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Today we’re thrilled to be premiering Way Shit’s new album Shame, a collection of spirited garage-punk that finds the trio taking aim at oppressive systems through a stirring individual lens. To celebrate the release today, the band have kindly provided us with an extra insight into the album by walking us through it track by track.
Back with a third single from their forthcoming album Alternate Endings, today we’ve got the absolute pleasure of sharing a first look at ‘Call It A Day’, a new dose of Snowy Band’s elusive and evocative indie-rock that continues to reveal the broadening scope of their sophomore record.
Following the release of Sungai Mix 1 last month, a new mixtape released through Cease and Desist Records that documents the alternative music cultures of Asia between ’64 and ’81, we caught up with curator/researcher/HEXDEBT bassist Isobel D’Cruz to learn a little more about the compilation and Asia’s early counter-culture.
Today we have the pleasure of sharing a first look at local DIY-pop crew The Florets’ new single ‘Paradise,’ another breezy psychedelic scope to their forthcoming debut album.
Playing fast and loose with both rhyme schemes and outsider psychedelic tropes, Adelaide/Kaurna Country ensemble Dom & The Wizards released their bewitching second album earlier this year. We caught up with the band’s titular leader to unpack it a bit.
Ahead of the release of his forthcoming sixth album Hijack!, we caught up with Tim Rogers, aka the mastermind behind Australian art-rock royalty Jack Ladder and The Dreamlanders, to dig into the cinematic world he’s crafted on his outfit’s new record.
On his debut album Classical and Cool Jazz, Melbourne songwriter Cahill Kelly invites listeners into his evocative world of psychedelic blues blended with a tinge of avant-pop, that easily has us charmed by the inventive folk rocker. To help us get to know the album a little better, Cahill kindly walked us through each track on the record.
Following the release of Uncanny Valley last month, we caught up with Brisbane “grit-hop” trio Spirit Bunny to dig into the thrilling chaos of their idiosyncratic second album.
Alongside the announcement of their forthcoming third EP, today we have the pleasure of sharing a first listen to The Sunken Sea’s new single ‘Funeral Pyres’, an anxiety-fuelled dose of art-rock that hints at where the band might be taking us on After The Heat.
The comparable rush of nailing a skate trick vs. nailing a track, the ‘Hendrix of harmonica’, family, friends and the road to Bittersweet Demons – we caught up with Ambrose Kenny-Smith, leader of cult garage crew The Murlocs, to dig into the band’s introspective and romping fifth record.
Following on from the release of their debut album Beyond Divisions in 2019, today Phaedo have returned with a brand new 7” Spiral, four tracks that lean into the chaotic stylings of their previous record to produce an 11-minute blast of psychedelic-fuelled garage-punk.
Following the release of Duality in May, we revisited the otherwordly debut from dream-rock quartet Keaper and had the band walk us through each of the EP’s evocative tracks.
