Indie pop
Premiere: Chiara Angelicola returns as Bird Call with the quietly devastating ‘Tiny Transistor’
We all coped differently at the start of the pandemic in March 2020. For Chiara Angelicola—the Guatemalan-Italian who’s been operating as Bird Call for about 15 years, and who should have been on the road touring her latest record, Year of the Dogfish, released a few months prior—it was an especially intense time; she was …
Live Review & Gallery: A Night to Remember as TV Girl Make Their Eora/Sydney Debut – 17.07.24, Hordern Pavilion
In an unforgettable night at the Hordern Pavilion, LA-based indie pop band TV Girl made their Eora/Sydney debut to a packed house. Fans of all ages sprinted to the barrier and eagerly awaited the start of a show that promised to deliver cult classics, fan favourites, their most famous TikTok sounds, and even songs that …
Live Review & Gallery: Conan Gray at the ICC Sydney Theatre 17.05.2024
Heaven Found: Conan Gray’s Sydney Show Leaves Fans Starstruck
News: Glass Animals Announce Australian Tour
Glass Animals set to shatter your expectations on their upcoming tour!”
Album Review : Forest Law –‘Zero’ : Bossa beats, international grooves and so much more on this globetrotting musician’s debut.
Sonic explorer, creative adventurer, soundscape navigator are all phrases you could apply to Alexander Burke a.k.a Forest Law. Romford born, now London based he’s taken a globetrotting route to the release of his debut album ‘Zero’, available now courtesy of a Bongo Joe/ Total Refreshment Centre collaboration. Coming through Giles Peterson’s ‘Future Bubblers ‘unsigned artists’ …
Meet: Legendary BMX Bandit Duglas T Stewart talks new album, the secret behind their longevity and looking to the future
As longtime admirers of BMX Bandits – stretching back to the bands earliest releases right up to seeing them at the end of last year with The Soup Dragons, we (well, I) recently had the opportunity to catch up with Duglas T. Stewart, the driving force behind this legendary Scottish indie pop band. With their …
Premiere: Scrimmage toss and turn on sweetly sad new song ‘Little Foot’
Since the late 2022 release of debut EP Superego, Brooklyn band Scrimmage have downsized to a duo, now consisting of Connor Lewis and Carr Bonner – bassist David Carter departed the band last year. Their forthcoming second EP doesn’t have a release date quite yet, but it does have a title—Velour—and a lead single, which …
Track: BMX Bandits mine latest indie pop gem with new single, The World Was Round
Whisper it quietly, but over the course of the last three decades or so, BMX Bandits have crafted some of the greatest pop singles of the intervening years. I reckon anyway. Their new single, “The World Was Round,” penned by Andrew Pattie, adds another gem to this illustrious canon. Taken from their latest long player …
Premiere: PARRIS MITCHELL examines himself on self-reflective banger ‘Problem Child’
He styles himself in all-caps, and the new song from New Yorker PARRIS MITCHELL is definitely worth shouting about. Since the release of his 2022 EP, I Don’t Love You, and Other Lies, Mitchell’s been hard at work on his debut album and shrugging his shoulders at genre boundaries in the process. ‘Problem Child’, his …
Premiere: Phil Galloni goes too far on title track from forthcoming new EP ‘Push My Luck’
A few weeks back, the Los Angeles-based Chicagoan Phil Galloni announced his third EP as Waverly Drive, and he’s sharing the collection’s second single today. The title track from Push My Luck is a great example of the sort of scuzzy indie pop Galloni excels at; the foundations of his sound were laid on previous …