This self-titled release is The Audition’s third studio album and their first release since the departure of founding member and bassist, Joe Lussa. The pop rock outfit has decided to remain a four-piece rather than recruit another member, with rhythm guitarist, Timmy Klepek, now fulfilling the bass duties. The album begins with upbeat songs like [...]

Astronomy Class are back with the coolest, smoothest, most earthy sounding Aussie hip hop album to date. Pursuit of Happiness is a rootsy, grooving album that wears its reggae influences like dreads. Ozi Batla, a member of Astronomy Class, says that they make music for themselves. This feel good album is something you might play [...]

Anyone who has heard various artists’ collaborations with Timbaland will already have some sort of idea what this album will sound like. The club-inspired backbeats mixed with Cornell’s raspy, hardcore voice create something that is, to say the least, ‘interesting’. Cornell brings his pained sounding vocals and arbitrary lyrics to the table, but when mixed [...]

Known as ‘…AYWKUBTTOD’ or ‘Trail Of Dead’ for short (the latter rolls off the tongue slightly better), this epic rock band from Austin, Texas, has delivered an equally epic sixth studio album. This offering has it all - the giant guitar sound of 70s progressive rock, mixed with 90s, Stone Temple Pilots-esque hard rock, and [...]

From the opening vocals of singer Dougy Mandagi on ‘Love Lost’, it’s immediately clear that you don’t know The Temper Trap as well as you thought. While their EP was a radiant and energetic shot-in-the-arm of indie power-pop, it was not an indication of what would follow. Clearly the Melbourne-based four piece have reaccessed their [...]