2024-04-19 03:50
The new video from The Dark Clouds is accompanying their new track Flak Jacket. A brilliantly put together clip utilising live and stock footage, photographs, and coloured filters the clip… Read More
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2024-04-18 01:28
Sydney’s Jupiter V have released an album as the follow up to their H-Bomb single and it is equally as tough.
Fifth from the Sun is thirteen tracks, with the two from the single i… Read More
2024-04-11 22:00
Dream Pop band LUCIDBLOOM have released another atmospheric opus in their new single Signals in the Skies.
Starting with a muted version of the first few bars, the track jumps back to sta… Read More
2024-04-10 02:24
Sweden post-punk trio Then Comes Silence are releasing their seventh album in Trickery, an album is about friendship, unity and a sense of belonging to celebrate their own caring and welco… Read More
2024-04-07 05:16
Taiwanese Math Rock Trio Elephant Gym are set to embark on their inaugural tour of Australia as part of their world tour also playing North American, Asia, and Western Europe. This ma… Read More
2024-04-04 00:08
On 09 December, last year, The Dead Set played with The Dark Clouds and Robot Good at Dicey Riley’s. Being a band who wholly embrace the DIY etiquette, the set up a few cameras and c… Read More
2024-03-25 02:21
Garage legends, The Stems, have reformed to tour the Australian capitals in August and September. Original members Dom Mariani, Julian Matthews, are joined by acclaimed guitarist Ashley Na… Read More
2024-03-22 00:30
Portuguese based Dark Miles have released a Post Punk opus as a debut in Your Heart is an Empty Street layered with various instruments for a shadowy wall of sound tied up with an amazing… Read More
2024-03-20 00:29
Sydney based Synthwave band Infinite Skies are looking for a dedicated synth player to join their ranks.
Already an established band with a bright future on the horizon, any applicant m… Read More
2024-03-19 01:56
Theatrical band, The Hyperdrive Kittens, formed in 1991 fusing elements of Pop Punk with Burlesque with a sprinkle of the Rocky Horror Show (in all its playful naughtiness) to develop thei… Read More
2024-03-18 02:53
Following the success of their previous singles with significant airplay Eville’s latest single Monster is an off the hook nu-metal banger fused with Cyber Punk Industrial elements wit… Read More
2024-03-16 00:02
Having been a fan of the 50/50s since seeing them play at Frankie’s Pizza on 01 March 2018 with the Fight Ibis and The Knots it was exciting to have the video for the new track Holid… Read More
2024-03-14 21:50
Switzerland’s Wolf Wolf continue to release singles with Heidi is alive from their new album, Totentanz.
The second track, in a possible trilogy, Heidi is alive follows from Heidi… Read More
2024-03-11 23:03
Sydney D-Beat band Arsénïcø have released their EP, Reign of Fear, on vinyl and what a destroyer it is! We received a copy in the mail and were very grateful to hear thi… Read More
2024-03-09 00:15
Blood Trails live at Sydney’s Most Wanted from SlugLord PhotographyOld School Eighties Thrash Death ‘n’ Roll band Blood Trails quickly recorded their debut single, Guzzol… Read More
2024-03-06 23:31
Space-Garage rockers Dust Mice have released their latest video for Room Within a Room (the title track from their upcoming new album on Epictronic) blending eighties visual nostalgia with… Read More
2024-03-06 01:39
Pythies were in the inbox today and, frankly, the Parisians three piece blew me away the moment they struck the first chord. This band is dynamite.
Formed by Bassist Lise.L at the end o… Read More
2024-03-02 06:16
On the road during a tour, I met a member of MaidaVale. They told me of their band and I was blown away. Their song, Oh Hysteria!, I still stuck in my head as a doom laden piece of Space R… Read More
2024-02-29 03:03
Clip from hovicalI knew of Mogwai, for decades, but hadn’t listened to them. I was in for a treat.
We arrived on time to check out the opening band, Sydney’s A Broken Sail… Read More
2024-02-15 04:49
Unapologetic, political, original, feminist punk music, are just some of the descriptions Hot Mess. The three-piece womyn’s punk band from the Bellinger river, Bindarray Yurruun, on Gu… Read More
2024-01-30 21:31
Having known Levi J. Burr since his earlier releases, his debut solo album, Another Domino Map, showcases the man’s composition craftsmanship and amazing sense of melody alpha omega… Read More
2024-01-29 02:14
During the pandemic, WolfWolf started to experiment with keyboards and samples to keep themselves active, as everyone did. This resulted in Twenty One, a track that pushes the familiar bou… Read More
2024-01-23 21:12
Sydney Short + Sweet Theatre Festival is the biggest short play festival in the world. Since 2002 it has been changing the world, ten minutes at a time.
Sydney based writer, director, and… Read More
2024-01-21 04:04
Melbourne’s folk punk story-telling balladeers Sordid Ordeal (Fronted by the Voice of Flinders Station, Laurence Hewson) have just released new single, Black Straps, and will be launch… Read More
2024-01-16 01:36
Australian instrumental post-rockers sleepmakeswaves have announced they will tour Australia, Europe and North America in support of their new album It’s Here, But I Have No Names fo… Read More
2024-01-07 04:16
Berlin based German/Italian Art-Punk duo Circolo Vizioso have released Choppy, a high-octane single spawned of depression and a failed love story. This first taste of their debut album Ver… Read More
2024-01-04 06:00
Romana Ashton (of The Sunday Reeds) launched her solo project with the release of her first single Bring Me.
Recorded live at Palomino Sound Recorders and mixed and mastered by Tristen Bi… Read More
2023-12-31 02:17
Turbo Nun didn’t do much to celebrate twenty-five years. It was just business as usual, which is something we tell bands not to do. However, we did decide to look back on the years s… Read More
2023-12-07 21:56
Loki Lockwood’s Velatine releases started emerging as two full length cinematic, industrial, instrumental albums in 2020.
Loki always saw Velatine as a female vocal driven project… Read More
2023-12-07 01:55
The Cheats have re-release their debut album, Cheap Pills, with bonus tracks made up of the original demo which included a cover of The Joneses Pill Box and a few live tracks recorded on t… Read More
2023-12-05 22:52
No Retreat have re-released a remixed and remastered Pray for Peace on vinyl and CD with bonus tracks.
Forming in 1993, No Retreat was one of the heaviest beat down hardcore bands mixin… Read More
2023-12-05 21:36
The Porkers have been around forever and just won’t give up.
Forming in Newcastle in pre-internet times, they’ve been called a Ska band, they’ve also a not really a sk… Read More
2023-11-30 21:38
Sydney Synth-pop band Infinite Skies have released their debut single Ghost. A catchy and interesting track it will haunt you, no pun intended.
The song is infectious with clever… Read More
2023-11-29 21:40
For Aus Music T-shirt Day we here at Turbo Nun are showcasing The Stripp, whom we have had the pleasure of booking in Sydney twice now, including a very successful night at the Duke of Enmor… Read More
2023-11-28 23:09
Nico Bones first came to attention with Savage Magic at a show down in San Diego when filling in on guitar Killer Hearts for a few shows last year. Killer Hearts came back to play the Savage… Read More
2023-11-25 11:07
Sydney studio only band Lilith’s Children have short a video for Watching the Years. Originally the opening mood setter to a concept album started decades in the past. Lilith’s… Read More
2023-11-24 01:15
Australian post-rock quartet Solkyri unveil the video for Home featuring Middle Kids’ Hannah Joy and have begun the tenth anniversary shows for their album, Are You My Brother?
Ha… Read More
2023-11-22 21:36
We first met Switzerland’s Wolf Wolf at a gig in Japan back in 2012. We’ve been following their career ever since and were overjoyed to hear a second single had been released f… Read More
2023-11-18 04:48
We’ve been watching a Glam Rock revival on the horizon for a little while now with a few Nu Glam bands starting to get attention. This world-wide phenomenon has a dazzling, home grow… Read More
2023-11-16 02:45
Flint Violet’s follow-up to the Space Rock with Heavy Psych overtones Ancient Light has been released and Icarus is a similar but different beast.
Like the previous EP, Icarus is a… Read More
2023-11-11 00:09
On the 31st of October 1968, amateur yachtsman Donald Crowhurst set out to circumnavigate the globe in his self-designed trimaran The Teignmouth Electron. What followed was a tale of intrigu… Read More
2023-11-01 23:52
The Owen Guns are at it again with a new release in A Monk goes to Sexyland, an eight-track album (XL EP or Mini album? – ed.) released on orange vinyl, CD, and digital. A limited edit… Read More
2023-11-01 01:11
Launched on Halloween, Golem Dance Cult release have released Ghost of Las Vegas from their new album, Legend of the Bleeding Heart. And, as there are some moments in life when one feels l… Read More
2023-10-26 22:00
We recently met a member of Sweden’s MaidaVale and, as musicians do, we swapped music. We were sent links, including three performance videos from around Western Europe. Germany, Ita… Read More
2023-10-25 03:41
This Friday, 27 October, Kill TV will launch their cover of The Boys Next Door’s Shivers to celebrate Rowland S. Howard’s birthday at Lyrebird Lounge with support from Angela How… Read More
2023-10-24 21:55
More footage from the Lovi Did This Australian tour. The Marrickville Bowlo was the first show of the tour, and one of the most iconic venues. The crowd, and support acts Infinite Skies an… Read More
2023-10-19 21:40
Continuing on with footage from the Lovi Did This Australian tour, we wanted to post this clip. The band are performing Beautiful Liar on Wednesday the eleventh of October at Smith’s… Read More
2023-10-19 00:47
The Lovi Did This Australian tour is now complete. Six shows in three cities in two weeks. It was a monumental task and a lot of fun. Travelling across the East Coast of Australia, perform… Read More
2023-09-30 05:50
The latest single from Dream Pop band lucidbloom is an astounding track. Both fresh and familiar, Post Everything, begins with a solo guitar melody intense and softly hypnotic and chim… Read More
2023-09-28 00:52
We first bore witness to the extravaganza that is Long Hours, the solo performance project created by Julian Medor, when we had Sister Paul in Australia last year. Totally blown away, an i… Read More
2023-09-27 22:28
Levi Burr releases second single in Adders Fulcrum, in the lead up to his LP, Another Domino Map, due out next month.
Adders Fulcrum features Chuck Johnson on glacial pedal steel over w… Read More
2023-09-26 23:27
Victorian band, The Shy, are back with a ten-track album just as intense and horrific as their debut, Some Kinda Sound. Maintaining their post hardcore/Nu Grunge roots, this time the band ha… Read More
2023-09-14 01:56
Mantravision Productions put me on to eMpTyVee TV on twitch and was instantly captivated on so many levels. The fact someone started up their own music television program on a steaming page… Read More
2023-09-13 01:39
I was lucky enough to get to the Moshpit on Friday 01 September to see some amazing local Sydney Bands. Three quite different genres in one night and yet they fit together well and left a fe… Read More
2023-09-12 05:01
With the heartbreaking closure of Live Fridays at the Town and Country Hotel the night quickly found new digs in the old Lewisham Hotel, now christened The Lewis. Feeling like the carpet had… Read More
2023-09-11 22:20
The Owen Guns have returned with a new single in Trans Rights are Human Rights out now on all digital platforms. All money raised from bandcamp sales goes to Transcend, a charity that help… Read More
2023-09-08 05:48
Lovi Did This, who will take pick you up and place you back down with their dreamy atmospherics, heart wrenching melodies, and soulful vocals are playing Katoomba in Sydney’s Blue Mo… Read More
2023-09-06 22:31
Sweden’s Lovi Did This, who will take you straight to a dream land with songs full of heart wrenching guitars and soulful vocals, are playing Katoomba in Sydney’s Blue Mountain… Read More
2023-08-27 02:04
Last Saturday we were there for the launch of the Ancient Lights EP from Sydney band Flint Violet, the headline act of the night.
The band roared through their set vigorously ripping th… Read More
2023-08-25 05:49
Having work with Tremolo Please in the past, we were looking forward to seeing Steve Ferrell’s Canberra band Dead Lazarus perform. Heavier than expected but bloody good, this epic th… Read More
2023-08-24 02:55
One of the joys of watching Infinite Skies last Saturday was getting a chance to hear the variety of styles in the band’s songwriting. Playing as a three piece, their drummer away an… Read More
2023-08-21 05:57
I remember seeing No at the Kardomah Café back in 1986. (You think -Ed.) This was there second appearance in Sydney, and I was blown away. This was basically the birth of Industrial… Read More
2023-08-17 01:39
It’s been a while since something really grabbed me and discovering the Geelong slash Surf Coast four-piece Green Blanket was it. Taken aback by their lo-fi, noise rock, garage punk… Read More
2023-08-16 03:18
Sydney’s longest standing hardcore band, Dark Horse, together with an extended family of related bands and projects, are out in force on the weekend of 25 and 26 August to celebrate… Read More
2023-08-10 01:18
Combining dark, apocalyptic, post-industrial music with a background in crust, hardcore and d-beat, Schkeuditzer Kreuz is the work of expat New Zealand DIY punk veteran, Kie… Read More
2023-08-07 02:48
Melbourne’s grunge/punk three-piece Kill TV are back with their original line-up, new songs, and re-energized to pick up where they left off with their first single in seven years. T… Read More
2023-08-03 00:45
Pocketwatch, the young powerhouse rock trio making waves in Sydney have released of their debut EP It’s Time, available in physical CDs and is on all major streaming platforms.
An… Read More
2023-08-02 03:07
The new EP release from Japan’s The Deadvikings, Brave New World, is out now on all streaming services with the CD following in September.
The three track EP is the first release wi… Read More
2023-08-01 01:32
First Shot Entertainment & Grey Gum Cafe are teaming up to create a weekend of awesomeness! set amongst the picturesque surroundings of the putty Rd along Route 69. They have seventeen v… Read More
2023-07-25 03:23
A long-time favourite here at Turbo Nun, Wolfpack have released a video for No I in Scene from their new four track EP, Benefit 7.
The completely DIY, and 100% not-for-profit Melbourne… Read More
2023-07-11 00:37
We’ve long been following the course Avalanche have cut a path for themselves in the Sydney scene and were very happy to have a chance to exchange words and throw a few questions at St… Read More
2023-06-21 02:29
After returning from a European tour and supporting Mono on their Australian tour, Svntax Error, are launching their new album, The Vanishing Existence, at the Great Club on Friday 30 June… Read More
2023-06-14 01:50
Cairns band Wasabi Barbie first came to our attention when posts of their gigs at their local pub, which was allowing the local, young bands to rip into it. Watching the band take that first… Read More
2023-05-30 03:23
First impression is how beautifully Traumasaur‘s Worst of a Bad Bunch has been produced, mixed, and mastered. It’s solid and punchy.
The EP opens with Gravity, which lays th… Read More
2023-05-14 03:07
Melbourne outlaw grind bastards Choof have released one of the most relentless displays of sonic aggression this year with their debut 10” vinyl EP, Dimwitted Amoral Exploitation. Th… Read More
2023-05-10 05:29
This morning my barista, a Brazilian, told me of the passing of Rita Lee at seventy-five. His sadness was coupled with such admiration for the towering figure I had sadly never heard of. H… Read More
2023-05-05 02:44
Simon Exley’s One (No God) is a beautiful example of mixed media where the song fits hand in glove with the video.
Exploding with Simon shouting “there is no God” to c… Read More
2023-04-28 05:19
The Railway Hotel in Windsor are supporters of live music and have started to trial a semi-regular local night of original music at their pub. Railway to Hell is the first of what will hopef… Read More
2023-04-21 02:49
Recorded and mixed by internationally renowned producer, engineer, Grammy nominee, and winner of ARIA awards Steve James and mastered by Jack Shirley of The Atomic Garden recording studios… Read More
2023-04-19 23:39
Emerging from the primordial depths of Sydney’s live music scene, Traumasaur are proud to
announce the upcoming launch of their first EP, Worst of a Bad Bunch.
Set to be re… Read More
2023-04-06 01:59
Another venue has shut doors. Sydney’s HiWay Enmore has shut, joining the ranks of other fallen venues. They thanked their artists and patrons who supported them when the venue was pla… Read More
2023-04-01 23:49
The Lady Hampshire. The newest stage in town, apparently. A nice pub with a large front room, spacious beer garden out back, and awesome smells from other punter’s pub food. A Good cro… Read More
2023-03-30 01:12
One of the joys of this blog is discovering new bands, and Night Chill are one of them. With their arcane instrumental sorcery, they open gateways to dark dimensions. Hailing from the sini… Read More
2023-03-22 21:32
Travelling down the roads of time, to the spot where two like-minded souls in Rebecca and Marlee met, an instant spark was formed. After they exchanged words and their passion for music, sha… Read More
2023-03-22 02:03
Hailing from Louis, Missouri Infinite Sun are a studio only, riff heavy Space Rock band with roots deep in the sixties and seventies Psych Rock scene, listening to the likes of Budgie, Mou… Read More
2023-03-15 23:43
As part of their 2023 World Tour, BABYMETAL have announced a series of gigs in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne from 08 to 11 June for their first headline tour of Australia.
Early bird pr… Read More
2023-03-14 00:48
Svntax Error have returned from a whirlwind three-day, three city tour with MONO playing Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne. The following is their open letter to all.
We’ve just… Read More
2023-03-02 02:06
The Against Me! tour film We’re Never Going Home is a great template for any independent band to use if you’re on a small tour.
Not a documentary and more of a video tour di… Read More
2023-02-27 03:15
Avalanche have released another new song and are still powering along at an amazing rate. Sweet Baby Brown Eyes continues the band’s canon of traditional rock and roll stompers with… Read More
2023-02-23 21:20
Last Saturday (18 February) Lilith’s Children appeared on Natalie Smith’s Timeslide program on 2RRRfm in Sydney Australia. They played a collection of their own songs and music… Read More
2023-02-22 04:36
Sydney Heavy Psych band Destonomer have released their first single, March, from their debut album The Two Horns last night.
Accompanying the track is a tightly cut clip featuring live… Read More
2023-02-21 21:12
I know what you’re thinking. Who is Chris Moyles? That’s what I was thinking until I looked him up. Then, I thought why would I care what a radio DJ in another country would thin… Read More
2023-02-16 05:56
Velatine‘s I Won’t Be Civilised was a recent discovery and one of the reasons I so love music in all it’s forms. I have had I Won’t Be Civilised on repeat, immersed… Read More
2023-02-12 08:58
Nestled somewhere between sixties garage and proto punk and late seventies old school, Jupiter 5 have just as much Damned DNA as the do the Stooges.H-Bomb starts with the rhythm section buil… Read More
2023-02-09 23:21
It was with a heavy heart that I Hate People announced that Josh is leaving in May. As sad as this is for that band, as the long road has been travelled with Josh, I Hate People are happy fo… Read More
2023-02-08 21:53
Lovi Did This has been added to the international showcase festival, Future Echoes, in Norrköping, Sweden.
A hundred artists, from a wide range of countries like Canada, UK, Germany… Read More
2023-02-07 21:18
Sequential Zero have released their fifth, and final, two track single in the Sequence series. An album is to follow, containing all ten songs from the singles plus two extra tracks and four… Read More
2023-02-05 05:15
This Saturday, 11 February, is the inaugural Western Sydney Record Fair. Organised by people who truly love music so head down and have a great day buying and selling music.
The Western S… Read More
2023-02-01 23:04
When we had Sister Paul out for a brief tour, Long Hours were on the Whole Lotta Love bill. Suitable impressed, vinyl was purchased in Wayward Serenades. And, the record matched the show… Read More
2023-01-31 02:22
Queensland’s melodic punk band, Kathleen Turner Overdrive are hitting the road, internationally, and joining the line-up for the annual Pirates and Punks Festival and Tour presented by… Read More
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