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Live Gallery: Massive Attack Share Unflinching Warnings to Thousands – Afterpay Arena, Eora Land/Sydney 09.08.26

Massive Attack returned to Sydney on Sunday night for the first time since 2010. Robert “3D” Del Naja and Grant “Daddy G” Marshall took the stage in near-silhouette, the towering…

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Album Review: Madonna Reclaims Her Club Crown With Confessions II

Madonna has spent more than four decades rewriting the rules of pop, so it feels fitting that Confessions II arrives at a moment when the cultural conversation is dominated by female…

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Live Gallery: Morcheeba Mark 30 Years of Trip-Hop Elegance at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre 19.02.2026

At Sydney’s Enmore Theatre, Morcheeba celebrated 30 years of genre-blurring music. Supported by James Lavelle’s one-off UNKLE SOUNDS show, the night felt less like nostalgia and more like a reminder of how quietly influential trip-hop remains.

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News: Morcheeba Mark 30 Years of Trip-Hop Majesty with 2026 Australian Tour

Morcheeba return to Australia in 2026 to celebrate 30 years of genre-bending brilliance, joined by UNKLE’s James Lavelle for a night of hypnotic grooves, nostalgia and visual splendour.

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Live Gallery: The Singular, Spellbinding Beth Gibbons at the Sydney Opera House 30.05.2025

A rare appearance, a timeless voice — Beth Gibbons stuns at Vivid LIVE.

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Track: lutriwita/Tasmanian duo Future State release the atmospheric single ‘Serve Yourself’ ahead of debut album ‘Everything Is Temporary’

Future State are an electronic trip hop duo from southern edge of the world in Tasmania, and their sound is suitably chill and Antarctic with its combination of thundering percussion,…

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Album Review: Earthen Sea –‘Recollection’: Blissful ambient techno with a deeper trip-hop flow.

Jacob Long’s musical journey has wound from seminal Dischord post-hardcore band Black Eyes through the deep dub rhythmics of Mi Ami to arriving, around 2014, in more greyscale/ambient landscapes with…

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Track: Restless ambient artist Earthen Sea announces new album ‘Recollection’ with a luscious and loose double preview.

You may recall the name Jacob Long as a member of the seminal Dischord band Black Eyes, a group who defined post-hardcore’s in-built non-conformity. Such a starting point inevitably embedded…

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Live Gallery: Morcheeba at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney 14.03.2023

Morcheeba mesmerise Sydney crowd with their iconic trip-hop grooves.

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Track: French duo Overland Inn provide a dreamy pop repose with new single ‘Martingale’

Signed to the magnificent Brisbane label False Peak Records, French/Czech duo Overland Inn open up their fair doors for the first time since early last year with another swoon-worthy dreamy…

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