Indie
Album Review: lutruwita’s Christopher Coleman returns solo with ‘Soft Knee Recordings’, a shimmering and deeply personal paean to life.
It seems like a lifetime ago that Christopher Coleman and The Great Escape released the magnificent ‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’ in February 2022 (reviewed here), which rose to the top of the pile in my favourite antipodean albums of 2022. In the intervening time, Christopher Coleman retreated to a shed in nipaluna/Hobart and wrote and …
Live Gallery: Gregory Alan Isakov at the Metro Theatre, Sydney 2.02.2024
Gregory Alan Isakov enchanted the audience at Sydney’s Metro Theatre with his soulful melodies and lyrical storytelling, creating an intimate and memorable night of folk music.
Track: Melanie Baker – I Don’t Cry Like I Used To
Newcastle-based indie specialist Melanie Baker has announced her new EP ‘Burnout Baby’ which is set for release on the 5th of April via Du Blonde’s cult indie label Daemon T.V. Along with the announcement, Baker has shared the spellbinding new track ‘I Don’t Cry Like I Used To’. Marking the follow-up to pulsating lead track ‘All My Plants Have Died‘, the Cumbrian native’s second EP …
Track: Aotearoa’s Lilly Carron is ‘Wild For Change’ – an ethereal and dreamy prelude to a new EP on the way.
We are inordinately proud to review the shimmering new track ‘Wild For Change’ from New Zealand artist Lilly Carron, whose voice has a diaphanous delicacy, ethereal and filled with a yearning passion. The track has a Lynchian air about it with its scything reverbed guitar riffs and the almost western Sergio Leone blush augmented by …
Track: RedHook’s ‘Scream 2’ Is So Intense, It Might Just Wake the Dead
Red Hook’s new single is frightfully good
Live Gallery: Texas at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney 1.02.2024
Fans in Sydney get a taste of Texas’ magic, as they deliver a performance packed with raw emotion and powerhouse vocals.
Track: Melbourne’s glittering Phoebe Go sings of ‘7 Up’ in a glorious dream pop track, ahead of US tour and debut album.
There is a transfixing and immersive flow to the new single ‘7 Up’ from Phoebe Go (the solo project of Phoebe Lou) which projects it forward with a high stepping canter, emitting a brilliant ray of sunshine. Lou’s vocals are silken and melancholy, the lyrics personal and yearning and the instrumentation shimmering with a delicate …
Track: Flip Top Head Share The Haunting Double Release ‘Intro 98’ / ‘1st July 2006’
Brighton Orchestral Cult Rockers Flip Top Head have started 2024 with a haunting double release ‘Intro 98 / 1st July 2006’ out via cult London label Blitzcat Records Writing ‘1st July 2006’ “after a night with a bottle of whisky and Songs of Love and Hate by Cohen on repeat on the turntable.”, leading the …
News: The Church launch 2024 with live shows in NSW and Queensland
On the back of announcing a show in Tamworth as part of NSW’s Great Southern Nights series of live events, perennial Backseat Mafia favourites The Church have announced they will also be performing at The Triffid in Brisbane on Thursday, 7 March 2024. This follows an incredible year in 2023 after touring extensively across Australia …
News: 2000trees Festival Announces The Chats, Hot Milk, Nova Twins And More
2000trees Festival can today reveal its SECOND main stage headlining band of 2024. The brilliant Australian 3 piece The Chats will be coming along to the farm this summer, bringing their sunshine coast punk rock, or as they describe it, ‘shed rock’. Originally formed at school, they are a band known for their songs about Australian culture, their very direct song, EP …