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Just Announced: Sleater-Kinney World Tour To Land In ‘Spiritual Home’ Of Australia In May

The mighty Sleater-Kinney, fresh off the release of their outstanding ‘Little Rope’ album – their 11th – are coming back to Sydney for the first time since 2016 for a show at Enmore Theatre Alt-rock icons, their thirty years on the tools hasn’t dulled their edges or slowed their minds, with the newest music as […]

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Just Announced: Buzzcocks Return To Sydney For Metro Show

Punk pop legends Buzzcocks are returning to Sydney for the first time since the death of founding member and singer Pete Shelley, playing the Metro Theatre on 1st Nov. Co-songwriter Steve Diggle has stepped into the frontperson role, with new guitarist Mani Perazzoli joining the lineup. The Buzzcocks Are Coming tour will run across Australia […]

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Just Announced: Gnarly Japanese Punks Jet Boys To Crash Land At Mary’s Underground In April

Jet Boys, who formed in the hurly-burly of Japan’s late 1980s punk scene which also spawned the likes of Guitar Wolf and The 5,6,7,8s are coming back to Sydney for the first time since 2019 to play one raucous night at Mary’s Underground. A live show of utter mayhem, and sounding exactly like you’d expect […]

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The Damned Are Coming Back To Sydney – With A Classic Lineup – For One Night At The Enmore

There are punk legends and there are The Damned. Famously one of the very earliest of all the Brit punk outfits – and now one of the longest-running – The Damned have been acing it since 1976. Thirteen albums later, they’re coming back to Sydney for a single show at Enmore Theatre. Time hasn’t dulled […]

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Mean Jeans @ Crowbar Sydney, 18th Feb

“Mean Jeans may be over from the US, but their brand of sunny, grubby, fast-as-fuck punk fun and games fits seamlessly into an Aussie summer vibe tonight, cheerful as and mental with it. Bags and bags of melody sings alongside a landslide of daft and pounding rhythm, the Ramones doing Blink. It’s never not huge […]

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Ghoulies @ Crowbar Sydney, 18th Feb

“Ghoulies’ machine-gun pace and stuttering bark is unrelenting, insistent, and a bloody joy. Wired to the eyeballs and incapable of anything less than a sprint, it’s a barrage of ragged breathing and sweat, a race to the finish line among all the wild things.” Gallery Learn More Instagram

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Djanaba @ The Lady Hampshire, 15th Feb

“Djanaba’s trilling voice is a counterweight to its frequently hefty blows, a flutter of delicate wings that are more than capable of laying you flat out. The beats shine like fireflies, weaving between precise pitter-patter and thudding four-four, while that voice hypnotises with its left before landing a killer blow with its right.” Gallery Learn […]

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Salty @ The Lady Hampshire, 15th Feb

“Salty’s pop is as precise and polished as the choreography, a wild set of shiny gems set to dancing like lives depend on it. Make no mistake though, there’s as much middle finger-raising as there is hip-shaking, a work of joy with a healthy dose of fuck you.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok

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Zia Jade @ The Lady Hampshire, 15th Feb

“Zia Jade’s smooth set has razor-honed edges, a sharp wit wrapped in fluffy pillows made of R&B and hip-hop tones. It’s all silky good times until you realised it’s opened up a vein. Formidable and fun, what a mix.” Gallery Learn More Instagram