2026

There’s an authentic, honest flavour of Australian rock that appears unable to separate emotion from its environment. The road is more than just tarmac. The horizon isn’t merely a painted background. When one connects the enormous openness of the outback to the tumultuous interiors of the humans traversing it, songs such as Rob Fletcher’s ‘Hells […]

Some pop songs are made to be danced to. Other songs are made to be contemplated. Stefanie Michaela achieves a perfect synthesis with ‘Carefree’. Its ultimate success is a sense of liberation found not at the end of impossible striving for perfection but through recognizing the value of simply being present. It could hardly be

Three decades into his songwriting journey, Melbourne-based musician Jason McKee could have easily introduced his band Reetoxa with something bland; a slick rock-and-roller which politely announces its presence and quickly vanishes into the algorithm. Instead, “Demand Perfection” does the opposite; it walks into the room and acts like it belongs there. Demand Perfection, the band’s