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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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Premiere: The magnificent The Finalists unveil the gorgeous and shimmering double A-side singles ‘Yogyakarta Southern Coast’ and ‘L.A. In The Night’

It’s been a long five years since Sydney supergroup The Finalists released their debut album ‘First’ (see my review here), and we are so very pleased to be able to…

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Track: The Electorate votes for ‘Peace, Love & Kindness’ in a delectable new single ahead of new album in May.

The magnificent The Electorate – a firm favourite here in the dusty hallowed halls of the antipodean headquarters of Backseat Mafia – have followed up their earlier comeback single ‘Face…

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Track: ‘Say It Again’ – Hexham Heads bring a strong dose of jingly jangly power pop in their debut single.

For a delicious blast of jingly jangly power pop, replete with some heavenly harmonies and a scaling melody, you can’t go past the debut single from Naarm/Melbourne band Hexham Heads.…

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Premiere: Blackbirds F.C. wants to know – ‘What’s The Half-Life of Loving You?’, a delicious sparkling sonic score.

We are extremely proud to bring you an exclusive early listen to the new single, enticingly entitled ‘What’s The Half-Life of Loving You?’, from one of our favourite bands, Melbourne’s…

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Premiere: The Darling Hearts make a stunning debut with the mellifluous and atmospheric track ‘Jerk Face’.

We are very honoured to premiere the debut single from duo The Darling Hearts with the amusingly titled ‘Jerk Face’. The Darling Hearts are a meeting of two musicians from…

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Track: PJ Orr release the delicate sounds of ‘Footsteps’ ahead of new album and launch date.

A gentle, dappling, rich and luscious flow of guitars, sometimes rearing up into twanging solos, heralds ‘Footsteps’, the new single from P.J. Orr. It’s an aching, yearning track that draws…

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