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Featured Tracks This Week: #13 2025

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.

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The Best New Music From Australia | #232

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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Shows

Garage Noise @ Factory Theatre, 26th May

“Garage Noise add a notch more polish and shine with each set, and tonight they gleam particularly brightly. Few emerging bands have the range and the chops – in an opening slot no less – to take an energetic first half, slow it right down to a crawl, but build it back up to a […]

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Garage Noise @ The Alley, 2nd Feb

“Garage Noise are just bags of fluff and happiness, playing like they mean it but with a grin on their faces. It’s all as rich and fun as a fresh doughnut, a sugary hoot that’s nonetheless got enough of a hard centre to snap off a tooth.” Gallery Learn More Instagram

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Garage Noise @ Oxford Art Factory, 16th Mar

“Garage Noise lean towards grunge and pop punk, but they never end up over their skis, sticking instead to dark guitars playing sunny pop songs. There’s a ton of light and shade in this set, a sense they know just how much to apply accelererator or brake. That’s a hard trick to pull off, but […]