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Author: Nick Hartman

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PREMIERE: Clamber the heights of Jinja Safari’s Kilimanjaro in all its aural glory

by Nick Hartman

It’s a strange way of thinking to me that people casually climb other countries’ mountains just because they’re famous, like those rich Westerners who hire…

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Forget cold cereal dudes, what you need is As Warm As Toast from Twelve Point Buck

by Nick Hartman

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230614483″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] There are so many bands right now (be thankful that wasn’t written as “rn”) that play super-distorted, plodding…

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Hard hitting and riff laden, Polish Club bring it on their debut EP

by Nick Hartman

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219461027″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Shorter than ever, Polish Club serve an emaciated kielbasa of soulfulness, ol’ school, and raw punk on their new…

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Bend the knee to The Black Queen, sovereign of synth-pop

by Nick Hartman

Greg Puciato is a very interesting man. He’s made his way into the music industry fronting mathcore marvels Dillinger Escape plan, with a stage presence akin…

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Lontalius is like Chet Faker’s long lost Kiwi brother

by Nick Hartman

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225126827″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] There’s a few things out there that are actually depressing, making clouds out of sunny skies. Melbournians would love…

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Have a sweet tooth? Burning Sugar from Silicon might just be the fix you need

by Nick Hartman

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199975851″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Zan Rowe keeps pumping out the classics. She always plays some Queens of the Stone Age, which is always…

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Forget stupid sexy Flanders. Here are 5 Simpsons characters to inspire your next band

by Nick Hartman

Since Rip It Up, an Adelaide-based (!) music street press mag-cum-website, broke the story of the Ned Flanders-themed hardcore band Okilly Dokilly, it’s almost as…

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173 minutes from Kamasi Washington. And who said jazz wasn’t epic?

by Nick Hartman

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199843476″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] It makes sense that at 34 Kamasi Washington has many ideas backed up after years of blowing into his…

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The beast that is metalcore has had a shot in the arm thanks to Northlane on Node

by Nick Hartman

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/177218512″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] People like to say “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, and that’s a pretty solid piece of…

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PREMIERE: Ride the Meat Wave to the Cosmic Zoo

by Nick Hartman

Meat Wave is a brilliant name. It’s so evocative; I’m imagining a towering tsunami, shadowing the sleepy, small town beneath it. But this is no regular…

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PREMIERE: Little Horn explode onto the rock scene with Stranger Eons

by Nick Hartman

He might be twenty years dead, but Kurt Cobain is still working his very fertile loins. Sydney-siders Little Horn are the next band to emerge from…

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5 sets of wheels for 5 of our favourite Aussie acts

by Nick Hartman

Every band needs a way to get around. There comes a point in a young musician’s life when slugging it in your mum’s Tarago doesn’t…

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PREMIERE: Melt into the psych rock of My Life in Pieces from The Demon Parade

by Nick Hartman

A misguided if well-intentioned young man once implored us to “Put your hands up for Detroit”. It would have been wise for that fellow to have…

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