Punk rock
Live Review & Gallery: Still Loud, Still Defiant, Dead Kennedys at Metro Theatre – Eora Land, Sydney 27.09.25
The Dead Kennedys filled the Metro Theatre with a noise and sense of conviction that hasn’t aged out. Original members, guitarist ‘East Bay’ Ray Pepperell and bassist ‘Klaus Flouride’ (Geoffrey Lyall), casually walked on stage to do their own soundchecks, met with cheers from the crowd. Ron ‘Skip’ Greer drove the vocals, and Steve Wilson …
News: Still loud, still sharp: Eddy Current Suppression Ring unleash the gritty Shapes and Forms
Eddy Current Suppression Ring — the twice ARIA Award-nominated garage/punk rock band — have re-emerged from a long studio silence with Shapes and Forms, their second new song following on the heels of the angular and wiry Swimming Hole, released earlier in 2025. In recent months, the band have quietly begun re-uploading classic videos from …
Live Review + Photo Galleries: Dark Mofo Festival – Gut Health, Dick Move and Woolworths Flushot at Altar Bar 11.06.2025
Another great triple-act night was had at Tasmania’s world-renowned, mid-winter festival, Dark Mofo at Hobart’s Altar Bar. This triple involved three bands who sit within the punk-rock category, albeit that each band was wildly different from the other. This was one of the reasons why the night was as successful as it was. Each band …
Live Gallery: ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’, The Sex Pistols are in Australia Performing With Frank Carter – Hordern Pavilion, Eora Nation/Sydney 08.04.25
It’s wild, really – the Sex Pistols only ever released one official studio album. Just one. But what a detonation it was. Nearly fifty years later, the blast radius is still visible – even across the globe at Hordern Pavilion this week. They came out swinging – ‘Holidays in the Sun’, ‘Seventeen’, ‘New York’ – …
News & Track: CLAMM Release Scathing Single ‘No Idea’ Ahead of Upcoming Album and EU/UK Tour
Naarm/Melbourne trio CLAMM have just released ‘No Idea’, a shredding new single that doubles down on the band’s rawest instincts – fast, furious, and zero facade. It’s the second taste of their upcoming third album ‘Serious Acts’, out May 30 via Meat Machine Records, and it smashes through you like an elbow in a pit …
live review: stiff little fingers, ricky warwick and the fighting hearts. the barbican, york. 18/03/2025
The Barbican was full of legends tonight and the crowd didn’t disappoint either. When Ricky Warwick and the Fighting Hearts hit the stage the gathered ensemble was modest to say the least, but as the rock flowed energetically from the stage to the floor, and lofty seating above, all empty space soon filled up. From …
Live Review & Gallery: Shame Revel In Punk Devotion, Giving Australia Stage Dive Sermons – Metro Theatre, Eora Land/Sydney, 04.03.25
I’d heard along the grapevine that Shame’s set at Yours and Owls Festival was the one to catch, best of the weekend, unfiltered punk energy carrying the day forward ahead of headliners Fontaines D.C. Naturally, expectations were sky-high as I navigated the winding corridors of Metro Theatre and slipped into the cavern that is Metro …
Live Review & Gallery: Mannequin Pussy Debut Tour Down Under – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney 6.12.2024
Mannequin Pussy Takes No Prisoners on Their Australian Debut Tour
Live Review & Gallery: Rising to the Occasion – Viagra Boys at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney 5.11.2024
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Live Review + Gallery: The Hard-Ons triumphant return to Hobart at Altar Bar 31.10.2024
Riding on the back of their latest (and 15th) album, I Like You A Lot Getting Older, The Hard-Ons bounded into Hobart’s Altar Bar (previously known as just ‘Altar’) to deliver some old-fashioned, sweaty and melodic punk rock in the style that has kept them revered in the eyes of their faithful following for decades. …