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Premieres / Exclusives
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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Premiere: The superb Marlophone are back with the thunderous ‘If We End Up On The Run’ ahead of debut album
Supergoup Marlophone follow up their debut single ‘I’m On You Side’ (proudly premiered by us here) with a thunderous blast in the beautifully romantic ‘If We End Up On…
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Track / Video
Track: Jack Gray Finds Beauty In Uncertainty On ‘Swimming In Jeans’
Jack Gray has spent the past few years steadily emerging as one of Australia’s most accomplished young singer-songwriters. With Swimming In Jeans, the title track from his…
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Track: Tove Lo and Stromae have shared their exquisite new music video for “des fleurs”.
Tove Lo continues to unveil the world of her forthcoming sixth album ESTRUS with the release of the striking video for des fleurs, a captivating collaboration with Belgian…
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News: The Lazy Eyes Turn Up The Guitars On ‘Always In The Back Of My Mind’
The Lazy Eyes continue the countdown to their eagerly awaited second album Cheesy Love Songs with the release of Always In The Back Of My Mind, a track that broadens the…
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Album Reviews
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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Album Review: Jeff Mills – The Trip To Vega
The Trip To Vega is about deep outer space odyssey that occurs in the process of traveling from Earth through the Cosmos to another “favorable” star system 25.3 light-years away. The time is…
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Album Review: Dave Mech – Berlin Seite
The core idea behind “Berlin Seite” is old school: capture the raw, unfiltered energy of a live techno performance in a dark club night oozing of energy. Every track on the…
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Album Review: Orbital Ensemble – ‘Contínua’: A daring fusion of rock, jazz and nu-samba which expands convention.
If last year’s Orbital Ensemble debut was the prelude to the collective’s live-incarnation then ‘Contínua’, its follow up, is very much the main event. It’s an explosive, full bodied…
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Say Psych: Album Review: Cult of Dom Keller – Unholy Drum
Unholy Drum is the long-awaited sixth album from Nottingham band Cult Of Dom Keller – not a ‘return’, for they were never really gone, but the product of five years spent evolving. 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 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
#bowlingforsoup #frankturner #americanhifi #livemusic #gigphotography
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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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Live Gallery: Ten Years On, Wellness Still Shines As Last Dinosaurs Return To Sydney’s Metro Theatre 26.06.2026
A rainy Sydney winter evening does little to dampen the mood outside the Metro Theatre, where the queue snakes around the block long before doors open. Brisbane indie favourites Last Dinosaurs…
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Live Review: Belle and Sebastian / Saint Etienne – Piece Hall, Halifax, 21.06.2026
A brief afternoon shower threatened to dampen proceedings, but it soon passed, allowing the sunshine to break through over a packed Piece Hall on Sunday evening. On paper, Saint Etienne and…
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Live Gallery: I Prevail Prove Why They Stand Among Modern Metal’s Elite At Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion 23.06.2026
On a chilly Sydney night, the Hordern Pavilion feels a bit like a pressure cooker. Long before I Prevail take the stage, the room is already heaving, fuelled by the expansive modern metalcore…
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Film
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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Sundance Review: Slow
Cinema reflects the age, society and country it’s made in. For example, 1950s Hollywood portrayed romance as straightforward love between a man and a woman. They meet, get to know each other…
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