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Neon Sunset: The End Of Constant Mongrel After two albums and 11 years, Melbourne punk mainstays Constant Mongrel have called it quits. Dropping by Neon Sunset to explain themselves, ahead of their last show, Andrew and Tom bring in some tracks that were important to the band and wrap up any loose ends.

Constant Mongrel Catching up with Anti Fade’s Billy Gardner. Primo!, Constant Mongrel, EXEK and Alien Nosejob will descend on Max Watt’s this February for back-to-back gigs courtesy of Anti Fade Records. It’s the second lineup the label’s curated as part of the ongoing Melbourne Music Week – Extended. The Max Watt’s gigs are also a return to auspicious surrounds for Anti Fade founder Billy Gardner, who ran a gig there as part of MMW 2019. Given the circumstances, however,...

READING Melbourne Music Week expands program, including gig series curated by The Tote, The Old Bar and more Melbourne Music Week expands program, including gig series curated by The Tote, The Old Bar and more Cash Savage - image by Naomi Lee Beveridge Words by Tom Parker The festival runs until February 28. Melbourne Music Week has been a whole lot different in 2020/21 compared to past years. Extending across three months, the festival has played an important pa...

Noel Gardner , January 14th, 2021 09:32 Noel Gardner opens the first instalment of this column for 2021 by taking a look at current punk acts "whose lyrics and outlook are for and about the Black community". Home page photograph of Twisted Thing This introductory sentence is being written during the first week of 2021, or what the Gregorian calendar claims is 2021, and because there is no real reason to feel any positivity over this changeover, no-one of note has dropped any underground punk or...