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Album Review: Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa

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Nine bands and thousands of punters, all more than willing to throw (nay, hurl) themselves headfirst into a day of hardcore goodness. From the jump, the crowd was locked in, staking claim at the barricade and backing our local openers without hesitation. Newcastle’s Feel the Pain set the tone with metallic hardcore that didn’t so …

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There was no mistaking the excitement in Metro Theatre ahead of Courteeners‘ headline show, and the air was thick with a cacophony of British accents. Fresh off their Yours and Owls Festival set the weekend prior, Courteeners were primed to deliver the kind of night their fans had come to expect, anthemic and unrelentingly joyous. …

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I’d heard along the grapevine that Shame’s set at Yours and Owls Festival was the one to catch, best of the weekend, unfiltered punk energy carrying the day forward ahead of headliners Fontaines D.C. Naturally, expectations were sky-high as I navigated the winding corridors of Metro Theatre and slipped into the cavern that is Metro …

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If you could bottle the feeling of downloading pop-punk anthems off LimeWire and syncing them to a hot pink iPod Nano, As December Falls‘ show at The Lansdowne would be it. The Nottingham quartet rolled into Eora/Sydney for the second stop of their first-ever Australian tour, and if the crowd’s reaction was anything to go …

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Beddy Rays are back and the Meanjin/Brisbane four-piece have just announced their sophomore album, ‘Do What Ya Wanna’, set to drop in April 2025. Alongside the news, they’ve shared the lead single ‘Red Lights‘, complete with some prime spaghetti-o western cinematography. If you’ve been keeping up with Beddy Rays for any amount of time, you’ll …

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Globally, it’s been a very traumatic three years since we last visited the excoriating, eviscerating sounds of Infinity Broke and we are inordinately proud to bring you an early listen to their single ‘Abject Object’ with a ‘b’ side track ‘I’m In My Prime’, out on 14 February 2025 through the esteemed Love As Fiction …

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Soft Play’s return to Australia hit like a damn battering ram and the sold-out crowd at Factory Theatre didn’t stand a chance. The second Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent tore into ‘All Things’, the floor turned into a writhing mess of bodies, a seething mass that never stopped squirming. Vincent barely made it through the …

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Hot off the back of last year’s acclaimed Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, two icons of the smooth-sailing sound, TOTO and Christopher Cross, have announced Australian dates for April 2025. The acts will hit Sydney and Melbourne for what promises to be a nostalgia-packed celebration of polished grooves and breezy melodies. Fans heading to Bluesfest this …

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Eora/Sydney band KRYSTAL RIVVERS have today released their sparkling new single ‘Sienna’, confirming a very exciting presence. Coasting on a jingle jangle bedrock, the track sparkles with a vitality as Boon Wurrung/Wurundjeri storyteller and lead singer Earl Weir’ vocal’s enter, deep and sonorous, an enigmatic delivery with an angelic chorus in the distance. The anthemic …

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Super Burner’s latest single “Pick Your Own” is a swaggering declaration of intent, a chunky, muscular slice of what can only be described as “new glam”, which I may or may not just have made up. Mixing driving grooves with shards of noisy guitar and a relentless attitude, the track channels the stomping power of …

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