“So I Says To Mabel blister the paint and crack the brickwork, flat-out and roaring West Coast punk, hardcore screams and gigantic choruses taking turns in beating your kidneys to a pulp. A full send, happy and glorious.” Gallery Listen
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Grapee @ The Sneaky Possum, 29th Mar
“Grapee’s pop-punk might be acoustic tonight but even if you unplugged the power from three city blocks it wouldn’t stop that powerhouse voice from ringing out and cracking windows. You still get the bruises, but you just notice them a lot later.” Gallery Listen
Every week I scour the latest releases from emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia. The best of them end up on the playlist. Follow The Playlist Listen to this week’s edition here, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always only new […]
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New Albums This Month: Mar 2025
Tracks are nice and everything, but albums are where it’s at. These are all the albums released in March that I caught from Australian emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
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Gigs In Sydney This Week | 25-30 Mar
🫵 Sydney needs YOU to go to a gig this week – here are just some of the crackers on offer: 🎶 Southern Nights continues, so there’s just a daft amount of shows on all over the place. 🎶 total tommy headlining is reason enough to go, but the whole lineup for this night at […]
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Most Playlisted: The Rions
Most Playlisted This Week Each week, my robots scour the best Australian new music playlists and look for who is getting the love from the most critics and tastemakers. This week’s podium finishers: 🥇The Rions (appeared on 36% of updated playlists) 🥈Old Mervs, The Terrys, Oscar The Wild (27%) 🥉Lithe, Floodlights, Deep Sea Arcade, The […]
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BARBARA @ Factory Theatre, 23rd Mar
“BARBARA’s set thumps with black humour, Joy Division with a dose of 2020s paranoia. There’s weird fun in the beats and the vocal, danceable post-punk for the club set – it’s a modern take on a classic, a version of a dark past that’s brightly right now.” Gallery Listen
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FVNERAL @ Factory Theatre, 23rd Mar
“FVNERAL’s capacity to create joy out of sadness and trauma is – and I may have mentioned this before – astonishing. These songs are deeply, deeply sad but they draw tears of defiance and progression, they contain power and fuel – they do not submit. The fact that they also seem to be turning into […]
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Sidra @ Factory Theatre, 23rd Mar
“Sidra’s rich, dark pop layers dense lyrics over considered, confident electronica (helmed onstage by producer EVILEYE) and it compels dancing and head-nodding introspection in equal measure. It rarely loses its temper but it carries a heft and a power that makes it hard to look away from.” Gallery Listen