Day: 31 May 2019

Here’s your free PlayStation Plus titles for June

PlayStation Plus is offering up a whole lot of value for subscribers in June, with both Borderlands: The Handsome Collection and Sonic Mania going for the low, low price of zero dollars. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection features both Borderlands 2 and the Australian-made Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, along with all their respective DLC. Two of the…

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Here’s your free Xbox Games With Gold titles for June

After a bit of a quiet month for freebies in May, Xbox looks to be coming back strong in June with a suite of top tier Games With Gold titles, from recent releases like NHL 19 to verified Xbox 360 classic Portal. Here’s how the full list shakes out: On June 1, you’ll have access…

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Album Review: Breaking down Barriers with Frank Iero and the Future Violents

Frank Iero is back with his third solo album, performing with new band The Future Violents. Barriers is a reinvention of sorts for the former My Chemical Romance guitarist, featuring fourteen tracks that all circle around the fundamental question of what it means to be human. Inspired in part by a 2016 Sydney car accident…

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Album Review: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets take you on a trip with And Now For The Whatchamacallit

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets (PPC) walk a delicate line between some of the magnates of their genre, eliciting the Australian sounds of Tame Impala and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, while creating an unshakable reverence to early psychedelic king, Jimi Hendrix. And Now For The Whatchamacallit is a further exploration of this while allowing PPC…

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Vivid Live Review: Maggie Rogers – Sydney Opera House (29.05.19)

Normally when I write an article about a gig I’ve seen, a lot of what I talk about is very subjective to my own experience. I’m sure there’s been times where I’ve written things that others haven’t agreed with. This article isn’t going to be one of them. What follows is totalling and utterly objective:…

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Track of the Day: Jemma Siles “Light Me Up” (2019)

Melbourne-based pop singer-songwriter Jemma Siles has today dropped “Light Me Up”, the follow-up to her debut single, “D.A.M.N.”, which was released last year and won her the Australian Songwriter of the Year Award (Pop/Dance) in 2018.  Though this might be only the second single release from Siles, she has been steadily making a name for…

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