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Premiere: ‘I Am The Greatest’ – indeed they are as The Vors exclusively reveal the video for the track off the debut album ‘Boss’
Earlier this year we reviewed the debut album from punk maestros The Vors and we can exclusively bring you the video for the new single off the album ‘I Am The Greatest’. With an…
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Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne’s Hannah Potter finds her way home in the haunting ‘Judith’s House’
Back in April we wrapped ourselves up in the warm melancholic embrace of Hannah Potter‘s debut single ‘Snow Day’, a song so assured it barely felt like a first outing at all.…
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Premiere: After a challenging year, Kat Greta is back and showing a little ‘Audacity’
It’s been said before but I’ll say it again: Kat Greta is a prodigious, seriously underrated talent whose releases are like golden rays of sunshine when all else around is dark. We…
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Track: ‘When I Dress For You’ – Team Building unveil their shimmering bemusement at life
With links to another antipodean band we have covered in the past (Yeevs), Eora/Sydney band Team Building have just released their second single, the gentle, simmering, shimmering ‘When…
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Premiere: ‘Everybody Calls Except You’ – Modern Ideas eloquently lament being infirm and ignored with a deft pop touch
Modern Ideas released the debut single ‘This Is How It Hurts’ back in April (see our premiere here), and the follow-up single ‘Everybody Calls Except You’ maintains the…
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Track / Video
Track: Zipper tune into another hypnotic triumph with ‘Ear’.
There are some bands you instinctively know are building something special, and Zipper continue to confirm that feeling with every release. Following the dazzling ‘Hiko’ (read my…
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Track: Watching the Waves, Watching Ourselves – Tamara & the Dream releases the reflective ‘Beautiful Woman on the Coast in Portugal’
Sometimes the most affecting songs arrive with barely a whisper. On ‘Beautiful Woman on the Coast in Portugal’, Tamara & the Dreams strips away the jangling indie exuberance that made…
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Track: Dominic Breen questions the stories that built a nation with the compelling ‘Just Another Day in the Colony’
There are songwriters who write stories, and there are songwriters who hold a mirror to a nation. On ‘Just Another Day in the Colony’, Sydney’s Dominic Breen confidently…
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Album Reviews
Album Review: Akusmi – ‘Terra Incognita’: A lush sonic expedition into exotic rhythms and sultry sax melodies.
London based multi-instrumentalist and composer Pascal Bideau a.k.a Akusmi returns with his third Tonal Union album and if you’re a follower you’ll understand it’s not exactly going to be more…
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Say Psych: Album Review: Magic Castles – Realized
Magic Castles are back with a set of lush psych-rock reveries. Newly signed to Fuzz Club, their new album Realized takes Magic Castles’ music to a newfound level of clarity, whilst still…
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Album Review: Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band – ‘The New Atomic’: Full powered punk jazz dynamism that refuses to follow the script.
Why is Big Band jazz a proposition that many swerve? Is it seen as too close to trad, too much of a historically significant relic. In truth the Big Band may have increasingly become a…
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Album Review: Bicycle Thieves and Dunedin Dreams – Ōtepoti’s Bunchy’s Big Score top the league with ‘Wanda’s Bicycle’
Bunchy’s Big Score have one foot planted firmly in the storied soil of Ōtepoti and the other kicking gleefully at the future. On their second album ‘Wanda’s Bicycle’,…
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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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Album Review: Scrimshire – ‘Bring Our Light To Every Corner’: The multi-instrumentalist and friends deliver a soulful, sensitive Spiritual Jazz message.
This feels like an album that Adam Scrimshire, producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist has been edging towards for some time now. After the politically-charged ‘Paroxysm‘ in…
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Interviews
Meet: Stacy Jones on art respecting art and not overthinking
Stacy Jones on playing live, art respecting art and not overthinking
#americanhifi #stacyjones #rockmusic #interview #livemusic
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Meet: Kirk Brandon predicted the future. But no-one was listening
Spear of Destiny's Kirk Brandon is on tour right now. We got together to talk about Chelsea, reclaiming the music and seeing into the future…
#kirkbrandon #spearofdestiny #interview…
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Interview: It’s Not a Documentary — It’s an Act: Baxter Dury on Nepotism, Performance and the Strange Theatre of Modern Life
When I last saw Baxter Dury, it was during Dark Mofo in Hobart — a setting whose nocturnal weirdness felt oddly perfect for his particular brand of dry, late-night storytelling. Over the past…
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Feature: Fokofpolisiekar Reflect on Swanesang at 20 as Australian & NZ Tour Extends Legacy
South African punk band Fokofpolisiekar reflect on Swanesang 20 years on, as Hunter Kennedy discusses identity, rebellion and taking the band's music to audiences in Australia and New Zealand.
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Meet: A.S. Fanning Talks About His New Album ‘Take Me Back To Nowhere’
On his fourth studio album Take Me Back To Nowhere, A.S. Fanning sounds both unmoored and quietly resolute. Drawing inspiration from science-fiction, experimental sound worlds, and a newly…
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Meet: Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys Talk Us Through New Single & The Upcoming Album ‘Pale Bloom’
With a body of work that thrives on tension, restraint, and emotional depth, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys have built a reputation for music that lingers long after it’s heard. As they move…
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Features / Playlists
News: Hard-Fi to Headline Harlequins’ Big Summer Kick-Off at Allianz Stadium
British indie heavyweights Hard-Fi are set to return to their South West London stomping grounds this May. The Staines-formed outfit has been confirmed as the headline act…
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Interview: It’s Not a Documentary — It’s an Act: Baxter Dury on Nepotism, Performance and the Strange Theatre of Modern Life
When I last saw Baxter Dury, it was during Dark Mofo in Hobart — a setting whose nocturnal weirdness felt oddly perfect for his particular brand of dry, late-night storytelling. Over the past…
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Feature: Backseat Mafia’s photographic tribute to Bluesfest Byron Bay
For four years, Backseat Mafia has covered Bluesfest Byron Bay, an iconic event on the Australian music calendar. On March 13th, just three weeks before what would have been the 37th Bluesfest…
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Live review
Live Gallery: Deafheaven’s Powerful Melbourne Performance 9.07.2026
There are few bands that have reshaped the possibilities of heavy music quite like Deafheaven, and at Melbourne’s Forum they proved once again why they remain one of the most…
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Live Gallery: Cradle Of Filth And DevilDriver Deliver A Night Of Extreme Metal At Sydney’s Enmore Theatre 10.07.2026
The queue outside the Enmore Theatre stretches well before doors open, a sea of black band shirts, leather jackets and corpse paint gathering beneath the theatre’s glowing…
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Live Gallery: The Neighbourhood Open A New Chapter At Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion 07.07.2026
Five years is a long time in alternative music, yet the anticipation inside Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion suggests The Neighbourhood have never really been away. This is the first of two…
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Live Review: Bowling for Soup / Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls. Halifax Piece Hall 30.06.26
Bowling For Soup / Frank Turner at The Piece Hall in Halifax
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Live Review: Royel Otis – Halifax Piece Hall. 25.06.26
Royel Otis at The Piece Hall in Halifax
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Live Review: Metallica, Gojira & Knocked Loose. Principality Stadium, Cardiff 28/06/2026
There are few bands capable of turning a stadium into something that feels both colossal and intimate quite like Metallica. Playing Cardiff’s Principality Stadium as part of the…
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Film
News: First Look At Oasis’ Reunion Film Don’t Look Back In Anger
One year after Oasis stunned the music world by returning to the stage for their first live performance together in 16 years, the band’s extraordinary comeback is set to be immortalised…
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Film Review: ‘The Best Summer’ is a bittersweet time capsule of alternative music’s golden age
There is something almost unbelievable about The Best Summer. What began as footage shot casually by filmmaker Tamra Davis while accompanying the Summersault festival around Australia in 1995…
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News: Kylie Minogue opens her archives for new three-part documentary KYLIE
Some pop stars have eras. Kylie Minogue has decades. From her first rush of fame as Charlene on Neighbours to becoming one of the most reliable hitmakers in modern pop,…
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News: The life and times of William Arthur and his iconic Sydney band Glide is explored in ‘Disappear Here’, a film by Ben deHoedt.
Glide were a seminal Sydney band that burned brightly and all together too briefly in the nineties, beset by tragedy when their singer and songwriter William Arthur died at the end of that…
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Film Review: January
Winter can be a magical time of year and there’s nothing more atmospheric than a sprinkling of snow. In many places, that light covering becomes something different entirely. In Eastern…
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Sundance Review: Iron Butterflies
As we approach the first anniversary of the full Russian invasion of Ukraine, it’s easy to forget that this war didn’t start in 2022. Indeed, the (recent) troubles with Russia can be traced…
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