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Melbourne rockers The Nicoteenagers are back and they’ve brought mountains of swagger with them, today unveiling their rollicking new jam ‘Black Lips’. Brimming with Queens of the Stone Age meets The Dandy Warhols vibes, ‘Black Lips’ is a confident and smokey slice of rock and roll tuneage. Explain the band, “‘Black Lips’; it’s that equilibrium […]
Many of us can link a certain album to pivotal moments in our lives. Whether it’s the first record you bought with your own money, the chord you first learnt to play on guitar, the song that soundtracked your first kiss, the album that got you those awkward and painful pubescent years or the one […]
From their humble Ohio beginnings to sell-out shows around the globe, The National have spent the last two decades ascending to the top of the indie food-chain. They’re festival headliners, Grammy winners and the centre of media like the documentary Mistaken for Strangers and the podcast Coffee & Flowers. They’ve got a brand-new album coming […]
Since arriving onto the world stage in 2000 with arguably the most loved dance anthems of the 21st century in ‘Sandstorm’, Darude has become one of the most globally recognised DJs, playing hundreds of club and festival shows around the world every year and having his musical workings featured in some of the biggest sporting […]
With ‘Zero Gravity’, the world was introduced to the eccentric pop stylings of one Kate Miller-Heidke, Australia’s competitor in this weekend’s Eurovision Song Contest. This was the singer’s introduction to the world stage, but anyone who’s been paying attention in Australia knows that it’s far from her first rodeo. In fact, the Brisbane native has […]
Following a successful stint at Falls Festival this year, Welsh indie rockers Catfish and The Bottlemen are returning down under for Splendour in the Grass and a bunch of sideshows in July. And what better way to celebrate than to squabble over our top 10 favourite songs and argue why my choices are right and yours […]
Melbourne artist Dinosaur Beard has returned with a fresh cut of hazy, textured indie/folk rock with new single ‘Dialect Drum’ and today he’s premiering the track’s accompanying visuals. ‘Dialect Drum’ delicately teeters between dark and light textures, visually, sonically and thematically, Dinosaur Beard expressing the fear and the triumph that is vulnerability. “It’s a tale […]
Melbourne journeyman Ezekiel Ox is hitting the road in support of his new EP, Cheering Bombs From Deckchairs. Engineered and produced by Steven Smith of Terracotta Pigeons, Cheering Bombs is by no means an intimate, stripped-back affair. Heavy funk and rap rock sounds dominate while Ox’s vocals are central in the mix. Ox could never […]
Those UK dance music renegades The Chemical Brothers have made a credible comeback with their ninth album, No Geography. In 2019 they are far from being a legacy act, instead commanding a cross-generational fanbase that apparently includes the stars of Game Of Thrones. Legend is that the London-bred Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands bonded as […]
14 years ago, a pair of twins from Brisbane completely took the pop world by storm with their brazen lyrics, infectious melodies and unapologetically feminist personas. Now, The Veronicas have become mainstays of the Australian music industry, with each record showcasing a different level to their songwriting that fans haven’t seen from them before. 2019 […]
