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Live Review & Gallery: A Truly Enchanting Night at Oxford Art Factory With Bess Atwell, Ruby Gill and Sarah Levins – Eora Land/Sydney, 06.03.25
From the first note to the last, Bess Atwell’s night at Oxford Art Factory was never about spectacle, it was something rawer, more tangible. No theatrics, no backing band, just three artists at their most unfiltered, pulling the audience into their worlds with little more than voice, melody, and presence. Sarah Levins opened, her voice …
Live Review & Gallery: Knotfest Sydney Ignites: A Day of Chaos, Hardcore, and Heart 8.03.2025
Knotfest storms into Sydney with relentless energy, as bands from hardcore upstarts to metal veterans ignite the pits, industrial chaos rumbles under ominous skies.
Live Review & Gallery: Metro Feels Like Manchester as Courteeners Take Over – Metro Theatre, Eora Land/Sydney, 05.03.25
There was no mistaking the excitement in Metro Theatre ahead of Courteeners‘ headline show, and the air was thick with a cacophony of British accents. Fresh off their Yours and Owls Festival set the weekend prior, Courteeners were primed to deliver the kind of night their fans had come to expect, anthemic and unrelentingly joyous. …
Live Gallery: Ice Cube’s Legacy Roars On at the ICC Theatre, Sydney 7.03.2024
Ice Cube Brings the Fire to Sydney—Even a Cyclone Couldn’t Stop Him
Live Review & Gallery: Shame Revel In Punk Devotion, Giving Australia Stage Dive Sermons – Metro Theatre, Eora Land/Sydney, 04.03.25
I’d heard along the grapevine that Shame’s set at Yours and Owls Festival was the one to catch, best of the weekend, unfiltered punk energy carrying the day forward ahead of headliners Fontaines D.C. Naturally, expectations were sky-high as I navigated the winding corridors of Metro Theatre and slipped into the cavern that is Metro …
Premiere: The brothers Gibson unveil new project Great Sandy along with poignant debut single ‘Now Often Feels Like Then’
We’ve come across the brothers Gibson, Adam Gibson (Modern Giant, The Ark-Ark Birds) and Simon Robert Gibson (Disneyfist, Sneeze, Modern Giant) in the contemporary indie supergroup The Aerial Maps before, and we are truly honoured to bring you an exclusive listen to their new project together, Great Sandy. The collaboration is launched with the debut …
Live Review and Gallery: Fontaines D.C. set the harbour alight at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt, 06/03/2025
Fontaines D.C.‘s current live tour promoting ‘Romance’, their latest album, is nothing short of a thrilling, raw, and relentless assault on the senses, reaffirming the band’s place at the forefront of post-punk. The Dublin five-piece, renowned for their ferocious energy and compelling lyricism, have managed to push themselves into new territory with this record, embracing …
Track: Mulga Bore Hard Rock’s “Sweet Home Mulga Bore” Is the Desert Anthem You Didn’t Know You Needed
Mulga Bore Hard Rock Unleash Their Explosive Second Single
Premiere: ‘I Wish I Was Wrong (As Usual)’ – Wilding unleashes another pure pop gem infected with gentle humour and a euro-disco thrum.
Wilding is a firm favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia and we are therefore bursting with pride at being able to premiere his exuberant new single ‘I Wish I Was Wrong (As Usual)’. Always heavily influenced by a particular kind of eighties new wave represented by the more quirky variety of wry …
Live Gallery: Buck Meek at the Oxford Art Factory, Sydney 5.03.2025
Big Thief’s Buck Meek Brings Haunting Beauty to Oxford Art Factory