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Hi, hey, hello!
It is a muggy Sunday morning here in Western Sydney, and I am currently buried under a veritable mountain of blankets (with a fan blasting at full power about 20cm from my face, because… contrast). September was a pretty hectic month – hence the last two NME round-ups not even having intros – but I’m currently enjoying a chill day off and mentally preparing myself for an even more insane October.
On that note, we’re only a week out from COVID restrictions (supposedly) easing in NSW, which means I should be able to start house-hunting (and finally see Shang-Chi, holy shit) later this month! I’m just crossing my fingers in hopes that the border to Victoria opens soon too, or that we’re at least able to start applying for permits to cross it. Right now my LGA is a grey zone, which means we aren’t able to cross any interstate borders unless it is an absolute, extreme-case emergency. But hopefully that’s gonna change soon!
My highlight this week is the new track by Whatever, Forever – a pop-punk/emo/hardcore-ish outfit from my own batting grounds of Western Sydney – which landed on Friday. Five EPs down and they still won’t commit to a full-length album, but at least we’re getting new music from them at all – and fucking sick music, at that. I’ve linked “Ghost Of Me” after the jump, but in the meantime, here’s everything I got up to at NME this week:
TUESDAY, 28/09/21
Bob Dylan announces US leg of ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ world tour
Listen to Soccer Mommy and Kero Kero Bonito join forces on ‘Rom Com 2021’
Listen to Arca’s entrancing new single ‘Incendio’
Tom Grennan announces 2022 Australian tour
Muroki longs for home on bubbly new single ‘Surfin’
WEDNESDAY, 29/09/21
Converge detail collaborative album with Chelsea Wolfe, Ben Chisholm and Stephen Brodsky
Spacey Jane, Meg Mac, The Presets and more announced for QLD leg of This That 2022
Eat Your Heart Out drop idyllic film clip for ‘Pear Tree’
PLANET plead to save a doomed relationship on summery new single ‘Ship Won’t Change’
Shannen James team ups with Riley Pearce for an acoustic version of ‘Separate Ways’
THURSDAY, 30/09/21
Judge suspends Jamie Spears as Britney Spears’ conservator
The Script announce Australian ‘Greatest Hits’ tour for 2022
Ashwarya taps into romantic tension on striking new single ‘Flare’
Micra drop new tracks ‘After Dark’ and ‘Tell Me What You Need’, announce EP trilogy
KYE links up with Jerome Farah for dreamy new single ‘Tuesday’
FRIDAY, 01/10/21
LÂLKA drops dancefloor-primed new single ‘Hold Me’, announces new EP
Running Touch links up with GRAACE, Set Mo and Motez for live version of ‘Ceilings’
Keli Holiday lives it up on his lonesome with summery new single ‘December’
Between You And Me share new single ‘Butterflies’, detail second album
Client Liaison drop new video for ‘Strictly Business’, sell their “soul” as an NFT
Whatever, Forever share emotive new single ‘Ghost Of Me’, announce fifth EP
SATURDAY, 02/10/21
David Lee Roth says he’ll retire after final concerts in Las Vegas: “I’m throwing in the shoes”
Queen’s Roger Taylor says anti-vaxxers “must be ignorant and stupid”
Bootleg Rascal drop reggae remix of ‘With You’, detail massive Australian tour
Pluto Jonze drops blissful new singles ‘New Morning High’ and ‘Rumschpringe’
PS. get vaccinated or fuck off eternally.
