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“KiNG MALA has flown in from Los Angeles to play her first ever international date in Sydney tonight, but based on the reaction from the crowd you’d think this was a damn homecoming. Sharp, witty, blindingly bright pop fills the room until everyone is fit to bursting like balloons – it’s near on ridiculous how […]
“Azure’s pop is all minor key with major vibes, an open book of hard times turned into Saturday night soundtracks. When you add the powerhouse of a voice on top of all this, it’s just a festival of cherries on cakes.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“FVNERAL raise the hairs on my arms, equal chills of pleasure and dread. There is such courage in these songs, a determination to stand against headwinds and catastrophe and to stand tall and proud in their face, so much so that – with barely a raised voice – it’s brutally humbling. Now if you’ll excuse […]
“Two songs is all I caught of Noah Skape, but that was as much as was needed to fall into it head over ankle, enough to drown in the physical and the musical. En-fucking-core.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Camino Gold roll smooth, clean lines coming in hard with muscle backing up a light touch. So much tune! But so much tension lurking behind.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Kicked In Bickie Tin are blowing in from a *really* long way out of town but they bring us instructions in how to do it all properly. Gallons of guitars drown us in big ecstatic song, lessons one through five in how to have fun.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“En route to somewhere, I run into Tombeau & The Idiots and it’s the happiest of accidents, unlike whatever happened to the singer’s collarbone. Whether the painkilling drugs rolling around in the system make it better or worse is immaterial – it’s a set holding aces, with one arm or two.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
Alongside their rapid growth, critic support for Royel Otis is certainly not fading, with a whopping 38% of the playlists I track adding ‘Fried Rice’ this week, more than any other artist. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Royel Otis 🥈Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers 🥉1300, Alex Lahey Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers released their […]
September was exhausting, a non-stop riot of relentless, glorious stage action and song. From The Belair Lip Bombs(this month’s cover photo) to The Vanns to Luca Brasi to Private Wives, it was just one killer set after another. As if the shows weren’t enough, there was one killer new releases after the other too, with […]