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Canberra/Wollongong band Sesame Girl has just announced the release of their second EP and will be combining it with their first EP for a special vinyl release early in 2024. Printed on eco friendly recycled vinyl, the release is limited to just 150 copies. Click below to pre order your copy now! The four piece play a brand of shoegaze pop that fans of Alvvays, Beach House and Soccer Mommy will dig as well as fans of 90’s genre pioneers such as The Sundays, Slowdive and Belly.

1. Dermot Kennedy - Sonder 2. The Mark Of Cain - Ill At Ease 3. Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version) 4. Deftones - White Pony  5. Duster - Stratosphere 6. The Grogans - Find Me A Cloud 7. Jeff Buckley - Grace 8. Lana Del Rey - Norma Fucking Rockwell 9. Olivia Rodrigo - Guts 10. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence 11. Lana Del Rey - Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd 12. Teenage Dads - Midnight Driving

It's that time of year again when we ask for your musical highlights of the year. This year we are extending our yearly best of to also include a top 20 countdown of the best local songs to come out in 2023. To define local for this we are saying any artist that originates from or is baseed in the Illawarra (Gerringong in the south to Helensburgh in the north). You can vote for up to 5 tracks but ask a maximum of two from the same artist.We'll also as usual count down our top 20 favourite albums of the...

This Saturday Irish singer/songwriter Dermot Kennedy will be here for a free and all ages in store appearance. He'll be playing a few songs and signing copies of his record 'Songder'. Buy a copy of the album on vinyl or cd to guarantee entry. BUY 'SONDER' HERE

Shining Bird today returns with the release of ‘Out Of The Black’, the bands first new music since the 2021 album ‘Deadlands’ and the first taste of album number four which is set for release in 2024.In the past 3 years the members of the band have gone through some profound changes. Three have become fathers- one of those to twins, and this has obviously fed back into the songwriting.“Our attention has turned to things in front of and inside us. Love and loss. Interior landscapes and weather systems. The reasons for why we make and play music have evolved....