Inner Phest in the Inner West
Sydney’s Crowbar and Philter Brewing are teaming up to present a day-long celebration of music, beer and skateboarding on March 2. The day will kick off at 12 with a 6ft skate…
We Lost the Sea Announce Tour Dates
Storied instrumentalists We Lost the Sea are returning to Australian stages for the first time in two years in April. Along with a Brisbane appearance alongside Botch, the six-piece will play two…
RELIQA: Kind Of An Identity Crisis
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 6 SEPTEMBER 2022 Reliqa is a bright new band on the national prog metal circuit. Since gaining attention in 2018 with their very first release, they have already notched…
DEAD CITY RUINS: Shock to the System
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 31 AUGUST, 2022 The years of relentless, self-financed touring through Europe had finally led to the pinnacle moment for Melbourne rockers Dead City Ruins. Years of road work, opening…
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: Further Conversations
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 29 AUGUST 2022 For close to ten years at the start of the century, The Butterfly Effect was one of Australia’s most popular rock acts. Their sophisticated collision of…
TRUCK: On the Rise
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 23 AUGUST 2022 Every time someone declares that rock is dead, another band comes along to hang that fool out to dry. Fronted by former Horsehead vocalist Andy McLean…
NICOLAS CAGE FIGHTER: The Art of Suffering
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 2 AUGUST 2022 The band with the coolest name in Australian extreme music has had a mixed twelve months. After releasing an EP they weren’t able to properly promote,…
MOUNTAIN WIZARD DEATH CULT: Enlightened By Darkness
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 27 JULY 2022 There’s been a prevailing popularity of hardcore-inflected sludge bands over recent years and one of the rising lights (or maybe darkness) over the local landscape is…
SULDUSK: A Certain Slant of Light
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 19 JULY 2022 Suldusk is the vehicle of Melbourne musician Emily Highfield. Emerging with an EP of dark acoustic folk in 2017, Suldusk’s Lunar Falls of two years later saw the…