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Live Review plus Gallery: Infinity Broke Album Launch with The Gin Palace, Trocadero Room, Sydney, 24 May 2025

Infinity Broke blasted their way into the busy Enmore Road in Sydney at the Trocadero Room, offering a far more enticing fare than could be found up the road at…

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Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne band Alcotomic unveil a buoyant sliver of sunshine pop with ‘Ruby Shoes’.

We are very honoured to premiere the single ‘Ruby Shoes’ from Naarm/Melbourne indie band Alcotomic: a track so bright and boisterous you need anti-gravity boots and sunglasses to listen to…

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Track: It’s not over for The Insufferable Paul Scott (ex-Pop Mechanix) as he releases sparkling new single ‘Extinct’.

I often bang on about the Marrickville Sound in the southern hemisphere: members of bands that basked in the spotlight in the eighties or nineties who in later years reform…

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Track: The Petrov Affair make a welcome return with the silken melancholy of ‘White Out’, with launch date announced.

There is a crystalline delicacy to the new single ‘White Out’ from the enigmatic The Petrov Affair who make a welcome return after an absence of a few years. The…

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Album Review: Party Crashers’ self titled debut album is a glorious indie pop delight.

Party Crashers features singer songwriter Robert F. Cranny who has a long history in the industry as one of the main architects of Sarah Blasko’s debut album ‘The Overture And…

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Track: Vote one for The Electorate with their shimmering new single ‘The Great Divide’ ahead of new album.

The ever delightful The Electorate return with another tasty single ‘The Great Divide’ off their forthcoming album ‘By Design’. And this time it is a personal look at emotional pain,…

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Album Review: Release the bats – Infinity Broke are rampaging through the cities with their excoriating, thrilling new album ‘This Masthead’.

It’s hard coming up with enough new superlatives to accurately describe an Infinity Broke album. Inevitably epithets and phrases such as contained chaos come to mind, along with freight trains…

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Premiere: There’s a sparkling sound as Party Crashers enter the room with the glimmering track ‘Stoked With Your Diagnosis’ ahead of debut album.

I keep harping on about the wave of brilliant bands that, after successful (or not so successful) musical careers in the eighties and nineties, are reforming or forming new iterations…

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Track: The beginning and the end – Snakeheads release the visceral single ‘Temptation’ ahead of debut and final album ‘Belconnen Highs’.

Snakeheads have a long and storied history centering around the friendships between two iconic grass roots indie musicians, one’s untimely death and the other’s relentless pursuit to bring to fruition…

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Premiere: SXY XMS exclusively debut their thrilling high octane single ‘You’ll Never Know’ ahead of EP and launch date.

It is always a privilege to premiere a debut single for a band and the pleasure is always doubled when it’s something as good as ‘You’ll Never Know’ from Sydney…

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