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News: RISING 2025 – Melbourne’s After-Dark Festival is Back and Bigger Than Ever

Deb Pelser March 12, 2025

Beth Gibbons, Suki Waterhouse, Black Star: RISING Drops a Stacked Lineup

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Backseat Downunder Music News

News: RISING 2025 – Melbourne’s After-Dark Festival is Back and Bigger Than Ever

Deb Pelser March 12, 2025

Beth Gibbons, Suki Waterhouse, Black Star: RISING Drops a Stacked Lineup

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Music News

News: John Grant Announces UK & Ireland Tour, Set to Star in Ballet Adaptation of A Single Man

Jim F March 12, 2025

Following the success of The Art of The Lie, John Grant is set for a packed 2025. Currently touring Australia, with a US tour in April, Grant will also be writing songs for—and performing in—A Single Man, a new ballet adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel. The production, staged by The Royal Ballet and Factory International, …

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album review: benmont tench: the melancholy season.

Phil Pountney March 12, 2025

This is an album of absolute luxury. Each track on ‘The Melancholy Season’ is decadent and opulent, the vocals from Tench are soothing and velvety throughout while the strings that accompany the vocals are mesmerising and tranquil, all which intertwine with the other elements to envelop the listener in swathes of cascading and lapping tides …

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News: Mên An Tol To Release Debut EP ‘The Country’

Craig Young March 12, 2025

Mên An Tol release their debut EP ‘The Country’, out on 14th March via ADA. The EP comes after two sensational early tracks, ‘NW1’ and ‘Set In Stone’. The four-track EP represents the perfect snapshot of where this London-based five-piece are at, capturing the essence of this thrilling new band – urgent and stirring tracks …

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Track: Cwfen Announce Debut Album ‘Sorrows’ Via New Heavy Sounds; Listen To New Single ‘Wolfsbane’

Craig Young March 12, 2025

There are two kinds of heavy bands: the ones that make a lot of noise and the ones that drag you somewhere you didn’t know you needed to go. Cwfen (pronounced ‘Coven’) are the latter, and Sorrows is a record that doesn’t just crush – it haunts long after the final note. The allure of Cwfen’s sound lies …

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