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News: Cog add dates to 2026 Walk The Line Tour, including Hobart, Canberra and further NSW and Victorian dates

In 2026, prepare to share even more space with Aussie rock icons Cog, with the band today announcing eight additional shows for the new year. Joining their two already-added Western…

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Live Review + Photo Galleries: We Lost The Sea and follow at Altar Bar, Friday 07.11.2025

Two bands, six guitarists, two bass players, two drummers and one keyboard player…..and not a vocalist (or a microphone stand) to be seen. This was the reality of Friday night’s…

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Track: Blanket release the shimmering Shoegaze of Levitate

With Levitate, Blackpool quarter Blanket deliver a stunning slice of post-rock and shoegaze, layering shimmering guitars over an ethereal vocal performance that feels weightless yet deeply immersive. The track pulsates…

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Live Review + Photo Gallery: follow at Altar Bar, Hobart 16.11.2024

It was an evening of firsts, as Hobart’s post-rock supergroup, follow, took to the live stage for the very first time and played songs from their debut LP, Old Haunts…

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Album Review: False Hope For The Savage – False Hope For The Savage; Cardiff band produce a glittering self titled album of yearning post-rock.

Cardiff post-rock outfit False Hope For The Savage released their debut self titled album back in August, but with the physical release now out, we took the opportunity to take…

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Album Review: Ricardo Dias Gomes – Muito Sol : re-imagining post rock with a tropicalia soul.

In the shimmers of the recent loss of Os Mutantes founder Rita Lee that follows Gal Costa’s passing last year it’s poignant to get a reminder that music doused with…

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Premiere: Bliss out with LARAAJI and KRAMER’s new album opener ‘Submersion’

OK, look: we’re well aware a 21-minute slow-building ambient piece is a hard sell if you’re not specifically into that kind of thing, but LARAAJI and KRAMER have made some…

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PREMIERE: Montreal post-rock trio Yoo Doo Right emphatically kick against the pricks on thunderous new album

Barely a year since they released their debut LP, Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose, Canadian trio Yoo Doo Right are back with their second album, on which their…

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Album review: Duncan Marquiss – ‘Wires Turned Sideways In Time’: Phantom Band guitarist conceives of an instrumental, pastoral motorik for a place yet to exist

FROM disastrous events that upend your world can sometimes come good things; sometimes, I’m no Pollyanna here. Fortunately for Duncan Marquiss, guitarist with Chemikal Underground’s The Phantom Band, a major…

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Album Review: Boris – W

In July 2020, Tokyo experimental metal trio Boris released ‘NO’, their fastest, loudest, heaviest album for several years, one that eschewed the drone metal elements of much of their recent…

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