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Feature: Perth’s Sky Cave releases a visceral and emotive single and video for the anthemic track ‘Fall’, and take us through the blooming Perth music scene.
The video for Perth rockers Sky Cave‘s single ‘Fall’ is, to make no bones about it, confronting. Dealing with the sensitive issue of mental health challenges, it has, however, an important message about resilience and strength that is empowering and euphoric as the track itself: promoting positivity and compassion in an era that seems often …
Track: Meanjin/Brisbane duo DARLING. unveil ‘Midnight’ – another frosty serving of delicious darkness, with a launch date announced.
The magnificent DARLING. return with another slice of Antarctic indie dream pop with their new single ‘Midnight’. Atmospheric and frosty, ‘Midnight’ is an elegant smooth ride moving with a liquidity and velvet sheen with distant, layered vocals weaving in and out of the crystalline synths and guitars. The instrumentation cuts through the hazy drifting movements …
Track: Yeah Yeah Yeahs are ‘Burning’ Ahead Of Release Of New Album
Track: Yeah Yeah Yeahs are ‘Burning’ Ahead Of The Release Of Their New Album.
Premiere: Maia Marsh’s ‘Big Deal’ is a mesmerising, enchanting single fusing a dream pop fugue with a folk ambience.
Sydney’s Maia Marsh has an impressive form, having been a session musician (lead guitar, bass, vocals) for a number of artists including Huck Hastings who has graced our pages before and Ainsley Farrell, Georgia Mulligan, Georgia Fair and Gloomie. In addition, she was a founding member of dream pop outfit Goodside as well as being …
Track: I Know Leopard Share New Track And Announce Headline Tour
I Know Leopard Release New Track & Announce Headline Tour PLUS Gallery From Their Sydney Show Supporting Spacey Jane.
Track: Kaeda Daze is ‘Running From Something’: a haunting dreamy track that envelops like a billowing cloud.
Kaeda Daze is the nome de plume of Kendra Fewster, a former member of WA folk/pop band ‘The Hunting Birds’, and her new solo work is sublime. Showcasing Fewster’s velvet soft expressive vocals, her debut solo track ‘Running From Something’ is a warm enveloping track that seems to magically float like clouds: billowing, soft and …
Track: Eighties powerhouse Noiseworks return after 30 years with the anthemic and dynamic single ‘Heart And Soul’, and all is well with the world. A tour and album will follow.
Noiseworks are a cultural pop rock Australian phenomena and emblematic of a particular home-grown and enigmatic stadium rock in the eighties – even us indie kids respected the fact that Noisework produced the most magnificent power rock anthems of the era, with an indelible ear for melody and a thunderous guitar attack and dynamism that …
Live Gallery & Review: Spacey Jane Live at the Big Top, Luna Park 13.08.2022
Spacey Jane Charm Adoring Crowd at the Big Top, Sydney.
Album Review: The Valery Trails’ ‘The Sky is Blue’ is an antipodean-flavoured collection of indelible anthems and evocative imagery.
The new album ‘The Sky is Blue’ is a glorious collection of antipodean indie pop vignettes from Brisbane outfit The Valery Trails – an album that is anthemic and bold. With a euphoric use of horns and a jingle jangle pop swing, opening track ‘Jaisalmer’ recalls the anthemic glory of fellow Brisbanites The Saints in their …