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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New Albums This Month: Mar 2025
Author: Alex Kirk
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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
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Library Siesta @ Factory Theatre, 23rd Mar
“Library Siesta are bookish and literate, jangly and precise in their base state but use that as a platform to jump off into nuttier directions as the mood takes them. There are fearsome guitars and tempers waiting to explode out from behind the safety curtain, and when they do, the surprise just adds to the […]
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these. Floodlights – JOY (from the album ‘Underneath’) 🎶 Floodlights continue to excite as they continue to grow, and this comes from […]
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Hachiku @ Oxford Art Factory, 22nd Mar
“The exuberance and joy from Hachiku’s set bursts from the stage and floods the room, drenching us all underneath wave after wave of smart, wonky, soaring, wide-eyed song. Packed full of mischief and charm, the whole thing just tingles. Brilliant.” Gallery Listen