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After years rising through the Melbourne underground and up onto the Meredith stage with nothing but a seven minute cassette to their name, The Faculty have finally revealed Here’s To Fun and it’s a corker – undoubtedly original and undoubtedly The Faculty in its twisted glory.
Today we have the absolute pleasure of announcing the release of the forthcoming debut album from local noise-pop weirdos Plastic – New Hands is due out on September 29th via Spoilsport Records, and to tie us over until the album drops, they’ve shared another teaser with the thrillingly corrosive ‘Baby Steps’.
Returning this week with their first track of 2020, Melbourne surf-rock trio The Grogans have unleashed ‘Dead Weight’ – a stifling twist on last year’s Just What You Want, the track leads with howling vocals against a backdrop of pummelling drums and fiery guitar.
Today we’re thrilled to be premiering the debut single from local rock ’n’ roll mainstay Matt Parlane – ‘Tori’ is a dose of rough-around-the-edges indie-rock with a brand new clip that wrangles Matt’s humble charisma and ragtag loopiness into a few minutes of gleaming pop.
Sydney punks The Buoys take us through the six tracks from their ferocious new EP All This Talking Gets Us Nowhere, tackling everything from misogyny, toxic workplaces and bad jokes to the tune of blistering guitars and frenzied garage-pop charm.
Hobart/Nipaluna quartet 208L Containers returned earlier this year with their latest tape Horseland – eight tracks of chaotic garage-punk, laden with wiry guitar lines, stilted grooves and a snarky political ethos.
Following the release of Innocent Times: Eight Poems to Music from 2019 last month, Sydney rapper Bistro has shared a new clip for ‘A Day at the Races’, an album highlight that is both a disorientating dose of his experimental hip-hop and a scathing critique of Australia’s racing culture.
Before he drops Songs To Track Down To later this month, rock ’n’ roll workhorse Joe Terror has shared ‘Release the Fiends’ with us, another dose of his garage-soul goodness that manages to strip back his signature sound without losing its eccentric edge.
Following the release of 2019’s ‘Dog Bite’, Melbourne singer-songwriter Stella Bridie has returned today with ‘My Girl’, an emotional slowburn fit for the love-addled onlooker.
Picking up where their EP You’re Doing Something Right Though left off last year, indie-pop enthusiasts The Fainters are back with the enjoyable and jangling single ‘Guide Me To Beauty’.
On their debut EP, SheOak have crafted a collection of entrancing and ambitious psychedelic-folk that cathartically develops through lead singer Xadi Walsh’s journey of acceptance and growth from loss and pain.
Off the back of the release of her eagerly-awaited debut EP earlier this month, psych-pop luminary Poppongene has invited us into the dreamy world of Futures Unsure and taken us through it track by track.
