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G’ – and I cannot stress this enough – day.

It’s been a hot minute since I made my last post dump on here (roughly a year and four months? or something like that?) and I’ve written a decent handful of features for NME Australia since then! Here are all of them:

LONGFORM INTERVIEWS

MOD CON: “It’s a rare and strange time that we’re living in, and music has such an important role to play”

Tiny Little Houses: “The songs on ‘Misericorde’ are a little broader in scope – they’re not all just angsty love songs”

FERLA: “I’m not Atlas, y’know? I don’t want to try to shoulder the burden of the entire world”

Faker, back for real: how Nathan Hudson fought off fear to make his “celebratory” new album

The long overdue return of Sunk Loto: Australia’s metalcore pioneers talk reunion shows and potential new music

Jaguar Jonze: “I saw how I had grown and healed so much, and forgot what it felt like to be where I used to be”

Johnny Hunter on bold, boisterous debut album ‘Want’: “Pop music makes the world go around”

“It’s a celebration”: Behind the scenes of ‘6 Festivals’, an Aussie love letter to live music and mateship

TISM talk nostalgia, their beef with NME and the reunion: “There’s every chance that one of us will die horrifically onstage”

Parkway Drive: “It felt like a sledgehammer had been taken to all of our worlds”

NME Australia cover stars Parkway Drive on ‘Stranger Things’, the grim influences on ‘Darker Still’ and more

Bec Sandridge: “If I can help make a space where people can show off their weirdest selves, then my job is done”

The Terrys: “We play whatever we’re feeling, whatever that feeling is”

How Press Club broke their own boundaries to make new album ‘Endless Motion’: “I felt so invigorated and free”

Inside Slipknot’s plan for “world domination” with Knotfest Australia 2023: “We’re here to burn down your brainwashed philosophy”

Suzi: Melbourne up-and-comer making cathartic indie-punk tunes

From JMC Academy to Laneway Festival: meet indie riser Ruby Cannon

Cub Sport’s Tim Nelson talks new album ‘Jesus At The Gay Bar’ and “euphoric but complicated” single ‘Keep Me Safe’

Q&A INTERVIEWS

Teenage Dads share new EP ‘Club Echo’, “a coming-of-age record, but with a different perspective than a cliché ’90s film”

Carbon and callouts: In Hearts Wake’s new documentary captures the creation of an environmentally friendly album

Tash Sultana releases ‘MTV Unplugged’ live album: “​​My set was absolutely plugged the fuck in”

grentperez explores a kaleidoscope of sounds on new record ‘Trail Mix Tape’: “I’m aiming for world domination”

CD REVIEWS

Banoffee – ‘Tear Tracks’ review: a breakup record that’s bruised and beautiful in equal measure

Alex The Astronaut – ‘How To Grow A Sunflower Underwater’ review: an introspective triumph

King Stingray – ‘King Stingray’ review: a rollicking love letter to community and country

Montaigne – ‘Making It!’ review: a vaudevillian performer dives into the digital void

LIVE REVIEWS

Foo Fighters live in Geelong, Australia: A life-affirming celebration of rock ’n’ roll

Splendour In The Grass 2022 review: mud, sweat and tears

Violent Soho live in Brisbane: Mansfield’s finest go shredding into the sunset

Spilt Milk Canberra 2022 review: sunshine, good vibes and deafening sing-alongs

Falls Festival Melbourne 2022 review: An exhilarating capstone to a hectic year of live music

MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES

The most frustrating set clashes of Splendour In The Grass 2022

MONTHLY AUSTRALIAN RELEASE ROUNDUPS

Here are 15 Australian artists releasing new music in 2022

What’s new this month? Here are 7 Australian release picks for February 2022

What’s new this month? Here are 10 Australian release picks for March 2022

What’s new this month? Here are 10 Australian release picks for April 2022

What’s new this month? Here are 10 Australian release picks for May 2022

What’s new this month? Here are 9 Australian release picks for June 2022

What’s new this month? Here are 10 Australian release picks for July 2022

What’s new this month? Here are 10 Australian release picks for August 2022

What’s new this month? Here are 9 Australian release picks for September 2022

What’s new this month? Here are 9 Australian release picks for October 2022

What’s new this month? Here are 9 Australian release picks for November 2022

Here are 12 Australian artists releasing new music in 2023