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“Runnin’ Hot are as rough as a badger’s boot, all torn concrete and sandpaper, raw-throated rock that tears off the side of a cliff into punky chaos. Like a skinned knee, it hurts a bit to get, but getting it was half the fun.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Black Aces open today’s maritime mayhem aboard Simo’s Dive Bar On The Water, a floating palace of noise made even noisier by their high-voltage, furiously energetic rock. Good-time riffs, wild-haired enthusiasm, and a full metal racket roll across the harbour in peals of Satan’s own siren sound.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Raising Ravens absolutely pound the concrete out of the walls tonight, bags and bags of terrifyingly well-built sonic heft backing up close harmonies and giant songs. Confident as hell, solid as a granite slab, and roaring like a bloody jet engine.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Lady Lazarus have sone opinions and give no quarter in sharing them, sparse prose in the brutally direct lyrics, stark simplicity in the serrated music. Raw punk fun, and it delivers the message whether you notice the phone ringing or not. “ Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Blake Williams’ set is all sugary pop-punk, tempered and balanced with darker notes. These wired songs are as taut as they are giddy good fun, sharp teeth in the wild grin. As sweet as it comes off, it’s the salt and the spice that you remember.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
Most Playlisted This Week It was a notably slow week for releases – nearly 40% less tracks than last week! – but some clear quality still bubbled to the top, with Hockey Dad reaping the most spots on the best Australian new music playlists. This was fuelled by tracks from their latest album, ‘Rebuild Repeat’, […]
“Taken from Hockey Dad’s fourth album, ‘Rebuild, Repeat’, this is just one of the many examples of how confident they’ve become. It’s as playful as ever but its simplicity is deceptive, with complexity running through this and the full record. It’s the best work they’ve done to date, which is saying something 🥇”
“LOSER return with the first new material since last year’s ‘Stadium Dreams On A Bedroom Budget’ album, and their goals haven’t changed in scale at all. Urgent and fizzy at the start, it rapidly expands into starbursts of spectacular chorus, a determined and exciting statement of intent as they work towards album #2 🎇”
“Unvarnished and unpolished enough to leave you finding splinters in your skin weeks later, this is unbridled fun, high-speed poppy skatepunk in raw form. As with so many of the best things in life, it’s the rough edges that make it shine ✨”