News: CIVIC unfurl first single, the titular Chrome Dipped, from upcoming third album and announce expansive international tour
Melbourne’s brilliant punk rock outfit, CIVIC, have today announced the May 30th release of their third album, Chrome Dipped via ATO Records. With the band willing to cut the ties to the raw, distinctly Australian punk rock blueprint of Future Forecast (2021) and Taken By Force (2023) CIVIC push themselves into fresh creative territory with Chrome Dipped. Marking a bold shift from their signature sound, …
News: Now listen!! Ross Wilson announces further dates to already huge Australian tour as he continues stepping out on the biggest tour of his near 60 year, storied career
Due to overwhelming popular demand, Ross Wilson’s 50 Years of Hits Tour, which kicked off in 2023, has extended into 2025 and, with the addition of a new show on May 24th in Geelong and three shows in outer suburban Sydney and Wollongong in July, now totals over 150 shows! With 2025 marking an almost …
News: Pete Murray announces huge 55 date solo acoustic Australian tour set to start in May
This is singer-songwriter Pete’s largest tour ever, and with most shows being all ages, the extensive solo acoustic tour will see him visit plenty of markets he’s never been to, rolling through nearly every corner of Australia in 2025, with a whopping 55 shows lined up across regional Australia as well as capital cities from …
News: You Am I to celebrate 30 year anniversary of Hi-Fi Way with ‘Hi-Fi Daily Double Down’ national tour
Australian rock legends, You Am I, are set to herald their critically acclaimed second album, Hi-Fi Way as it turns 30 on February 20th with a special re-issue of the album plus a national tour throughout April and May of 2025. The album was, remarkably, the first of 3 consecutive albums from the band that …
Live Review + Photo Galleries: Inaugural Fuzz Island Fest with one of the best live bands you’ve (maybe) never seen or heard of, Bahboon
The Fuzz Island Fest at Altar Bar in Hobart last Saturday night unveiled (possibly) one of the best international bands you have never seen or heard before. Put on and hosted by Psychedelic Salad Records, six bands played right through to the early hours of Sunday morning in what is hoped to be an annual …
Album Review: Tasmania’s Pete Cornelius unveils his latest long-player, Southern
Known as one of Tasmania’s (and Australia’s) premier guitarists, Pete Cornelius has just released his 10th album, the aptly named Southern. Opening track, Cruikshank is an epic, sprawling tale about the tragic fate of the MV Blythe Star which foundered off of the SW coast of Tasmania in 1973. The song is an homage to …
News: Bluesfest announce legendary rock guitarist in their fifth and final announcement
Bluesfest Byron Bay have today announced their final artist announcement for the upcoming 2025 festival. Legendary US guitarist, Tom Morello and Indonesian blues powerhouse, Electric Cadillac now round out the 36th iteration of Australia’s most-popular, long-running festival. With only 70 days until the gates are opened, the festival is promising something for everybody – from …
Album Review: Scandinavian blues/roots heavyweights, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado release 9th studio album, House of Sticks
For the uninitiated, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado are an 8-piece blues/roots band hailing from Denmark. With a traditional set up of vocals, guitars, bass and drums, they are joined by piano/keyboards, woodwind, brass and strings, amongst others, and multiple backing vocalists. The band have spent the last two decades traversing Europe, covering almost …
News: Amigo The Devil announces full Australian tour alongside NZ dates
Acclaimed US singer/songwriter, Amigo The Devil (aka Danny Kiranos), has announced an extensive 13-date Australian and New Zealand Tour this coming August. The shows will vary between solo and full band sets, with tickets to go on sale on Friday 24th January, with pre-sale on Thursday 23rd January via the Destroy All Lines website here. Returning just …
Album Review: Beretta & Sullivan to release debut LP, The Loft Recordings ahead of trip to the International Blues Challenge in USA.
Australia continues to carve out a rich tradition of excellent blues musicians and artists, a history which stretches back into the 1950’s and continues to this very day, and is seemingly going from strength to strength. To that end, winners of the solo/duo section of the 2024 Sydney Blues Challenge, Nathan Beretta and Dan Sullivan …