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The debut album from Bleak Squad is coming in August. Who, you ask? Bleak Squad is a new Melbourne indie rock supergroup featuring Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting).

In the 1980s, Machinations released three albums ‘Esteem’ (1983), ‘Big Music’ (1985) and ‘Uptown’ (1988). Singer and co-founder Fred Loneragan isn’t ruling out the possibility of a long overdue fourth album for 2026.

On 8 December 1975, Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ (Triple Zed) launched one month after the Gough Whitlam Dismissal with announcer John Woods being transmission with The Who ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’.

Meg Washington has revealed the tracklisting for her next album ‘Gem’. One song ‘Fine’ features Paul Kelly.

Talking Heads have a brand new music video for ‘Psycho Killer’ to mark the 50th anniversary of the band’s first of 92 performances at New York’s iconic CBGB’s opening for The Ramones.

June 5 marks the 50th anniversary of the time Talking Heads played their first show at New York’s legendary CBGBs.

The Ferguson Rogers Process, the collective of Lance Ferguson of The Bamboos and Tim Rogers of You Am I, have slipped out a Space and Tim Dub mix of ‘A Long Year’.