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Wednesday May 21, 2025 Big Red Fire Truck have always been loud. They’ve always been brash. But with Tokyo Karaoke Bar, they’re also a little bit unhinged — and that’s a very good thing. The song barrels in with a guitar riff that’s all fire and ferocity, a relentless hook that feels like it was forged in…
Wednesday May 21, 2025 There’s something magnetic about Piper Wallin’s 20 Seconds, a pop single that doesn’t pretend to be neat or polished where it matters most. In a landscape bloated with over-sanitized breakup songs, Wallin slices clean through the noise, delivering something brash, unfiltered, and brimming with urgency. Hailing from Adelaide, Australia, Wallin’s early years…
Wednesday May 21, 2025 It’s common for pop music to gesture toward transformation — that word gets thrown around like glitter in marketing decks and festival bios. But few songs linger inside the discomfort of change quite like Changes, the latest release from Melbourne producer, songwriter, and practicing medical doctor, Echolily. This isn’t a triumphant coming-of-age track. There’s…
Wednesday May 21, 2025 Mark Cassius has spent over two decades in and out of the limelight, a troubadour caught between indie rock’s rough edges and the softer contours of singer-songwriter introspection. With Change Your Mind, the man behind Neo Stereo steps up with a track that feels like a postcard from a quieter place —…
Wednesday May 21, 2025 There’s a moment in There’s No Time For Presents when a pocketknife slices through paper. It’s a sound that cuts through the track like a breath held too long, a knife edge pressing against the skin of a song already stretched to breaking. The Burbs, a trio from Bells Beach who’ve been carving…
Thursday April 3, 2025 With his latest offering, Are We Gonna, Anirban Jee skilfully situates himself within the intricate dance between pop immediacy and deeper emotional resonance. It’s the kind of track that manages to encapsulate the tension and exhilaration of a fleeting glance across a crowded room, turning a common moment into something rich, mysterious, and enduringly…
Friday March 28, 2025 Torrential Thrill’s You May Be Right is a cover that doesn’t feel like a cover. It feels like a reclamation, a reassertion of the wild, untamed spirit that rock and roll was always meant to embody. The Melbourne band takes Billy Joel’s classic—a song that, in its original form, was a polished, radio-friendly anthem—and…
Friday March 7, 2025 Pascoe releases new single CHARLIE AT THE BALLROOM. A coming-of-age story about being in your late twenties and one day waking up to a reality that doesn’t match the dreams and ambitions you once had. The protagonist ‘Charlie’ is a disillusioned, lonely millennial, working himself to the bone in a job…
Friday March 7, 2025 Envy Marshall’s Like A Man is a sonic grenade rolled into the complacent living room of gender norms, detonating with a force that leaves no cliché unscathed. The Melbourne-born rocker, with her voice like a serrated blade dipped in honey, delivers a track that is equal parts rebellion and revelation. It’s a song…
Tuesday February 4, 2025 Cuss The Black Dog is a raw, unfiltered jolt straight to the gut, the kind of track that grabs you by the collar and doesn’t let go. Darren Gillis has taken the weight of personal pain, universal struggle, and the invisible battle of mental health and turned it into a visceral musical experience that’s both deeply…