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Cat Woods

Cat Woods is a Melbourne based writer. Her beat is music, arts, food, fashion, fitness and travel. She's equally happy to listen to Sanskrit chants as Aphex Twin's epic synth assaults.

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Melbourne’s Sydney Miller Melds Crafty Samples and Synthpop on Debut EP the Inside

Her dancefloor-friendly pop leanings suggested a steady diet of Britney, Ariana and Selena, but her curiously composed samples and...

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Jamie Mcdell Recalls a Life of Wonder and Risk on Her Fourth Album

So it is with the thirteen lovingly crafted tracks on Jamie McDell's self-titled fourth album, pearls of wisdom and wonder formed by an...

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Sasami Weaves a Cathartic Tapestry of History, Anger, Art and Fantasy on Squeeze

The writhing, bloody-mouthed woman-monster illustrating Sasami Ashworth's sophomore album Squeeze is fearsome but familial. As the musical, lyrical and sensory terrain of her latest album divulges, the Californian singer-songwriter has been digging into her past, her mother's family history, and...

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Broods Take Experimental Approach to Processing Heartbreak on Space Island LP

Georgia and Caleb Nott of Kiwi brother/sister duo BROODS have crafted their most conceptual, atmospheric album to date with Space Island. Their fourth album is chock-full of heartbreak-on-the-dancefloor beats, bass and confessional lyrics, with the compositions dipping into artsy, experimental...

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Sydney’s Coconut Cream Deliver Fresh, Romantic Indie Pop on Their Sophomore EP

They've just released their sophomore EP What Kind Of Music Do You Like To Listen To?, a six-song showcase of their gorgeous, jangly, shoegaze vibe, with ancestral roots in...

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Aarti Jadu Auto-Tunes Sound of the Sacred on Debut LP L'ecole De La Caz

Jadu’s explorations have manifested as...

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Bitumen Dance Through a Dark, Industrial Soundscape on Sophomore LP Cleareye Shining

On sophomore album Cleareye Shining, the four-piece sounds like the lovechild...

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Cate Le Bon Wrestles With Unstable Futures on Sixth Album, Pompeii

Hawkline Cate Le Bon has a knack for poetically weaving dualities: history and imagined futures; progress and destruction; the personal and the collective; the orderly and being “tethered to a mess,” as she sings on “Moderation” from her latest LP Pompeii. From a bedroom in Cardiff...

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Grace Cummings Strikes a Dramatic Chord on Sophomore LP Storm Queen

As an actor who has performed in, and...

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CJ Temple Reveals Her Truest Self on Debut LP Smoke

While some artists and influencers post sexy, glossily filtered selfies or try to nut out the right hashtags to draw a mass following, Temple did something else. Since January 2020 she's regaled TikTok...

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Gabriella Cohen Manifests Globe-Trotting, Genre-Hopping Genius on Third LP Blue No More

From the seaside lullaby of "Water" to the Americana and...

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Fanny Lumsden Lives Her Country Life on the Road With a Family of Thrillseekers, a Guitar and a Fistful of Awards

The crushing experience of cancelled tours was ameliorated by sweeping up an array of industry awards, including ARIA Country Album of the Year for her third album Fallow...

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Meet Inkrewsive, Australia's Only Fully Inclusive and Accessible Hip Hop Crew

Felicity Brown // Courtesy of Inkrewsive “People with disabilities have the right to be heard. Some people have trouble with talking and it’s hard for them to communicate so we have to support everyone, no matter what their disability is. It’s not the disability, it’s the ability,” says Shea...

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Five Can't-Miss 2021 Albums From the Eclectic New Zealand Music Scene

Kendall Elise // Photo Credit: Kristin Cofer Australian music press and fans often look to the US and UK when seeking new sounds. It is to our detriment though, when so many diverse and divinely talented musicians and producers are emerging from the North and South Islands of New Zealand (Aotearoa...

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Shanique Marie Helps Keep Kingston Collective Equiknoxx Organic and Eclectic on Basic Tools LP

For international fans outside of the UK and Europe, the release is likely their introduction to the...

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Bush Tetras Celebrate Four Decades of Fuzzy-Guitared Funkiness on "Best of" Boxset

No wave, hip hop, R and B, soul, jazz and punk informed the sound of the streets, clubs, parks and gyms, escaping from headphones and pumped from car stereos. Patti Smith had arrived a decade earlier, traipsing...

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Liz Stringer Gets Accustomed to Her First Time Really Feeling

It was glum, in short. But in the bleakness, Liz Stringer released her sixth album, First Time Really...

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Lady Lash Pushes Boundaries With Power of the Feminine Divine on Spiritual Misfit LP

On her fifth album, Spiritual Misfit (out November 22 via Heavy Machinery Records), she pushes back on the...

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Deap Vally Invite Creative Collaborators Into Their Rock ‘N’ Roll Marriage

Their long friendship and professional partnership has been creatively fertile in the last two years,...

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Dream Pop Trio Dianas Let Elegant Harmonies Shine on Third LP Little Glimmer

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Flying Nun Founder Roger Shepherd on Forty Years of the New Zealand Label's Highs and Lows

Flying Nun Records' office circa 1982 This story begins a long time ago, in a faraway land. Not Narnia, that's another story. But, like the C.S. Lewis classic chronicles, this story has all manner of magical creatures, wild wardrobes and wondrous landscapes. Forty years ago, Roger Shepherd founded...

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Mandy, Indiana Snarl Into Sonic Techno-Punk Fury on Their Frenetic, Fiery Debut EP

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Melanie Charles Champions the Work of Black Women With Re-Imagined Classic Verve Recordings

Approached by Verve Records to remix songs from the label's back catalogue, Charles brought a lifelong reverence of jazz to the project while also putting her unique stamp on each track,...

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Ruby Jones Brings the Woman Who Loves You to Life

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Emma Ruth Rundle Is at Her Most Emotionally Naked on Fifth Album Engine of Hell

" Pairing her...

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Kult Kyss Nurture the Heartbeat of the Melbourne Dancefloor on Ultra Sound EP

Vocalist Rromarin (Claire Rayner) and producer Haxx (Jack Arentz) have crafted a...

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Dami Im Sheds Every Illusion on Sixth LP My Reality

With five previous albums and a decade of music...

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Sam Evian and Hannah Cohen Found Time to Melt in Their Catskills Artists' Retreat

Their spacious and warm home, known as Flying Cloud, provided both a working space and...

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Lauren Dejey Evokes Major Goddess Energy on Debut EP Kali Ma

Some people find Kali Ma to be enormously fearsome and dangerous to mess with, while others find her empowering. South London-based Lauren Dejey loves the labyrinthine perspectives and possibilities yielded by a goddess so mired in myth and magic, and draws on some big goddess energy on her debut...

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La Luz Embrace Their Glorious Weirdness on Self-Titled Fourth Album

A.-by-way-of-Seattle surf-noir trio La Luz released their self-titled fourth album via longtime label Hardly Art, a representation of their lengthy friendship, combined and individual musical careers, and journeys both geographical and emotional. More than...

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Cong Josie Is the Camp Cowboy Challenging Aussie Machismo and Colonialist Agendas

Behind the cowboy-hatted, snakeskin booted persona of Cong Josie is Nic Oogjes, a Melbourne music veteran whose latest...

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Katie Underwood Joins Bardot Bandmate Belinda Chapple to Debut Duo Ka’bel

Bardot bandmates Belinda Chapple (left) and Katie Underwood (right) have reunited to release their first single as Ka'Bel. Katie Underwood and Belinda Chapple battled through a pandemic, an ocean between them, and their own doubts to form a duo and release new single "Broken Hearted" under the...

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Screensaver Pay Homage to Classic Post-Punk With Debut LP Expressions of Interest

Discovering screensaver’s debut album Expressions of Interest (released October 8 through Heavy Machinery Records) might make you wonder if you've stumbled upon a B-sides and rarities album from the late 1980s. Somewhere between Siouxsie And The Banshees and Visage, the lush synths and dramatic...

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Musician and Photographer Denée Segall Reveals What Makes Her Feel Good

Denée Segall shamelessly admits she feels good when she’s with...

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Mindy Meng Wang Draws Ancient Chinese Harp Into Contemporary Movement on Phoenix Rising

Mindy Meng Wang is not interested in living in a time warp. She is confidently, elegantly weaving traditional instrumentation into a contemporary soundscape to reveal new possibilities for ancient tools. Chinese born, the Melbourne-based Wang is an internationally renowned composer and expert in...

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Bnny Set to Channel the Grief Behind Debut LP Everything on Tour With Fellow Chicagoans Dehd

In August, Fire Talk Records released Everything - her dreamy, fuzzy, captivating debut album as Bnny. It shows off the intense musicality and vulnerability the Chicago singer-songwriter has demonstrated since...

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Georgia State Line Bring a Bit of Nashville to Australia on Debut LP in Colour

It is deep, warm, momentarily heartbroken, then soaringly defiant. As Georgia State Line, the Melbourne country artist and her band have won a...

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Eagle and the Wolf Showcase Musical Partnership on Two Lovers

New South Wales singer-songwriter Sarah Humphreys and her accomplished partner Kristen Lee Morris have proven with multiple solo albums respectively that they have a masterful understanding of Americana music. A strong vein of storytelling pulses through their body of work, and Two Lovers, their...

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Julia Bardo Embraces Outsider Italian Heritage on Solo Debut Bauhaus, L'appartamento

Her poppy folk-rock debut Bauhaus, L'Appartamento (released September 10 via Wichita Recordings) is evidence that not being okay can be the catalyst for some very creatively fruitful...

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Erica Dunn Is a Triple-Threat Rocker Fronting Palm Springs, Tropical Fuck Storm, MOD Con, and More

Erica Dunn with MOD CON What's more impressive than being the member of one of Melbourne's most iconic rock ‘n’ roll bands? Being the member of several. Erica Dunn – of MOD CON, Tropical Fuck Storm, Harmony, and Palm Springs - is a rarity. The signs were all there early, though. Her school guitar...

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L.A. Exes Serve up Sunny Queer Surf Pop on Debut LP Get Some

A. Exes. Their beachy-meets-pop punk sound makes light of longing – not necessarily for a long-lost lover, but with a general sense of nostalgia expressed in a sonic wonderland of rock, pop and groove. The sonic...

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Jorja Chalmers Follows Sophomore LP Midnight Train With Sexy, Sax-Y Madonna Cover

It's yearning, it’s lustful - all the things women are not expected to demonstrate publicly. On the 20-track compilation of Madonna Covers out via Italians Do It Better, 19 artists from 19 countries...

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Aussie Abroad Larissa Tandy Pays Homage to Three Hometowns With Singles Series

" It's the final in a trilogy of singles she's put out this year, following “Drive” on July 23 and “Sirens” released on May 21. All three were written and recorded...

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Queer Acceptance and Electronic Body Music Meet on Forthcoming Brixx EP Conversion Therapy

The Melbourne music producer, composer and DJ repeatedly disorients and recalibrates...

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Laura Stevenson Is Candid and Confessional on Her Self-Titled Sixth Solo Album

There's more than a subtle reference to jangly, ‘90s, indie solo acts like Liz Phair in...

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Ora the Molecule Wanders Far and Wide on Debut LP Human Safari

Those precious fragments have come together as Human Safari, her debut album as Ora The Molecule,...

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Jazzparty Revel in Sparkly, Seedy, Multi-Genre Glamour on Sophomore LP Nobody Gets Away

On JAZZPARTY's recently-released sophomore album Nobody Gets Away, no dance shoes will emerge without heavily worn soles. “We were...

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Pony Hunt Explores Endless Variables in a Fluid Universe With Var! LP

California-born, Chicago-raised Jessie Antonick, a.k.a. Pony Hunt, recorded her newest album VAR! in New Orleans, but inspiration came from light years away. Its title is a reference to the scribbled note of astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1923, upon realizing that what he’d previously identified as...

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Judith Ann Warren Went From Arizona Choirgirl to LA Punk Singer to Mature Vogue Model

In February this year, she posed nude on the digital cover of Vogue Singapore, followed by modelling pastel purple hair in the June edition of Harper’s Bazaar US. The...

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The Emerging Artists and Established Acts You Need to Know About Now

Melbourne-based rapper Sophiegrophy returns with "Drehpehs" single (listen below). Melbourne has been battered by COVID-19, but our city remains the music capital of Australia, regardless of what Sydney may try to claim. Across genres, there's been no shortage of recent releases and emerging...

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