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Album review: Hobart post-punk trio, Liquid Nails, unleash powerful debut, self-titled LP
Post punk Tasmanian 3-piece band, Liquid Nails have been together since 2019. Subtract 2 years for a global pandemic, mix it with the glacial pace of offshore pressing and shipping, and they have, in a timely fashion, banged out their debut LP! The 12 inch 45rpm self-titled album (in true punk tradition) delivers 10 blistering …
Premiere: Melbourne’s INSTYNKT take us on a rocking, anthemic ‘Ride’ and announce single launch date.
We are pleased to premiere the video for the track ‘Ride’ from Melbourne band INSTYNKT. ‘Ride’ is a powerful guitar-driven track that resonates with a pop sensibility while setting a blistering pace. At heart is the kind of pure rock’n’roll filled with blood sweat and tears that used to form the mainstay of Australian pub …
Track: Western Australian power pop maestros Rinehearts release the electrifying chiming sounds of ‘Powerlines’ ahead of new album and live gigs.
Resplendent in a coat of many chimes, the new single ‘Powerlines’ from Western Australian band Rinehearts positively bursts through the speakers and showers you in sunshine and joy. With a chorus that’s as towering and awe inspiring as the trees in the Valley of the Giants and a wall of jangling shimmering guitars, there is …
Premiere: Conrad Greenleaf ascends the elegant electronica of ‘Mount Analogue’ via an immersive, organic video, ahead of album release.
We are very pleased to premiere this morning the new video for artist Conrad Richters’s project Conrad Greenleaf whose single ‘Mount Analogue’ is a spaced out emission of electronica that gently ricochets inside your head and pulsates with a psychedelic thrum. Plonking raindrop pianos and natural sounds lead us gently into the track itself before …
Premiere: Prudence’s dark perspective says ‘It’s Useless’ – a rich textured piece of shimmering gold, preceding new album ‘Negatives’.
Crystalline, razor sharp guitars immediately focus attention on Prudence‘s stately anthemic single ‘It’s Useless’: they ring out like bells as the steady paced track commences with an euphoric, effortless march. With shades of The Verve in its psychedelic magnificence and singer Tom Crandles’s vocals, this is a shimmering track that we are honoured to premiere …
Track: Alice Boman Teams Up With Perfume Genius To Release ‘Feels Like A Dream’
Alice Boman Releases New Track After Dream Collaboration With Perfume Genius.
Live Review: Noyou / Picnic / Violectric – The Independent, Sunderland 19.08.2022
By Adam Littlemore Another great night at The Independent starting off with the first act Violectric, who I remember seeing perform at this very venue a few years ago and they were awesome. Tonight they didn’t disappoint once again getting the crowd up on their feet singing and dancing. With the crowd still buzzing second …
Track: The Beths Release New Single And Video ‘Knees Deep’
The Beths release new track ‘Knees Deep’ off upcoming album.
Track: The Backseat Lovers Announce ‘Waiting To Spill’, The Follow Up To Their Cult Classic Debut With First Major Label Single Release ‘Growing/Dying’
Barely taking a breath since returning home from their latest run of sold-out UK and Ireland live dates, including blowing away a near-two thousand-strong audience at Electric Brixton, London in May, Utah’s The Backseat Lovers make their major label debut to present their first new music in almost two years by releasing Growing/Dying. Accompanied by …
Track: Full Power Happy Hour’s ‘Measurements’ takes a walk on the wild west side ahead of new album and tour.
Brisbane’s effervescent Full Power Happy Hour have stored their Doc Martens in a shoebox, pulled on a pair of cowboy boots matched with a checked shirt and boot-scooted their way into our ears with the country-tinged twang of ‘Measurements’, their new single. And, for me, it’s the good sort of countrified swing epitomised by the …