New music
Beyond death and drugs, Bobby Gillespie and Primal Scream return
At 63, the acid-rave legend talks up Primal Scream’s politically charged new album and their upcoming Australia tour.
- by Robert Moran
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‘I’m pretty boring and sort of straight-laced’ – how sobriety improved a musician’s work
Indie darling turned bona fide star Waxahatchee returns to Australia later this month.
- by Brodie Lancaster
‘If you don’t have haters, you ain’t doing it’: How Amyl and the Sniffers became our biggest and brashest export
The band’s last two albums won them ARIA awards and global acclaim. Now they’re battling naysayers and the pitfalls of success.
- by Brodie Lancaster
Amyl and the Sniffers are back with fighting words and fist-pumping energy
New album Cartoon Darkness starts with a vicious smackdown of critics – and things only get better from there.
- by Michael Dwyer
Amyl and the Sniffers release uncensored version of nude music video
The Australian punk rock band’s music video has been lauded as powerful by body positivity advocates.
- by Angus Delaney
‘I play a chord and she says, play a better one’: Finneas on making hits with Billie Eilish
He’s won Grammys and Oscars with his famous younger sister. But for Finneas O’Connell, going solo is a necessary “coping mechanism”, he says.
- by Annabel Ross
The incel era finally has its first classic album
Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep dives into toxic masculinity on his mad solo debut.
- by Robert Moran
A remix album that’s better than the original? That’s definitely Brat
Charli XCX’s follow-up is a stunning in-the-moment reappraisal of her wild Brat summer.
- by Robert Moran
‘We are pretty awesome’: Meet indie rock’s new supergroup
The Hard Quartet, featuring Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus and Dirty Three’s Jim White, are coming to Australia.
- by Barry Divola
‘We’re still working out if we’re joking’: Behind the deadpan glory of Australia’s best pop band
With their new album 3am (La La La), Confidence Man – goofy exponents of rave excess – look to go legit (sort of).
- by Robert Moran
What does it feel like to lose a parent? This album gets to the devastating truth
With nods to the ’90s school of Liz Phair and Juliana Hatfield, Soccer Mommy’s latest is a raw record of grief.
- by Annabel Ross and Barry Divola
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