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News: Still loud, still sharp: Eddy Current Suppression Ring unleash the gritty Shapes and Forms

Eddy Current Suppression Ring — the twice ARIA Award-nominated garage/punk rock band — have re-emerged from a long studio silence with Shapes and Forms, their second new song following on…

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News: Sprints announce Irish National Tour for April – May 2024

Sprints debut album ‘Letter To Self’ embodies their substantial evolution over the past 3 years. Transforming pain into truth, passion into purpose and perseverance into strength, the Dublin four-piece have…

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Gallery and set-list: Wider Than Pictures series featuring Future Islands / Just Mustard / Sprints -Collins Barrack Dublin 24.08.2023

American synth-pop act Future Islands graced the stage of the third night of the Wider Than Pictures series at National Museum of Ireland -Decorative Arts & History Collins Barracks Dublin and…

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Special Delivery From Oz – Melbourne Band’s Debut LP Gets UK Release

April 21, 2023

Described by Rolling Stone magazine as the best Australian album of 2022, Forever Giving Handshakes by Melbourne’s upcoming garage-punks, Delivery, gets its well deserved UK release on May 19th, on…

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Gallery & Set-lists: Dune Rats / Beddy Rays – The Grand Social, Dublin 02.04.2023

It was a night of rollicking coastal punk rock at The Grand Social Dublin as Australian surf-punk/surf-rock bands Dune Rats and Beddy Rays took over the venue.Right from the get-go…

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News & Album Review: Civic release blistering sophomore album, Taken By Force

The really, really good news is that guitar-based, garage-punk rock is not dead, and Melbourne band, Civic are at the forefront of a movement which is showing that it is…

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Live Review + Gallery: A Swayze & The Ghosts bring the roof down as they rock Altar in nipaluna/Hobart 16.12.2022

It felt like an eternity since A Swayze & The Ghosts had played (or at least, it did for me). Covid-19 has delayed the inevitable rise of one of Tasmania’s…

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Album Review: Melbourne power duo, Mannequin Death Squad release sizzling debut long player, Super Mental Psycho.

Mannequin Death Squad have finally released their debut album after a string of blistering singles (all of which appear on the album) being released over the past few years in…

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Live Review + Gallery: Mannequin Death Squad at Altar 29/09/2022

Having recently returned from a tour throughout the UK, Melbourne power-punk 2-piece, Mannequin Death Squad (El and Dan) took to the stage at Altar here in Hobart and ripped out…

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PREMIERE: LA trio Lost Cat present ‘Bitch Fight’ from their impending debut album

Meet Lost Cat. They’re from Los Angeles, and there’s three of them – Angie, Lucy and Kiki. They’re on a first-names-only basis apparently, and that’s fine with us. Their sound’s…

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