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Premiere: The Elsewheres exclusively unveil their dynamic new single ‘Melt’ ahead of EP and launch date.
We are honored to premiere the new single ‘Melt’ from Melbourne band The Elsewheres. With a rollicking folk instrumentation, singer Oliver Northam’s unique vocals are filled with a raw veracity – a barbed wire coating dragged through a thorn bush laced with whiskey and regret, but with an indelible melody and passionate force. Harmonies and …
Premiere: Blackbirds F.C. wants to know – ‘What’s The Half-Life of Loving You?’, a delicious sparkling sonic score.
We are extremely proud to bring you an exclusive early listen to the new single, enticingly entitled ‘What’s The Half-Life of Loving You?’, from one of our favourite bands, Melbourne’s Blackbirds F.C.. The track is another example of the band’s inherent ear for soaring melodies and jangling guitars with a slight alt. country inflexion. The …
Premiere: ‘You Tried Your Best’- Wilding have excelled with a winning sparkle.
The release of another poptastic track by the inimitable Wilding is cause for internal cartwheels and a private session of interpretive dancing expressing wild uninhibited joy. And, today, we have the honour of premiering his new musical magnificence, ‘You Tried Your Best’, which is the sound of Wilding (the project of Justin Stokes) at his …
Track: The ethereal Juice Webster makes a welcome return with ‘Hannah’ ahead of headline launch.
It’s been too long a gap since the Melbourne artist Juice Webster graced us with her astonishing debut album ‘Julia’, one of our most lauded antipodean albums of 2023, and it is great to see her back with her new single ‘Hannah’ as well as a live show ahead. Described as alternative folk, we have …
See: Fleeting Persuasion release psychedelic video for ‘Rewind’ from their album ‘Will They Come Back’, ahead of live gig
Today the deliciously gothic Fleeting Persuasion have unveiled their new video for the track ‘Rewind’ off their sophomore album ‘Will They Come Back’ released at the beginning of the year. This comes ahead of their hometown Melbourne show with Bluebottle Kiss and Screamfeeder this weekend (9 November). ‘Rewind’ has a rumbling prowling insistent thunder while the …
News: The debonair Geoffrey O’Connor is back with news of album ‘I Love What We Do’ and he unveils the elegant title track ahead of live dates
Singer/songwriter/producer Geoffrey O’Connor last blessed us with his presence in his stunning album of duets ‘For As Long As I Remember’ back in 2021 (read my review here). O’Connor today announces his new album ‘I Love What We Do’ which is slated for release on 14 February 2025 via Dinosaur City Records, and the title …
Album Review: Garry Gray unveils fascinating anthology album featuring the legendary Sacred Cowboys, as well as his post Cowboys work, and announces additional live date following sell out show.
Sacred Cowboys have been – and still are – a legendary bunch of misfits together in various forms since 1982, but always with Garry Gray as a mainstay at the reins along with Mark Ferrie. They essentially began in 1982 as a supergroup with Gray from seminal new wave outfit Negatives and Ferrie from the …
Track: Brigitte Bardini is no ‘Fool’ as she unveils another ethereal track that positively glows with intensity.
There’s almost an operatic gloss to singer/songwriter Brigitte Bardini‘s vocals in her dreamy new single ‘Fool’: a floating and ethereal delivery above an aquatic bubbling instrumental that is cool and urbane. There is a sixties laid back quality to the track with the arpeggiated strings that swell in the distance – a song to be …
EP Review: The radiant Holly Hebe releases the gorgeous EP ‘Ruby’, cementing her place as one of the most exciting indie pop artists around.
We’ve long admired the output of Naarm/Melbourne chanteuse Holly Hebe ,who has produced some of the most brilliant shimmering pop delights over the past few years. Today she releases her second EP, entitled ‘Ruby’, and it is business as usual for this superlative talent. Hebe’s strength is her melodic mastery that puts pure pop treasures …
Track: Naarm’s Mayzie and Oceans collaborate with new album and ethereal title track ‘Luminosity’ ahead of UK, European and Australian tour.
We have traversed the shimmering Oceans before with their antipodean brand of glittering shoegaze, and the band (formerly the solo project of Thomas Lee) has now collaborated with solo artist Mayzie (New Zealand born, Melbourne based Mayzie Lee who we have also covered separately) in a an album entitled ‘Luminosity’ due out on 5 October …