New music from Australia in pictures, words, and numbers

Tag: Selve

By The Numbers #011: 15th Sep 2025

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 15 September 2025

Every week, I take a look at the best playlists in Australia and the biggest playlists in the world and analyse the artists appearing on them. All of these playlists focus on newly-released tracks – what this means is that these lists can be seen as the bets that critics and tastemakers are making on […]

New Albums New Music

New Albums This Month: September 2025

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 12 September 2025

Tracks are nice and everything, but albums are where it’s at. These are all the long-players I’ve caught across the month by Australian emerging, independent, and DIY artists.

Tags Blain Cunneen, Convenience Store, Georgia Mulligan, Part Paladin, People Mover, RinRin, Selve, stella anning, Suzi, The Empty Threats, The Mean Times, The Phosphenes, The Valery Trails, Warwick Kennedy

Shows SXSW Sydney

Selve @ Rolling Stone Courtyard, SXSW Sydney, 19th Oct

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 20 October 2023

“Selve open up the afternoon tune section with high-energy and maximum effort, dancing like it’s two in the morning, not the afternoon.” Gallery

Tags Selve, sxsw sydney 2023

I would like to acknowledge that the gigs that are pictured here, the stages they’re played on, the bars and venues they’re held in, and the good times they represent, are all held on lands that were never ceded by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I acknowledge these First Australians as the traditional custodians of the continent, whose cultures are among the oldest living cultures in human history. I pay respect to the Elders of the community and extend my recognition to their descendants.

Please also see my personal Music Industry Collaboration Commitment