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Album Review: Tavare-‘Too Small To Be So High’: A delicate and solemn slow core triumph.
News: The legendary David Byrne announces new album ‘Who Is The Sky?’ with the irrepressible and buoyant single ‘Everybody Laughs’ as a taster and massive world tour.
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Live Gallery: Alright Again-Supergrass Celebrate 30 Years of I Should Coco at the Sydney Opera House 10.06.2025
Album Review: Pulp gives us ‘More’ – returning with an aged beauty and graceful pose but the same louche insouciance we missed.
Album Review: Sparks are ‘MAD!’ and their enduring legacy is safe.
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Live Gallery: A Dream in Soft Focus: Japanese Breakfast’s Spellbinding Vivid LIVE Debut, Sydney Opera House 3.06.2025

Deb Pelser June 3, 2025

Soundtracking the Silence Between Aisles: Japanese Breakfast Dazzles at the Opera House

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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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News: Vivid LIVE 2025: A Clash of Icons, Innovators & Clubland Chaos at Sydney Opera House

Deb Pelser March 12, 2025

Vivid LIVE 2025 is shaping up to be Sydney’s most electric music takeover yet. Get ready for a festival that collides past, present, and future in one kaleidoscopic explosion.

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Album Review: Tavare-‘Too Small To Be So High’: A delicate and solemn slow core triumph.

John Parry June 11, 2025

Trying to keep track of Canadian experimental guitarist and composer Aidan Baker’s recorded output since his first release in 2000 is an almost impossible challenge. The Discogs bible lists around 170 albums under his name and that’s not including the stuff he’s created as part of bands like Arc and Nadja. Baker has become a …

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News: The legendary David Byrne announces new album ‘Who Is The Sky?’ with the irrepressible and buoyant single ‘Everybody Laughs’ as a taster and massive world tour.

Arun Kendall June 10, 2025

David Byrne has always been an influential and innovative musician from his time in the iconic Talking Heads to his solo and collaboration work that have magnified his talent exponentially. Today, he announces a new album entitled ‘Who Is The Sky?’ out through Matador Records and Remote Control Records on 5 September 2025, a single …

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Live Gallery: Alright Again-Supergrass Celebrate 30 Years of I Should Coco at the Sydney Opera House 10.06.2025

Deb Pelser June 10, 2025

Sirens, nostalgia & a packed house—Supergrass just brought Britpop back to Sydney.

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Album Review: Pulp gives us ‘More’ – returning with an aged beauty and graceful pose but the same louche insouciance we missed.

Arun Kendall June 10, 2025

In ‘More’, Pulp return not with a bang but with a graceful, knowing nod – like old friends who’ve learned that the quietest whispers can sometimes carry the heaviest truths. It’s a record suffused with a poignant maturity, and yet it dances with all the absurd, anxious glamour that has always made Pulp more than …

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Album Review: Sparks are ‘MAD!’ and their enduring legacy is safe.

Arun Kendall June 9, 2025

In the realm of art-pop, few acts have maintained the level of inventive audacity that Sparks have exhibited over their five-decade career. With their 28th studio album, MAD!, the Mael brothers—Ron and Russell—continue to defy expectations, offering a record that is as unpredictable as it is exhilarating. ‘MAD!’ unfolds like a sonic kaleidoscope, blending genres …

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