You never have to question which country Men At Work are from because they put it right in the chorus of their biggest hit: “I come from a land down under.” That song, the chart-topping early ’80s smash “Down Under,” has apparently been played at recent events organized by March For Australia, an anti-immigrant movement whose website bears the motto “Our National Identity Will Not Be Erased.” Colin Hay’s not happy about it.

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In 2022, Turnstile announced the departure of founding guitarist Brady Ebert, a sudden and shocking change for the band. Ebert and Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates were childhood friends, and their split was ugly enough that courts reportedly got involved. I still have no idea what happened there, and I can only hope that nobody did…

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Guitarist Gregory Uhlmann is one of those musicians who has worked with everybody. Besides co-leading the great LA experimental jazz combo SML, he’s made records with the likes of Meg Duffy and Dustin Wong. He maintains a trio with saxophonist Josh Johnson and bassist Sam Wilkes. He’s been part of the touring band for Duffy’s…

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Winston Hightower has a new album on the way. The Columbus lo-fi institution will release 100 Acre Wood in April on K’s Perennial imprint. That’s the same label that gave us Sharp Pins, but Hightower’s version of lo-fi is not so obviously Beatles-y. Local forebears Times New Viking’s scrappy, melodic art punk is a reference…

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In April 1986, Bruce Hornsby and his band the Range released their debut album The Way It Is, and things would never be the same. You see what I did there? It’s not great, but it’s better than the line about “Bruce Hornsby has the Range,” which I thought about using as the lede of this post. Aren’t you glad I didn’t do that? Anyway, Hornsby has had a long, fascinating career. Among many other things, he spent a few years as a touring member of the Grateful Dead, and he recently shared a tribute for his late bandmate Bob Weir.

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Courtney Barnett is back, baby! The great Australian artist released the instrumental album End Of The Day in 2023, but it’s been, what, four and a half years since she dropped Things Take Time, Take Time, her last LP with vocals. In the time since then, Barnett’s label Milk! Records has shut down, and she’s…

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Rob Hirst, the founding drummer for Australian new wave greats Midnight Oil, has died. Hirst died due to complications from pancreatic cancer. “After fighting heroically for almost three years, Rob is now free of pain — ‘a glimmer of tiny light in the wilderness,'” Hirst’s Midnight Oil bandmates write in a statement on their socials. “He died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones.” In a separate statement shared to ABC, the band writes, “We are shattered and grieving the loss of our brother Rob. For now there are no words but there will always be songs.” Hirst was 70.

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NOFX were a band for more than 40 years. For that entire time, their lineup included singer/bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin. But as soon as NOFX played their final show in San Pedro in 2024, Melvin apparently sued Fat Mike, accusing him of “financial malfeasance.” According to drummer Erik Sandin, the band’s other founding member, Melvin’s lawyers served Fat Mike with legal papers the morning after the band’s farewell gig.

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Last October Tori Amos announced that her 18th studio album was on the way, that it’d be called In The Times Of Dragons, and that she’d be supporting it with a massive European tour. Today the singer-songwriter has announced its official release date — May 1 — as well as a trek across the US this summer. That’s the album’s cover art above by Kasia Wozniak.

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Baltimore’s own Powerwasher play post-punk with the quirky playfulness of Devo and a tough post-hardcore edge. It’s the kind of punk that almost feels like funk, rhythmically volatile in a way that makes me think of cartoon explosions. “3-MeO-PCE,” the lead single from their new Pressure EP, reminds me of the Futureheads and Cheekface in…

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