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The Best New Music From Australia | #225

Every week I scour the latest releases from emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia. The best of them end up on the playlist. Follow The Playlist Listen to this week’s edition here, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always only new […]

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New Music

Featured Tracks This Week | 2025, Week 6

Another brilliant array of releases from Australian independent and emerging artists appeared on the racks this week, with enough moody introspection and/or or unhinged fun to fit whatever mood you happen to find yourself in. As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I had […]

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Most Playlisted

Most Playlisted: Bakers Eddy, Velvet Trip

Most Playlisted This Week Two bands bagged the top spot this week ahead of some much more established artists, a brilliant result for both Bakers Eddy and Velvet Trip. 🥇Bakers Eddy, Velvet Trip (appeared on 27% of updated playlists) 🥈Lithe, Ball Park Music, The Grogans, Old Mervs, Skeleten, Lotte Gallagher (23%) 🏆 Bakers Eddy‘s latest […]

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Shows

Phantastic Ferniture @ The Lansdowne, 7th Feb

“It’s been just over eight years since I last saw Phantastic Ferniture, and nearly a decade since I first saw them crammed into the daft upstairs room of the long-lost Record Crate in Glebe. Time has passed, and singer Julia Jacklin’s solo career has bloomed, but this is no vanity project, no self-indulgent nostalgia trip. […]

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Bridge Dog @ The Lansdowne, 7th Feb

“Bridge Dog’s charming shoegaze is both crisp and gauzy, sweetly soaring vocals over laid back but undeniably noisy squalls of guitar and rhythm. It’s all sunny day smiles, heat and contentment.” Gallery Listen

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Georgia Mulligan @ The Lansdowne, 7th Feb

“Georgia Mulligan plays a – recently, anyway – fairly rare full-band show tonight, which gives the songs the added dimensions and heft from the records. Not that they need much, that voice continues to defy and delight – but when sitting atop a full-spectrum sound it’s yet another level of glorious. Hypnotic and wonderful, and […]

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Gig Guide

Gigs In Sydney This Week | 5-9 Feb

🤿 Dive into some gigs from killer new artists in Sydney this week including: 🕍 L.A.R.M and friends play another night put on by Heretics at the Oxford Art Factory (Thu) – the last night they did was hectic 🌲 Phantastic Ferniture (Fri & Sat, vintage pic from 2016 above) play two sold-out dates at […]

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Shows

C.O.F.F.I.N @ Vic On The Park, 2nd Feb

“A C.O.F.F.I.N show is never to be trifled with and tonight, even on a Sunday, the bodies are flying as their ragged explosions of joy-fuelled chaos explode among us. Few finer.” Gallery Listen

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Frenzee @ Vic On The Park, 2nd Feb

“Frenzee’s set is undeniably Amyl-y from the off but there’s a ton of RATM savagery in there too, fearsome, primal muscle and steel-beam strength. It’s all the speed you need with all the rage you crave, enough to flatten city blocks.” Gallery Listen