Better late than never,: Girl Monstar ready to uncage their second album

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By The Barman

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31 October 2025

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Trailblazing Melbourne garage-pop/hard rock band Girl Monstar are back with their first new music since 1992.

The new album with the very Rolling Stonesy title of  “GRRRR!!” will be released on January 27 via Vicious Kitten Records. Pre-orders are already open at the Girl Monstar Bandcamp here.

The first single “Blue Cat With Green Eyes: is out now and second single “Hate Train” is coming on November 20.  

Girl Monstar were the first all-female band to gain a national profile in Australia in the late '80s and early ‘90s.

(There's a mini documentary telling their story after the SEE MORE link.)

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The Beasts are back with special guests announced

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31 October 2025

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The Beasts have announced the undercard and special guests for their one-off Sydney show to celebrate the legendary 1990 Beasts of Bourbon album “Black Milk” at The Factory Theatre on December 12.

Old friends The Johnnys were already main support and they’ll be joined by Richie Weed & Natalie De Silver performing as a duo. Starting the evening will be Unsound!

Joining The Beasts as special guest vocalists are Rob Younger (New Christs, Radio Birdman), Richie Weed (Tumbleweed) and Hellen Rose, who supplied backing vocals at the album’s sessions. Tickets are on sale here.

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Beating on the BRAT FARRAR

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By The Barman

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29 October 2025

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Connoisseurs of underground garage punk and punk wave will be familiar with Melbourne’s BRAT FARRAR and they’re back in the saddle with a new release looming.

“Tower of Lies” is the digital single that hits all streaming services on November 7 as the precursor to the album “GROUP” released in February 2026 via Beast Records (France), Take The City Records (Spain) and Ghost Highway Records (Spain). Recorded by Idge at Soundpark, ‘GROUP” was mastered by the ubiquitous Mikey Young.

We've had a preview of "Tower of Lies" and it's a searing piece of steamroller punk rock. Pre-save it on Spotify here.

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Chris Bailey's final Saints album out on November 28

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29 October 2025

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Two new tracks from the final Saints record, “Long March Through The Jazz Age”, have been released and the album will be out on November 28 on Fire Records. 

“Long March Through the Jazz Age” is the last recorded work by Chris Bailey and The Saints. It’s a moving farewell - a testament to a restless, uncompromising artist who always moved forward, one of rock’s great lyricists and iconoclasts.

You can stream the new tracks, “Gasoline” and “Carnivore (Long March Through the Jazz Age)” here. The CD or LP can be pre-ordered here.

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Songs Josh Lord taught us

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By Robert Brokenmouth

Robert Brokenmouth

29 October 2025

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And Now Is The Twilight Of Our Empire – Josh Lord (Music The Lord Taught Us)

It’s three songs and digital only. Produced by Loki Lockwood of Spooky Records. The eponymous title track, then “I Can No Longer Remember The Future” and “The Warm Embrace of Machine”.

What we have here might initially strike you as some very cleverly manipulated drone. However, “drone” is, along with terms like “ambient”, “post-punk” and “industrial”, an incredibly misleading descriptor. 

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Word on the street is that Angel Face rules on second album

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25 October 2025

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Out In The Street – Angel Face (Slovenly Recordings)

Catchier than the Tokyo subway, “Out In The Street” is the second album for Tokyo’s Angel Face, and any fan of Real Kids or The Boys needs a copy – pronto. It’s 10 songs of no-nonsense, melodic street punk that the world deserves to hear.

I caught these guys in the flesh at the Tokyo Halloween Ball a couple of years ago and they were impressive over a weekend that delivered an embarrassment of riches. That may have been one of their earliest gigs because Angel Face have only been around a few years.

They’ve already put another long-player, a European festival date and a short US tour under their belts. Hercules (vocals), Fink (guitar), Toyozo (bass) and Rayco (drums) have the Japanese work ethic and their productivity would put most of their overseas contemporaries in a cardiac ward.

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Datura4 powers into QLD for a weekend spin

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21 October 2025

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Dom Mariani, leader of The Stems and proud parent of a brand new solo album, “Apple Of Life”,  is taking his ‘70s psych-boogie band Datura4 out of Western Australia for a fang around South-Eastern Queensland this weekend.

Datura4 plays Iron & Resin at Currumbin on Friday October 24 with local garage stompers The Spivs. Tickets for that one are here.

On Saturday, Datura4 hits The Brightside in Brisbane with special guests The Dubrovniks (sans the late James Baker) and The Horny Toads. The occasion is Dubrovniks guitarist Glenn Armstrong’s 60^th birthday and tickets are here.

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It's 10/10 for the new Chris Masuak album (and we're stoked if we do say so outselves)

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20 October 2025

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Excuse the commercialism but the first review of the impending Chris Masuak's Dog Soldier album on our own I-94 Bar Records is in and it's a 10/10 from Colin Gray of The Australian Rock Show. The self-titled CD is out on 7 November.

Pre-order your own copy here and join the Bandcamp listening party to chat with Chris and members of the band here at 9pm (AEDST) on Thursday November 6. If you register at the associated Facebook event you'll receive a reminder an hour before it goes live. 

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Everyone's a winner as the Psychotic Turnbuckles don their title belt for Festive slamfest

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14 October 2025

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It’s not easy being the Kings Of The Combat Zone. You’re living in the lap of luxury in Pismo Beach. There’s champagne to be sipped, caviar to be eaten, and a stream of adoring and beautiful women won’t leave them alone.

Every December, the Psychotic Turnbuckles remember their beginnings in the cruel and shallow money trench called the music business. It was more than 40 years ago when they were banned from the Pismo Beach Wrestling Alliance and landed in Sydney, Australia.

It’s tradition now that each year, The Undefeated Champions jump onto private jets and return to Australia for a Festive Spectacular. The 2025 ringside action occurs at Marrickville Bowling Club on Saturday, December 13 and tickets are here.

These humble giants of rock and roll wrestling think of it as a small gesture for the fans. 

Jesse The Intruder’s little helpers this year will be The Dark Clouds and The Sugar Beats. The honour of playing with these Immortals was something both bands could not pass up.

This year, every advance ticketholder will receive a present at the door.

Don’t leave things to chance. Who knows what you’ll miss when the Psychotic Turnbuckles lay waste to Dull City one more time?

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