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Premiere: RedHook bring zombie roller-disco horror in the clip for Dead Walk

After dropping the single - their first for 2020 - last week, the Australian rock band now pair with signature, horror-dripped visuals.

16 hours ago
By Hayden Davies
Bands

Premiere: Stu Larsen cements his place as a folk favourite with new album, Marigold

With his new record, the constantly-roaming Australian musician enters a new stage of widespread, international acclaim.

17 hours ago
By Hayden Davies
Light & Easy

March in WA Music: Carla Geneve, Grievous Bodily Calm, Jack Davies + more

In your one-stop guide to the highlights of West Australia's music scene, we also covered new ones by Ghost Care and And Beyond.

2 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Rap

In a year to be dominated by UK rap, Aitch is ready to take the crown

With every release he puts out, it's clear that 2020's biggest star in UK rap doesn't come from the central, London rap hub.

2 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Electronic

Premiere: FLUIR emerges a dance-pop force with new single, Make Me Feel

With every single, Sydney-based musician FLUIR creeps a little bit closer to the newcoming pop crown.

2 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Bands

Premiere: Rabbit Island debuts a slow-stirring new single, Some Days Are Harder Days

The Fremantle-based musician's slow-burning new ballad arrives ahead of a new - kind-of - record, out late-April.

2 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Rap

Premiere: Mathas makes his return with first track in four years, Airing Out

Arriving alongside an official video clip, the single sees the long-awaited comeback from a West Australian hip-hop favourite.

3 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Electronic

La vita nuova: Drawing strength with Christine and the Queens

With a fully-realised new EP and an accompanying short film, Christine and the Queens makes it known that there’s no-one quite like her.

3 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Bands

Escaping the chaos with Sorry and their warm, comforting indie-pop

Sorry, the UK duo releasing their debut album via Domino, are making music to escape in a time where it’s needed more than ever.

4 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Rap

EP Walkthrough: SUPEREGO break down their bold new EP, Nautilus

On their sound-defying new EP, the Fremantle outfit test the limits of experimental hip-hop and its relationship with electronica.

4 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Electronic

Premiere: AYA YVES emerges as a new pop face with debut single, (in)Sanity

With a full EP expected to arrive this year, AYA YVES is stepping forward as an artist to watch in homegrown pop.

4 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Electronic

Meet Oliver Malcolm and his genre-bending sound with new single, Helen

After years working behind-the-scenes as a producer, the Swedish-born and London-raised musician is honing in on his craft with himself in the spotlight.

7 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Electronic

EP Walkthrough: Yorke takes us behind her debut EP, Liberosis

On her debut EP, the Byron Bay-raised musician thrives in a Lorde-adjacent alt-pop world.

7 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Electronic

Premiere: Felicity Groom shares the video for her latest single, Burj Khalifa

The single, the third taste of her forthcoming Magnetic Resonance Centre album, is now joined by warping visuals.

7 days ago
By Hayden Davies
News

Isol-Aid 2.0, Bridget Hustwaite's Stay In and more ways to support music this week

In the face of the live music sector's most trying times in generations, people are stepping up to fill the blank and keep things moving.

8 days ago
By Pile News
Bands

Premiere: Candy continues to evolve, drops the clip for new single, Clean

Written about the just-passed summer bushfires, the track's video clip balances its sense of worry and defeatism with bright, block colours.

8 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Bands

Premiere: Meet Daniel Trakell, who shines with his new single Let Me Be

After sharing a Wisdom/Boredom last year, the Melbourne-based musician is in his element on his first single for 2020.

8 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Bands

Album Walkthrough: Ocean Grove break down their new record, Flip Phone Fantasy

On the Melbourne band's latest record, nostalgia for the passing of the millennium finds itself a home amongst chaotic, quick-paced hard rock.

9 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Bands

Premiere: Semantics have a real bad day in the clip for new single, SDE

On their new single - their first in 2020 - the Brisbane-based four-piece bring refined punk-rock energy into centre spotlight.

9 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Rap

03.15.20, and the complex union of Childish Gambino and Donald Glover

03.15.20 speaks to the push-and-pull of both the world we live in and the artist behind it, bringing an ever-ensuing battle to the surface.

9 days ago
By Conor Herbert
Electronic

Skin On Skin, Australia's new tech-house export, is ready for your attention

Since emerging with their debut EP last year, Skin On Skin have stepped up as an exciting new light in Australia's club world.

10 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Bands

Premiere: Melbourne punks Loose End bring the ruckus with Discontent

In their first single since their 2018 EP Overthinking Everything I Know, the five-piece bring high punk-rock energy in the best way.

10 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Electronic

Premiere: Billy Davis crashes a wedding in the video clip for I Ain't

In the past twelve months, the Melbourne-based musical wizard has stepped up as an exciting source of forward-thinking hip-hop.

10 days ago
By Hayden Davies
Rap

Meet Adelaide rap trio EAST AV3, who step forward with Le Labo

In the last twelve months, the South Australian trio have stepped up as ones to watch in local hip-hop.

11 days ago
By Hayden Davies

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