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Track: ‘Like An Animal’ – Lutruwita’s TEENS are back roaming the streets to create delicious mayhem ahead of album release and live date.
It’s a normal teenage occupation isn’t it? Rioting in the streets, vandalising telephone booths and mugging little old pensioners? Not this lot. TEENS (who may in fact be outside the actual demographics) spend their time creating delicious sonic mayhem with an arched eyebrow and a thousand yard stare. Their new single ‘Like An Animal’ is …
News: Lagwagon bring HOSS back to Australia & NZ for 30th anniversary tour
Lagwagon will mark the 30th anniversary of HOSS with a run of shows across Australia and New Zealand in 2026.
Live Gallery: PUP and Teenage Joans Bring Sharp, Unrelenting Sets to Sydney’s Metro Theatre 9.08.2025
Teenage Joans open with a set that’s equal parts grit and charm, pulling the early crowd to the front before PUP take over at the Metro Theatre.
Premiere: Nipaluna/Hobart’s The Native Cats exclusively reveal poignant and charming video for the track ‘Aces Low’, off their 7″ double single ‘Aces Low’/’ Lose Count’, ahead of live dates.
The Native Cats are a duo who have a built up a strong reputation in the indie scene in Australia for their visceral, innovative post punk music and do-it-yourself style through their label Rough Skies. Based in Nipaluna/Hobart, they have just released a double sided 7″ single with the tracks ‘Aces Low’ and ‘Lose Count’ …
News: HOBOFOPO announce first 6 artists for the 2025 festival in Hobart in November
The folk-punk hobos are back at it again for the ninth installation of HOBart’s Original FOlk Punk Orgy (HOBOFOPO). Having previously hosted international acts such as AJJ, Days ‘N’ Daze, The Taxpayers and Crywank, they are proud to announce two of the hottest new acts from the US scene as part of their 2025 event. …
Premiere: The Vors raise their profile with the blistering single ‘Hi Vis Low Res’, with debut album and live dates on the way
We are very pleased to premiere the zany new punk pop single ‘Hi Vis Low Res’ from Eora/Sydney band The Vors, which has all the heat and blistering effects of a footpath baking in the hot summer sun. With a sound that recalls The Chats or Amyl and the Sniffers, it’s a thrilling surf ride …
Live Review & Gallery: Simple Plan and The Offspring ignite Qudos Bank Arena in a full-throttle punk resurrection 11.05.2025
Pop-punk perfection: Simple Plan and The Offspring just blew the roof off Qudos Bank Arena
LIVE REVIEW: Stockton Calling Festival. 19.04.2025.
They say you can have too much of a good thing. But when it comes to one day music festivals in Teesside and surrounding areas I, for one, say you can’t. This Is Middlesbrough, Twisterella, Gathering Sounds, Last Train Home and others all bring well established acts to the area as well as provide a …
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’ – …
Live Review & Gallery: Australia’s Introduction to The Murder Capital Was Bigger Than You Could Imagine – Crowbar, Eora Nation/Sydney 05.04.25
The past few months have brought a hefty flood of alt and punk-rock acts streaming in from the Northern Hemisphere. IDLES came through. So did Soft Play and Fat White Family. We watched Shame’s frontman jump off a 10-foot-high speaker a few weeks ago and Kneecap reemerge the decapitated head of King George V in …