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Author: Alex Kirk
Every week, my robots scour the biggest nine New Music Friday playlists in the world to see whose getting backed hard by the big green machine. This week: 🏆 The Champ: Ed Sheeran The biggest of the big sat contentedly atop the big nine playlists this week, as Ed Sheeran launched “Celestial” out into the world. […]
The week belonged to CLEWS’ “Everything Is Heavy” and Triple One’s “PETER RABBIT”, both of which appeared on about a third of the best new music playlists in Australia. 🥇CLEWS, Triple One 🥈Abby Bella May, ioakim, merci, mercy 🥉Folk Bitch Trio, Forest Claudette, Ivoris, Jesswar, PRICIE, Suzi, Thundamentals, grentperez Abby Bella May’s fabulous new track […]
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Satin Cali @ Oxford Art Factory, 1st Oct
“Satin Cali’s first headline show in Sydney goes OFF. It’s any one of their killer combo moves that are getting us in the throat, a lethal mix of those daftly deft musical skills, that nerve-jangling songwriting, the ear-bursting volume, and that crazy surf-soul vocal…. It’s hard to know where we ended up tonight, but it’s […]
“The important syllable in The Vandastruts is “S T R U T”. The whole set just plain swaggers around the room, a pair of leather trousers come to life, its riffs disembowelling all-comers and its solos carving holes in the back of your head. When “they” tell you that rock ‘n’ roll will corrupt your […]
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Magic Machine @ Oxford Art Factory, 1st Oct
Magic Machine beam in from another dimension to psyche up the place from the off. Bags of spring reverb, oodles of shoulder-shaking rhythm, and the sort of endless jams that seem specifically designed to result in someone needing a defibrillator. Any band with this much groove in their hearts is to be respected – but […]
Every week, my robots scour the biggest nine New Music Friday playlists in the world to see whose getting backed hard by the big green machine. This week: 🏆 The Champ: Sam Smith The big dog this week was Sam Smith (20m+ followers), whose collab with Kim Petras, “Unholy”, landed them on top of the pile, […]
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Rhysics – Together Now
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