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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…
Tuesday February 4, 2025 Kristin Venae’s Still Here isn’t just a song—it’s a resurrection. It’s the sound of someone clawing their way back from the abyss, not just to survive, but to sing about it. Venae, a Sydney-based indie soul and pop powerhouse, has been through it—Stage 2 breast cancer, for crying out loud—and instead of retreating, she’s…
Thursday January 16, 2025 Heroes – a new studio project from Spotify Singles, now interpreted by the rock band Smash Into Pieces. Since the song Heroes by Måns Zelmerlöw won Eurovision in 2015, it has topped the charts in several countries outside Sweden and made a significant impact on Swedish music exports. “We loved Heroes…
Thursday January 9, 2025 Chasing Sunsets is the kind of track that sneaks into your brain like it owns the place, and before you know it, you’re humming it in the checkout line. Castle Hughes isn’t just writing songs here—she’s bottling those perfect, fleeting moments when everything feels right, and somehow making them last. Warm, radiant,…
Thursday January 9, 2025 Holy hell, this one doesn’t just hit—it practically body-slams you. Larger Than Life is the kind of track that grabs you by the collar, gives you a good shake, and says, ‘Wake up, you’re in for a ride!’ It’s not just a song; it’s a full-on sonic intervention, jolting you out of your routine and…
Sunday January 5, 2025 New Age’s Wisemen is a reminder of what rock music can achieve when it refuses to compromise. This Melbourne-based quartet has distilled decades of musical rebellion into a single track that’s as raw and raucous as it is meticulously crafted. It’s a song that demands attention, pulling listeners into its orbit from the…
Tuesday November 19, 2024 In Skin and Bones, The Burbs have unearthed something that feels both ancient and thrillingly new, a paradox of punk poetics and barbed nostalgia that’s gritty, sunlit, and bleak all at once. This song is drenched in contradiction—a sparkling guitar intro betrays its own radiance, shadowed by a darkly pulsing rhythm section…
Tuesday October 29, 2024 From the first notes of Ballerina Girl, you’re drawn into a world that is both timeless and unmistakably modern—a trick that few artists pull off these days. Neo Stereo, the project of Mark Cassius, isn’t interested in genre boundaries or expectations. Instead, he’s channelling something primal, something that runs through the veins of music history, yet…
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 There’s something primal, something almost mythic, in the way Avalanche approaches their new single, Dad, I Joined A Rock N Roll Band. It’s a song about rebellion, yes—about the eternal generational conflict between the youth who yearn for freedom and the parents who once did, but now hold the reins. But more…
Tuesday October 15, 2024 Kayla Krystin’s Queen of Hearts is a song that doesn’t just operate within the bounds of contemporary pop but aims to transcend it, to break free of the trivial and into the mythic. This track, both lyrically and sonically, calls to mind an ageless archetype—the queen who reigns supreme not because of her love, but in spite of…