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News: The Presets, Cut Copy And Ladyhawke Lead New Festival Foreverafter

Australia’s indie-dance renaissance is getting the celebration it deserves. This January, Foreverafter arrives in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, bringing together some of the defining names of Australian electronic music alongside a new…

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News: Field Day Marks 25 Years with Carl Cox, Jamie Jones and The Presets

Sydney’s New Year’s Day institution Field Day celebrates 25 years at The Domain in 2026, featuring Carl Cox, Jamie Jones, The Presets, Deborah De Luca and more — plus a new stage dedicated to Sydney’s queer artists.

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Live Gallery: The Strokes Close Harvest Festival Day 1 with a Retinal Assault in White Light and Noise

Harvest Festival Day 1 in Adelaide weathered storms, evacuations and ecstatic returns. Genesis Owusu redefined showmanship, The War on Drugs delivered a hypnotic masterclass, and The Strokes closed the night beneath a minimalist set — fake palms, vintage lamps, and a blinding white light rig that seared itself into memory as much as sound.

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EP: Sydney’s Moody Beach unleashes a brilliant, fuzzy, dreamy landscape of gritty pop in ‘Assembly of the Wild’.

Moody Beach‘s new EP ‘Assembly of the Wild’ is a total delight that satisfies any cravings for down and dirty rock’n’roll leavened by a dreamy and at times ambient soundscape.…

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Track: The Presets’ Julian Hamilton releases sublime first solo single, the icy and elegant ‘City of Love’

Julian Hamilton, half of Sydney juggernaut duo The Presets, has just released his first ever solo single ‘City of Love’, and it is brilliant. With a syncopated bubbling, liquid undercurrent,…

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Meet: We chat with Holy Holy’s Tim Carroll about the new album, writing and recording songs and setting the studio on fire.

Australia’s sparkling pop duo Holy Holy’s forthcoming album ‘Hello My Beautiful World’ is due out on Friday, 20 August 2021 through Wonderlick Recording Company. Recorded in Victoria and Tasmania, Tim Carroll,…

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