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News: Mallrat Announces Australian, North American, UK/European Tours Ahead Of Upcoming Album ‘Light Hit My Face Like A Straight Right’, Releasing Feb 14, + Supporting Kylie Minogue On ‘Tension’ Tour
Grace Shaw, better known as Australia’s indie-pop darling Mallrat, is one of those artists you love with your gut. If you’ve been paying any attention to the Australian music scene, you’ll know her as the sharp, genre-defying voice behind hits like ‘Groceries’ and ‘Charlie’. Now, as she gears up for the release of her new …
Premiere: Meanjin/Brisbane’s Zanna Black unveils the gorgeously evocative track ‘This Town’ – a glorious, ethereal paean to dispossession and loss.
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 delivery, filled with a whimsical whirl that is enticing and transfixing. Black’s voice dances through the ether, drenched in a yearning melancholia, a bed of …
Track: ‘Where Are You Now?’ – Aotearoan dream pop King, Nik Brinkman, dials up the shimmering jingle jangle sounds with new single.
Ahead of the release of his new album ‘World Within’, New Zealand dream pop artist Nik Brinkman has followed up his first single in a few years, ‘Long Way To Go’, with a second positively shimmering release, ‘Where Are You Now’. With languid laid back vocals channeling Jim Reid from The Jesus and Mary Chain, the …
Premiere: lutruwita/Tasmania artist Lasca Dry radiates some dazzling sunshine in ‘Sunset Baby’, ahead of live shows.
Lasca Dry is an exciting artist coming from the southern edges of the world in lutriwita/Tasmania with an established reputation for her sparkling form of iridescent pop. We are therefore truly honoured to premiere her new single ‘Sunset Baby’ which sets the expansive skies over Australia alight with its transcendent irrepressible bounce and sixties-flavoured bubblegum …
Live Review & Gallery: Flaming Lips Deliver Full-Throttle Psychedelia as They Perform Yoshimi in Full at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney 02.02.2025
Euphoria Unleashed: The Flaming Lips Remind Sydney Why They’re Still the Kings of Live Psychedelia
News: The Lovetones surprise with a compilation album ‘The Song Is My Friend’, filled with luscious jingle jangle pop.
The glorious The Lovetones have take everyone by surprise by issuing a shimmering compilation album entitled ‘The Song Is My Friend’. Songwriter Matthew J. Tow describes the compilation as a very personal collection: You’ll find some familiar tracks, along with some rare and deep cuts in there too. Curated in a way that gives those …
News: Liz Stringer Finds Liberation in ‘The Second High’ as She Prepares to Tour Australia
Liz Stringer Channels Jazz, Funk, and Soul on Thrilling Seventh Album
Track: International group The Wonder unveil a thrilling anthemic single ‘I Don’t Want To Come Down’, ahead of EP ‘Pop’.
The Wonder are an international group consisting of Australian vocalist and guitarist Matt Davis – who is also a founding member of Melbourne rock band Gersey – with Parisian artists Alexandre Gontard (bass), Nico Defeudis (guitar), Milan Zuidema (keys and backup vocals), and Fulvio Serpone on drums. With an EP entitled ‘Pop’ due for release …
Track: ‘Are You Ready’ – rising star Fletcher Kent’s eloquent paean to growth and maturity.
The new single ‘Are You Ready’ from rising star Fletcher Kent is a yearning and nuanced delight that highlights his incredible vocals as well as songwriting skills. Raw and immersive, his voice is naked and to the fore over the acoustic guitar arpeggio, and yet the instrumentation provides a compelling force with horns delicately framing …