Chicago art pop/math rock outfit Spirits Having Fun have followed up their excellent debut single, Electricity Explorer’ with the similarly idea rich, compositionally complex and genre dense ‘Auto-Portrait’, the title track from their forthcoming debut album. Spiky as it...
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Raleigh post punk outfit Truth Club have released their superb debut album Not An Exit. It’s a short and snappy affair clocking in at under a half an hour and therein lies its strength. Lean and insistent, sparse yet...
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“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...
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Portland based singer songwriter Kassi Valazza recently released her super impressive new single ‘Chino’. It’s delicate yet expansive affair, an instructively powerful and spacious mixture of western inspired country and tinges of psych rock. As bruising and self aware...
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April, 16, 2019. Titanic Rising Weyes Blood (USA) Sub Pop Mini-review, tracklist, album stream and links to buy in our Album of the Week section here. Watch the music videos from the album below. VIDEOS Andromeda Weyes Blood (USA)...
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“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...
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April 2, 2019 No Words Left Lucy Rose (ENG) Communion Tracklist, album stream and links to buy in our Album of the Week section here. VIDEOS Conversation Lucy Rose (ENG) From the album, ‘No Words Left’, Communion /...
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April 2, 2019 Chris Cohen Chris Cohen (USA) Captured Tracks Our Mini-review, tracklist, videos, album stream and links to buy in our Album of the Week section here. VIDEO/AUDIO – SINGLES No Time To Say Goodbye Chris...
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Monnone Alone, the guitar pop project of former Lucksmiths bass player Mark Monnone and an esteemed coterie of Melbourne musicians is set for the imminent release of a new album, Summer Of The Mosquito. The second single to come...
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Our current Independent Pop/Rock Playlist on Spotify is front-ended with some superb new releases by female artists in honour of International Women’s Day. We begin with the Swiss artist Tanya Barany and the opening track ‘In Retrospect’ from her...
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