Michael Smith, Journalist

“I’ve got to stress, we’re not asking for any handouts." After their guitarist Blackie was bashed while working, the Hard-Ons upcoming shows are to be raise some cash for the Aussie punk legend. Bassist Ray Ahn talks us through it.

“I came back from that and I was like, ‘Man, you know what?’ The reaction from the shows and how I personally felt about them was just on a different level than I’d felt about music for a long time. It took me back to when I had started writing these songs and playing and, yeah, just made me think I’m going to do this record.

"We want everyone to party like it’s 1997; have a whole lot of old farts in the moshpit going, ‘Ow, don’t do that, my back hurts!’" Fiona Horne talks about Def FX's comeback.

It began with a passion for The Triffids and for The Morning Night it’s led to a Ricky Maymi-produced debut album. The band’s Adrian Hoffman tells Michael Smith the story.

It’s a whole new world here, so I guess just the situation and trying to learn from it all sort of influenced and inspired our current batch of songs.

What the hell is a Darth Vegas, and what does it sound like?

Hitting the road with EP number three, Intentional Love, Gossling aka Helen Croome tells Michael Smith that right now, the EP format is the best for her.