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News: Rise Against and Dropkick Murphys announce massive Australian and New Zealand tour for 2026

Rise Against and Dropkick Murphys are heading back to Australia and New Zealand later this year for a run of arena and outdoor shows that feels engineered for hoarse voices, flying beer cups…

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News: Ocean Grove Bring The Oddworld Home With Massive 2026 Australian Tour

Ocean Grove are bringing the Oddworld back home. After several years spent tearing through Europe, supporting arena-sized tours and steadily mutating into one of Australian heavy music’s most unpredictable forces, the…

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Track: The Pretty Reckless Announce Their Most Vulnerable Album Yet

The Pretty Reckless are pushing deeper into the shadows on new single Dear God, the title track from their forthcoming fifth album, due June 26 via Fearless Records. Led by Taylor Momsen’s towering vocal…

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Album Review: Looking For People To Unfollow Finds Ecca Vandal Refusing Every Genre Boundary

When Ecca Vandal released her self-titled debut in 2017, it felt like somebody had kicked a hole through the polite boundaries of Australian alternative music. Hip-hop, punk, electronica, metal and pop all…

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Live Gallery: Catch Your Breath Made A Strong Australian Debut In Melbourne at 170 Russell 21.05.2026

Backseat Mafia was grateful to be inside 170 Russell to capture Catch Your Breath on the Melbourne stop of their debut Australian tour. The Texas melodic rock outfit brought the kind of tightly…

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Track: 156/Silence Announce New Album From A Distance With Crushing Single ‘No Arms’

156/Silence have spent the last few years pushing their sound into increasingly unpredictable territory, but From A Distance feels less like a left turn than the point where all of those fractured…

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Track: A.A. Williams Unveils Haunting New Single ‘Poison’

A.A. Williams has dropped ‘Poison’, the powerful new single lifted from her forthcoming album Solstice, due June 5 via RPM. Pre-order Solstice HERE. ‘Poison’ pushes deeper into the shadow-drenched terrain that A.A.…

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Track: Party Dozen Return With Chaotic New Single ‘Special Unit’

Party Dozen have dropped a new track, ‘Special Unit” which is a chaotic collision of sweat, feedback, sarcasm and blunt-force rhythm that seems capable of rattling windows several suburbs away. Party…

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News: Killswitch Engage announce biggest Australian and New Zealand headline tour yet

After celebrating 25 years as a band and releasing their latest album This Consequence, Killswitch Engage are heading back to Australia and New Zealand in 2026 for their biggest headline…

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Album Review: REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE confirms Genesis Owusu’s singular brilliance

Trying to summarise Genesis Owusu in neat terms at this point feels almost pointless. Across three albums he has dismantled genre, expectation and the increasingly flimsy boundaries between political commentary, theatre, punk…

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