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News / Festivals

Field Day 2025

Field Day Unveils 2027 Festival Line-up Starring Major Lazer, Sub Focus & More

Lazer – returning to Australia for the first time in eleven years – alongside British DJ Sub Focus and a secret headliner to be announced. The 2027 event also stars English ... producer and label boss Hannah Laing , Berlin-based producer Funk Tribu , Melbourne gooner-pop duo 2charm , and much more. Check out the line-up below. Field

Robert Kool Bell, Peach PRC

Finely Tuned Introduces New Event Series ‘FORMA’ Starring Kool & The Gang, Peach PRC, Hoodoo Gurus & More

show’s proceedings will be Perth four-piece, Great Gable and rising alt-pop singer Lola Scott . Peach PRC leads the second week of music on Thursday, 3 December ... Zealand heavyweights SIX60 return to Sydney the following night, with fellow Kiwi outfit SUB-TRIBE opening the show. Hoodoo Gurus perform as part of FORMA on their national Rewind Tour

Thundamentals live in Sydney

Live Review: Thundamentals @ Felons Barrel Room, Sydney

Instead, Jeswon and Morgs have revitalised their live show by incorporating other MCs, often subbing in their long-time collaborator—one of Australia’s greatest storytellers— Horrorshow ’s Solo . This ... tracks, like their triple j Like a Version classic, Brother , amped the audience into popping corn kernels with bangers like Top of the World and their Hilltop Hoods collaboration

Features / Interviews

Death Cab For Cutie

‘We Can Learn Lessons From The Old Records’: Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard On Songwriting, Legacy & New Music

biggest indie albums of the era, but the second-best selling album on the Sub Pop label – behind only Nirvana ’s 1989 debut, Bleach . In October, however, Death Cab returned ... aspect of I Built You A Tower ’s release is its release on Epitaph sub-label ANTI-. The group’s first time on an indie label since Transatlanticism ended their

Industry / Feature

Independent Music Exchange founders: Efficient Space's Michael Kucyk, and Butter Sessions' Corey Kikos and Maryos Syawish.

'Your Peers Are Your Best Support': Four Indie Label Owners Share Their Wisdom

labels like Motown and Stax as it was for 1990s indie rock labels like Sub Pop and Matador . But the centralised nature of most streaming services (apart from label-focused

Industry / Feature

Gympie Music Muster

Venues: Pop Ups, Billion Dollar Pay-Offs, VIP Perks, New Arrivals & Upgrades, And Meltdowns

pop stars TWICE , Indian pop idol Diljit Dosanjh , Mandopop performer Ronghao Li , and J-pop singer Ado . Short Films For Two Iconic WA Venues Short films about Perth ... tier – which costs RMB 40 (AU$8.02) per month, or five times a standard subs price. That didn’t stop the tier from getting 20 million subscribers

Features / Music

Ecca Vandal

'I Wouldn't Change A Thing': Ecca Vandal Reaches New Heights With 'LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW'

plans to relocate to London – and parted Island for Loma Vista Recordings, with Iggy Pop , Korn , and Denzel Curry on its roster. Embedded Content "I just went into ... years, trying to fit in here and to fit into the different sub-genres and scenes. "[But] I realised through the making of this album that 'scenes' is actually what

Features / Interviews

TOMORA

Introducing TOMORA: “Permission To Be Unhinged”

identities were revealed: Tom Rowlands (one half of Chemical Brothers) and Norwegian glacial-pop artist/producer AURORA – hence their portmanteau moniker. Embedded Content Although AURORA and Rowlands appear in different video ... Embedded Content ROWLANDS: “It needs to be cranked up in this crazy sort of sub bass, and AURORA’s just thought, ‘Mmmm, right’. It was like, ‘Wow, this

Bluetile Lounge

Live Review: Bluetile Lounge, Garage Sale, Wriding @ Brunswick Ballroom

could find almost no writing about the band that had an album released on Sub Pop , been claimed by Low as one of the best bands on the planet

MAY-A

MAY-A Announces 2026 Australian Tour

much into rock or too much into pop or soft pop or any of the other sub genres that there are, I kind of wanted that open slate for whatever

Industry / News

Mushroom Music's Chris Maund

Mushroom's Chris Maund Re-Appointed To Merlin Board

Marie Clausen , and Megan Jasper of respective US labels Hopeless Records , Ninja Tune , and Sub Pop ; Carlos Mills of Brazil’s Mills Records ; Golda Bitterli of Israel’s Revelator ; Secretly

Bret McKenzie

Bret McKenzie Plots 'Freak Out City' 2026 Australian Tour

East Coast. Touring in support of his latest album, Freak Out City , released via Sub Pop last August, the Grammy and Academy Award -winning artist is heading Down Under

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