The Belair Lip Bombs might be Australia’s best-kept secret. But it won’t stay that way for long. Hailing from the coastal town of Frankston, the close-knit indie-rock four-piece have been building a loyal local following since they first formed eight years ago; fans across the band’s hometown of Melbourne and beyond have been magnetized to the group’s earnestness and ultra-sticky power-pop song structures. Now, the four close friends — lead singer/guitarist Maisie Everett, Mike Bradvica (guitar), Jimmy Droughton (bass), and Daniel “Dev” Devlin (drums) — are about to embrace a new chapter with their signing to Jack White’s Third Man Records (the first Australian release on the international label) and the unveiling of their endlessly listenable sophomore album, Again, which echoes the album’s joyous opening track (“Again and Again”) and winkingly symbolizes the band’s reintroduction to a global audience. \--- Formed against the backdrop of the pandemic in 2020, the project of Awabakal land / Newcastle-based dual guitarist-vocalists Gabriel Stove and Justin Teale, bassist Liam Smith, guitarist and saxophonist Adam Ridgway, and drummer Kye Cherry, dust offer an invigorating new take on Australian post-punk: progressive, catchy, and irresistible. Just as artistically motivated by the fragmented, free-genre steps of Yung Lean and Burial, merging experimental jazz and electronica into immediate post-punk, this idiosyncratic joining of the fringes comes together much like dust’s roots in Newcastle. Since first emerging with their iteration of Australian post-punk on debut EP et cetera, etc, the group have continued to dominate. dust’s industrially shaped rock, endemic to their steel city origins, has taken them out of this world: major continental tours across Australia, the UK and US supporting formative influences Slowdive, Interpol, Bloc Party, Protomartyr, and Militarie Gun, to stages with Hockey Dad, The Belair Lip Bombs, Armlock, Shady Nasty, and more. Industry alike clammer, word of mouth fever following them across un/official showcases at BIGSOUND, SXSW Austin and Sydney, The Great Escape to landing appearances at Laneway, Pitchfork Music Festival, London Calling – as Monster Children firmly put it, once you experience dust, you “will never be the same.” \--- Laveda have carved out their place in NY’s ever growing indie rock scene since moving from the state capitol to the heart of NYC’s up and coming underground music hub, Ridgewood Queens. Formed by co-founders Ali Genevich (vocals/guitar/bass) and Jake Brooks (guitar/vocals), with Dan Carr (bass/guitar) and Joe Taurone (drums), the group has evolved from their dreamy indie roots into a charged, experimental force, harnessing aesthetics of 80’s punk and 90’s grunge. Their third studio album, Love, Darla, released on Bar/None Records in September of 2025, cements the band’s new noise-rock leaning sound through ten emotionally resonant tracks that mirror the harsh noise and static of the city they now call home. Far Out Magazine UK praises Laveda’s “coy playfulness, evidence of years spent together finding the best way through a genre overflowing with lazy guitar work and unimaginative drumming patterns” and The Needledrop names them “one of the most exciting bands in the underground right now”.
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