SNIPPETZ: THURSDAY October 8, 2026
This week’s Snippetz includes: The Cat Empire, The Bamboos, Kodaline, Smusko, Goodfrnd, Nightwish, BIG ASS TRUCK I.E., DIIV, Death To All, Swim, Sunset Ltd, Dave Angel, Vacations, Keli Holiday, Avrak, FEUERSCHWANZ, Black Rheno, Mark Lang, Survive Said The Prophet, Sick Visor, Cali Rd, KSMBA, To The Grave, Atomic Entourage, Jack Raymond, Walls of Jericho, Konvent, Wizardthrone, Hippy Death Cult, Shogun Mojo, Deicide, HOT DUB ON THE HARBOUR.
THE CAT EMPIRE LAUNCH FIRST NEW SINGLE & VIDEO OF 2026 ‘ROCKET’
Fresh off an ARIA nomination for Best World Music Album, Aussie icons The Cat Empire today share ‘Rocket’, their first new studio music since 2025’s Bird in Paradise.
LISTEN TO ‘ROCKET’ HERE
Bombastic, percussive and unmistakably The Cat Empire, ‘Rocket’ reunites the band with long-time friend and collaborator Jan Skubiszewski, marking their first time working together since he produced 2007’s fan-favourite Steal the Light, the album that propelled them onto the international stage. It lands as the band tour the country on their national encore orchestral run through to January 2027.
“‘Rocket’ kicks off this next chapter in the best possible way,” says Felix Riebl. “It’s big and percussive in that classic Cat Empire way, but it’s got something new about it too. There’s a tropical, Latin, surfy, Brazilian street-parade feel to it, and the horn line is familiar and fresh at the same time. It was a riot to record. It lit up the studio, with everyone shouting the countdowns, dancing and letting loose, and it feels like a song that’s going to hold its place in the live set for a long time. We wanted something that would excite the fans who’ve been with us from the early days, something that captures the spirit of where we started. Lyrically, it’s a collision of images and contrasts that’s chaotic and celebratory, and it pulls people right into that wild momentum.”
The accompanying video pays tribute to the 90s and early 2000s indie performance clips the band grew up on. Shot mostly on a camcorder, it’s deliberately loose, lo-fi and off-the-cuff, and offers a first look inside a new visual world created by art director Guilia McGauran: a clean, blank-canvas studio that will slowly descend into paint and chaos as new music rolls out. “This one is real clean compared with how crazy it gets,” Felix teases. “It was a blast getting it started with this one.”
WATCH VIDEO FOR ‘ROCKET’ HERE
The new single arrives on the back of a huge few years for the band. Since welcoming a new line-up in 2023, with Felix Riebl and Ollie McGill carrying the legacy forward, The Cat Empire released Where The Angels Fall (#5 ARIA), toured 40 dates worldwide including Glastonbury, and sold more than 25,000 tickets across their orchestral shows with Australian symphony orchestras. 2025’s Bird in Paradise debuted at #2 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart and was toured across North America, Australia, Europe and the UK, including a sold-out night at London’s 3000-capacity Troxy.
In May 2026 they released Live at Sydney Opera House with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, now nominated for Best World Music Album at the ARIA Awards 2026, and recently sold out seven shows across Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane on their national encore tour. This year they also played Vancouver for the FIFA World Cup, marking their 20th show in 20 years at the Commodore Ballroom.
‘Rocket’ is just the first spark, with the promise of plenty more to come from the beloved band. In the meantime, fans can catch The Cat Empire on the road, where two decades of hits meet the thrill of the new and every show feels like a street party. In a world that could use a lift, The Cat Empire remains the ultimate joy injection.
THE CAT EMPIRE LIVE SHOWS 2026-2027
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
Friday, 9 October, 2026 | Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, SA with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, 10 October, 2026 | Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, SA with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, 24 October, 2026 | Good Day Sunshine Festival, Margaret River WA
Friday, 4 December, 2026 | Riverside Theatre, Perth, WA with West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, 5 December, 2026 | Riverside Theatre, Perth, WA with West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, 16 January, 2027 | Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, VIC with Orchestra Victoria
Saturday, January 30, 2027 | Festivale, Launceston TAS – NEWLY ANNOUNCED
Saturday, February 20, 2027 | Riverboats Festival, Echuca VIC – NEWLY ANNOUNCED
Saturday, 13 March – Friday, 19 March, 2027 | Music In Paradise, Fiji
Friday, 28 May, 2027 – Monday, 31 May, 2027 | Camp Cat Empire at Camp Starlight, Starlight, PA (USA)
LISTEN TO ‘ROCKET’ HERE
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THE BAMBOOS DROP THEIR THIRD SINGLE “ON & ON” FROM UPCOMING ALBUM “SUGAR ON TOP” FEATURING REGINALD AK ON VOCALS
Melbourne Soul powerhouse The Bamboos keep up the forward Funk momentum with the third single leading up to their 12th studio album, “Sugar On Top”. “On & On” has an energy that lives up to what’s on the box with a rolling bassline and insistent drums from the long-standing rhythm section of Yuri Pavlinov and Graeme Pogson, but this time with the guest vocals of Reginald AK.
This is the second Bamboos album that Reginald AK has contributed to following on from the tender Nu-Soul excursion “Safe From Harm”, which was a standout on the band’s previous album, 2023’s “This Is How You Do It”. Reginald AK is the singer / drummer in one of Melbourne’s brightest up and coming Soul acts, Steppers, plus he’s carrying on the legacy of his mother, The Bamboos’ own Kylie Auldist.
“The only effective method of quelling the overwhelm felt when facing my shit head on is to write a song about it,” said Reginald when analysing the song’s themes. “Everything in life is hard and scary and new and we fear change – but real strength comes from running at it. So look it dead in the eyes and run at it. It’ll all be over in a minute, so you may as well end up with some stories of grit and a healthy opinion of yourself.”
VIEW “ON & ON” CLIP HERE
The global reaction to the first two singles “Rockets & Flowers” and “Sugar On Top” has been more than enthusiastic with plays and support from radio and DJs with notable support from stations such as KEXP Seattle, BBC 6Music UK, ABC Australia local radio, national radio stations in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Norway as well as on dozens of Soul specialist terrestrial and online radio stations across Europe, UK and North America.
The highly anticipated ten track album will feature also feature guest vocals from Rita Satch, whose 2025 debut album “Meet Me In The Garden” was one of Melbourne’s best Soul releases of the year and has recently been touring the UK and Europe with Jazz legend Gary Bartz, as well as old friend of the family, Tim Rogers of You Am I. Rogers of course has a long history with the band, going right back to the breakthrough 2012 hit “I Got Burned”. But it’s the vocals of Australia’s Queen Of Soul, Kylie Auldist that is the backbone of this album, as she has been for the band over the last twenty years.
While the album was recorded with the band’s long time co-producer and engineer, John Castle (whose in demand studio skills have been called in by the likes of Alex Lahey, Vance Joy, Angus & Julia Stone, Jack River and Cub Sport), this time Ferguson decided to track it at Castle’s recording space in his new home of Launceston, Tasmania.
The viral success for their 2006 track “I Don’t Wanna Stop”, which exploded on social media in late 2025 shows no signs of abating with now well over one billion plays on TikTok and with similarly huge numbers across Instagram and YouTube. Long a live favourite, there’s been no pattern or trend to the song’s success in how it’s been used, with users in almost every language and country around the world simply drawn to an undeniably feel-good sweet Soul tune. The song saw another wave of success earlier in 2026 with a remix from one of Australia’s best Dance acts, Cosmo’s Midnight.
“On & On” is out Oct 2nd on Pacific Theatre.
The “Sugar On Top” album will be released on November 6th on Pacific Theatre Records. Pre-order LP, CD and digital from https://linktr.ee/thebamboos
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KODALINE RELEASE FINAL STUDIO ALBUM WE WERE ONLY YOUNG OUT NOW VIA CONCORD
FAREWELL WORLD TOUR EUROPEAN LEG STARTS IN NOVEMBER
UK SHOWS IN DECEMBER SOLD OUT
The beloved Irish band Kodaline have released their final studio album We Were Only Young via Concord. Listen/Purchase here.
Saying goodbye is never easy, but Kodaline have written the perfect closing chapter to their story with We Were Only Young. A band born busking on the streets of Swords, Dublin to go on to triumph against the odds and deliver a chart-topping, multi-platinum and multi-billion streamed career to touch the hearts of fans across the globe.
Following an extraordinary career spanning more than a decade, Kodaline offer listeners this last statement, a contemplative and hugely moving work that explores pertinent themes of growth, connection, love and closure, as they look towards a bright and hopeful future.
“It’s a great feeling to be releasing new music, giving the fans something new before we go our separate ways,” says drummer Vinny May. “I think we owe it to them – some of them have been with us from the very start, supporting us through thick and thin, and we wouldn’t be who we are without them.”
“We’ve got fans who feel like family, who’ve grown up with us and played our music at their birthdays, weddings, funerals, the births of their children,” frontman Steve Garrigan adds. “It’s a strange feeling, reflecting on all of it now.”
We Were Only Young weaves a tapestry between beautiful ballads, from the soft and soaring acoustics of ‘All I Ever Need Is You’, to the piano and gospel-laced ‘Learn To Lose’. While the tender songs are joined by huge such pop anthems, such as the bright ‘It’s Not Over’, and the propulsive harmony driven ‘Get Me High’.
A jubilant folk bounce rings out through latest single ‘Vultures’, complimenting the haunting cavernous sounds that mark the beginning and end to the record, which launches with the bold and brooding ‘Who Will Save You Now’ and closes with the uplifting yet solemn ‘The One For Me’.
Kodaline have been treating fans to songs from the new album live on their extensive Farewell World Tour this year. The shows are huge celebrations, and the band kicked things off with massive outdoor shows in Ireland, performing to 50,000 fans in June. This preceded a sold out run across Asia and Australia, while they will close the year with performances across Europe and the UK. Full dates are listed below and remaining tickets are available via kodaline.com
FAREWELL TOUR DATES 2026
EUROPE
Sun Nov 22 FR, Paris – L’Élysée Montmartre **SOLD OUT**
Tue Nov 24 NL, Utrecht – TivoliVredenburg **SOLD OUT**
Wed Nov 25 FR, Paris – Trianon **SOLD OUT**
Thu Nov 26 BE, Brussels – Ancienne Belgique **SOLD OUT**
Sat Nov 28 DE, Hamburg – Grosse Freiheit 36 **SOLD OUT**
Sun Nov 29 DE, Berlin – Huxleys
Mon Nov 30 DE, Frankfurt – Batschkapp
Wed Dec 02 CH, Zurich – X-Tra **SOLD OUT**
Thu Dec 03 IT, Milan – ALCATRAZ **SOLD OUT**
Sat Dec 05 CZ, Prague – Forum Karlin **SOLD OUT**
Sun Dec 06 AT, Vienna – Gasometer
Tue Dec 08 DE, Munich – Muffathalle **SOLD OUT**
Wed Dec 09 DE, Cologne – Carlswerk Victoria **SOLD OUT**
Thu Dec 10 NL, Utrecht – TivoliVredenburg **SOLD OUT**
UK
Sat Dec 12 UK, London – Roundhouse **SOLD OUT**
Mon Dec 14 UK, Glasgow – 02 Academy **SOLD OUT**
Tue Dec 15 UK, Manchester – Albert Hall **SOLD OUT**
Wed Dec 16 UK, London – Shepherd’s Bush Empire **SOLD OUT**
IRELAND
Fri Dec 18 IE, Dublin – 3Arena
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SMUSKO ‘VERMOUTH’ (SINGLE) – Released October 16
One of the fave songs doing the rounds at Australian Musician mag headquarters at the moment. It’s out October 16. See if you have any luck getting it out your head! It’s a feel-good, head-nodding, foot-stomping bewdy!
The Smusko sound is a noir-tinted combination of atmospheric indie rock and elegant 50s jazz. Sydney Indie/Alternative/Noir-Jazz artist Smusko pairs crooner-style vocals with lush, reverberant guitars, a dark and driving rhythm section, and orchestral strings. In doing so, he cultivates a mood that is spacey, cool, intimate, vintage; made to be heard in the wee sma l hours. This original sonic fingerprint has established Smusko as someone worth paying attention to, a compe ling artistic force in Sydney’s underground, with a magnetic live performance that has drawn in an audience of introspective listeners and people who come alive in the solitude of night.
Having released just three singles, Smusko has showcased at SXSW Sydney, received recognition from Triple J, FBi Radio, ABC RAGE, PBS Radio and 2SER, sold out three single launch shows, and supported artists including The Slims, Julienne Harvey, Clay Western. Smusko’s visual work has earned impressive accolades, from a Gold Award at the Australian Cinematography Awards to a nomination and shortlist from the Canberra Short Film Awards.
Smusko’s ‘Vermouth’ is his boldest most upbeat single yet, seeing Smusko push his signature noirtinted combination of dark, atmospheric indie-rock and elegant crooner jazz into a swaggering new territory. The track is introspective and raw, an internal conversation about the cost of high ambition – that a normal life will not suffice. Vermouth is supported by a powerful set of enigmatic visuals, a cinematic music video, and launch show at Golden Age Cinema.
Vermouth will be launched with Late Service, a new late-night cultural event bringing music, film and visual art together in Sydney after dark. Hosted at the Golden Age Cinema.
The night will feature live music, a curated art exhibition, short films and, free black coffee. It’s an attempt to build something around the idea of late-night culture.
Late Service — OCT 17 @ Golden Age Cinema https://events.humanitix.com/smusko-golden-age
Vermouth — Out OCT 16
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GOODFRND SHARES BRAND-NEW SINGLE & VIDEO ‘SIT DOWN
DOES TODAY REALLY HAVE TO HAPPEN EP
OUT THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26
PRE-SAVE EP HERE
Alt-pop artist GOODFRND has a knack for hiding heartbreak inside a hook, and new single ‘Sit Down’ is his sharpest example yet. Big drums, crunchy guitars and glossy synths deliver a sugar-rush of a song, while underneath it wrestles with the exhausting loop of blame that follows a falling out.
LISTEN TO ‘SIT DOWN’ HERE
The track arrives today alongside a new video, offering the second taste of his six-track EP Does Today Really Have To Happen, due November 26.
Where lead single ‘Landing’ set the scene, ‘Sit Down’ is where the gloves come off. It’s the sound of someone finally dropping the stories he’d been telling himself and saying the quiet part out loud.
“Sit Down is about the time spent deciding whose fault it was. Mine, theirs, mine, theirs,” says GOODFRND. “When I say I lied before, I mean the things I’d been telling myself to make it all make sense. That I could fix the bad habits and there was a version of me good enough to keep. There’s a dig in this song and I’m not going to pretend there isn’t, but that’s what acceptance actually sounded like for me. Less like peace, more like finally saying it out loud and feeling in control of myself again.”
The video plays out like the final scene of a teen film, with GOODFRND dancing through Melbourne’s streets, headphones in, oblivious to everyone around him. It was shot in a single afternoon by school friend Liam of Teel Studios, who has taken on every video for the EP as a passion project.
WATCH VIDEO HERE
“I love movies, and this one’s my coming-of-age moment,” says GOODFRND. “We were losing light the whole time, so it was go go go from the second we started. Dancing in public never stops feeling weird, but eventually I figured everyone watching had forgotten about me five seconds later, so I may as well enjoy it.”
‘Sit Down’ builds on the momentum of ‘Landing’, which scored a triple j Unearthed First Play and national commercial radio airplay on HIT Hot Hits. Both tracks were made with best mate and ARIA Award-winning producer Agnus Beats (The Kid Laroi, Allday, JK-47), whose home studio became the EP’s base over eighteen months.
Since 2025 debut EP IT’S NOT THAT SERIOUS, GOODFRND has sold out Howl & Moan Records, toured with Colliflowers, headlined a show in Madrid, played Breaking Sound LA and closed in on 800,000 global streams, all while steering everything himself, from merch to videos to rollout.
Does Today Really Have To Happen is his most personal work yet, named after the question he woke up asking every morning through one of the hardest stretches of his life, then spotted word for word on a friend’s mug. Across six tracks, the EP moves through a falling out in real time, from the first bitter swing to hard-won acceptance, in alt-pop that sounds far happier than it is, somewhere between ROLE MODEL, Dominic Fike and the 2000s pop-rock he grew up on.
Few emerging artists build a world as completely as GOODFRND. Every song, video and idea comes from the same clear vision, and ‘Sit Down’ shows just how far that vision can go. He’s an artist worth getting to know now, before everyone else does.
LISTEN TO ‘SIT DOWN’ HERE
PRE-SAVE DOES TODAY REALLY HAVE TO HAPPEN EP HERE
TRACKLISTING:
Gluten free
Embarrassment
Sit Down
Landing
Maybe This Time
The Longest Time I’ll Grieve
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NIGHTWISH Releases A Deeply Personal Journey With Monumental 30th Anniversary Collection THE GREATEST 30 YEARS ON EARTH
Symphonic metal legends NIGHTWISH have unveiled their most ambitious retrospective collection to date, The Greatest 30 Years On Earth, set for global release on December 11, 2026, via Nuclear Blast Records.
To celebrate the group’s landmark 30th anniversary, this text could go on listing gold and platinum awards, chart triumphs, the 50+ countries toured, the 9 million records sold, or do something that fits its main characters so much better.
Something creative, something personal. The Greatest 30 Years On Earth intends to give you just that.
Though not humble in format, this massive 4LP & Blu-Ray box and 3CD & Blu-Ray Earbook contains a detailed 2026 interview with Emppu and Tuomas. Together, they take you back to that aforementioned night in Kitee, Finland, reflecting humorously and honestly on the band’s incredible history. They open a treasure trove of private photos, accompanied by rare and unpublished behind-the-scenes images provided by long-term NIGHTWISH friends and collaborators.
To give fans yet another taste of what is in the box, the band has dropped the live video for ‘Tribal – Live in Amsterdam 2022.’
Mastermind Tuomas Holopainen comments:” Release your inner ape, enter the tribe, forget everything that is not now, and join the skeleton dance!”
Watch the video for ‘Tribal (Live in Amsterdam)’ here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYYzYS22rr0
Listen to ‘Tribal (Live in Amsterdam 2022)’ here: https://nightwish.bfan.link/tribal-amsterdam
Pre-order The Greatest 30 Years On Earth here:
https://nightwish.bfan.link/tg30yoe
The release comes in following formats:
Limited Edition 3CD & 1Blu-Ray Earbook with 36-page booklet.
Silver & blue Limited Edition 4LP & 1Blu-Ray Box Set with 36-page booklet.
White / blue corona Limited Edition 4LP & 1Blu-Ray Box Set with 36-page booklet (Band exclusive).
BIG ASS TRUCK I.E. Announce Debut EP, FOUND ON ROAD DEAD, Out Oct 20th Via Nuclear Blast Records
New Single/Video, ‘Dragging Meat,’ Streaming Now!
Inland Empire purveyors of vehicular hardcore mayhem BIG ASS TRUCK I.E. have announced their catastrophic debut EP, FOUND ON ROAD DEAD, arriving digitally and on limited edition vinyl October 20th via Nuclear Blast Records.
Along with the EP announcement, BIG ASS TRUCK I.E. have unleashed its bludgeoning first single, “DRAGGING MEAT,” accompanied by a music video directed by Astral Media/Zack Perez that captures the band’s full-throttle collision of hardcore, concussive breakdowns and monster trucking chaos.
Commenting on the impending record and new single, vocalist Abel Abarca states:
“We’re super stoked to finally get these tracks out into the world. Starting with ‘DRAGGING MEAT’ only made sense with how hard it hits, this song has become one of our favourites we’ve made and we can’t wait to bring it out to our live shows this October/November.”
FOUND ON ROAD DEAD will be available on all digital music services as well as on limited edition 10” “Tire” vinyl and merch on October 20th.
Stream ‘DRAGGING MEAT’:
https://bigassmftruck.bfan.link/dragging-meat
Pre-Order/Pre-Save FOUND ON ROAD DEAD:
https://bigassmftruck.bfan.link/found-on-road-dead
‘DRAGGING MEAT’ MUSIC VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh5rbrlMBgw
FOUND ON ROAD DEAD marks the first full statement from the Southern California wrecking crew, expanding on the vehicular destruction introduced with the band’s previous singles ‘BACK WHEEL STOMP’ and ‘PUSHED BEYOND THE BRINK.’ Assembled in Inland Empire, the band has quickly established its own absurdly heavy lane, welding hardcore aggression, gigantic riffs and breakdowns built for maximum pit damage.
FOUND ON ROAD DEAD Track List:
1. FOUND ON ROAD DEAD
2. DRAGGING MEAT
3. BIG ASS GUN
4. FORCED THROUGH SLUDGE
5. 1 TRILLION POUNDS
About BIG ASS TRUCK I.E.: Born in the Inland Empire. Fuelled by diesel and bad decisions. 2000 horsepower breakdowns. 12-ton riffs. Anyone in the way catches the back wheel stomp. Not a band. A wrecking crew on bald tires.
BIG ASS TRUCK I.E. isn’t here to partake in hardcore. It’s here to run it over, back it up, and run it over again. Big riffs. Big energy. BIG ASS TRUCK.
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DIIV SHARE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO, ‘TRILLIONS’
NEW ALBUM ZIRP! PRODUCED BY A.G. COOK OUT OCTOBER 30 VIA FANTASY RECORDINGS
PERFORMING AT LANEWAY FESTIVAL 2027
Ahead of the release of new album, ZIRP! out October 30 via Fantasy Recordings, DIIV share new single and video, ‘Trillions’ co-written by A.G. Cook. The next taste of ZIRP! arrives after the announcement of DIIV’s inclusion on the lineup for Laneway Festival 2027. ‘Trillions’ arrives alongside a bombastic pop music video directed by Jaxon Whittington.
Big house, wads of cash, flashy fast cars, and always fitted in a business suit. Is it fantasy, is it delusion? Is it earnest or is it satire? That’s complicated, but it is clearly the most pop song DIIV has ever made, co-written with A. G. Cook.
‘Trillions’ follows the previously shared singles ‘Kid’, which also arrived with a music video directed by Whittington and shot by vocalist Zachary Cole Smith’s son Roy and his friend Julian and lead single ‘The Fountain’. Earlier this week, DIIV performed to a packed out room in New York City where they performed songs from ZIRP! live for the first time.
Last week, Laneway Festival announced DIIV on their stacked 2027 lineup. The Laneway tour follows DIIV’s June 2025 Australian tour, which included headline performances at Melbourne’s Northcote Theatre, Brisbane’s Princess Theatre, and Perth’s The Naval Store, alongside appearances at RISING (Melbourne Town Hall), Hobart’s Dark Mofo and VIVID Sydney (Carriageworks).
This is The New Alternative: a new genre for the 21st century. More specifically: a new genre for music’s optimised VC-funded super deluxe remixed AI-enhanced algorithmically perfected wild west 2020s, where a million streams is great, a billion even better, and a trillion well within reach. On their fifth album ZIRP!, DIIV emphatically and ecstatically embrace the underground pedigree and the pop instinct that have anchored the band like magnetic poles for the better part of their career – smashing them together in pursuit of a sound that pre-empts any notion that Zachary Cole Smith, Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield and Ben Newman have ever been playing between worlds. Put more simply, on ZIRP! DIIV answer the simple questions that so many bands can’t: What would it mean to grow up? And glow up, too?
For as long as they’ve been making music, DIIV have been victims of a world without the vocabulary to describe their willingness to braid the harshness of genres like shoegaze (on 2024’s Frog In Boiling Water) and grunge (2019’s Deceiver) with mellifluous and memorable pop melody. Over the years, the world has caught up with them, with artists like Slayyyter, Eartheater and Turnstile forcing old-guard gatekeepers to find new ways to describe this gleeful disregard for old-fashioned scene designations and genre tags. With ZIRP! – and their embrace of The New Alternative – DIIV lock in on a name for the universe they’ve been chasing for all these years, and a sound that represents the apotheosis of that universe.
Produced by British pop wizard A. G. Cook (Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, Troy Sivan) – a chief architect of our current post-category future – ZIRP!, named for the zero interest rate policies that drew us into a world of failed startups and turned us all into atomised “users,” expands on the themes of Frog In Boiling Water with a newfound lightness. Here, Palantir, societal breakdown and streaming’s endless hamster wheel are all fodder for rich, sparkling pop songs. Album opener and lead single ‘The Fountain’ pairs the sprawl and squall of DIIV records past with a jolting rhythmic guitar section that has arena-filling potential. Throughout, the band is zeroing in on its punchiest, most memorable melodies to date, each new internal hook and tossed-off earworm indicative of a band more than ready to make good on its ability to play in the mainstream.
When DIIV initially approached Cook, the producer says, “it was in the spirit of destroying & rebuilding their demos, Screamadelica-style, into a finished product, but that hybrid, half-remix approach felt completely wrong to me.” Instead, he became a professor of DIIV studies, attending the band’s shows and forming a unified theory of where the band needed to go next. “I became a bit obsessed with their live sound, and insisted on recording live drums before most of the songs were even finished. We spent a lot of time recording intricate guitar parts with specific guitar pedals, and as little time as possible doing anything on a computer, at least by my standards,” he says. “After a few rounds of that, ZIRP! emerged as a concept, and a sort of utopian, dystopian mantra. For me it became a vehicle to push the band into new territory.”
Check out ‘Trillions’ and pre-order/save ZIRP!, and stay tuned for more from DIIV coming soon.
THIS IS THE NEW ALTERNATIVE: A NEW GENRE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
DIIV – ZIRP!
Out October 30 via Fantasy Recordings
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DEATH TO ALL ‘Death And Darkness Down Under’
Australian Tour Jan 26th – 30th, 2027 With guests DARK ANGEL
LOCAL SUPPORTS & VIP UPGRADE ANNOUNCED!
DEATH TO ALL – A tribute to Death and the music of Chuck Schuldiner.
Considered to be among the most influential bands in heavy metal music, Death remains a pioneering force in death metal to this day.
On their first Australian tour, DEATH TO ALL will perform a massive legacy set and pay tribute to Death’s entire catalogue, including material from ‘Scream Bloody Gore’ (1987), Leprosy (1988), ‘Spiritual Healing’ (1990), ‘Human’ (1991), ‘Individual Thought Patterns’ (1993), ‘Symbolic’ (1995), and ‘The Sound of Perseverance’ (1998).
Comprising of significant Death members: the legendary drummer Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel, Dethklok), bass beast Steve DiGiorgio (Testament, Sadus), guitarist Bobby Koelble (Death) and joined by singer/guitarist Max Phelps (Exist, Cynic) this is a must see for anyone who calls themselves a fan of death metal and extreme music.
DARK ANGEL became known in the 80’s thrash metal circles for their ability to deliver some of the genre’s most challenging and articulate albums without ever losing touch with its core attributes of pure speed and primal aggression. In 1986, DARK ANGEL released their second studio album, ‘Darkness Descends’, which is widely considered to be their seminal release and a thrash metal classic, and in September last year released their long-awaited comeback album ‘Extinction Level Event’!
DEATH TO ALL with DARK ANGEL performing at:
Jan 26th – Brisbane, The Triffid w/ Hidden Intent
Jan 28th – Sydney, Manning Bar w/ Mortal Sin
Jan 29th – Melbourne, The Croxton w/ Alarum
Jan 30th – Adelaide, Froth & Fury Festival
DEATH TO ALL VIP UPGRADE NOW AVAILABLE:
Strictly limited to 25 tickets per show*
*VIP upgrade is for Death To All only
*THIS IS AN UPGRADE and does not include ticket into the event
*Does not include Froth & Fury Festival Adelaide
TICKETS ON SALE at:
BRISBANE, SYDNEY, ADELAIDE – www.moshtix.com.au
MELBOURNE – www.oztix.com.au
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AUSTRALIAN PRODUCER SWIM ANNOUNCES HOMECOMING HEADLINE TOUR IN 2027
PRE-SALE REGISTRATION HERE
TOUR INFO HERE
Melbourne-born, London-based artist SWIM (Hamish Lefevre) today announces his biggest Australian tour yet, bringing his immersive live show to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with a full orchestra, before heading to Perth and Adelaide for standalone live performances.
Presented by UNTITLED. & Live Nation, the national tour will kick off at Carriageworks in Sydney on Saturday January 30th, before heading to Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane, on Friday February 5th, PICA, Melbourne, on Saturday February 6th, Metro City, Perth, on Friday February 12th, and wrapping up at Hindley St Music Hall, Adelaide, on Saturday February 13th.
The tour follows SWIM’s landmark sold-out performance at the Sydney Opera House, where he brought his music to the Concert Hall stage alongside a 14-piece orchestra. Building on the scale and ambition of that performance, the 2027 tour will see SWIM expand the concept across the country, bringing together live electronics, orchestral arrangements and large-scale production for his most fully realised Australian live shows to date.
The announcement follows the release of SWIM’s second album, Dear Friend, which reached #1 on the ARIA Australian Dance Albums Chart and #5 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart. Together with his independently released 2024 debut, In Circles — which also reached #1 on the Australian Dance Albums Chart and topped the ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart — the two records have cemented SWIM’s place as one of Australia’s most distinctive independent electronic artists.
SWIM – AU Tour 2027
Presale registration HERE
Saturday 30th January 2027 – Carriageworks, Sydney NSW*
Friday 5th February 2027 – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane QLD*
Saturday 6th February 2027 – PICA, Melbourne, VIC*
Friday 12th February 2027 – Metro City, Perth WA^
Saturday 13th February 2027 – Hindley St Music Hall, Adelaide SA^
*Live with orchestra
^Live show
Since emerging from Melbourne’s dance music scene, SWIM has built a rapidly growing international following through a fiercely independent approach to music and live performance, releasing more than 50 tracks, multiple EPs and two full-length records. His live show has evolved alongside that growth, moving from intimate hometown rooms to sold-out performances at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre, London’s KOKO and the Sydney Opera House, alongside appearances at major festivals throughout Australia and Europe.
At the heart of SWIM’s music is what he describes as “emotional dance music” – a meeting point between introspection and release, cinematic songwriting and club-focused production. On stage, that idea expands into something much larger. Electronic production is combined with live instrumentation, orchestral arrangements, lighting, movement and visual world-building to create a show designed to feel as emotionally immersive as the records themselves.
That ambition has increasingly pushed SWIM beyond the conventions of a traditional electronic live set. From recording sweeping string arrangements with a full string orchestra in Budapest to incorporating live strings and ballerinas into his performances, each iteration of the show has become more expansive, cinematic and theatrical.
“I’m so excited to be coming home to Australia and taking this show around the country. Playing with an orchestra at the Sydney Opera House was such a special moment for me, and ever since then I’ve wanted to take that idea further. These shows are going to be the biggest and most ambitious shows we’ve put together yet – bringing the live music, orchestral side and electronic show into one world. I can’t wait for people to experience it.” SWIM
The 2027 Australian tour will see SWIM return home with the most ambitious version of his live show yet, bringing together the different sides of his catalogue and creative world on a scale not previously seen across his Australian headline performances.
Presale registration is now open.
Presale tickets go on sale 11am local Thursday 8th October.
General public tickets go on sale 12pm local Friday 9th October.
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SUNSET LTD ‘MILK & HONEY’ (SINGLE)
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A Sydney based recording and live music performing group currently finishing their inaugural LP.
A project that’s taken the best part of 3 years musing with our troupe, our instruments, engineers and tangling with the beasts and angels within.
Churning, rumbling, cinematic desert blues. Hard work, numerous $$ and some sleepless endeavour now coming to fruition.
Ken Campbell guitars, vocals and songs
Paul Abrahams basses
Rory Cross Piano/ Hammond, slide & harmonica.
Andrew Axton drums/percussion.
plus a guest or two for good measure.
First single release October 2026 & will follow up with launch dates in Sydney soon after, with more shows around the traps & the rest of this great sunburnt country to follow.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/Yub2Ds_SN28?si=FYdYd3vAbpu_Hb_Y
DAVE ANGEL RETURNS TO R&S RECORDS WITH NEW ALBUM ‘ A TIME AND PLACE’
British electronic music pioneer Dave Angel has returned to R&S Records with “A Time And Place”, his first full-length album release for the seminal Belgian label. Released thirty-five years after Dave first joined the R&S family, the album reunites one of UK techno’s defining voices with the imprint that helped launch his career, renewing one of electronic music’s most enduring creative partnerships.
That relationship began in 1991, when R&S founder Renaat Vandepapeliere discovered Angel’s “Rolling Thunder” project and invited the young London producer to Belgium. Personally welcoming him into the R&S family alongside a new generation of forward-thinking electronic artists, Vandepapeliere released the landmark “1st Voyage” EP, helping establish Dave Angel as one of British techno’s most distinctive new voices. A succession of acclaimed releases followed, including “Stairway To Heaven”, “3rd Voyage”, appearances on the influential “In Order To Dance” compilation series, and releases on sister imprint Apollo, charting an artistic partnership that helped shape both Angel’s career and the wider evolution of UK techno.
Three and a half decades later, “A Time And Place” feels less like a return than the continuation of a conversation left unfinished. Rather than revisiting former achievements, the album reflects the perspective of an artist whose creative journey has continued to evolve. Reconnecting with the label that first championed his work, Angel delivers his most personal and musically expansive statement to date.
Across fifteen compositions, “A Time And Place” reaches beyond the conventions of techno to reveal the full breadth of Angel’s musical identity. Drawing on jazz, soul, improvisation and richly textured electronic production, the album balances rhythmic precision with warmth, melody and emotional depth. Reflections on family, heritage, nature and the communities that have shaped his life sit alongside broader observations of the world around him, creating a body of work that feels both intimate and expansive.
That openness is reflected in a carefully chosen cast of collaborators. Celebrated trumpeter Steve Waterman features on both “Réflexion” and “The Yellow Butterfly”, bringing a lyrical, Miles Davis-inspired voice to the album after first catching Angel’s attention through his work on Paul Hazel’s “Out Of This World”. Elsewhere, legendary Chicago vocalist Robert Owens appears on “Harmony Serenade”, while guitarist Merv Carswell and vocalist Aurii Sky, Dave’s daughter, add further colour and texture to a record rooted in musicianship and shared expression.
While Dave Angel’s influence on British electronic music has long been established, “A Time And Place” reveals another dimension of an artist whose foundations were laid long before techno. Raised in a household immersed in live music and jazz culture, Angel has spent a lifetime absorbing sounds beyond the club, allowing those influences to surface naturally throughout a career defined by curiosity rather than convention.
For R&S Records, the album renews a relationship that stretches back to the label’s formative years. For Dave Angel, it reflects both the path travelled and the road ahead. Thirty-five years after “1st Voyage” first announced his arrival, “A Time And Place” reunites artist and label with the same forward-looking spirit that brought them together in 1991, proof that the strongest creative partnerships continue to evolve.
“A Time And Place” by Dave Angel is out now on R&S Records across 3LP and digital formats.
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VACATIONS 4th Album, Pursuit Of Anything, Out Now
Vacations – Campbell Burns, bassist Jake Johnson, guitarist Nate Delizzotti, and drummer Joseph Van Lier—release their new album, Pursuit of Anything, out now on Nettwerk and unveil the video for album highlight and closing ballad, “Lucky, Forever.” As well as this, the band announce an extensive North American Tour, beginning Feb 2027.
Watch the Video for “Lucky, Forever”
Burns describes “Lucky, Forever” as “me trying to write the most clichéd love song that I can while trying to be really earnest” and was directly inspired by his attending the weddings of Johnson and Van Lier. “I wanted to write a song from their perspective,” he recalls. “I don’t really write love songs, and as a subject it’s been incredibly overdone. But it was really refreshing to just write something that was so simple when it came to the intention.”
Pursuit of Anything captures Vacations at a turning point as Burns reflects on the disorienting, often contradictory experience of growing up, tracing his path from Newcastle (Australia) to Los Angeles and New York—caught between ambition and the more traditional lives unfolding back home. Written by the band and produced by Burns, the album finds Vacations operating as a fully creative force with Burns drawing constant inspiration from his bandmates: exploring how they share a common experience, yet all have their own “pursuits.”
Mixed by Beatriz Artola (Geese, Caamp), the result is a richer, more intricate, and emotionally expansive sound. Pursuit of Anything arrives as the band solidifies their place as one of the most globally resonant indie acts of their generation with sold-out world tours, double-platinum certified hits, and over 3.5 billion streams. The record turns inward, driven by the push and pull of devotion to music, relationships, and self-discovery. It is this tension that fuels an earnest, dreamy pop album that feels instantly classic.
Pursuit of Anything is a labor of love, the product of a group of friends who have been making music together since they were barely out of their teenage years. On it, there are weddings, families, reflections on the past, and hope about the future. “It’s about happiness as a feedback loop,” says Burns of the record’s title, “How you keep chasing the next thing.” It’s a record that feels classic the first time you listen to it, it feels like chasing that rush, that sense of self discovery and rediscovery. And it shows Vacations at the height of their songwriting powers. It’s a pop record that takes pop music seriously. Lovely, earnest, dreamy and hopeful as they come.
To celebrate the release of Pursuit of Anything, Vacations are launching a game and interactive app called The Pursuit by Lee Martin. It’s an album companion that is inspired by the nostalgic feel of the iPhone OS 3. In it you’ll find custom apps, including “The Pursuit” endless runner game (featuring an 8-bit remix of the song “Holy Grail”), a green checker camera filter, & anonymous voicemail messages of fans from the Pursuit Hotline (call 1-346-PURSUIT now to leave your own).
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“Lucky, Forever”
“Last Call”
“I See Myself In You”
“Holy Grail”
Vacations Tour Dates:
Fri. Oct. 9 – London, UK @ The Old Church (solo show) (SOLD OUT)
Sun. Oct. 11 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East (solo in-store)
Wed. Oct. 14 – Berlin, DE @ Rough Trade Berlin (solo in-store)
Sat. Nov. 14 – Brooklyn, NY @ St. John’s Lutheran Church (solo VIBES 10th anniversary shows – early & late) (LOW TICKET WARNING)
Wed. Feb. 17 – Miami Beach, FL @ Miami Beach Bandshell *
Thu. Feb. 18 – Orlando, FL @ The Beacham Theatre *
Fri. Feb. 19 – Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre *
Sat. Feb. 20 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz *
Mon. Feb. 22 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel *
Tue. Feb. 23 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *
Fri. Feb. 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
Sat. Feb. 27 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Steel *
Sun. Feb. 28 – Boston, MA @ Royale *
Tue. Mar. 2 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall *
Thu. Mar. 4 – Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theatre *
Fri. Mar. 5 – Chicago, IL @ The Riviera *
Sat. Mar. 6 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee *
Sun. Mar. 7 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave *
Wed. Mar. 10 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall *
Fri. Mar. 12 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs *
Sat. Mar. 13 – Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues *
Sun. Mar. 14 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall *
Wed. Mar. 17 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace *
Thu. Mar. 18 – Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren *
Fri. Mar. 19 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Hollywood Palladium *
Sat. Mar. 20 – San Diego, CA @ SOMA *
Tue. Mar. 23 – San Francisco, CA @ Warfield *
Thu. Mar. 25 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall *
Fri. Mar. 26 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom *
Sat. Mar. 27 – Seattle, WA @ The Moore *
* w/ Twen
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KELI HOLIDAY RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE “LOVE WAS A STRANGER”
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Fresh off a chart-topping second album, sold-out national tour and one of the biggest independent singles in recent memory, Keli Holiday – the solo project of Peking Duk’s Adam Hyde – returns with new highway–ready “Love Was A Stranger”, out now.
Written in the wake of Capital Fiction’s runaway success, “Love Was A Stranger” marks the beginning of a new chapter for Keli Holiday and finds him turning the lens outward – a song about what it means to lead with love when the world seems programmed for the opposite. Sonically, it’s pure Australiana with a classic rock heart. A driving beat and a streak of alt-country twang carry the track, while Keli’s gravelly vocal sits on a sultry, rolling groove. Big-hearted and built for singing back, it has all the makings of a future pub anthem.
Speaking on the single, Keli Holiday shares: “This is an expression in response to my experiences since releasing Capital Fiction. The good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautifully stupid. It is about masculinity, sure, but ultimately it represents the fact that we fear the unknown and today it feels like love is a stranger more than ever. Hate seems to be the default gear online. If we all got to know what we are longing for a little better, I think we’d find ourselves smiling at the sky instead of chasing dopamine on a screen. It’s about meeting everything thrown at you with love. It ain’t easy and it ain’t complete, but the journey itself is something to share through the vessel of a song that feels like cruising down a highway at 3am with the desert wind in your hair.”
The track arrives with a music video directed by Isaac Brown. “To me, the song is about owning who you are in the face of judgement,” says Brown. “We wanted to take that idea and make it physical, so Keli finds himself in this strange little world where people are literally taking aim at a target made in his image. The guns become a fairly direct metaphor for being targeted for the man you are and the artist you choose to be. There’s something interesting in the tension between being yourself and the pressure to make yourself more palatable to other people. Even with a target on his back, Keli meets that hostility with love rather than fear.”
Keli Holiday – “Love Was a Stranger” Official Music Video
“Love Was A Stranger” follows a run that few Australian artists have matched in recent memory. Capital Fiction debuted at #1 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart. Peking Duk’s Paradise also arrived at #1, making Adam Hyde only the second Australian artist in history to score two #1 albums in a single calendar year across two separate projects. Lead single “Dancing2” became a genuine phenomenon: it hit #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart on its way to Platinum certification, landed at #2 in triple j’s Hottest 100 as the highest-placing Australian song (alongside two further Keli Holiday entries), and became the #1 most viral sound on TikTok. The track topped Spotify’s Viral chart in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, reached #2 in the UK, and has racked up over 700 million views across social platforms.
Along the way, “Dancing2” picked up the ARIA Award for Best Video in 2025 and has been nominated for ARIA Song of the Year in 2026. Keli Holiday took out Rolling Stone’s Readers’ Choice Award, and the track spent months at #1 on the AIR Independent Singles Chart, with support from Greg James on BBC Radio 1 and Novena Carmel on KCRW.
Born out of the creative stagnation of the pandemic in 2021, Keli Holiday became Hyde’s escape – a space for heartbreak, sonic exploration and reinvention beyond the multi-platinum, ARIA Award-winning success of Peking Duk. But it’s in a heaving, sweat-soaked room that the project truly comes alive. Having sold out shows in every Australian capital city on the Capital Fiction tour, Keli Holiday took the album to rooms across North America, the UK and Ireland. As Hyde puts it: “I will be releasing Keli Holiday albums until the day I drop dead.”
“LOVE WAS A STRANGER” IS OUT NOW
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AVRAK Release Their Second Single & Video “The Lonely Shadow”
The Titanic Debut Self-Titled Studio Album Of Heavy Rock And Metal Coming October 9
The new Norwegian Heavy Metal juggernaut AVRAK, featuring Anders Hegna (Nød, El Kayenne, Svidd Grevling) and Darkthrone’s Ted Skjellum, have released their second single “The Lonely Shadow” from the forthcoming hook-laden and doom-laced rock debut, ‘AVRAK’, released next Friday, October 9, on Peaceville Records.
“Heavy Metal tastes great, ripe from the roots of cosmos” Ted Skjellum
Watch “The Lonely Shadow” lyric video created by Matthew Vickerstaff here https://youtu.be/hBhsw2hhlyw
Stream / Download Here https://orcd.co/the_lonely_shadow
Suitably and epically defined as a monumental “Heavy Metal voyage from the peak of the mountains to the depths of the seas”, and delivering themes relating to empowerment in the face of increasingly corrupt times, the debut album ‘AVRAK’ is a combination of a vast multitude of influences, as the eclectic, deceptively nuanced nine track offering features a classic heavy metal and doom rock backbone, with further experimentation including synth passages, and even some traces of black metal riffing in its DNA.
‘AVRAK’ was recorded, mixed and mastered in Mølla Studio by Knut Magne Valle, in February 2026.
‘AVRAK’ is to be released on October 9 on CD classic black vinyl LP silver vinyl LP & digitally
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AVRAK IS
Anders Hegna – Guitars, vocals, bass
Ted Skjellum – Guitars, Moog guitar/synthesizer, additional vocals, effects
Terje Kråbøl- Drums
Steinar Gundersen – bass
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FEUERSCHWANZ Release New Single “Carpe Noctem” feat. IN EXTREMO
FEUERSCHWANZ invite you to enjoy the night to the fullest and leave all rules behind with the release of new single “Carpe Noctem” feat. legendary IN EXTREMO! The song combines the unmistakable energy of FEUERSCHWANZ with the characteristic sound of IN EXTREMO. Together, they unleash an anthem to the night, bringing both bands’ voices and the unmistakable sound of FEUERSCHWANZ together. “Carpe Noctem” stands for freedom and those moments when nothing matters but living in the here and now.
The feature with IN EXTREMO could hardly be more fitting: in 2027, both bands will embark on their major “Heute wird der Himmel brennen” co-headline tour across Germany. “Carpe Noctem” already provides the perfect soundtrack for this tour – loud, anthemic and made for unforgettable sing-alongs and long nights. Before the joint tour kicks off in spring, FEUERSCHWANZ will celebrate their big METFEST on December 19, 2026 at the Grugahalle in Essen.
FEUERSCHWANZ on “Carpe Noctem”:
“‘Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make’
That is how Count Dracula spoke in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. In our journey into the nocturnal world of the walking undead, ‘the children of the night’ become ‘the warriors of the night’, and we are joined by the fine company of IN EXTREMO!
As a band that emerged from the German medieval rock scene, this is a true accolade, and we are looking forward to howling at the full moon every night on the joint tour! Because it is only at night that we are free – CARPE NOCTEM.”
Watch the Official Music Video For “Carpe Noctem”
BLACK RHENO FRONTMAN PARTNERS WITH ROCK ’N’ ROLL DIVE BAR “WINGS & TINS” TO PUT THE NORTHERN BEACHES VENUE ON THE TOURING MAP
After nearly two decades spent pounding the pavement of Australia’s live music circuit in various bands, Black Rheno frontman Ryan Miller aka “Milla” is stepping up as venue co-owner of Wings & Tins in Dee Why. Joining forces with local bar owner Mark Baird, the pair have transformed the venue from an already killer Wings & Tins restaurant into a dedicated rock ’n’ roll dive bar and live music destination on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
What began as Milla casually lending a hand around 18 months ago has organically evolved into something much bigger. Over the past four to five months, Milla has officially joined Baird as a business partner, bringing his extensive experience as a touring musician, music promoter, music producer and owner of Housefox Studios and Cult Etiquette PR, into the venue’s next chapter.
Together, Milla and Baird have been steadily transforming Wings & Tins into a dedicated live music space, with extensive renovations to the bar and performance area, a substantial new PA system, professional stage monitoring and a renewed focus on delivering quality live sound.
The result is an intimate, 100-capacity rock ’n’ roll dive bar with a serious commitment to live music.
Over the past several months, the guys have been building a growing calendar of live performances, championing local bands and creating new opportunities for the Northern Beaches music community to connect, perform and grow.
The weekly program now includes music trivia on Tuesdays, an inclusive open mic night every Thursday welcoming musicians, songwriters, poets and performers, and live bands across Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
But while nurturing the local scene remains central to the venue’s focus, Milla and Baird have their sights set on something more.
Connecting Australia’s touring circuit with the Northern Beaches.
Wings & Tins is now putting the call out to touring bands or all styles of music, booking agents, promoters and artists from across Australia to bring their shows to Dee Why and connect with the Northern Beaches’ thriving local music community.
The intimate 100-cap venue offers an ideal stop for emerging touring acts looking to build their audience, as well as established artists seeking a sideshow opportunity outside Sydney’s traditional inner-city circuit.
For Milla and Baird, the ambition is about more than simply filling a gig calendar. It’s about creating lasting connections between local musicians and the wider Australian live music scene, bringing touring artists and Northern Beaches bands together on the same stage.
Milla tells us: “I’ve spent half my life touring Australia in various bands, and I know firsthand how important smaller venues are to the music scene. I understand what it’s like being in a touring band, but I also understand what goes into booking tours, promoting shows and making it all work.
“When I first started helping Mark at Wings & Tins, I was purely doing it for the love of it, to help build something cool in my area. Over time, that grew into something bigger, and when the opportunity came to officially join the business, it just felt right.
“We’ve spent the last few months building up our local music scene, and now we want to open the doors to touring bands from across Australia and beyond. Big or small, local or international, across all genres. We want Wings & Tins to become a regular stop on the East Coast touring circuit connecting our local artists with bands from all around Australia and beyond.
An open invitation to Australia’s live music community.
With a professionally equipped stage, an established local music network and a growing calendar of events, Wings & Tins is actively welcoming enquiries from touring bands, independent promoters, booking agents and artists looking to add a Northern Beaches date to their touring schedules.
From emerging underground acts to established touring bands seeking an intimate sideshow, the venue aims to bring touring artists and local talent together, creating opportunities to share stages, build audiences and strengthen connections across Australia’s live music community.
For Milla and Baird, the mission is straightforward: build a great rock ’n’ roll bar, support the bands that make the scene possible and give Australia’s live music community another stage to call home.
Australia’s touring bands: Sydney’s Northern Beaches are calling.
MARK LANG ‘BIRDSONG’ (SINGLE)
MARK LANG releases focus track BIRD SONG from forthcoming album Wild Swan
Wild Swan Album launch (sold out)
Melbourne Recital Centre Salon
Saturday 24th October
Renowned Australian lyricist & storyteller, Mark Lang, releases his new single BIRD SONG on Wednesday 7th Oct. The track features Abby Dobson of Leonardo’s Bride who adds a haunting female vocal to join his own.
Birdsong is the focus track of Marks forthcoming album WILD SWAN. The track explores the delayed ricochet of emotions you suppress to get through a major health crisis, giving yourself permission to take the time you need to heal even when it feels like the world has moved on.
Bird Song came to life after a conversation with a stranger. Mark was standing by the water with his dog circling his feet, clearing his head before a recording session. A woman approached and they struck up a conversation. She had come to the coastal town to recuperate after long, gruelling cancer treatment, and was now experiencing the delayed aftermath. From personal experience, Mark understood this. While friends feel relief once someone is in remission, for those directly affected there is still a long journey ahead, of confronting all the emotions they’d had to suppress in order to get through. Those memories rose to the surface in the studio that day. What emerged was a song of companionship for those still navigating their way out, giving permission to feel everything they need to, even when it seems as though the world has moved on.
Recently returning from a Canadian tour & run of Australian dates with C.W Stoneking, Mark will launch his album on Saturday 24th October at Melbourne Recital Centre (sold out).
Mark Lang has written three critically acclaimed albums making many album of the year lists as the singer-songwriter of Australian indie band Skipping Girl Vinegar. Thrilling audiences from the main stages at Australia’s premier festivals including solo shows at Bluesfest, Cambridge Folk Festival (UK) Port Fairy Folk Festival, Splendour In The Grass, Woodford Folk, Falls Festival and many more. Mark’s work has received extensive airplay on major national broadcasters Triple J, ABC, Double J and community radio, as well as US college radio play with 7 weeks in the Top 100 CMJ charts, and numerous #1 & #2 positions across the US.
Mark toured his debut solo E.P extensively across Europe and North America including a sold out Australian tour.
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Destroy All Lines Presents SURVIVE SAID THE PROPHET
Tokyo Rock Powerhouse Make Their Australian Debut This February
“At one moment soaring, the next collapsing into chaos, theirs was a set that left more than a few jaws slack.” When The Horn Blows, Download Festival 2025
Australia has waited fifteen years for this one.
This February, Tokyo’s Survive Said The Prophet finally make their Australian debut, bringing their explosive live show to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane for three intimate headline shows.
Known throughout Japan simply as Sabapuro, Survive Said The Prophet have spent more than a decade turning stages into their natural habitat. Big hooks, crushing guitars, electronic textures and the bilingual vocals of frontman Yosh collide in a live show built for absolute audience participation.
This isn’t a band that fits neatly into one corner of heavy music. Formed in Tokyo in 2011, Survive Said The Prophet pull from post-hardcore, alternative rock, pop, electronic music, hip hop and R&B, creating songs that move from soaring melody to devastating heaviness without warning. It has taken them from clubs across Japan to stages around the world, building an international audience through a relentless touring schedule and a reputation strengthened with every show.
The band first landed on people’s radars via Mukanjyo, the opening theme to acclaimed anime series Vinland Saga, however, discovering Survive Said The Prophet through a screen and experiencing them live are two very different things.
Survive Said The Prophet recently pushed their sound even further. 2025 album Luv Sux Sessions included collaborations with Matt Good of From First To Last on State Of Mind and Ryo Kinoshita of Knosis on Useless, while 2026 has already delivered further new music including Speak of the Devil feat. Masato and Hollow featuring Jean-Ken Johnny from MAN WITH A MISSION.
Their reach has since taken them throughout North America, Europe and the UK, including appearances at Download Festival, Rock am Ring, Rock im Park and Rock for People.
Now, after fifteen years, it’s Australia’s turn and for their first visit, they’re not testing the waters from the safety of a festival stage, they’re heading straight for venues where it will be up close and personal.
AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2027
Thursday, February 25 Corner Hotel, Melbourne 18+
Friday, February 26: Oxford Art Factory, Sydney 18+
Saturday, February 27: Crowbar, Brisbane 18+
DAL Pre-Sale: Tuesday, October 13 @ 12pm AEDT
General On-Sale: Wednesday, October 14 @ 11am Local Time
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SICK VISOR release relocation anthem ‘‘06 Camry’
The first release from sessions with Frenzal Rhomb’s Jason Whalley
SICK VISOR Announce Australian tour for October/November
Reformed emos rejoice – Naarm duo Sick Visor are back with another slice of their happy-go-lucky meets slightly-existential pop punk, with new single ‘‘06 Camry’ out today. Stream HERE and watch the vertical visualiser HERE. The band will support the release with headline single launch shows in Brisbane and Melbourne in the coming weeks, alongside support shows in Sydney and Adelaide.
Having previously self-produced and recorded their music, Alex Moses (vocals / guitar) and Katie Lovelock (drums / vocals) decided to bring in a fresh perspective on ‘‘06 Camry’. The duo enlisted Frenzal Rhomb’s Jason Whalley (The Chats, C.O.F.F.I.N) for engineering and producing duties, travelling to Sydney to record with him at The Pet Food Factory studio in Marrickville. The track was mixed and mastered by Jarred Nettle (Teenage Joans, TOWNS).
“With ‘06 Camry I think we’ve really found our sound,” notes Alex. “We’ve always wanted to make fun and fast punk music, but when producing songs ourselves it was so easy to be caught up in trying to make things ‘perfect’ which can mask some of the soul within a song. Working with Jason, we threw away the bells and whistles, played together in a room and captured more raw and authentic performances than we had before. ‘06 Camry sounds the way Sick Visor was meant to – fun and fast punk, turned up to 11 and sung with a smile.”
Along with Alex’s dynamic vocals and Katie’s soaring harmonies, Sick Visor’s new single delivers an infectious, hook-filled melody and maintains the punchy, bright pop punk riffs fans have come to love. Lyrically the new single details a pivotal moment in Alex’s life, when he decided to pack up everything he owned into his beloved ‘06 Camry, and drove from Brisbane to Melbourne.
“I was feeling lost, and that the only way to find what I was looking for was to shake my life up, so I crammed all my clothes and guitars into my beat-up car and drove 1800kms away, and moved into a cheap Melbourne sharehouse,” Alex reflects. “‘06 Camry’ is a song for anyone who’s had a gut feeling that they need to make a change and jumped in head first.”
Alex’s move to Melbourne paved the way for Sick Visor’s origin story. Starting the band in a Melbourne sharehouse in 2022, Alex and Katie wrote their first songs for the project purely as a creative outlet. Since then, the duo have landed spins on triple j, glowing reviews on Unearthed, extensive DSP playlist support, and music video playlisting on Rage. Their collaboration with Adelaide duo TOWNS, ‘Feeling Alright Forever’, was amongst the top 5 most playlisted songs in Australia in its week of release.
Having toured Australia coast to coast, Sick Visor have shared stages with Australian indie rock mainstays Beddy Rays, The Terrys and Sly Withers, with late 2025 seeing them join the likes of Frenzal Rhomb and WAAX on tour. Earlier this year, Sick Visor sold out their Melbourne headliner in support of their Chuck A Sickie EP.
With an undeniable energy and a brand of music that’s fun, fast and unguardedly honest, the duo are quickly becoming one of Australia’s most enjoyable emerging acts. Catch them in the very near future celebrating the release of ‘’06 Camry’ in Brisbane and Melbourne, as well as additional shows in Adelaide, Brisbane, and Sydney throughout November.
Sick Visor AUS Tour
Saturday 17th October – Greaser – Brisbane, QLD
Friday 6th November – The Workers Club – Melbourne, VIC
Saturday 14th November – The Ed Castle- Adelaide, SA ^
Saturday 21st November – Junk Bar – Brisbane, QLD *
Sunday 29th November – Waywards – Sydney, NSW *
^ supporting Stormy-Lou
*supporting Club Halifax
Tickets HERE
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CALI RD ANNOUNCE THEIR DEBUT EP ‘BOXES’ RELEASED FRI NOV 13
THE FOLK-POP DUO SHARE NEW SINGLE ‘THE DOCKS’
Turning the volume down while bringing the emotion closer, Australian folk-pop duo CALI RD release their new single ‘The Docks’, alongside the announcement of their debut EP Boxes, arriving Friday November 13th. Quieter and more understated than Cali Rd’s previously released singles, ‘The Docks’ offers another glimpse into brothers Sam and Jack Hunt’s intimate songwriting and effortless melodies.
‘The Docks’ is a bittersweet heartbreak song about finding the right person at the wrong time. It captures the urge to revisit the past and rearrange the pieces – wondering whether a relationship was rushed before it had a the chance to last or whether two people simple found each other before they were ready.
Cali Rd, share, “The song sits in that heartbreak of knowing something was real, even though it didn’t work out. Sometimes two people can fall in love and still not be meant to stay together. The Docks is about letting go of that hope, while still holding onto the thought that maybe, in another life, you would have got it right.”
Co-written by Cali Rd alongside Ben Oldland (Carla Wehbe, PASH, Rachael Fahim), who also produced the track, ‘The Docks’ blends the pair’s signature laid-back folk-pop with honest storytelling. The pared-back track features both Sam and Jack on guitar with Sam also adding banjo.
BOXES EP TRACKLISTING
BOXES
NEVER LOVE AGAIN
FALLING FAST
HOLD ON
THE DOCKS
After first capturing global attention through their viral acoustic covers, Cali Rd have amassed more than one million followers across their social platforms. Since beginning to release original music in June, the duo have generated more than 1.1 million streams, streams and won the hearts of music tastemakers and editorial placements on digital platforms.
The announcement arrives amid a busy period on the road for Cali Rd who recently wrapped up shows with Jack Botts and Boy & Bear. In October, the brothers will travel to Nashville and Los Angeles to complete work on their second EP before returning home for a EP Launch then closing out the year with an appearance at NYE on the HILL (VIC) on December 30th alongside artists Ball Park Music, Old Mervs and Boy Soda to name just a few.
CALI RD LIVE SHOWS
December 30 – NYE on the HILL
The Farm, South Gippsland
CALI RD NEW SINGLE ‘THE DOCKS’
IS OUT NOW ON ISLAND RECORDS AUSTRALIA
ABOUT CALI RD Cali Rd are brothers Sam and Jack Hunt, a Sydney-based folk-pop duo whose music blends honest storytelling, laid-back energy and soaring harmonies. Born in Adelaide and raised across Central Australia and Darwin, the brothers grew up surrounded by music, beginning lessons at the age of six while listening to classic rock and watching their father perform in country bands.
Their teenage years included time on a remote cattle farm near Alice Springs, where the isolation and vastness of the outback gave them space to sharpen their musicianship and develop their natural creative chemistry. They later moved to Darwin, continuing to write music while working in their respective trades – Jack as a carpenter and Sam as an electrician.
Now based in Sydney, Cali Rd draw inspiration from every part of their journey, from the red dirt and solitude of Central Australia and the dramatic storm skies of the Top End to the relaxed energy of life on the New South Wales coast. The duo have amassed more than one million followers across their social platforms, building a loyal global audience through their close harmonies, acoustic performances and original music.
Their releases have received praise from Off The Record with Isaiah, Reverie AU, Australian Music Scene, The Music and Aussie Music Shack, alongside support from Spotify and Apple Music. Recent single ‘Never Love Again’ secured placements across playlists including Spotify’s New Music Friday Iceland, New Music Friday Denmark and Open Skies, as well as Apple Music’s A-List Pop, New Music Daily, New in Pop, Heaps Local Hits, Today’s Acoustic, Teen Pop Hits, Today’s Hits and Today’s Easy Hits.
KSMBA drops ‘With You’ following triple j residency and major live milestones
Sydney born, Melbourne based producer, vocalist and DJ KSMBA returns with ‘With You’, a deeply personal new single exploring vulnerability, intimacy and the power of genuine human connection. Co-written and co-produced with Ross James, aka upsidedownhead, the track marks a new chapter for an artist whose rise through Australia’s electronic music scene has been defined by musicality, emotional depth and a rapidly growing national profile.
‘With You’ arrives off the back of a major run of live activity for KSMBA, following M87 in Melbourne last weekend and Mode Festival in Sydney this weekend, as their profile continues to build across Australia’s electronic music scene. The track marks a significant moment for KSMBA, who was triple j’s September Mix Up Resident, following the strong response to ‘Touch’, which received a triple j first play on Home and Hosed.
“’With You’ is the resolution to ‘Touch’. I wanted to capture the strength, the lightness, and the bliss that comes from opening yourself up and allowing yourself to be truly seen and witnessed by another person.
While writing this song, I was reading Jia Tolentino’s brilliant book of essays ‘Trick Mirror’. It had me really thinking about the ways that we are encouraged to move through the world behind masks, to treat relationships as transactions and to see ourselves as projects to be endlessly optimised. In a culture increasingly shaped by technology, I truly believe genuine human connection has become more valuable than ever.
To me, With You is a reminder that intimacy isn’t something to fear, but something to protect. That allowing ourselves to be vulnerable, to be fully present with another person, isn’t a weakness, it is one of the most profoundly human things we can do.” KSMBA
That momentum has translated into major career milestones beyond radio, with KSMBA named Mixmag’s Artist to Watch for 2026, selected as a triple j Unearthed Feature Artist and appearing on the cover of 10 Magazine Australia’s Music Issue in collaboration with Chanel. Their growing profile has also seen them join Spin Artist Agency’s roster, alongside artists including Ninajirachi. Their live profile has also expanded rapidly, with performances at Beyond The Valley, Pitch Music & Arts, Let Them Eat Cake, Mardi Gras and Party in the Paddock, alongside a recent DJ set with Tame Impala at the F1 and support for international artists including Nooriyah.
KSMBA’s trajectory is underpinned by a rare musical foundation. A graduate of London’s Royal College of Music, they spent more than 13 years in formal musical training before transitioning from classical saxophone into production and DJing. That background continues to shape a sound that moves between underground techno, atmospheric vocals and melodic intensity, balancing technical precision with a distinctly emotional approach to club music.
Since launching the KSMBA project in 2023, they have performed at some of Australia’s most respected clubs and festivals, including Pitch Music & Arts on the Resident Advisor stage, Beyond the Valley, Let Them Eat Cake, Intercell and A3 Festival, as well as venues including PICA, Miscellania, The Timber Yard and Club 77. Along the way, they have shared stages with Mall Grab, Effy, Kettama and Sim0ne, further establishing their position within the country’s evolving electronic scene.
With further collaborations in the works alongside Lucy Blomkamp, Motez, Lachlan Bostock of Mansionair, Ross James and Tentendo, as well as upcoming appearances at ADE 2026 and Mode 2026, KSMBA enters this next chapter with a growing audience and an increasingly distinctive voice.
‘With You’ captures the emotional evolution of an artist continuing to push the boundaries between classical musicality, underground club culture and deeply personal songwriting.
Aussie Deathcore Titans TO THE GRAVE Release New Album, ‘Liberation Front’ via BLKIIBLK
Launch New Single, Limb From Lamb
TO THE GRAVE, the world’s preeminent vegan deathcore band, have proudly unleash their new album, ‘LIBERATION FRONT,’ via BLKIIBLK. Celebrating the release, the band also launches their new single, “LIMB FROM LAMB,” alongside a music video, available to view below.
On the new single, bassist Matt Clarke comments: “LIMB FROM LAMB was the song that probably changed the most in the recording process. Until it was done, I wasn’t sure it would even make the cut for the album. It really took Dane’s lyric arrangement and vocal delivery to make it shine. It’s a bit of a change of pace from the previous singles, this one is slow (for us), brooding and heavy”
“For the video we leaned heavily into the horror movie imagery. Our music and visuals have always been inspired by horror and this was a chance to be really obvious with one of our favourites. It’s always made sense for us to connect this kind of inspiration to the real-life horror we address in the lyrics.”
Watch the Official Music Video for “LIMB FROM LAMB”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrR3fYRZVCw
Since forming in 2010, TO THE GRAVE have become one of Australia’s most uncompromising heavy exports, earning acclaim for crushing releases including ‘Global Warning,’ ‘Epilogue,’ ‘Director’s Cuts,’ and 2024’s ‘Everyone’s a Murderer.’ Armed with a singular mission to confront animal cruelty and environmental destruction through some of modern metal’s most punishing deathcore, the Sydney outfit have forged a reputation for pairing unrelenting heaviness with fearless activism. Their live assault has taken them around the globe alongside Lorna Shore, Thy Art Is Murder, Shadow of Intent, Carnifex, Oceano, and more, with Revolver hailing them as “one of the country’s heaviest exports” and Distorted Sound calling them “one of the most intense, enthralling bands the genre can offer.”
Now, the band returns with ‘LIBERATION FRONT,’ their fifth album and BLKIIBLK debut, a statement of pure intent. Brutal and uncompromising in both sound and message, TO THE GRAVE transform their death metal-infused assault into a vehicle for activism, raging against animal cruelty and environmental destruction while delivering their most direct and fully realized work to date. From the breakdown-laden opener “MEAT THE HUMANS,”‘Liberation Front’ marks a ferocious return to the band’s deathcore roots. While recent releases leaned further into hardcore, the new album embraces deathcore at its most savage and relentless.
Evans comments about the album: “‘LIBERATION FRONT’ was born as a concept on tour last year in Australia after we decided we wanted to make the sequel to ‘Director’s Cuts.’ What came out was something between that and a more pissed off brother to ‘Everyone’s A Murderer.’ It’s got so many things I love about the band and a bit of everything pushed to 100 with a really bleak kind of aggression that’s just reaching for your throat the entire time. Very keen to play some of these songs live and it’s an exciting chapter to add.”
Order ‘Liberation Front’
https://ffm.bio/tothegrave-liberationfrontalbum
‘LIBERATION FRONT’ Track List:
1. MEAT THE HUMANS
2. NAIL MARY
3. TORTURE PORN
4. EYESTALK ABLATIONS
5. LIFE AMONG THE SEPTICS
6. CALF SLICER
7. LIMB FROM LAMB
8. YOU KNOW THE DRILL
9. TERRORFIRE
10. THE WORLD IS A SLAUGHTERHOUSE
TO THE GRAVE is currently on “The Sawed Off Suffering Tour” with co-headlinerCrown Magnetar. The entire run is supported by Face Yourself and on select dates by the likes of I Declare War, Tracheotomy, Backbiter, Squelching and Ameonna (the new band featuring former Chelsea Grin members Alex Koehler, Jake Harmond and Pablo Viveros, making their live debut). For a full list of remaining dates, please see below.
Bassist Matt Clarke exclaims: “These are the heaviest lineups we’ve ever put together, and we can’t wait for these shows across North America and at home in Aus. For North America, all these bands have a different approach, but the one thing that brings it all together is intensity! We’re stoked to be teaming up with Crown Magnetar for this run, and having Face Yourself on the package just makes it more crushing. We’re very excited that we get to play with OG Chelsea Grin members back on-stage for the first time in Ameonna, and I Declare Warhopping on for some shows is awesome! Backbiter, Tracheotomy, and Squelching will all bring their own brands of brutality to the tour. No matter what show you’re hitting, you’re in for a treat.”
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
North America w/ Crown Magnetar, Face Yourself
Oct 4 – West Palm Beach, FL @ The Banyan Live ^
Oct 6 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada $
Oct 7 – Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live $
Oct 9 – Mesa, AZ @ Rosetta Room
Oct 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex +
Oct 11 – Roseville, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post +
Oct 13 – Portland, OR @ The Hawthorne Theatre +
Oct 14 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon +
Oct 16 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell ~
Oct 17 – Denver, CO @ HQ ~
* w/ Backbiter
^ w/ Tracheotomy
$ w/ Squelching
+ w/ I Declare War
~ w/ Ameonna
More Dates TBA!
‘LIBERATION FRONT’ is more than an album; it is a musical and lyrical call to arms, designed not only to rage against the machine but to educate, provoke, and challenge listeners on every level. Combining their most savage deathcore material to date with an unwavering commitment to animal liberation and environmental activism, ‘LIBERATION FRONT’ stands as TO THE GRAVE’s definitive statement: fierce, unapologetic, and impossible to ignore.
As Evans puts it, “this is our way of establishing order. The band is built around our way of doing things and to me this title is just waving that flag. These songs are about direct action, open rescue, abolition and liberation by any means necessary.”
TO THE GRAVE are:
Dane Evans – Vocals
Jack Simioni – Guitar
Nic Webb – Guitar
Matt Clarke – Bass
Connor Kingdom – Drums
Band Bio HERE
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ATOMIC ENTOURAGE TURN UP THE HEAT WITH NEW SINGLE ‘SOMEDAY’
BALLARAT ROCKERS UNLEASH A NEW TRACK BORN FROM CREATIVE BALLARAT’S BE HEAR NOW PROGRAM, WITH GUIDANCE FROM MAGIC DIRT’S RAUL SANZCHEZ
Ballarat four-piece Atomic Entourage are turning up the volume with the release of their brand-new single ‘Someday’, out Wednesday 14 October.
Recorded, produced and mastered at Sunny South Studio in Ballarat, ‘Someday’ is the latest chapter for a band whose sound is built on big guitars, catchy hooks and the raw energy of a great rock ’n’ roll show.
The single was developed through Creative Ballarat’s Be Hear Now program, an initiative supporting and developing Ballarat-based musicians and giving local artists the opportunity to create, build industry knowledge, record and release new work.
For Atomic Entourage, the program provided the perfect opportunity to capture their sound in their hometown, bringing together the band’s high-energy live spirit with the expertise and facilities of Sunny South Studio, led by producer Sam Boon.
“We’re stoked to have had the opportunity to record ‘Someday’ right here in Ballarat through the Be Hear Now program,” says Atomic Entourage. “It’s a track that really captures what we’re about… big riffs, big energy and a whole lot of fun.”
A particularly significant part of the Be Hear Now program has been the opportunity for Atomic Entourage to work with Raul Sanchez, guitarist and founding member of influential Australian rock band Magic Dirt, as their mentor.
For a band made up of four friends who have grown up together, Sanchez brought both industry experience and perspective to the group while respecting the creative chemistry that sits at the heart of Atomic Entourage.
Forming in Ballarat, Atomic Entourage have developed a sound that blends the sun-drenched swagger of surf rock with the grit and attitude of classic Australian pub rock. Drawing inspiration from the rock legends of the ’80s alongside modern surf-rock influences, the band delivers a sound that is powerful, raw and unmistakably their own.
And while the recordings pack a punch, Atomic Entourage have built their reputation on stage.
Fresh from headline shows across Ballarat, Melbourne, the Great Ocean Road, the Sunshine Coast, Adelaide and Townsville, the band has been steadily building a loyal following stretching along Australia’s east coast and beyond.
With ripping guitar solos, infectious hooks and a live show that hits you right in the chest, Atomic Entourage are a band made for loud rooms, sweaty dancefloors and summer nights.
Now, with ‘Someday’, they’re bringing that energy into the studio — and back out to listeners across Australia.
‘Someday’ by Atomic Entourage is out on Wednesday 14 October 2026 and will be available on all streaming platforms.
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JACK RAYMOND ‘MR KNOW IT ALL’ (ALBUM)
Australian folk, roots and blues songwriter Jack Raymond releases his second studio album, Mr. Know It All, bringing together a collection of songs about family, addiction, relationships, old stories, uncomfortable truths and the strange ways we all try to make sense of the lives we’re living.
It’s an album Raymond has taken his time with. Where his first record The Long Story Short was made while he was still finding his feet in the studio, Mr. Know It All came together very differently. The songs were given time to grow before Raymond and producer Ryan Tracey locked themselves away at Scribble Gum Farm on the Sunshine Coast for three weeks and pulled them apart again.
The result is bigger, darker and more adventurous, but the stories are still at the centre of everything.
“I think this album is probably the closest I’ve got to actually sounding like myself,” Raymond says. “We weren’t in a rush. Ryan and I had time to muck around, get things wrong, try different sounds and work out what each song actually needed rather than just throwing everything at it.”
Electric guitars sit alongside acoustic instruments, haunting pads and small sonic details that come and go throughout the record, giving Raymond’s folk and blues foundations a much wider landscape to live in.
The album was produced and engineered by Ryan Tracey, with Dancing in Glory produced and engineered by JB Paterson. The record was mixed by Angus Woodhead at Glasshouse Studios and mastered by Paul Blakey at 12th & Vine Post.
At the centre of it all is Mr. Know It All, a character Raymond created while trying to make sense of the imbalance he saw around him. He isn’t exactly a hero. He’s not particularly polite either. Instead, he became a way of levelling the playing field between the bloke on the street and the bloke in the penthouse.
That character doesn’t necessarily appear literally in every song, but his questions run through the album: How much of our lives do we actually choose? What do we inherit? What do we carry? What should we let go of? And how do we look after each other a little better?
Those questions take the record into some deeply personal places. Hollow Trees looks back at Raymond’s childhood in Victoria’s High Country, where a row of Paulownia trees planted by his parents grew alongside him before beginning to collapse around the same time his parents’ marriage did. Prisoner started as a song written for a friend struggling with addiction before Raymond eventually realised he’d written a fair bit of himself into it.
Ships in the Night comes directly from Raymond’s relationship and the reality of two people chasing very different working lives while trying to build the same future. Break the Mould is a push against living on autopilot and accepting a life simply because it’s the one that seems easiest or most expected. Carpe Diem asks the opposite question: what happens if we stop chasing the next thing for five minutes and actually notice where we are?
Elsewhere, Dancing in Glory looks at inherited beliefs and the freedom to question what previous generations handed down, while Run Yandina Run turns towards the history held in the Australian landscape and the importance of keeping difficult stories alive rather than allowing them to quietly disappear.
Together, they’re different stories, but they’re all wrestling with much the same thing: people. People getting things wrong. People trying again. Families that aren’t perfect. Relationships stretched by life. The habits we hide behind. The stories buried in the places we live. And the possibility that, with a bit of honesty, we might be able to do things differently.
“I don’t think I realised how connected all of these songs were until we had the record sitting in front of us,” Raymond says. “They’re all about people trying to work something out. I definitely don’t have the answers. That’s probably why the album ended up being called Mr. Know It All.”
The album arrives after a year that has taken Raymond from the Kimberley to Kings Canyon and back across Australia, continuing the kind of touring that has become central to his music: regional towns, community halls, folk festivals and listening rooms where the story matters as much as the song.
That grassroots connection is already carrying into the new record. Hundreds of physical copies of Mr. Know It All have been sold ahead of its official release, giving the independent album a strong start before it reaches streaming platforms.
Raymond will bring the album to the stage across September and October with a run of intimate launch shows before undertaking a much larger Australian tour from January through March 2027.
The shows continue the world Raymond has been building around what he calls Mountain Roots: folk storytelling, blues grit and songs shaped by the mountains, roads, people and places he’s encountered along the way.
After years of figuring out exactly what that means, Mr. Know It All might be the clearest answer yet.
Not because Jack Raymond suddenly knows it all. Quite the opposite.
WALLS OF JERICHO Legendary Hardcore Force Unleash Incendiary New Single “True Til’ Death”
New Album System Error: Humanity drops November 13, 2026
Detroit metalcore legends WALLS OF JERICHO are currently preparing to unleash their first new record in a decade, System Error: Humanity, out November 13, 2026. Following the release of their explosive comeback single “The Ascent” and its righteous follow-up “Agency”, they today offer the thrash-laden pit bomb “True Til’ Death”. Kicking off the record with menacing cymbal crashes and pummeling kicks, frontwoman Candace Buckingham roars gospel about the eroding nature of rage, and how what once felt motivational now feels apathetic, exploring what strength is necessary to persevere through such a defeating transformation.
Frontwoman Candace Buckingham on “True Til’ Death”:
“‘True Til Death’ is about facing the inner turmoil that once served you as a way to survive, and learning to turn it into fuel. It’s choosing positive aggression over hopelessness, using that pain to keep fighting. Musically, it hits with heavy breakdowns and straightforward, driving hardcore riffs that carry that fight forward.”
Watch the Official Video for “True Til’ Death” https://youtu.be/E3zAo0M6yjQ
Order Your Copy of System Error: Humanity lnk.to/WallsOfJericho-SystemErrorHumanity/napalmrecords
Clobbering listeners out of the gate with “True Til’ Death”, the band affirms the triumph of their comeback with rabid aggression: iconic frontwoman Candace Buckingham immediately commands listeners with her gargantuan growls. The discordant violence of tracks like “The Ascent” and “Untouchable”, taps into something truly primal and kicks you back a reading level with their claustrophobic chord work, while more thrash-driven tracks like “The Flame” and “Agency”, take off at 100 miles per hour, plowing through a plethora of protein-packed riffage and solos. Lyrically, the band is stoking the flames of discontent, with tracks like “Agency”, “Borrowed Ground”, and “Last Judgement”, delivering empowering messages of reclamation, self-determination, and human rights, encouraging listeners to fight for a better world. The record also features a premier slew of guests, including Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe on “Broken Mouths Can’t Speak”, his beckoning howl joining Candace on a ferocious duel attack; and Guy Kozowyk of The Red Chord on “Humanity”, propelling the groove-laden pit starter into cataclysmic levels of chaos. After some more delicious violence, and a transcendent slow burn in the form of “A Brighter Fire”, “The Reckoning” finishes things off with an epic, catastrophic energy that is bookended with one of the album’s most punishing breakdowns, bound to send some unlucky concertgoers to the dentist.
Legendary producer and Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou (NAILS, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Code Orange, and Every Time I Die) is behind the boards, capturing the band’s ferocious live energy while maintaining a pristine presentation. Powerful, fierce, and stirring, WALLS OF JERICHO re-emerge with righteous purpose and brutal dedication; humanity may be the source of the system error, but we are the system, and we are the solution.
KONVENT Danish Extreme Metal Witches Release New Album’s Title Track, “Firesky”
Brave, New Album, Firesky, Set for November 6, 2026 via Napalm Records
Danish death doom band KONVENT shares the second single and title track from their upcoming third album, Firesky, out November 6, 2026 via Napalm Records. The new song shows the four women’s versatility by highlighting both their ability to open up pitch-black abysses as well as weave in clean passages that shine through the cloudy heaviness like the fire in its name. Following a tour with shooting stars Zeal & Ardor as well as shows at Wacken and Copenhell, Firesky is KONVENT’s bravest album yet.
Embellishing their compositions, five songs is all it takes this time around to prove how incomparably weighty KONVENT’s sonic soundscapes can be. Firesky’s tracks are significantly longer than what KONVENT have offered before, but the dynamics within the dark arrangements prove the extraordinary commitment to their craft. Previously leaving their mark on the death doom scene, the band now expands on their influences and experiments significantly with black metal. They say the third album makes it or breaks it – KONVENT, however, manage to fully reconstruct the principle itself.
KONVENT about the new single “Firesky”:
“‘Firesky’ is a celebration of female and queer communities lifting each other up in a world of adversity and burning down every deep-rooted threat to our existence. Joining us on ‘Firesky’ is Mai Soon Young Øvlisen of Meejah.”
Watch the official music video for “Firesky”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4xgAgFfMr8
Constructed carefully, Firesky serves as both the atmospheric journey into the darkest depths of the soul and the guide out of the abyss. The Danish band goes to great lengths – literally and figuratively – to reshape the strong footprint they have already left in the scene.
KONVENT about Firesky: “After four years, we are finally ready to release our third album, Firesky, as our most ambitious album yet. On this album we have experimented more with black metal, as it is a genre we are all very inspired by. Lyrically it has been impossible for us to ignore the political state of the world, and we have found it imperative to comment on the active decisions to withdraw basic human rights for women and LGBTQ people. Firesky is a screaming desire to burn everything down and to create a more solidary and empathic world.”
Get your copy of Firesky lnk.to/Konvent-Firesky/napalmrecords
“Exorcise” kicks the album off as a mission statement. Slow and brutal, it opens up the gates to doom metal’s very core – only to explode in its last third, proving early on that KONVENT have their new path well thought out. Carefully built-up tension releases through Rikke Emilie List’s sublime screams, contrasting previous gutturals. Following, “Scorning” constructs an equally suspenseful atmosphere. Gentle drums and guitars pave the way for deep vocals, both becoming more diverse as time passes. In a fast-paced world, KONVENT offer an escape by letting their melodies breathe. Though slow and with its tracks all set around the 10-minute mark, Firesky feels interesting as the four women use their skills to build poignant musical themes. Where delicate guitars almost make the second song feel light, “Into The Unknown” steers the quartet back into shadowy realms. Sitting at roughly 12 minutes, the album’s longest song is a masterclass in diverse, progressive songwriting within the extreme metal field. The title track, “Firesky”, stands out through clean passages shining through the cloudy heaviness like the fire in its name. Seamlessly blending into the previous track, “Postludium” closes the album as an instrumental outro.
WIZARDTHRONE Michael Barber Leaves GLORYHAMMER to Lead WIZARDTHRONE Full-Time!
New Track, “Death Cycles”, Out Now | Watch the Lyric Video
After a decade with GLORYHAMMER, multi-instrumentalist visionary Michael Barber has announced his departure from the band to focus on WIZARDTHRONE. With a completed lineup, new music, and the project’s first-ever live shows on the horizon, Barber is making the shift official. The band’s current lineup features Michael Barber on vocals and guitar, Matthew Bell (Forlorn Citadel) on guitar, Keiran Allen (Akercocke) on bass, Christopher Bowes (ALESTORM) on keyboards, and Isak Olsson (TWILIGHT FORCE) on drums.
The announcement arrives alongside “Death Cycles”, WIZARDTHRONE’s first new track since 2021’s Hypercube Necrodimensions. Barber has moved to both lead vocals and guitar for the release, which was mixed by Dave Otero (Archspire, Shadow of Intent) and features artwork from Dan Goldsworthy, who also designed the band’s debut album.
Watch the lyric video for “Death Cycles”
WIZARDTHRONE remains true to its self-described “extreme wizard metal” roots, but “Death Cycles” carries noticeably more weight than what came before. The track pushes into melodic death, black, and even power metal territory – drawing on influences like Children of Bodom, Dissection, and Wintersun – while taking the sound to darker places, built around winding riffs, relentless drums, and razor-sharp leads. The result trades the project’s earlier mathematical chaos for something heavier and more direct.
Lyrically, the song imagines a collapse of timelines, wherein an alien entity compresses every possible version of existence into a single point. Barber wrote the piece in response to the last few years of his own life; burnout, grief and the endless passage of time become inescapable cosmic horror.
Barber explains:
“Ever since Hypercube Necrodimensions came out in 2021, I couldn’t stop thinking about writing more music and getting WIZARDTHRONE on stage. The ideas stacked up between other tours until it was obvious: this had to be my number one focus. ‘Death Cycles’ is everything I am as a musician right now, and I can’t wait to share it – we locked in Dave at Flatline Audio for the mix and he really unleashed the energy from the recordings. Dan’s art perfectly matches the emotional desolation of the lyrics, and most importantly, this single captures the first performance of the new lineup: Isak and Keiran, two of the best musicians I know, alongside my long-standing songwriting partners Chris and Matt. More new music is in the works right now, and we’re finally ready to play live, starting in my hometown of London this November, at the very venue where it all began for me.”
HIPPIE DEATH CULT Portland Heavy Rock Power Trio Drops “Blood, Grit & Bone”
Heavy rock power trio and recent Blacklight Media/Metal Blade Records signees, HIPPIE DEATH CULT, are pleased to present their new stand-alone single, “Blood, Grit & Bone.” The song marks their first new studio output in three years.
The band comments, “‘Blood, Grit & Bone’ is a powerful, unapologetic statement of resilience—a fierce anthem of self-acceptance that celebrates the strength found in aging, the beauty of hard-earned scars, and defiant confidence in the face of societal judgment. Musically, the track traces the evolution of heavy music, building a bridge from ‘70s-infused, foundational grit to the high-velocity, percussive intensity of the thrash metal movement.”
Watch HIPPIE DEATH CULT’s video for “Blood, Grit & Bone”
HIPPIE DEATH CULT recently kicked off their tour through Europe and the United Kingdom. The journey commenced on September 30th and will run through October 30th. From there, the band will head back to the US to join the Corrosion Of Conformity and The Sword co-headlining tour. The two-week trek begins on November 2nd in Buffalo, New York and closes on November 19th in Pensacola, Florida. HIPPIE DEATH CULT will make their way back home with seven more headlining dates from November 21st in Houston, Texas through November 29th in Oakland, California.
HIPPIE DEATH CULT has steadily become one of the most exciting bands in the modern heavy music scene, pairing massive riffs, deep grooves, psychedelic textures, thoughtful lyricism, and hypnotizing melodies into a sound that feels both classic and contemporary. Formed in Portland, Oregon, the trio — guitarist Eddie Brnabic, vocalist/bassist Laura Phillips, and drummer Harry Silvers — has earned a reputation for delivering dynamic, emotionally charged songs and electrifying live performances that showcase their distinctive sound, transcending traditional genres and captivating fans worldwide.
Since their early releases with Cursed Tongue Records and Heavy Psych Sounds Records, the band has built significant momentum. Their 2019 debut album, 111, and its 2021 follow-up, Circle Of Days, received strong praise from critics and listeners alike, with both records topping the Doom Charts and numerous “Best Of” lists, solidifying HIPPIE DEATH CULT as a standout name in the underground scene.
Following these releases, the band’s evolution into a power trio marked a turning point, with Laura Phillips stepping into lead vocal duties and infusing even more identity and force into the group’s sound and chemistry. This progression came fully into focus on Helichrysum, the band’s first full-length studio album featuring Phillips on lead vocals. Released in 2023, the album was widely praised for its stronger songwriting, greater dynamic range, and the chemistry of the new lineup, becoming their most successful release to date in terms of streams and sales.
The band supported Helichrysum with over 250 shows across North America and Europe, including performances on major festival stages and headlining spots, further showcasing the raw power and intensity that have made their live shows a must-see.
Now signed to Blacklight Media and Metal Blade Records, HIPPIE DEATH CULT is entering a new phase with the most reach and momentum of their career. With a growing international fanbase, an increasingly refined sound, and a new release on the horizon, the band is poised to take the next leap forward. Stay tuned for more new music and more in 2027.
https://www.blacklightmediarecords.com/hippiedeathcult
Powerhouse Rock Group SHOGUN MOJO RELEASE ‘GONNA RAISE HELL’ (SINGLE)
From Upcoming Self-Titled Album
Out October 30, 2026 Via Frontiers Music SRL
PRE-ORDER HERE
SHOGUN MOJO – an exciting new collaboration between legendary Kiss guitarist Tommy Thayer and acclaimed singer-songwriter Dan Reed of Dan Reed Network fame – is thrilled to share the new single and official video, ‘Gonna Raise Hell’, taken from the self-titled debut album, out on October 30, 2026, via Frontiers Music Srl.
Dan Reed commented: “The new Single ‘Gonna Raise Hell’ is a straight up invitation to give a hundred and ten percent to everything you put your mind to… from the obvious of partying into the night, but also to romance, to celebration, even to whatever your passion is for in life… and accept that sometimes what we believe are angels in our lives come with a dark side, and sometimes the people we have hatred for may be in our path to bring us insight and wisdom. So let’s raise hell together… starting with tonight… see what tomorrow brings!”
Watch the official video for ‘Gonna Raise Hell’ HERE
Pre-Order SHOGUN MOJO HERE
Shogun Mojo is the explosive new rock collective masterminded by legendary guitarist Tommy Thayer (KISS, Black ’N Blue) and acclaimed vocalist Dan Reed (Dan Reed Network), uniting decades of arena rock legacy, musical innovation and pure rock’n’roll spirit.
Backed by an exceptionally tight lineup featuring drummer Robert Ikiz and bassist Bengt Jonasson, the band delivers a debut album packed with towering hooks, driving energy and electrifying performances.
Tommy Thayer commented on the record, by saying: “I’ve always loved doing projects like this because they give me a chance to step outside of my usual world and just create, play guitar and have fun making music. Dan and I go back a long way, and it’s been great getting to know Bengt and Ikiz over the past year and discovering the chemistry we have together. Shogun Mojo really came from that shared energy, getting in a room, playing, writing and seeing where it took us. There’s a great spirit and camaraderie in this band that comes through in the music, and I’m excited for people to finally hear what we’ve created together.”
“This debut album is a reflection of all the rock records both Tommy, Bengt, Ikiz and I grew up listening to! Even Brion James from my band Dan Reed Network has a co-write on the album called ‘Funk Party’! What we captured in the studio is playing live together like bands did in the 70s, and the outcome is a record that’s groovy, rowdy funk rock celebration of life. At least that was the goal”, added Dan Reed. “In a world of AI music, we took it back to the roots of having fun writing in a room together and recording in a room together. We hope you feel what we attempted to capture. We are often told ‘People don’t want to hear guitar solos anymore’… so Tommy has a guitar solo in every song!”
Musically, Shogun Mojo channel the infectious melodic punch of classic late ’70s and early ’80s hard rock, blending the anthemic spirit of KISS with the soulful intensity and unmistakable swagger of Dan Reed’s vocal style. Fans of Dan Reed Network’s Slam will immediately connect with the album’s vibrant mix of massive choruses, funk-infused grooves and feel-good rock energy – but with a warmer, more organic and timeless sound that recalls the golden era of analog-driven rock records.
Raw, dynamic and unapologetically alive, Shogun Mojo’s debut is a celebration of big riffs, earworm melodies and the enduring power of classic hard rock reinvented for a new generation.
Line Up:
Dan Reed
Tommy Thayer
Bengt Jonasson
Robert Ikiz
Follow SHOGUN MOJO: Website
DEICIDE RETURN TO AUSTRALIA FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2006
Legendary Death Metal Titans Announce January & February 2027 Australian Tour!
DEICIDE are returning to Australia for the first time since 2006!
One of the biggest and most influential bands in death metal history will bring their uncompromising brand of extreme metal to Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney in January and February 2027.
Formed in Tampa, Florida in 1987 by Glen Benton and Steve Asheim, DEICIDE exploded onto the international metal scene with their landmark 1990 debut and the genre-defining Legion in 1992.
Credited as the second-best-selling death metal band of the SoundScan era, DEICIDE have released twelve studio albums across a career spanning more than three decades. Their brutal, uncompromising sound has cemented their status as one of the most important and enduring forces in extreme metal.
After more than 20 years, DEICIDE are finally coming back Down Under.
DEICIDE: AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2027
Saturday 30th January – Froth and Fury Festival, ADELAIDE
Sunday 31st January – Northcote Theatre, MELBOURNE
Wednesday 3rd February – The Brightside (Outdoors), BRISBANE
Thursday 4th February – The Baso, CANBERRA
Friday 5th February – Manning Bar, SYDNEY
Tickets From: yourmatebookings.com/tours/deicide/
On Sale: Tuesday 13th October
DEICIDE
Glen Benton — Vocals / Bass
Steve Asheim — Drums
Taylor Nordberg — Guitar
Jadran Gonzalez — Guitar
SWITCH DISCO (UK) AND COCO BEVAN ANNOUNCED FOR HOT DUB ON THE HARBOUR IN SYDNEY
FINAL TICKETS ON SALE NOW
With limited, final tickets remaining to this year’s HOT DUB ON THE HARBOUR event, the team behind one of Sydney’s best harbourside parties have shared the addition of two exciting acts set to add their own flair to this takeover of Fleet Steps.
For its 5th birthday edition, the icon that is HOT DUB TIME MACHINE has been preparing to lead attendees through a huge night of music, visuals and core memory-inducing fun.
Set to join the chaos at HOT DUB ON THE HARBOUR, the Platinum-selling, globally-renowned UK dance duo, SWITCH DISCO. With over half a billion global streams to their catalogue, the duo have evolved an incredible sphere of influence through years’ spent delivering insatiable live sets in clubs and on festival stages worldwide. SWITCH DISCO’s collaborations with artists including ALOK, Ella Henderson and Sam Feldt have only galvanised their status as an unstoppable force; their addition to HOT DUB ON THE HARBOUR only means relentless energy and the perfect vibe switched up 100%.
Multi-talented DJ, vocalist and producer COCO BEVAN joins the party, bringing her equally passionate blend of techno, house and anthemic sounds to Mrs Macquaries Point. A wonderfully versatile artist and performer, COCO BEVAN’s sets have been lauded across the world. Quickly becoming a stand out in the Australian space as well as a formidable force online (with over 12 million TikTok views alone), COCO BEVAN is coming through with a standout set for her hometown crowd this November.
HOT DUB ON THE HARBOUR is taking place from 6pm on Friday 20 November, as part of THE POINT – the brand new music series by Fuzzy. Set against one of Australia’s most unbeatable backdrops, this one-of-a-kind party is set to fire up generational hits, era-defining classics, and the sort of tracks that will delight any music lover looking to lose themselves in the soundscapes only HOT DUB TIME MACHINE can conjure so well.
ABOUT THE POINT – A MUSIC SERIES BY FUZZY
For more than two decades, Fuzzy has produced live music events at Yurong / Mrs Macquaries Point, creating moments that have become part of Sydney’s cultural calendar. THE POINT builds on that history.
A music series by Fuzzy, THE POINT brings a seasonal program of standalone performances to a floating stage on Sydney Harbour. Each event is individually curated, bringing together artists from across genres in one of Australia’s most distinctive outdoor settings.
HOT DUB ON THE HARBOUR 2026
with SWITCH DISCO (UK) and COCO BEVAN
Friday 20 November Yurong/Mrs Macquaries Point SYDNEY