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News: DIIV reveal headline shows for Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide for February 2027

Brooklyn shoegaze favourites DIIV are heading back to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide for headline shows, bringing their new album ZIRP! to Laneway Festival. And with experimental pop producer A. G. Cook behind…

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Premiere: Eau The Music Finds ‘The Light In The Dark’ On Ambitious Debut Album

Toronto-born, Montréal-raised and now based in Ottawa, indie rock and dream pop artist Eau the Music arrives with her debut album Light in the Dark, an ambitious introduction to an…

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Video: California’s dream pop maestros Soft Science unveil mesmerising video for the gorgeous dreamy track ‘Without’ off their recent album ‘Sand’.

Californian band Soft Science recently released their fifth album ‘Sand’ through Shelflife Records (USA) and Spinout Nuggets (UK), and have just unveiled the video for the gorgeous track ‘Without’. ‘Without’…

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Album Review: We are given ‘The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop’ by the ever glorious the black watch and it’s another outrageous delight.

the black watch, steered with a delicate and melodious craft by the prestigious and proliferate John Andrew Fredrick, are back to delight our senses with the cutely titled album ‘The…

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Album Review: Helen – ‘Linda’s Head’: So much more than a retro reminder, Grouper and co refresh the shoegazing soundscape.

It may be over a decade since dream-pop shoegazers Helen first shimmered into view with ‘The Original Faces’ but their follow-up, ‘Linda’s Head’, shouldn’t be seen as a come-back album.…

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Premiere: Andrew McKeag Band inject a shot of psychedelic desert-rock into the hypnotic new single ‘Highway Dust’

Andrew McKeag has been making a racket for a few decades, and he has never been short of work. He has played sessions, teched guitars, managed tours and booked clubs,…

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Track: New Zealand’s Echomatica release the dream-noir cinematic epic ‘Atomic Girl’

Manchester has always been good at exporting its melancholy. It has travelled in record collections, in accents, and occasionally in whole people, and two of them have landed in Tāmaki…

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Live Review: she’s green – Deaf Institute, Lodge. Manchester 02.09.26

Minneapolis' she's green thrilled the crowd in Manchester's Deaf Insitute

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Track: DIIV share new single ‘Kid’ ahead of fifth album ‘ZIRP!’

DIIV have released ‘Kid’, the second track from their forthcoming fifth album ‘ZIRP!’, due October 30 via Fantasy Recordings. Following previous single ‘The Fountain’, the new track offers another look…

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Track: London-based psych-folkster Lando Manning returns with the chillingly moving ‘Veneer’.

Lando Manning has been a key component in London’s bustling alt-folk scene for a while now. Justifiably an ever present on the live circuit, whether going solo or with band,…

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