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Featured Artist: Particles

“Particles are only made of singer Dan and drummer Skarlett, but they’ve always made a sound that’s so much bigger. Songs like “Tennis” are big and muscly enough on record, but live it’s like being slapped with a tornado, the air just rushes around your insides as fast as it possibly can. Both are in […]

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Hachiku @ The Chippo, 17th Mar

“Hachiku are playing their first Sydney headliner tonight, and it couldn’t be any less like the vomit-stained St.Patrick’s Day antics happening everywhere else tonight. Delicate, mischevious, elfin songs abound, with a glint in its eye – it’s rich and gorgeous, but it’s as hard to catch hold of as moonlight. Lovely, lovely stuff.” Facebook | […]

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Imperial Broads @ The Chippo, 17th Mar

“In the year and a bit since I last saw Imperial Broads, they’ve grown a swagger and an imperious sense of urgency that demands attention. The songs are like an edged weapon, glinty and threatening, but are wielded with skill and a throughly demented grin. It slices through you in all the good ways.” Facebook […]

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Okin Osan @ The Chippo, 17th Mar

“Every damn time I see Okin Osan they knock my damn socks off. In two-piece mode tonight, they dish out ladle after ladle of happiness in the form of song, more infectious than the flu, more full of spring than a newborn lamb. If you can’t enjoy this, the core of you is dark and […]

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Jessie L Warren @ The Chippo, 17th Mar

“Jessie L Warren may make one of the lovliest noises it’s possible to make. That voice just soars around like a bird with a recently-mended wing, joyful and timid and delighted and excited and nervous all at the same time. A super-literate mastery of metaphor and image underpins these simple, beautiful songs, the effect of […]

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Dave Eastgate & Boner Contention @ Frankie’s Pizza, 11th Mar

“There are few things funnier than Dave Eastgate & Boner Contention, the heavy metal Bill Bailey. It’s not funny because it’s stupid, it’s funny because it’s barkingly clever, a satirical love note to all things rock. Talent abounds, and the songs are solid, but it makes you realise just how daft playing music live can […]

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Nunchukka Superfly @ Frankie’s Pizza, 11th Mar

“With a name as fucking awesome as Nunchukka Superfly it almost doesn’t matter if they’re any good. Happily, they are. This is cheerily brutal, aggressive but happy, a crack round the head with a grin on its face. Like a train off its rails, it barrels through the brain and trashes everything in its path. […]

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Cape Tribulation @ Frankie’s Pizza, 11th Mar

“Cape Tribulation are basically made of hair and tattoos, and deliver thudding, hurricane-flavoured heavy direct to the eyeballs – what’s deeply joyful to hear though is the elements of cunning Sonic Youth-y bits of sneakiness that weave their way through the set. As the hair flails and the rhythms beat you to bits, tiny little […]

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Aver @ Frankie’s Pizza, 11th Mar

“Aver bring the stoner rock to Sunday night tonight, lashing us with heavy rhythm, and wave after wave of relentless roar. The sort of thing to make you involuntarily do that mini-headbang thing, slowly. A bloody enjoyable ride in other words.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter