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News: Borderline to tour Australia This July

Borderline, the Auckland four-piece have announced an Australian tour this July in support of their debut album, bringing their restless blend of indie rock, pop hooks and groove-heavy energy to…

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News: Lamb Of God And Trivium Announce Colossal Australian Co-Headline Tour

Lamb of God and Trivium are dragging a full-scale metal avalanche across Australia this October, bringing with them Glasgow wrecking crew Bleed From Within for what already feels less like a tour announcement and more…

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News: Alex Lahey Revisits ‘B-Grade University’ With Tegan And Sara In Tow

Alex Lahey’s debut EP arrived at a moment when Australian indie rock was beginning to shed some of its self-conscious cool and embrace something messier, louder and more emotionally direct.…

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News: Wade Forster Announces ‘The Aftermath’ Australian Tour And New Album

Australian country music has spent the last few years drifting further away from polished radio clichés and back toward something dustier, rougher and more lived-in. Wade Forster has become one of the…

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News: Enuff Z’Nuff And Pretty Boy Floyd Bring Sunset Strip Excess Back To Australia

The hairspray cloud is drifting back across Australia this November, and it smells exactly like overdriven Marshalls, leopard print and midnight MTV. Enuff Z’Nuff and Pretty Boy Floyd are joining forces for the ‘RU…

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News: Sunk Loto Return With Crushing New Single Dead Shadows

Nearly three decades after first forming on the Gold Coast, Sunk Loto are still refusing to fade quietly into legacy status. New single “Dead Shadows” proves exactly why. The track…

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News: Charli XCX Swaps Brat Chaos For Guitars On New Single Rock Music

For the past year, pop culture has largely existed inside the fluorescent green afterglow of Brat. Now, Charli XCX appears ready to kick the whole thing through a wall of distorted guitars.…

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Track: Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Ringlets release new single ‘Hard Evidence’ ahead of UK/European tour

Last year’s delightfully entitled ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies)’ from the magnificent Ringlets (reviewed by me here) was followed by a few appearance across the ditch…

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News: Swervedriver Return To Australia To Perform Raise In Full

By the early 1990s, British guitar music had split into strange new shapes. Some bands disappeared inward into shoegaze abstraction, others chased grunge heaviness or baggy euphoria. Swervedriver somehow absorbed…

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News: The Church Announce A Psychedelic Symphony With 30-Piece Orchestra

Few Australian bands have built a catalogue as atmospheric and quietly influential as The Church. More than four decades after first emerging from Sydney’s underground with their unmistakable blend of…

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