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Track: ‘I’m On The Border’ – MF Tomlinson faces challenges of loss and alienation in a shimmering single.

  • May 21, 2025
  • Arun Kendall
Australian-born UK resident MF Tomlinson will be releasing a new album entitled ‘Die To Wake Up From a Dream’ on 11 July via PRAH Recordings. The new single of the album, ‘I’m On…
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News: Meanjin/Brisbane band Bean Magazine announce EP ‘Folly’, tour dates and unveil the evocative and shimmering new single ‘Share You’

  • April 28, 2025
  • Arun Kendall
Bean Magazine‘s new single ‘Share You’ is a gorgeous, hypnotic and dreamy release that indicates there is something special gestating in the north of Australia. With a repeated vocal motif…
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News: MF Tomlinson announces new album and unveils the cinematic title track ‘Die To Wake Up From a Dream’ ahead of UK dates.

  • March 25, 2025
  • Arun Kendall
We’ve always been huge fans of Australian-born UK resident MF Tomlinson and it is exciting to see he will be releasing a new album entitled ‘Die To Wake Up From…
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Album Review: Brisbane’s Tape/Off unveil a magnum opus in the epic new album ‘Fort Sensible’ ahead of national tour.

  • March 22, 2025
  • Arun Kendall
Listening to the new album by Tape/Off is like journeying across the wide open landscapes of Australia where the scenery dramatically changes and yet remains breathtaking and stunning throughout. And…
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Premiere: Left Cassette are ‘Always Kinda Late’ – a shimmering anthemic blast of indie pop.

  • February 19, 2025
  • Arun Kendall
‘Always Kinda Late’ from Meanjin/Brisbane-based indie-rock act Left Cassette is a thoroughly satisfying blast of Brit-pop influenced indie rock that shimmers with its anthemic delivery. There are traces of fellow…
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Premiere: Meanjin/Brisbane’s Zanna Black unveils the gorgeously evocative track ‘This Town’ – a glorious, ethereal paean to dispossession and loss.

  • February 5, 2025
  • Arun Kendall
Meanjin/Brisbane singer/songwriter Zanna Black is releasing a gloriously ethereal track ‘This Town’ tomorrow and we are inordinately honoured to bring you an early listen. ‘This Town has a delicate, fey…
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Track: Fingerless are facing the ‘Monster’ of self doubt in their intense, anthemic new single.

  • October 31, 2024
  • Arun Kendall
Long time favourites here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, the irrepressible Fingerless are back with the deliciously restrained and haunting tones of ‘Monster’. Eschewing their normal psychedelic-tinged upbeat…
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Premiere: The ethereal Cloud Tangle is ‘Dreaming Again’ and the result is an album of enticing sonic bliss.

  • October 7, 2024
  • Arun Kendall
Meanjin/Brisbane’s Cloud Tangle, the nom de plume of the glorious Amber Ramsay, is releasing her third album ‘Dreaming Again’ this week, and you can get an early listen of this…
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Track: ‘No Words Can Reach It’ – the Brisbane chameleons of rock Fingerless unleash an electronic wash that hangs in the atmosphere like a sonic aurora.

  • May 23, 2024
  • Arun Kendall
Fingerless never stay in the same spot but continually explore new ways to display their musical prowess and creativity. Their new single ‘Now Words Can Touch It’ maintains their unerring…
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Premiere: Meanjin/Brisbane trio Fingerless say ‘Yes Today’ – a dreamy escapade that ascends into a celestial storm

  • March 4, 2024
  • Arun Kendall
We are inordinately proud to bring you an exclusive taste of the new single ‘Yes Today’ from one of our favourite local Meanjin/Brisbane outfits, Fingerless, released through one of our…
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