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PHOTOS: Arctangent Festival 2025

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  • Posted on August 27, 2025August 27, 2025

Arctangent’s array of prog, post-metal and noise returns in fine form for 2025, with appearances from Between The Buried And Me, Karnivool, TesseracT, Melvins, Rolo Tomassi, Mew and more.

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PHOTOS: Y Not Festival 2025

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  • Posted on August 13, 2025August 13, 2025

Another stacked festival bill for 2025 comes courtesy of Y Not, headlined by The Prodigy, Courteeners and Madness, and sporting the cream of the crop of both new indie talent, and fan-favourite throwbacks.

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FESTIVAL REVIEW + PHOTOS: 2000trees Festival 2025 – Saturday

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  • Posted on July 19, 2025July 19, 2025

It’s the final day of 2000trees, though it’s far from quiet with Alexisonfire headlining, letlive. raising the bar, and sets from Vukovi, Imminence, La Dispute, Employed To Serve, Anxious and more.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Split Chain – ‘motionblur’

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  • Posted on July 7, 2025July 7, 2025

They could do with moving a little further from their influences, but Split Chain’s concoction of grunge, shoegaze, post-hardcore and nu-metal already shows heaps of promise.

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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Outbreak Festival 2025

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  • Posted on June 29, 2025June 29, 2025

2025 sees Outbreak return bigger, better, broader and more brutal than ever, headed up by Knocked Loose at their genre-defining best, with more from Deafheaven, Foxing, Speed, Drug Church, Loathe and more.

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What To Expect From… Outbreak Festival 2025

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  • Posted on June 10, 2025June 10, 2025

On the eve of its biggest and most diverse lineup yet, we sift through Outbreak Festival’s cavalcade of hardcore, emo, indie-rock and whatever else to see exactly what to expect.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Charmer, Youth Code, 100%WET

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  • Posted on May 19, 2025May 19, 2025

In this Review Round-Up, electronic music takes some wild swings (for better or worse) between Youth Code and 100%WET, while Charmer’s emo is able to maintain some familiarity.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Oversize, Split Dogs, Eric Bass, Dark Chapel

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  • Posted on February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

In this Review Round-Up, debuts and breakthroughs yield a whole load of promise coming from Oversize and Split Dogs, oddball antics from Eric Bass, and the exact opposite of any of that from Dark Chapel.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Love Is Noise – ‘To live in a different way’

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  • Posted on February 20, 2025February 20, 2025

Shoegaze atmosphere, metal intensity and a stark lyrical grip come together on Love Is Noise’s scintillating debut.

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EP REVIEW: High. – ‘Come Back Down’

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  • Posted on January 21, 2025January 21, 2025

Though pleasant and proficient enough, the curse of shoegaze prevents High. from moving…well, higher.

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Refusing to even entertain the idea of change or evolution, thrown prove as underwhelming as ever.

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