Day: 23 October 2026

New Music Discoveries 23rd October: Annie Hamilton, Annie Dressner, The Buoys, and more

Ten new tracks hit the Discovery Playlist this week on Spotify and Apple Music, including the two premieres we shared earlier. Our track of the week comes from Annie Hamilton, whose new single “chainmail” arrived on Wednesday as the first taste of her third album, due early next year. Hamilton wrote it on a solo…

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Track by Track: Blank Instrument takes us inside debut album Jumping at Ghosts

Sometimes an album comes together through careful planning. Other times, it emerges unexpectedly, shaped by the people, experiences and emotions that find their way into the music. For Boorloo/Perth singer-songwriter Kim Franklin, who records as Blank Instrument, her debut album Jumping at Ghosts is very much the latter. Arriving on Friday, 23 October, the 11-track…

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Live Review: Hilary Duff’s Lucky Me Tour brings millennial nostalgia and pure pop joy to Brisbane (22.10.26)

Some pop stars spend their careers trying to escape the characters that made them famous. Others spend years attempting to reinvent themselves, distancing their present from a past they would rather audiences forget. Hilary Duff, however, seems to have arrived at a rather refreshing realisation: there’s something quite wonderful about embracing every version of yourself….

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