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This week's PBS Feature Album is Angel Olsen's sixth LP, Big Time.Big Time is an album about the expansive power of new love, though with the brightness and optimism tempered by a profound and layered sense of loss. During Olsen’s process of coming to terms with her queerness and confronting the traumas that had been keeping her from fully accepting herself, she felt it was

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,...

The 30 best albums to come out of Melbourne in 2020, part one Blake Scott (image by Mia Mala McDonald) and Sweet Whirl (image by Annie Llewellyn) Words by Tom Parker We spotlight the first 15 albums of the two-part feature, ranked in no particular order. Well that’s a wrap – 2020 is finished, finito, done, dun, gone, seeya, bye, catchya, fuck off… Where am I going with this? We’re all relieved to say goodbye to the worst year of our lives, and while the g...