Rock
Live Review + Gallery: Samantha Crain – The Showdown – Portland, Oregon – 2025.06.26
Live Review + Gallery: Samantha Crain – The Showdown – Portland, Oregon – 2025.06.26
Premiere: With a storied past, Ash Santilla releases the brooding, visceral ‘Nightcrawler’ ahead of solo album.
With a previous life in band Melbourne indie rock band 67 Special, Ash Santilla has gone solo in a spectacular fashion with his new single ‘Nightcrawler’, which we are very proud to premiere today. With an ominous beat and a jagged raw power, ‘Nightcrawler’ slithers along like a terrifying beast filled with a dark brooding air, drawing …
Live Review & Gallery: DIIV’s ‘Frog in Boiling Water’ Tour Brings Beautiful, Glorious Grit to Vivid – Eora Land/Sydney, 13.06.25
Touring ‘Frog in Boiling Water‘, their first album in five years, DIIV brought their thick, slow-dripping sound to life with a set that doubled as a collage of cult consumerism, protest, and digital rot. Across the huge screen behind them, ads flickered like computer viruses: Soul-Net, ExxonMobil, fake slogans, anti-slogans. Aesthetics lifted from American mall …
News: Stereophonics Plot Return to Australia with Career-Spanning 2025 Tour
30 years, 10 million albums, endless anthems—Stereophonics return to Australian stages.
Track & Video: DIIV Confront Hope and Loss Amidst Californian Wildfire Aftermath With New Release ‘Return of Youth’ + UK/EU/AUS Tour Dates
A year after ‘Frog in Boiling Water‘, DIIV return with their first new release – ‘Return of Youth‘, a quietly devastating single that trades widescreen collapse for something far more personal. Unsurprisingly, the track is a masterclass in shoegaze’s more delicate corners: layered, intimate, and full of restraint. It’s a noticeable shift from the chaos …
Live Review: Brown Horse, Headrow House, Leeds. 03.05.25
On the road supporting their new record All The Right Weaknesses, Brown Horse delivered a warm, unpretentious set in Leeds’ Headrow House. In the intimate setting of the upstairs room, the Norfolk-based band gave us a great set of their folk and country-inspired alt-rock. Main support came from Neve Cariad, who left the audience captivated …
News: YUNGBLUD Announces 2025 ‘IDOLS’ World Tour – Presale Details & Full Dates Revealed
Fresh off announcing his forthcoming double album IDOLS, YUNGBLUD has unveiled a major 2025 world tour spanning North America and Europe. The global tour kicks off in Los Angeles on 23rd August and includes headline dates in cities like New York, Berlin, Paris, and Toronto, before wrapping in Italy on 31st October. Presale access is available …
Live Review + Gallery: Mayday Parade – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, Oregon – 2025.05.09
Live Review + Gallery: Mayday Parade – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, Oregon – 2025.05.09
Premiere: It’s prime time for a reflective ‘Midnight Song’ as indie rocker Iain T. McKelvey returns with a shimmering new single.
Indie rocker Iain T. McKelvey is back after a year’s absence with his new evocative single ‘Midnight Song’, and we are humbled to bring you an early listen. ‘Midnight Song’ as a hint of an alt country twang with its crystalline guitars and McKelvey’s velvet, yearning tones, augmented by delicate harmonies and an indelible melody. Threaded …