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News: Elvis Costello & The Imposters announce 2023 Australian tour dates for Bluesfest Touring
Elvis Costello & The Imposters will return to Australia in 2023, headlining shows in Sydney and Melbourne, following their appearance at the 34th Annual Bluesfest in Byron Bay over the Easter Long Weekend. 2022 marks 45 years since the release of Elvis Costello’s first 45rpm record and his debut album, My Aim Is True. Among his 600 published titles, …
Live Review: The Black Seeds – Ngaio Marsh Theatre, Christchurch, 08.07.22
In the depths of a long, cold, Christchurch winter (and even longer pandemic), The Black Seeds arrived at the University of Canterbury’s Ngaio Marsh Theatre for a long-awaited album release and the opportunity for fans to connect, warm up and get their groove on. The challenges of making this show happen were significant, with three …
EXCLUSIVE: REWORK DROP AN EXCLUSIVE TAKEOVER MIX FOR BACKSEAT MAFIA IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR NEW EP ‘TAKE ME OUT’
For the release of their new EP ‘Take Me Out’’ (out now on the Exlove label) we are delighted to present a Takeover Mix from the formidable trio ‘Rework‘. This is a calm House mix we made on a sunny Monday evening in our studio after a nice weekend of djing and festival live sets …
News: Psych Rock Legends The Black Angels Announce New LP ‘Wilderness of Mirrors’ and new single ‘El Jardin’
Legendary Austin, Texas psych-rockers, The Black Angels have announced their new album Wilderness of Mirrors, which is due out on the 16th of September on Partisan Records/Liberator Music. Following on from their acclaimed 2017 album, Death Song, Wilderness of Mirrors is their first new full-length studio release in 5 years, and adds full-length album #7 to their already impressive discography. Fans …
Album Review: Jeff Mills – Mind Power Mind Control
___________________________ The modern age has brought with it unprecedented social dilemmas. The world has shrunk thanks to the internet. Having a wealth of information at our fingertips has also flooded our minds with gargantuan amounts of data that the brain sometimes finds difficult to process. We live within the constant media bombardment in a vicious …
Album review: Sam A La Bamalot – Reminisce –
“How does it feel to reminisce? That was something I wanted to try to capture in soundwaves. I tend to reminisce a lot. About the good and bad parts in the past, and everything in between. I try to remember which specific parts in my life made me who I am today. Thinking about those …
Live Review: Ed Kuepper & Jim White in The Nolan Gallery, MONA (Museum of Old & New Art), Hobart – Friday, 20th May, 2022.
The seminal legends that are Ed Kuepper (The Saints, Laughing Clowns) and Jim White (Dirty Three) finally made their way to MONA (Museum of Old & New Art) in Hobart to deliver two shows, one on Friday and one on Saturday, within the impressive confines of The Nolan Gallery. The duo played their way through …
EP Review: LOXY & INK – SPRAY TRAINS OF THOUGHT – on R&S
Stalwarts of the drum & bass scene for nearly three decades, London duo Loxy & Ink open up their 2022 account with a new single ‘Spray Trains Of Thought‘. The UK breakbeat pioneers have racked up an arsenal of releases for breakthrough labels such as Metalheadz, Hospital Records and Renegade Hardware, as well as their …
Album Review: Rhys Fulber – Brutal Nature
Rhys Fulber is a Canadian electronic musician and producer best known for his lengthy (and ongoing) tenures with industrial standard bearers Front Line Assembly and ambient pop exponents Delerium (both with Bill Leeb), his solo project Conjure One, plus a series of recent dark techno-based albums released under his own name. As a producer, he …