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  • Spiderbait @ Metro Thetre Review

    There's less of a naivete to Sydney kids Jody (literally, one just turned 20 for crying out loud) and more a carefree exuberance.


    They're not bothered with genre...
  • 5 Excuses To Get Out Of Doing Things With Tall Pines

    A grungegaze, sludgepop trio from Brisbane, Tall Pines are: Owen, Kelly and Cam.


    Ahead of their first show as a band, when they support Bad Bangers' EP launch next...
  • Trick Or Treat With Deadlam This Halloween

    Australians are finally embracing Halloween for what it truly is – another reason to party.


    With that in mind, Bedlam is frothing to present a line-up bigger and...
  • Brisbabes Showcases Female Musicians

    Brisbane is lucky enough to have a music scene rich with female artists, it’s just sometimes hard to see them through the beards and sweaty flannel.


    Enter...
  • 5 Video Games With Tired Lion

    It's fair to say Tired Lion have owned 2015.


    So far, they have scored the following gongs: Best Rock Song at the WAMIs; winners of Channel V's Discover; their Like...
  • Cobain: Montage Of Heck Review

    The anticipation surrounding 'Cobain: Montage Of Heck's release at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was not unfounded.


    This is not a Nirvana documentary and Kurt...
  • Chris Cornell's Unplugged Visit To Australia

    Australian Soundgarden fans are having a sweet 2015. The band were recently in the country for Soundwave. Now their frontman, Chris Cornell, has announced solo acoustic,

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  • TrashQueen In Pig City

    Hailing from the northern suburbs of Brisbane, three-piece outfit TrashQueen have been kicking around since 2010.


    Favouring the late ’70s sounds of Led Zeppelin and...
  • Despite A Broken Compass, Sleepwave Are Headed To Soundwave

    For ten years, Spencer Chamberlain stood at the helm of one of the biggest metalcore bands in the world.


    He’d helped create four albums, two of which went on to...
  • Violent Soho @ Mansfield Tavern Review, 2015

    In all the years Violent Soho have been tearing up stages across the country, and across the world, they have never played in Mansfield, until last Friday night.


    In...
  • Violent Soho Don’t Give A Damn

    In this morphed and mutated contemporary capitalist culture – where punk has long been promed-up and hip hop became a ‘trend’ instead of a ‘movement’ – all dominant streams

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  • Introducing Nila Bonda

    Nila Bonda are a three-piece blues-grunge band from Brisbane who formed in January of 2013.


    Who is Nila Bonda? We’re three kids who came together...
  • More Seedy Bedlam From The Peep Tempel

    Raw, gritty and undefined, The Peep Tempel’s second album, ‘Tales’, weaves narratives of a uniquely Australian nature.


    “[The album]’s about that sort of old, dying...
  • Veruca Salt Live Review @ Corner Hotel Melbourne

    Alternative, grungy-rockers Veruca Salt hit the stage night one of three at Melbourne's Corner Hotel on Friday 26th September.


    The show was a sell-out months before...
  • Courtney Love Melbourne Review

    I've been on the fence since the late ‘90s when Courtney Love’s grungy tones filled the alternative charts with Hole. I’m not a fan of the drug use, nor her negative outlook

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  • Top 5 90s Grunge Bands

    Melbourne stoner-soul rockers Humans As Animals will launch their debut EP, ‘Eukaria’, tonight Thursday August 14 at The Evelyn in Fitzroy.


    The group put their...
  • The Queen Of Grunge: Courtney Love Returns To Australia This Week

    Never far from the public-eye Courtney Love is probably the most controversially out-spoken and unpredictable rock women of our time.


    With the former Hole singer...
  • Top 5 Underrated Foo Fighters Songs

    You've heard 'All My Life' on the radio a million times. You've drunkenly belted out 'Everlong' at your pub's karaoke night at least twice. Now it's time to acknowledge the

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  • Nirvana's Krist Novoselic Covers Lorde's 'Royals'

    Who hasn't covered Lorde at this point?


    Following the likes of Bruce Springsteen (who...
  • Violent Soho Are Back

    After a crazy few years touring America, returning to Brisbane, enduring writer’s block, working horrible part-time jobs and then finally recording their latest album in a

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