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Track: DIIV Announce ZIRP! And Unveil New Single ‘The Fountain’

DIIV have officially unveiled their fifth studio album, ZIRP!, arriving 30 October via Fantasy Records, alongside its lead single ‘The Fountain’. After teasing fans with a mysterious hotline number sent by mail last week, the…

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Premiere: ‘I Kinda Love You’ – Boorloo/Perth band Salt Museum exclusively deliver an extraordinary shimmering debut.

Some songs are about certainty. This one isn’t. Perth five-piece Salt Museum have built their debut single around the space just before a confession of love — that fragile, half-terrified…

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Live Review + Photo Galleries: Silversun Pickups unleash their Tenterhooks tour on The Odeon Theatre, Hobart with NZ friends, Coast Arcade 25.07.2026

After a 14 year absence from Australian shores, Silversun Pickups (SSPU) have unshackled the suspense with a show packed to the brim with songs from their seventh, and latest studio…

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Track: Marlophone laude their ‘Nintendo Era Hero’ in another sparkling jewel off their forthcoming debut album.

Patrick Haid (Key Out), Saskia Clapton (The Great Emu War Casualties) and Nick Kennedy (Big Heavy Stuff, Imperial Broads and Knieval to name but a few), are Marlophone, and they…

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Track: Japan’s The Psychedelic Mars release the ethereal track ‘Rusteneration’ – finding beauty in imperfection

Japan’s independent music scene continues to produce artists who refuse to be boxed in by convention, and Tokyo outfit The Psychedelic Mars are another reminder that some of the country’s…

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Live Review Plus Gallery: Blackwater Holylight, Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart 20.06.2026

The magnificent Odeon Theatre was awash in deep red light as Blackwater Holylight quietly took the stage, easing the audience into their distinctive blend of doom, shoegaze and psychedelia. Dispensing…

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Live Gallery: Wednesday Live at Sydney’s Metro Theatre 3.06.2026

It’s Wednesday evening and a crowd curls down the street and around the corner at the Metro Theatre. They’re here to see Karly Hartzman’s Wednesday perform. The band have arrived in…

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Track: London Shoegaze Risers sadplanet Shine On New Single ‘please’

London-based shoegaze outfit sadplanet share the elegant, floating new single ‘please’, the second track to be lifted from their forthcoming debut EP ‘slowing down’, arriving September 10th. Formed in late…

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Track: Introducing Louderstar, from the southern edge of the world, with their debut ethereal single ‘Flickering Lights’.

Newly formed trio Louderstar has coalesced in Launceston, Tasmania at the far edge of the world following songwriter and producer singer Fiora’s return from Berlin and Los Angeles. She has…

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Live Review plus Gallery: All India Radio live broadcast their ethereal majesty, supported by Dvrkworld and Dededed, Altar Bar, Hobart, 14 May 2026

All may be dark and cold in the southern outpost of Australia, but in their first hometown gig in Hobart, All India Radio emanated a warm starburst of magic into…

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