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News: The Dead South add Hobart date to their Australian tour itinerary.
Dual Juno Award-winning Canadian hillbilly bluegrass band, The Dead South, have added a number of extra shows to their Australian tour, including one in collaboration with Southern Extremities Productions at The Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Saturday, 21st January 2023. The band, widely known for the sensation that became of the video for ‘In Hell …
News: Adalita returns with intensely powerful and introspective new single, ‘Dazzling’ ahead of new album & album launch shows.
Legendary lead vocalist and guitarist of Magic Dirt, Adalita, is set to release her third solo album, Inland. It is set for release on Liberation Records for the 2nd of December, almost 9 years after her second effort, All Day Venus. To herald the new album, first single, Dazzling has been released with an accompanying …
Premiere: Key Out go for an endless, shimmering and breathtaking ‘Drive’ ahead of new album out through False Peak Records and launch gigs.
We are immobilised with excitement at being able to bring you an exclusive listen to the new single from Sydney’s magnificent Key Out: one of the most exciting outfits in the antipodean scene at the moment. ‘Drive’ has that indefinable Key Out sound: mesmerising shimmering folds of instrumentation that daub brushstrokes from a colourful multi-layered …
Track: Iconic Essendon Airport make a blessed return with Anne Cessna for limited release tracks ‘Agua Por Favor’ and ‘Ten Thousand Steps’, ahead of appearance at Chapter Music celebrations.
Essendon Airport have a permanent place in the annals of the Australian indie music scene from the late seventies with their innovative electronic sonic canvases – founding members consisted of Robert Goodge on guitar and David Chesworth on Wurlitzer electric piano, along with a home-made drum machine bought from the Trading Post. Goodge went on to …
Track: MT WARNING’s ‘All The Things I Know’ is a heady trip filled with delightful charm and chaos.
MT WARNING is the work of Byron Bay multi-instrumentalist Mikey Bryant, and the new single ‘All The Things’ I Know’ is a brilliant string-driven pop ray of filtered sunshine. Deep slicing, prodding cellos form the undercurrent to the music – a slow burning entrée to the song with slightly off kilter instruments, while Bryant’s distant, …
News: The Smashing Pumpkins release bold new single, Beguiled, ahead of highly anticipated 12th studio album
The Smashing Pumpkins today released their brand new single Beguiled, along with details of their twelfth studio album; a three-act rock opera album titled ATUM (pronounced Autumn), which is slated for release in April 2023. ATUM will feature 33-tracks (with tracks to be revealed chronologically each week on William ‘Billy’ Corgan’s podcast) and is the …
News: Dynamic duo Dave Graney and Clare Moore (The Moodists etc) unveil news of album ‘In A Mistly, with single ‘TANG’ provided as a zesty hors d’oeuvres.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore between them are golden threads that have glittered through the fabric of the antipodean indie music scene since the eighties: a constant presence in a sea of mutability and change that has delivered the most innovative and entertaining fare for aeons and helped shape and influence musical attire throughout. The …
Album Review: Texas psych legends, The Black Angels release new album, Wilderness of Mirrors
The flag bearers for modern psychedelic rock, The Black Angels, are back with their first full-length studio release since Death Song in 2017. A fifteen-song cornucopia of mixed, psychedelic delights, this album promises to keep hard-core fans extremely excited, while attracting new admirers to the ranks of their loyal support base. Wilderness of Mirrors is …
Track: Sydney’s The Nagging Doubts address class and advancement in the funky, anthemic track ‘The Pearl’.
We are very pleased to be able to bring you an early listen to the new single ‘The Pearl’ from one of the most exciting bands coming out of Sydney at the moment, The Nagging Doubts, out through the brilliant Scenic Drive Records. Last year’s EP ‘Autocalm‘ made my list of favourite albums of 2021, …
Track: The Black Angels unveil pumping new single, Empires Falling ahead of album, Wilderness of Mirrors release on 16.09.2023.
The Black Angels are heralding the release of their seventh long-player, Wilderness of Mirrors with the release of latest track, Empires Falling. It is the fourth official release from the album which hits the shelves this Friday, and is accompanied by a wonderfully psychedelic clip. Empires Falling is a fast-paced psychedelic rocker and an anti-war/violence …