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Live Gallery: Ty Segall Returns to Sydney With Fierce Metro Theatre Performance on Australian Tour 2.03.2026

Ty Segall performed at the Metro Theatre in Sydney, delivering a high-intensity set featuring songs from his new album Possession alongside career-spanning favourites.

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Album Review: Mess Esque’s ‘Jay Marie, Comfort Me’ is an epically beautiful and assured album, released ahead of Australian and European dates.

Mess Esque, the collaboration between Helen Franzmann (McKisko) and Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Tren Brothers), follow up on their self-titled debut 2021 album (reviewed by me here) with the astronomically…

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Track: Mess Esque unveil the dreamy track ‘Let Me Know You’ ahead of new album release.

It’s been just over three years since Mess Esque – the stunning collaboration between Helen Franzmann (McKisko) and Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Tren Brothers) – released their self-titled album (see my review here),…

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News: Mess Esque take their simmering and achingly beautiful sound live across Australia in May before US dates.

Last year’s self-titled EP by the dream collaboration that is Mess Esque was a stunning release last year: we said it was an ethereal, gentle delight: yearning brittle and delicate…

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See: Mess Esque release dreamy, whimsical video for heartbreakingly beautiful track ‘Wake Up To Yesterday’

Hot on the heels of the release of their brilliant debut self titled album (reviewed by me here), the super duo Mess Esque have unveiled a video for the track…

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Exclusive: Alasdair Roberts records ‘Seagulls, Belts’ for Backseat Mafia live in session

Nearly 20 years after dropping his Appendix Out moniker, the name he used for his early output that put him firmly on the Folk map, Alasdair Roberts revisited it for…

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See: No Age release new video for Feeler

No Age have returned with “Feeler”, their latest off of “Goons be Gone” set for release early this summer. The song is nostalgic, not just in its sound – the…

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Album Review: White Fence – For The Recently Found Innocent

I’ll start off by saying I’m not the diehard fan of this garage rock revival that so many others are. I recognize the greatness guys like Ty Segall, John Dwyer,…

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