Music News New Music Radar: The Amoebas, Hotel Romeo and KOATS by Tammy Moir Fourteen tracks worth putting on your radar this week. There’s always something new worth finding, and this week’s New Music Radar is a pretty good reminder of that. From fuzzy…
Film and TV Amelia Dimoldenberg is saying goodbye to Chicken Shop Date by Niamh Farrell Amelia Dimoldenberg has spent her twenties at the chicken shop. Now she’s moving on After more than a decade of awkward silences, deadpan flirting and some of the biggest names…
Gigs of the week FRI SEP 04 2026 Human Satellite EP tour Banshees Bar & Artspace, Ipswich FRI SEP 04 2026 Briar Blundell w/ Felicity Kircher The Stag & Hunter Hotel, Mayfield SAT SEP 05 2026 VINYLS: Hardcore Special — The Late Show Revolver Upstairs, Prahran SAT SEP 05 2026 WAMTA Student Forum 5th September 2026 St Mary's Anglican Church, South Perth SEE ALL GIGS →
Film and TV The Runner’s getting absolutely savaged by critics by Niamh Farrell It’s not looking great for The Runner. The new PG-13 film has barely made it out of the starting blocks, and critics are already lining up to tell audiences to…
Music News Brazil’s “Taylor Swift law” to change the concert experience forever by Niamh Farrell Three years after a fan died at Taylor Swift’s concert, Brazil has changed the rules Taylor Swift fans have done something rather extraordinary: they turned the tragedy of one concert…
Music News Oliver Downes finds beauty in domestic life and the mundane by Alex Cooper There’s so much more. Melbourne songwriter Oliver Downes has always had a knack for finding the strange beauty tucked away in ordinary life. On his third album While the Sun…
Music i give my friends flowers finds light in the wreckage on DOGSTAR 1 by Maya Quinn DOGSTAR 1 sounds like memory itself – fractured, intimate and beautiful. There’s something about DOGSTAR 1 that feels a little like sitting inside someone else’s memory. Not the big memories…
Music Charisma Club gets personal on new single ‘Better on your own’ by Alex Cooper The soft glow of letting go. Auckland-based artist Josh Stewart has been steadily carving out a space for himself under the Charisma Club moniker, and his latest single marks a compelling…
News Simran Sultana on power, pain, and dancing through it all by Alex Cooper Simran Sultana is done playing it safe. Simran Sultana is tired of pretending everything’s fine. Not that her music ever sounded defeated, far from it. But somewhere beneath the glossy…
News Aeon Nexus on horror, healing, and heavy riffs by Alex Cooper This is their most ambitious chapter yet. Brisbane metalcore titans Aeon Nexus are back, and they’re bringing a blood-soaked cinematic vision with them. The quartet has just unleashed their deliciously…
Music Raeja knows exactly what she wants on ‘What I Want’ by Maya Quinn Raeja knows what she wants on the warm, soulful ‘What I Want’ Melbourne has never really had a problem with music that sounds better after dark. There’s a whole world…
Music JONE review: A genre-fluid dreamlike dive into indie pop with ‘BAD’ by Zachariah Tritisniotis For fans of Mk.gee and Her’s comes the genre-shifting indie pop of JONE. Incredible indie music has been flying out of the Central Coast and Newcastle for the past decade,…
Music Flynn Kiely turns queer mess into a ‘freakshow’ made for the dancefloor by Laragh Michael It’s Flynn Kiely’s freakshow and we’re all just dancing in it. Sydney-based queer artist Flynn Kiely is back with his new single, ‘freakshow’. The track is the first single from…
