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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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Featured Tracks This Week: #10 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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Featured Tracks This Week: #8 2025

Thereโ€™s something for everyone in this weekโ€™s batch of new music from roaring mayhem to quiet contemplation and all points in between. 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 […]

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Julia Why? – Deep Fake

“Julia Why? returns (hurray!) with their first upload in aaages, and they’ve lost none of their dreamy menace, the dark notes and whorls of shoegaze lurking inside the deceptive calm like traps for the unwary”

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Julia Why? @ Bootleggers, 14th Apr

“Julia Why?โ€™s set tonight comes with a noticeable amount of bite. The shoegazey core is still fluffy and comforting, but itโ€™s got an extra row of teeth – the guitars are a notch more savage, the drums a smidge more primal, the bass prowling a little too close for comfort. The danger lights are flashing […]

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Julia Why? @ Petersham Bowlo, 28th Jan

“Julia Why?โ€™s tense and rich songs have shone on audiences for years now, and remain a high-water mark for dark-outlined moodiness. A band that simply never stops inventing, creating, and impressing, and a perennial favourite round these parts.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram

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Julia Why? @ Factory Theatre, 30th Oct

โ€œJulia Why?โ€™s ethereal, laidback shoegaze-infused stomp is a heat haze off a hot highway, shimmering and intense, and entirely capable of killing you dead. The gentle moments are offset by the ear-ruining ones to form a terrible balance, a hypnotic fuzz that leaves you sweating and parched and unsteady.โ€ Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram

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Julia Why? @ Wayward’s, 2nd Dec

Show Notes “By turns haunting, ferocious, and gazing at its shoes, Julia Why? rounds out the night with a beast of a set, delivered with joy but providing a certain chill up the spine. Inventive and clever, it demands your attention – even in the really loud bits where you just want to hide under […]

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Julia Why? @ Waywardโ€™s, Jan 5

“Iโ€™ve always loved watching Julia Why?ย tear venues apart but last night was as tight as Iโ€™ve ever seen them. Massive tunes, full of cold fury.”