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 […]
EMMA RUSSACK ANNOUNCES WINTER BLUES
“Winter Blues is the perfect summary of where I am at in my life: vulnerable, open hearted and at peace with my past”. Emma Russack. Last week Melbourne singer-songwriter Emma Russack announced the release date for her fifth album Winter Blues, simultaneously unveiling its title track, a sparse and laid bare piano ballad that in […]
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, […]
THE OCEAN PARTY RELEASE FINAL RECORD; LISTEN TO ‘WE SHOULD DO THIS AGAIN’
Just a quick word to remind readers that The Ocean Party, one of our favourite Australian guitar pop bands ever, released their final ever record yesterday. Nothing Grows was penned in its idiosyncratic entirety by the youngest of the band’s six songwriters, vocalists and multi-instrumentalists Zac Denton before he tragically left us late last year. […]
THE OCEAN PARTY CALL IT A DAY & ANNOUNCE THEIR FINAL RELEASE; “NOTHING GROWS” A SIX TRACK EP PENNED BY ZAC DENTON; SHARE FIRST SINGLE, FINAL TOUR IN MARCH
“Thanks for humouring us for so long.” Nicholas Kearton & The Ocean Party. Seminal Melbourne via Wagga Wagga pop outfit The Ocean Party have announced that they will call it a day after almost a decade this week. We’ve had the feeling since the tragic passing of the beautiful and talented Zac Denton late last […]
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 […]
THE OCEAN PARTY SHARE NEW SINGLE FROM THE ODDFELLOWS’ HALL
“And I know none of this makes me different And I can take that for what it’s worth” Seminal Melbourne pop outfit and Wagga Wagga transplants The Ocean Party have a new album coming out next month called The Oddfellows’ Hall. It follows up I.B.O., their twelve minute 7″ opus from August, and last year’s […]
EMMA RUSSACK & LACHLAN DENTON REUNITE FOR KEEP ON TRYING
“But I can listen and I’m sincere” Just four months after releasing their DIY debut full length When It Ends, Melbourne via regional New South Wales artists Emma Russack and Lachlan Denton today release their second album, Keep On Trying. With Dylan Young (Totally Mild) on drums and keys and Denton’s The Ocean Party bandmate […]
THE OCEAN PARTY ANNOUNCE GUILT, SHARE TELL
A mere two months after the release of their seventh album Beauty Point, Melbourne pop stalwarts The Ocean Party have again wasted no time in announcing the release of more new material. It comes in the form of Guilt, a new six track EP to be released in December. Intensely personal and confessional as ever, […]
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 […]