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Music FeedsScenesStand Atlantic Score First-Ever ARIA #1 Album With ‘GODBREATH’ Stand Atlantic | Credit: Nikki Haney / Supplied Stand Atlantic have officially conquered the ARIA Albums Chart , with their fifth studio album GODBREATH debuting at number one in Australia.

Music FeedsScenesUrthboy Takes Aim At Tech Billionaires & AI On New Album ‘Reckless Bloom’ Urthboy | Lee Illfield / Supplied After more than 25 years in Australian hip-hop, Urthboy isn’t interested in going quietly into the night.

Music FeedsScenesFANGZ Announce Split, Release Final Single ‘VOID’ & Farewell Australian Tour FANGZ | Credit: Supplied After seven years of riffs, rowdiness and some truly questionable egg-related achievements , FANGZ are calling it a day.

Music FeedsScenesKATSEYE Announce 2027 Australian Arena Shows On ‘WILDWORLD’ Tour KATSEYE | Credit: Supplied Global pop sensations KATSEYE are bringing their WILDWORLD TOUR Down Under, announcing two massive Australian arena shows for February 2027.

Music FeedsScenesThe Chats Announce New Album ‘Half Cut’ & Massive 17-Date Australian Tour The Chats | Credit: Supplied GET FUCKED! Australia’s favourite pub-punk reprobates The Chats are officially back, announcing their first new album in five years, Half Cut , alongside a whopping…

Music FeedsScenesWeezer Announce 2027 Australian Tour With Third Eye Blind & Fountains Of Wayne Weezer | Credit: Supplied SAY IT AIN’T SO! Alternative rock royalty Weezer are bringing one hell of a nostalgia-fuelled singalong to Australia in 2027, announcing a massive arena tour with fellow…

Music FeedsScenesAmyl And The Sniffers Expand 2027 Australian Summer Tour Amyl & The Sniffers | Credit: John Angus Stewart / Supplied Amyl And The Sniffers have expanded their massive 2027 Australian summer tour, adding two extra shows in Melbourne and Adelaide following a…

Music FeedsScenesWhy The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Are Taking Legal Action Against My Chemical Romance My Chemical Romance Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2026 | Credit: YouTube My Chemical Romance have reportedly found themselves in legal hot water over their theatrical stage production, with the company…

Music FeedsScenesTurnstile Play To 60,000 Fans At Free Washington DC Show, Raise Over $300K For Humanitarian Aid Turnstile | Credit: Official Instagram Turnstile have turned their hardcore community spirit into some serious humanitarian action, drawing an estimated 60,000 fans to a free benefit concert at…

Music FeedsScenesBelgian Post-Black Metallers Oathbreaker Announce First-Ever Australian Tour Oathbreaker | Credit: Supplied Belgian post-black metal heavyweights Oathbreaker are finally making their long-awaited Australian debut, announcing a pair of cursed headline shows for March 2027 with…

Music FeedsScenesDisturbed Announce 2027 Australian Tour, Playing ‘The Sickness’ In Full Disturbed | Credit: Travis Shinn / Supplied OH-WAH-AH-AH-AH! Nu-metal titans Disturbed are getting down with the sickness Down Under, announcing their first Australian headline tour in more than a…

Music FeedsScenesA 5 Star Psychedelic Metamorphosis: Tame Impala Prove They’ve Fully Transformed Into Arena Royalty In Melbourne Tame Impala | Credit: @jordankmunns Do you know about this crazy fucked up thing called “custardification”? Honestly, you can’t make it up.

Music FeedsScenesThe 8 Coolest Things We Saw + Heard At Freeform Festival 2026 Avalon Emerson at Freeform Festival | Credit: Mikey Cahill / Supplied Melbourne’s Freeform Festival returned to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Saturday, 3rd October for its second annual instalment…

Music FeedsScenesStory Of The Year & Silverstein Announce 2027 Australian ‘Camp Screamo’ Tour Story Of The Year | Credit: Supplied Dust off the eyeliner and start stretching those vocal cords, because Camp Screamo is coming to Australia in 2027.

Music FeedsScenesBattlesnake Unleash New Single ‘Bog Bringer’, Announce 2027 Album & Australian Tour Battlesnake | Credit: Rhys Bennett / Supplied Sound the unholy trumpets and prepare your sacrificial offerings, because Australia’s most gloriously deranged metal serpents, Battlesnake , have…

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The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

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