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Live Gallery: Yours and Owls Festival Bring BBNO$, G-Flip, Ball Park Music, DMA’s and more to Wollongong – Day One! 03.10.26

Yours & Owls began as a Wollongong coffee shop that happened to put on gigs. It grew into a venue, then a booking agency, and has been running its festival…

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Track: Genesis Owusu Returns With Urgent New Single ‘HUMAN AGAIN’

Genesis Owusu has wasted little time building on the momentum of his critically acclaimed third album, with the Ghanaian-Australian artist today surprise-releasing the blistering new single ‘HUMAN AGAIN’ via OURNESS. Arriving just…

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News: Yours And Owls Turns Wollongong Into A City-Wide Festival This October

Yours and Owls is bringing Gong Christmas back to Wollongong this October, with the festival expanding its footprint across two days and two distinct settings. Day one returns to the…

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News: Genesis Owusu Announces UK And European Tour Following Acclaimed New Album

Genesis Owusu has never been interested in staying within the lines. Across three albums, the Ghanaian-Australian artist has built one of the most distinctive catalogues in contemporary music, pulling together…

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Album Review: Looking For People To Unfollow Finds Ecca Vandal Refusing Every Genre Boundary

When Ecca Vandal released her self-titled debut in 2017, it felt like somebody had kicked a hole through the polite boundaries of Australian alternative music. Hip-hop, punk, electronica, metal and pop all…

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Live Review & Gallery: Genesis Owusu brings Red Star Wu’s Pirate Radio Tour to Enmore Theatre following fresh release – 18.05.26, Gadigal Land/Sydney

If you know anything about Genesis Owusu‘s history with the Enmore Theatre, you know that Monday night carried a little extra weight. But first, Devaura. Born in Aotearoa and based…

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Album Review: REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE confirms Genesis Owusu’s singular brilliance

Trying to summarise Genesis Owusu in neat terms at this point feels almost pointless. Across three albums he has dismantled genre, expectation and the increasingly flimsy boundaries between political commentary, theatre, punk…

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Track: Genesis Owusu charges forward on new single ‘LIFE KEEPS GOING’

Genesis Owusu has never looked interested in taking the straight road, and new single LIFE KEEPS GOING only reinforces that instinct. The latest preview of forthcoming third album REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE arrives…

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News: Genesis Owusu Announces Explosive New Album And National Tour

Genesis Owusu has announced his third album REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE alongside a national Australian tour, delivering a bold, genre-blurring record shaped by urgency, identity and a fractured world.

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Track: ‘STAMPEDE’ Sees Genesis Owusu Turn Frustration Into Collective Fire

Genesis Owusu has released ‘STAMPEDE’, a synth-punk rallying cry filmed in Accra and rooted in the power of community. Expanding on the urgency of ‘PIRATE RADIO’ and ‘DEATH CULT ZOMBIE’, the Ghanaian-Australian artist channels global frustration into collective action — turning rhythm into resistance.

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