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NO LOCAL RELEASE THE END AGAIN

Late last month Melbourne outfit No Local, the project of Liam Halliwell and the late Zac Denton (The Ocean Party, Ciggie Witch, Pregnancy, Hobby Farm) released their gorgeously off-beat second album The End Again. Recorded just before the prolific Denton’s passing in the second half of 2018, it’s the first of a number of forthcoming […]

THE IRREPRESSIBLY IRRESISTIBLE CIGGIE WITCH CALL TIME, ANNOUNCE FINAL SHOW

“Classic Melbourne bullshit, never climaxes”. That’s the humorous and extraordinarily humble self-description you’ll find in the social media bio of the gorgeously idiosyncratic left field pop/rock septet Ciggie Witch. Largely centring on and assembling around the considerable song-writing abilities of the late Zac Denton and later, Mitch Clemens (Skydeck), his brother Lachlan and other members, […]

VALE ZAC DENTON

Vale Zac Denton. Genuine artists like this beautiful human being are the reason why Indie30 exists. Just 24. We are devastated. Extending condolences to Lachlan and family, all of the equally beautiful musicians who played with him, his friends and all those who knew and were touched by him. There will be a special Top 30 this […]

TOTALLY MILD SHARE VIDEO FROM ONE ANOTHER

Melbourne pop quartet Totally Mild celebrated the release of their stirring new album Her last week with the release of another Tobias Willis directed video for the cautiously aspirational second single, ‘From One Another’. Willis also directed the video first single, ‘Today Tonight’ and this one take effort expands on that by extrapolating out the […]

CIGGIE WITCH RETURNS WITH MAD MUSIC

“…the feeling that everything might fall apart at any minute might even be enough to keep the millennials listening past the one minute mark.”  With no build up and little fanfare, Melbourne’s wonderfully underachieving pop ensemble Ciggie Witch released their exquisitely ramshackle new album last week. Titled Mad Music, it’s a work of honesty to […]