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Shows

Derrik N The Idiots @ Shark Bar, 2nd Feb

“Derrik N The Idiots are cooked rare from the off and only get – literally – bloodier, raw punk meat served at speed. Weaving into slow-banging metal but always snapping back to high velocity mayhem, it’s got more than enough iron in it to keep it as solid as a baseball bat to the face.” […]

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New Music

Keli Holiday – horsepower

“Adam off of Peking Duk sounds like he’s having an absolute riot on this latest track from his Keli Holiday project, a swaggering blast of late-night head-nodding and baggy hand-waving. The bubbling bassline, the signature infectious hooks, and the sheer amount of fun being had puts it out in front by a lot more than a length 🐎”

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New Music

Joan & the Giants – Born in the Wrong Time

“The tight, insistent chug of the opening bars rapidly expands, inflating at speed until it blocks out the sun. Lyrically, it’s all self-doubt and disconnection – but few other songs will welcome you in quite as warmly 🫂”

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New Music

Teenage Dads – Weaponz

“Teenage Dads kick off what will surely be *their* year with one of their zanier concoctions, where wild and weird moments of stream-of-consciousness meld like strange liquids into their more familiar sharp, arty rock. Unstable elements are smashed together, volatile new compounds are formed 🧑‍🔬”

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New Music

Kitschen Boy – Happy Place

“There’s a joy and a snarl to the curse-words in the chorus, a bit of bite behind the art school atmosphere. Jangles and tight snares float around like a Smiths song in a dorm room, but there’s also enough snap and snip here to put a bit of blood on the canvas 🩸”

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New Music

Lotte Gallagher – Gray

“There’s such terrible melancholy in Lotte Gallagher’s vocal and guitar that when the chorus lets go it’s a blessed catharsis. Fabulous and evocative, it’s another release wracked with fearsome promise from an artist with a dark wisdom beyond her years 🎭”

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Preview

Just Announced: Regurgitator Coming Back Up To Sydney In June

Since 1993, Regurgitator have defied pigeon-holes and scenes, continually producing sharp, original and witty music, and on the 1st of June, they’ll be back in Sydney for a show at the Roundhouse. Over the course of 12 studio albums – and no less than five ARIA awards – they’ve mashed up elements of grubby punk, […]

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Making Noise

Making Noise: Forest Claudette

Over the last fortnight, Forest Claudette’s track ‘Kobe Beef’ has been all over the best new music playlists in Australia, the latest in a run of releases over the last year that have gained them staunch critic support and a significant amount of new audience. Their latest release was also the most well-supported of the […]

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Most Playlisted

Most Playlisted: Girl and Girl, Nick Ward, Logan

It was a crowded pack this week on the nest new music playlists in Australia, but it was the more emerging acts that won out with Girl and Girl, Nick Ward, and Logan (pictured) all appearing at the top of the pile and bagging the most spots across the board. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Girl […]