome return with the silken melancholy of ‘White Out’, with launch date announced.

Arun Kendall May 16, 2025

There is a crystalline delicacy to the new single ‘White Out’ from the enigmatic The Petrov Affair who make a welcome return after an absence of a few years. The track is threaded with a poignant melancholy but a soaring chorus bursts through like a ray of sunshine through the clouds. Indeed there is an …

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News: Wolf Alice announce new album ‘The Clearing’ and lead off with explosive single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’.

Arun Kendall May 15, 2025

Driven by hands claps and a rolling piano, the new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ from north London band Wolf Alice is a driving, vibrant track with singer Ellie Rowsell’s vocals soaring across the surface, falsetto and urgent at times, raw and raucous at other times, with an extraordinary range. It’s a thrilling and dynamic blast …

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Live Review + Photo Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay turns it on during first day of festival

Andrew Fuller May 15, 2025

It was great to get back amongst a full-blown festival once again, and Bluesfest delivered in spades as the Thursday saw huge crowds in attendance. As always, the festival begins with a traditional Welcome To Country, a sign of respect for the traditional owners of the land upon which the festival operates, the Bundjalung people. …

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News: Chameleons announce new album Arctic Moon, out this September

Jim F May 15, 2025

Post-punk icons Chameleons have announced Arctic Moon, their long-awaited new studio album, set for release on 12th September 2025 via Metropolis Records. The album follows a triumphant 2024 and builds on last year’s Where Are You? and Tomorrow Remember Yesterday EPs. Frontman Mark Burgess (aka Vox) describes the record as “a positive step forward” that …

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News: Jehnny Beth Returns With Raucous New Single ‘Broken Rib’; Announces New Album ‘You Heartbreaker, You’

Craig Young May 15, 2025

Songwriter, singer, and multi-disciplinary artist Jehnny Beth is back with her biting new album You Heartbreaker, You, which comes August 29th on Fiction Records. Alongside the announcement Jehnny has also revealed the album’s first cut ‘Broken Rib’. With a punch reminiscent of her days in Savages, ‘Broken Rib’ is a powerful raw return. “We learn …

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