Matthew Tomich, Journalist

Doctopus and Pond continue their US onslaught and rear-end a cab in the process. Ouch!

Roadie Matthew Tomich hits the US tour circuit with the two Perth bands.

Antarctica: A Year On Ice will make you want to live there... well for at least a little while.

Things get a little repetitive in the album’s final third, but the band’s penchant for evocative melodies and cohesive flow between songs make For The Win a solid and promising debut.

They seem like a shoe-in to make it through to the final, but in the end These Winter Nights and Apache take the two spots. No matter, though: Big Splash or not, UpnUp are destined for tremendous things.

With King Animal, they prove there’s still a little gas in that tank.