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The Cure’s The Head on the Door: 40 Years of Post-Punk Perfection

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Released on August 26, 1985, The Head on the Door marked a pivotal moment in The Cure’s evolution. Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the album stands as a testament to the band’s ability to blend post-punk sensibilities with accessible pop melodies, propelling them into the mainstream while retaining their distinctive edge.

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TX2

TX2 Teams With DeathbyRomy On Dark New Anthem ‘Feed’

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TX2 is set to unleashed his latest single Feed, a collaboration with the equally enigmatic DeathbyRomy.

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Mike Joyce The Drums

Mike Joyce Turns the Tables in The Drums: A Candid Beat from The Smiths’ Backseat

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Manchester’s unsung pulse, drummer Mike Joyce, finally steps out from behind The Smiths’ jangly guitar riffs with his much-anticipated memoir, The Drums, due for release in November 2025.

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds photo by Ros O'Gorman

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Announce Wild God 2026 Tour of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will return home to Australia in January 2026 with the official announcement today of their Wild God Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand tour. The run of shows will be the band’s first in the region since 2022 and will bring their acclaimed Wild God album to life for local audiences.

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Patti Smith Horses 50th Anniversary

Patti Smith ‘Horses’ Gets 50th Anniversary Reissue With Unearthed Demos and Live Cuts

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In 1975, Patti Smith entered Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in New York City with a vision: to fuse the jagged energy of punk with the fluid imagery of poetry. That vision became Horses, one of the most groundbreaking debut albums in rock history. Now, half a century later, Sony has announced the 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition of Horses, a release that both celebrates the legacy of the record and offers fans newly unearthed material from Smith’s early years.

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Nick Cave photo by Ros O'Gorman

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Bring Wild God Tour Home to Australia in 2026

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Nick Cave has let slip what fans have been hoping to hear for months: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will return to Australia in January 2026 for the Wild God tour. In a recent post on his Red Hand Files website, Cave revealed the news with typical candour, writing:

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Ugly Kid Joe Menace To Sobriety

Ugly Kid Joe Celebrate 30 Years of Menace To Sobriety With Deluxe Vinyl Reissue

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In 1995, Ugly Kid Joe released Menace To Sobriety, their second full-length album. A heavier, darker, and more muscular outing than their blockbuster debut America’s Least Wanted, Menace was hailed by Kerrang! as “the album of the year.” Yet, in the United States, the record received little to no label support, leaving frontman Whitfield Crane to famously declare that their label was quietly backing away.

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Jack White, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Jack White Turns White House Shade into a Badge of Honour

by Labelle Hayes

Jack White didn’t just take aim at Donald Trump’s garish Oval Office makeover, he weaponised it. Posting to Instagram this week, he scoffed at the president’s golden revamp, likening it to “a vulgar, gold-leafed and gaudy, professional wrestler’s dressing room.” A fiery riposte, to say the least.

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Ed Kuepper and Jim White

Ed Kuepper and Jim White Announce First U.S. Shows With Mick Harvey

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Kuepper, twice inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame as a founding member of both The Saints and Laughing Clowns, will finally bring his acclaimed collaboration with Dirty Three drummer Jim White to the United States for the first time this November. The pair will perform in Los Angeles on November 4 and New York on November 17, with support from none other than Mick Harvey of The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds.

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Skunkhour 2025

Skunkhour To Celebrate 30 Years Of ‘Up To Our Necks In It’ With National Tour

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Skunkhour will mark three decades since the release of one of Australia’s most enduring funk-rock singles with the Up To Our Necks In It national tour this October and November. The tour celebrates the 1995 breakthrough hit Up To Our Necks In It, a track that helped Skunkhour break from the Sydney underground into national recognition.

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Split Enz

Split Enz Celebrate 50 Years With Enzcyclopedia – The Pre-Neil Finn Years

by Paul Cashmere

Split Enz, one of the most original and daring bands ever to come out of New Zealand, are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their debut album Mental Notes with the release of Enzcyclopedia Volumes One & Two on November 14. The massive archival set arrives as a 5CD collection, a 3LP vinyl edition, and a Blu-Ray Atmos mix, offering fans the deepest dive yet into the early, experimental years of the band.

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Devo on Netflix

DEVO Documentary Lands on Netflix as Band Prepares Farewell With The B-52’s

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DEVO, the radical New Wave pioneers who turned art-school satire into international pop stardom, are back in the cultural conversation with the release of DEVO, a feature-length Netflix Original documentary. Directed by Chris Smith (Wham!, Fyre, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond), the film premiered to acclaim at Sundance 2024 and is now streaming globally, giving audiences a definitive portrait of one of music’s most original and eccentric bands.

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Vernon Reid photo by Justin Borucki supplied by Mascot Label Group

Vernon Reid Readies New Solo Album ‘Hoodoo Telemetry’ With Single ‘Beautiful Bastard’

by Paul Cashmere

Vernon Reid, the Grammy-winning guitarist best known for his incendiary work with Living Colour, has announced the release of his new solo album Hoodoo Telemetry, due October 3 via Artone / The Players Club Records. Ahead of the full release, Reid has unveiled the single Beautiful Bastard, a song he originally considered for his Yohimbe Brothers project but has now reclaimed for this collection.

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Camp Cope photo by Genna Alexopoulos

Camp Cope To Release Final Sydney Opera House Show On Vinyl And Bandcamp

by Paul Cashmere

Melbourne’s beloved power-emo trio Camp Cope have announced the launch of their final live performance on vinyl and digital formats – a fitting farewell to one of Australia’s most fiercely independent bands.

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Bleak Squad by Felix Oliver

Bleak Squad Premiere Third Single ‘Blue Signs’

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Melbourne’s newly formed art-rock collective Bleak Squad—comprised of four luminaries from the Australian music scene—have unveiled their third single and music video, “Blue Signs”, ahead of their debut album Strange Love.

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Dog Trumpet Under Water

Every Mental As Anything Song Pete and Reg Wrote Plus A New Dog Trumpet Track

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Reg Mombassa and Peter O’Doherty have pretty much tied their Mental As Anything album output (especially counting the double album Medicated Spirits as two records).

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Ethel Cain (supplied by Frontier Touring)

Ethel Cain To Perform Australia and New Zealand Dates in 2026

by Labelle Hayes

Ethel Cain has added Australia and New Zealand to her world tour dates for 2026.

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Bill Leimbach photo from the Lime Cordiale Instagram

Condolences To Lime Cordiale Brothers Louis and Oliver Leimbach On The Passing of Their Father Bill

by Paul Cashmere

Louis and Oliver Leimbach of Lime Cordiale have released an affection statement announcing that their father, filmmaker Bill Leimbach has passed away.

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Adalita Named Australian Musician’s Musician of the Month

by Paul Cashmere

Former Magic Dirt, now Bleak Squad member and most often out solo Aussie artist Adalita has been named Musician of the Month by Australian Musician for August 2025.

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Ben Folds photo by Ros O'Gorman

Ben Folds And A Piano Australian Tour Dates Revealed

by Paul Cashmere

Ben Folds will perform his ‘Ben Folds and a Piano’ tour for Australia in February and March 2026.

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Regurgitator 2025

Regurgitator Rack Up The Singles For The ‘Jukeboxxin’ Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Brisbane’s Regurgitator have released over 50 singles. Think about it. If you were to list all of the Regurgitator singles by A side and B side there are enough songs for Regurgitator to have a Regurgitator Hottest 100 of just Regurgitator songs.

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Paul Dempsey by Ashley Ludkin

Paul Dempsey To Release Solo Album ‘Shotgun Karaoke Vol. II’

by Paul Cashmere

Paul Dempsey’s next solo album will be extension to his second solo album ‘Shotgun Karaoke’, released in 2013.

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Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age at LookOut Torquay photo by Winston Robinson

Josh Homme Recovering After Spending Seven Months In Bed

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Josh Homme spent “seven months in bed” as he battled a health issue last year.

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Reg Mombassa of Dog Trumpet photo by Ros O'Gorman

Dog Trumpet To Headline Final Nimbin Roots Festival

by Paul Cashmere

Pete and Reg’s Dog Trumpet has taken top billing for the 10th birthday of the Nimbin Roots Festival but there is some bad news attached, it will also be the last year of the festival.

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Nick Cave Rethinks AI

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Nick Cave has admitted his view of artificial intelligence as an artistic tool has begun to shift.

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Everclear Sparkle and Fade

Everclear To Perform ‘Sparkle and Fade’ In Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Art Alexakis will bring Everclear back to Australia in November and December to perform the songs from the classic ‘Sparkle and Fade’ album.

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Jane's Addiction in Melbourne 2023 photo by Bron Robinson

Perry Farrell Files Lawsuit Against Jane’s Addiction Members

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Perry Farrell has filed a lawsuit against Jane’s Addiction members Dave Navarro, Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins.

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Serge Pizzorno, Kasabian - Image By Ros O'Gorman

Serge Pizzorno of Kasabian Awarded A Doctorate

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In a true homecoming moment, Sergio ‘Serge’ Pizzorno, co-founder and driving force behind the world-renowned indie rock band Kasabian, was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music by the University of Leicester yesterday, July 16, at a summer graduation ceremony held at De Montfort Hall.

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