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News: The Beta Band announce first-ever Australian tour with Death in Vegas DJ sets

The Beta Band Australian tour 2026 – There’s something quietly radical about a band returning not to relive the past, but to rewire it in front of a new audience.…

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Album Review: Fcukers’ Ö is a 28-minute rush of sweat, speed and downtown chaos

Fcukers Ö album review – There’s no gentle way into Ö. Fcukers don’t open a door, they flick the lights on and drop you straight into the middle of it. The debut album…

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Album Review: Truly great – The Great Emu War Casualties unveil their soaring debut album ‘Public Sweetheart No. 1’

The brilliantly, if rather enigmatically, named band The Great Emu War Casualties have just released their debut entitled ‘Public Sweetheart No. 1’ after a series of EPs and singles released since the…

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News: Dark Mofo Festival unveils the eclectic 2026 musical lineup as well as the usual spectacular arts and performance events

Every year the world waits with great anticipation and bated breath for the details of the Dark Mofo Festival menu, and we can bring them to you today. It’s a…

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EP Review: Big League unveil the anthemic swagger of ‘Windanswagger’ ahead of Australian/New Zealand tour

We had the privilege of premiering Big League‘s single ‘Neverlandfill’ towards the end of last year and the band has now delivered an EP entitled ‘Windanswagger’, filled with the pulse…

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Track: Tractor Beam’ finds Snail Mail exploring dissociation and distance

There’s a moment in Snail Mail’s new single ‘Tractor Beam’ where everything seems to lift, not in triumph, but in escape. It’s a feeling that runs through the track like a current, a quiet…

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Track: ‘Mother Please Forgive Me’ – Electro goth maestros Caligula reign supreme with their new emotional anthem.

It’s playtime again for the magnificent Caligula they follow up last year’s live gigs celebrating thirty years of sonic success and their comeback single last year (see my review here),…

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Track: Julia Cumming captures the fragility of memory on ‘Please Let Me Remember This’

There’s a fragile kind of clarity running through ‘Please Let Me Remember This’, the new solo offering from Julia Cumming. Built around trembling piano and gauzy, slow-drifting guitars, the track moves with…

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Track: Warmer (solo project of Sydney singer-songwriter John Encarnação) goes on a ‘Pitchfork Barndance (feat Dave Carter)’

Sydney singer-songwriter John Encarnação is a pillar of the indie music scene in Australia, known for his involvement in one of our favorite institutions The Nature Strip. Under the guise…

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Track: ‘Labour Of My Love’ sees For Nina refine their quiet intensity

There’s a quiet kind of confidence that doesn’t announce itself, it just settles in and refuses to leave. On ‘Labour Of My Love’, Dublin trio For Nina lean into that space, returning with…

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