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SUMMER FLAKE SHARES FIRST SINGLE FROM NEW ALBUM

Adelaide born and Melbourne based guitarist/vocalist Stephanie Crase aka Summer Flake has shared the infectious and reflective first single ‘In The Dark’ from her forthcoming third album Seasons Change. It follows up her superb 2016 effort Hello Friends which featured in our Top 30 albums of that year. The first taste of the album keeps […]

NEW INDEPENDENT POP/ROCK: AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST ON SPOTIFY

NOVEMBER 13 UPDATE: We begin our latest Pop/Rock update with the new single ‘Real Tight’ from Perth outfit Methyl Ethel. Joining them is the musical project of London based German artist Silvi Wersing aka Chorusgirl, veteran rocker and Dinosaur Jr mastermind J Mascis, Providence quartet Deer Tick, Los Angeles trio Cherry Glazer, Southend art rock outfit These New Puritans, Sydney based artist Julia […]

NEW INDEPENDENT POP/ROCK: AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST ON SPOTIFY

OCTOBER 5 UPDATE: Indie Pop/Rock fans! With almost a month since the last written update, as you’d expect our whole Independent Pop/Rock Spotify playlist has been obliterated and there are 30 brand new tracks released over the last three or so weeks awaiting your attention. The first track is going to divide for sure and […]

REBEL YELL UNLEASHES HIRED MUSCLE

Brisbane Producer Grace Stevenson aka REBEL YELL, unleashed her debut album Hired Muscle today. We’ve been keeping a keen ear on the DIY producer since she arrived on the independent electronic and techno horizon with the amazing ‘Never Perfection’ from the EP Mother of Millions back in 2016. Hired muscle was foregrounded by a slew […]

SARAH MARY CHADWICK SHARES THIRD SINGLE FROM NEW ALBUM; OUT FRIDAY

Melbourne via Wellington artist Sarah Mary Chadwick releases her much anticipated new album, Sugar Still Melts In The Rain this week. The former Batrider frontwoman today shared the heartbreaking ‘Five Months’ which sees her issue a touching yet forlorn plea for the return of what seems a love permanently lost. It’s very much in keeping […]

INTERVIEW: INSIDE LOWTIDE’S SOUTHERN MIND

Melbourne shoegaze/dream pop outfit Lowtide hit Adelaide tomorrow night to complete their initial 6 date national tour in support of their excellent second album released earlier this year, Southern Mind. To mark the occasion, Indie30 took the opportunity to send some questions over to the band regarding how the album came about, the songwriting and […]

SARAH MARY CHADWICK SHARES VIDEO FOR TITLE TRACK FROM NEW LP

“It’s a position of power being on a microphone, it’s a desperate demand to be seen. It’s funny and really sad.” Sarah Mary Chadwick Melbourne based New Zealand artist Sarah Mary Chadwick recently announced the forthcoming release of her new and fourth solo album, Sugar Still Melts In The Rain. The first single to be […]

RECORD REVIEW: LOWTIDE – SOUTHERN MIND

Last Friday saw Melbourne shoegaze outfit Lowtide finally send their second album Southern Mind out into the world. It comes almost six months after we heard its first cut, the rhythmic and pop inspired  ‘Alibi‘ and the announcement they’d joined forces with Rice Is Nice, one of the country’s most respected independent record labels. The […]

REBEL YELL DROPS THE PRESSURE ON NEW SINGLE

Photo: Katherine Rose Heightened and hypnotic simultaneously is that is at all possible, ‘Pressure Drop’ the new single from Rebel Yell, entices as much as it threatens to menace. The industrial influenced techno project of Brisbane DJ/Producer Grace Stevenson has upped the ante with every release thus far and this firmly underscores her uncompromising underground credentials. […]