Music News Royel Otis treats fans to a deluxe version of Pratts & Pain, with a heart-racing new single by Cooper Marix-Evans Australian guitar-pop sweethearts and newfound indie royals, Royel Otis have a new single to share Ascending to the upper echelons of indie-rock royalty, Royel Otis has had an absolute blinder…
News PREMIERE: Lachlan Denton’s new single Close will leave you completely at peace by Bill Robinson Frontman of Melbourne/Wagga Wagga-based indie outfit The Ocean Party, Lachlan Denton will be releasing a solo album later this year, and we’ve just been given the wonderful first taste of…
Music The Phase speak the truth of the youth with their latest single Burnout by Freya McGahey If you’re a fan of The Strokes, then the latest from Sydney band The Phase will tickle your fancy. With big guitars and a punchy bass line, these guys have…
News PREMIERE: Shakes is yet another Kiwi band to lose your shit to by Shayen de Silva After several articles and two dedicated lists we can’t make this point any more clear; New Zealand have some incredible musicians. Like a nosy man in his mid-40s trying to get…
Music The Griswolds’ If You Wanna Stay packs some hard hitting guitar pop by Jacob Stone ‘There’s these lines upon my face/ that tell me something’s about to change/Just another cold embrace/I don’t feel like I did yesterday/If you wanna stay/I will never miss you while…
Music Twerps – I Don’t Mind by Cara Oliveri The groggy guitar pop gold that is I Don’t Mind is a laid back yet exciting teaser for Twerps’ sophomore release! With Straya Day upon us, it’s good to know slackerdom…
Lists Step Panther Ring in the New Year with Their Favourites of 2014 by Shayen de Silva Step Panther. I love them. You love them. We all bloody love em. The Sydney trio have had one hell of a year, stepping their way into the hearts of new…
Lists High-tails’ Highlights of 2014 by Shayen de Silva Let me start this off by saying that no, that is not a typo in the heading. The ‘tails’ in High-tails remains lower case, as management so urgently informed me….
Lists High-tails' Highlights of 2014 by Shayen de Silva Let me start this off by saying that no, that is not a typo in the heading. The ‘tails’ in High-tails remains lower case, as management so urgently informed me….
News Video Premiere: Vowel Movement – To Get Things Right by Shayen de Silva Who doesn’t love a good doco? Whether it be the calm, reassuring tones of the great David Attenborough, or the mouth full of his own piss grunts of Bear Grylls,…
Music Fazerdaze – Fazerdaze EP by Lachlan Wylie I’d be lying if I said that some sector of this music critic’s shriveled heart doesn’t love the name Fazerdaze, because I really do, but what’s more is that, like…
Music Introducing: Elephant Ego by Lucille Sadek Elephant Ego have a small ego, but their sound is big, the size of well, an elephant for lack of better analogies. Having been on the Melbourne music block since…
Music Introducing: Cool Sounds by Lucille Sadek Melbourne is the city that has nice bagels, fantastic fashion, and if I can say out of personal bias, the best coffee in the world. Cool is a word people…
