Music

As we rocket into the final quarter of 2024, we’ve added ten new tracks to our Discovery playlist on Spotify and Apple Music, including one we premiered earlier in the week. Our track of the week goes to Liverpool indie-rockers Circa Waves, with their cathartic and anthemic new single, “We Made It”. A track imbued…

Post-hardcore band Drug Church drop their fifth studio album today. PRUDE is an electrifying 28-minute record full of bangers, with a blend of punk rock, post-hardcore and alternative rock. It’s short and sweet, with each track packing a punch. Drug Church’s sound has evolved over the last thirteen years, and I’m confident that PRUDE is…

The weather is warming up and the holiday season is approaching, bringing the return of festival season. We’re all excited to be dancing it up this summer, and especially over the 14th and 15th of December, when we’ll be attending the Changing Tides Festival. It’s returning for a second round after a sold-out debut, celebrating…

Yet another massive talent to emerge from Western Australia is the Boorloo/Perth-born and raised artist Laura Adeline. Laura has relocated to Naarm, and is about to release the tantalising and sultry “Curbside”. We are thrilled to be premiering it ahead of its release on Friday. “Curbside” is an intoxicating blend of sweet, sad and sexy as…

“It’s about time we properly celebrate our debut album Liminality at home.” That’s the opener on Future Static‘s Instagram post announcing their first ever Australian headline tour – and we couldn’t agree more. Europe and the UK have already enjoyed a tour in support of Liminality (check out our five star review HERE), and the…

This past week, Australian indie-pop/rock sensations The Rions dropped their much-anticipated second EP, Happiness in a Place It Shouldn’t Be. The six-track offering arrives just in time for summer, destined to carry on the breeze and dominate airwaves all season long. It’s an energetic, heart-filled collection of groovers, set to become the soundtrack of festivals…

After almost eight long years, punk pioneers Green Day are finally coming back to Australia, and the excitement is real. 2020 saw the cancellation of their highly anticipated “Hella Mega Tour” due to COVID, leaving Aussie fans hanging. But now, with their “Saviors Tour” set to hit Australia early next year, Green Day are more than…

Australian rock band Ceres are back with their first new music in five years. Their fourth studio album, Magic Mountain (1996-2022) is out on October 4th and it’s some of their most formative work yet. Laying pretty low over the last five years, it was assumed that the group was on hiatus, and when they…

How good is not having to travel more than 15 minutes to get to a gig after a long working week? In short, it’s pretty bloody good. Bringing world class acts to Western Sydney is well overdue, and having Boy & Bear, Middle Kids and Dylan Wright grace the impressive Sydney Coliseum in Rooty Hill…

This week English alternative rock stalwarts Maxïmo Park release their eighth studio album Stream of Life via Lower Third Records. Despite logging 20 years in the industry and an impressive eight album discography, Maxïmo Park have crafted a release still brimming with energy. Rooted firmly in the sounds of the late ’90s and early 2000s,…

Elana Stone has been a professional musician for over 20 years, with the multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter’s résumé suggesting she’s vying for the top spot as Australia’s busiest musician. When she isn’t winning ARIA Awards with All Our Exes Live in Texas, lending her talent to Missy Higgins’ touring band, producing, podcasting, writing a musical, or…

As I dive into Bright Eyes’ latest offering Five Dice, All Threes released this week, I must admit the band — and its frontman, Conor Oberst — has long eluded my musical radar. Picking up a Bright Eyes album does feel like starting at the end of a long-running series, three decades in the making….

For the final time this month we’ve updated our Discovery playlist on Spotify and Apple Music with ten new tracks, including one we premiered the music video. Singer-songwriter Alex the Astronaut is our Track of the Week this week with their new single “If You Have To Go” which dropped this morning. The track is…

If you’ve ever seen Sigur Ros live before you know just how profoundly powerful the experience can be. Intense, beautiful, joyous. These are some of the words that spring to mind when thinking about this Icelandic band, who are absolutely no strangers to Australian shores. So in some incredibly exciting news, they are coming down…

Vampire Weekend performed what they pronounced was their largest ever headline show ever in Canada tonight at the Budweiser Stage in Toronto, Canada, as part of the Only God Was Above Us tour. For the occasion, across a two and a half hour show, the New York band performed the OG version of their Contra…

After teasing a mysterious project over the last few days with cryptic social media messages, Lady Gaga has announced the release of Harlequin, a 13-song strong LP that’ll serve as the musical accompaniment to the film Joker: Folie à Deux, the anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning Joker, in which she stars as Lee, a reimagining…

This is it. Don’t delay. Live Nation has released an extra allocation of tickets to see Coldplay‘s several Australian shows as part of their ground-breaking Music of the Spheres World Tour. You already know that they are still one of the most in-demand bands in the world, dialing in a true one-of-one spectacle that’s unlike…

Following her acclaimed 2020 album Get Well Soon, Perth-based singer-songwriter St South (Olivia Gavranich) returns with an introspective, soul bearing five-track EP Big Sads. Known for her more sleek bedroom pop sound, Gavranich’s previous releases blended moments of shimmering, danceable pop with the occasional heartbreaker. With Big Sads, she’s peeled back the layers producing something…

Despite being released in June, the title track from Hiatus Kaiyote’s Love Heart Cheat Code has only recently stopped echoing in my mind. Luckily this past weekend the band added a stop at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall to their list of home dates before heading off to the UK, planting that chorus in my head…

The Old Mervs took to the stage on Thursday night for the first of the two sold-out shows at The Triffid as part of their ‘How The Fark Are Ya?’ tour. Off the back of previous headline tours around New Zealand and Australia, a nomination for Best New Artist at the Rolling Stone Awards, and securing…

Brisbane prog metal quintet Citadel are a hidden gem among the local heavy scene. Since emerging with “Sundered Souls” in 2022 and releasing their debut album DECOMPOSE later that year, the lads have played a number of shows and shared follow-up single “Nightmare Frontier” in 2023. Today, Citadel have returned with the new single “Old…

For the penultimate time this month, we have added ten more tracks to our Discovery playlist on Spotify and Apple Music. Newcomer Josh Hannan, a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Melbourne, takes home our Track of the Week with his debut single “aftermath”. A recent signing to Sony, Hannan was “discovered” when an Instagram video of…

Melbourne pop punk act All Regards are excited to announce their debut EP ALL OUR DREAMS TURN TO NIGHTMARES – out 1 November – and we are stoked to premiere the video for new single “FALLBACK” ahead of its official release tomorrow. Produced, mixed and mastered by Jack Newlyn (Between You & Me, Stuck Out),…

It’s spooky Friday, and to celebrate we’ve added ten new tracks to our Discovery Playlist on Spotify and Apple Music, including two we exclusively premiered earlier in the week. Our track of the week is “Ultraviolet”, from singer/songwriter and storyteller extraordinaire, Alana Wilkinson. Everyone should have a friend like Alana. In “Ultraviolet”, she tells the…

3x GRAMMY and 7x BRIT Award-winning global pop powerhouse Dua Lipa has announced a global 2025 run on her Radical Optimism Tour with over 40 new dates across Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and the UK next year. Additionally, South America shows will be announced at a later date. The tour announcement follows Dua’s highly anticipated…

The Flaming Lips return to Australia performing their 2002 alt classic release Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots played in full, plus other cult classics. The Flaming Lips live show is a total psychedelic trip full of colourful props and of course the giant inflatable ball which Wayne Coyne jumps inside to ride across his adoring…

Belfast trio Kneecap announce their first Australian tour for March 2025, with a Sydney venue upgrade and a second Melbourne show. The trio consisting of Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí deliver a concoction of satirical yet socially conscious Irish and English lyrics with their explosive live performance and we can expect one of…

Following the release of “Agonal” back in May, Brisbane/Meanjin’s Call The Mourning have just dropped “Switch“, and it’s another heavy-hitter from the trio. Drawing on bassist Lachie Grumley‘s experiences of so-called friends taking advantage, and singer/guitarist Constance Grafos‘ time spent in EMDR therapy, where she could safely re-examine her emotions about people and situations in…

Last month, we had the pleasure of premiering the single “Sister Jane“, from Seattle-born now Naarm/Melbourne-based group The Rayes. Today, we are back at it, premiering “Bat’s Wing”, the final single from their upcoming EP, Limb Pulled Taut. The track opens gently, reminiscent of the great Nick Drake, wistfully with a melancholic tone, as it…

Hailing from Perth, singer/songwriter Hanah Stow has today dropped her debut EP, Sidelined, and it’s a beauty. Six tracks of intimate, emotive and melancholic musings, it’s a beautiful first record for the talented artist. Hannah reflects on her journey to get to this important milestone. From the ache of leaving her home town to pursue…