Indie
News: Tash Sultana Confirms First Australian Headline Tour Since 2018
Tash Sultana returns to Australian stages this October with shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney — their first headline tour at home in six years.
News: Florida Indie Band flipturn Lock In Australian Tour Dates
flipturn will head to Australia for the first time this summer, performing in major cities and at Rolling Sets Festival.
News: Girlfriend Leads Darcie Haven’s New EP Release
From rural WA to national tours, Darcie Haven’s music continues to build a dedicated following.
Track: Teenager Share New Single ‘Love Is You’ Ahead of Fourteen
Teenager’s new single ‘Love Is You’ extends their comeback ahead of the album Fourteen, due later this year.
Album Review: The Slow Summits have ‘Every Intention’ to blast a ray of luminescent pop sunshine into your ears all the way from Sweden.
Anyone else remember the children’s Swedish detective series Agaton Sax by Swedish author Nils-Olof Franzén and illustrated by Åke Lewerth, with Quentin Blake illustrating the English editions? Agaton Sax also ran the local newspaper, the Byoping Post. I loved this series for its quirky sense of humour and cheeky delivery. In a complete non-sequitur, The Slow Summits hail from …
Live Gallery: Bloc Party Mark 20 Years With a Charged Sydney Show at the Hordern 01.08.2025
Two decades since Silent Alarm, Bloc Party’s return to Sydney proves the band’s tight rhythms and jagged guitars still resonate as sharply as they did in 2005.
News: Verticoli unveil evocative single and video for ‘See You Around’ ahead of album ‘Silverlinings’, due out in November.
With a soul-infused laid back air, the new single from Tasmania’s Verticoli puts on show their musical versatility and range of expression: a little different from their harder sound. It burns intensely like a slow fuse, a touch bluesy, and born on distant warm organ sounds that oscillates under the instruments. A wild guitar solo …
News: Iconic indie giants Youth Group announce new album ‘Big Whoop’ for October and lead with the shimmering anthemic single ‘The Joke’ and tour dates.
Last year while supporting Underground Lovers and back touring after a five year hiatus, the iconic Youth Group released the single thrilling ‘Siberia’ (see my review here) as a portent of things to come. Now they have released news of an album ‘Big Whoop’ through the mighty Impressed Recordings and Cassell Records due out on …
Track: Lily Jupiter debuts her single sparkling ‘Stamp Alphabet’ and gives notice of a prodigious, creative talent emerging.
For an emerging artist who is only 16, Lily Jupiter displays an incredible assurance and prodigious ability in her debut single ‘Stamp Alphabet’, released today. There are detectable elements of Lorde and Olivia Rodrigo for sure with the electronic thrum, driving pace, wry lyrics and velvet vocals. Jupiter adds George Michael as an influence and …
Track: Sydney/Gadigal band Valley Onda release the dreamy hypnotic track ‘Minacious’
The new single ‘Minacious’ from Sydney/Gadigal band Valley Onda is shrouded in a mysterious fugue as sparkling guitars set up a hypnotic chime over the soothing vocals that have a yearning, expressive range. There are detectable elements of later period Radiohead in the delivery for sure, but infused with a soul-infused tinge and an atmospheric …