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DMA’S, Self-Titled: The Art of Coming Full Circle

Album Reviews

Ten years into their career, DMA’S have made a record that looks backwards without getting stuck in the past. Their self-titled album is a wonderfully human reminder of what made them special in the first place.

LARGE MIRAGE Have the Songs to Back It Up

Heatseekers

Big riffs, soaring harmonies and proper songwriting. Sydney's LARGE MIRAGE talk ‘Wildfire’, recording with Michael Badger, sharing a stage with AC/DC and why the human element matters.

Pixies – Doolittle: Inside the Album That Changed Alternative Rock

Record Of The Month Deep Dives

Pixies made Doolittle stranger, sharper and more accessible without losing any of their bite. We go track by track through the 1989 album that helped rewrite the language of alternative rock.

Deep Dive

Pixies made Doolittle stranger, sharper and more accessible without losing any of their bite. We go track by track through the 1989 album that helped rewrite the language of alternative rock.

Deep Dive

Everybody knows 'Laid'. Far fewer know Laid. We go beyond James’ immortal title track to discover the strange, intimate Brian Eno-produced album hiding behind the hit.

ARTICLES

11 Oct 2026
Album Reviews

DMA’S, Self-Titled: The Art of Coming Full Circle

Ten years into their career, DMA’S have made a record that looks backwards without getting stuck in the past. Their self-titled album is a wonderfully human reminder of what made them special in the first place.

7 Oct 2026
Interviews

Inside Laid: A Conversation with James’ Saul Davies

Saul Davies of James joins Waxx Lyrical to revisit our previous Record Of The Month, Laid.

29 Sept 2026
Forever Five

Forever Five: Ella Hooper

From teenage Killing Heidi firebrand to award-winning songwriter and Americana troubadour, Ella Hooper has spent more than 25 years making her mark on Australian music. For her Forever Five, she takes us back to the records that helped make her.

17 Aug 2026
Column

Jonesing For This One: Chris Whitley – Living with the Law

Matt Jones returns with Jonesing For This One to revisit Chris Whitley’s Living with the Law, an overlooked 1991 gem of blues, folk and rock.

9 Oct 2026
Heatseekers

LARGE MIRAGE Have the Songs to Back It Up

Big riffs, soaring harmonies and proper songwriting. Sydney's LARGE MIRAGE talk ‘Wildfire’, recording with Michael Badger, sharing a stage with AC/DC and why the human element matters.

5 Oct 2026
Reviews

Blondshell – Violins: Beauty, Violence & Killer Guitars

Blondshell’s Violins is sharp and intimate where beauty, violence, healing and killer guitars collide.

3 Sept 2026
Album Reviews

Prince – Timeless: Ten Songs, Five Decades and One Big Question: Who Is This For?

Prince obsessive Ben Preece dives deep into Timeless, tracing every song back through five decades of Prince history, from 1977 to his final tour in 2016.

15 Aug 2026
Reviews

Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend Under the Stars

Annette Geneva heads to Suffragette Records in Hobart for a star-lit first listen to Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend, an intimate, strange and quietly devastating return.

8 Oct 2026
Record Of The Month Deep Dives

Pixies – Doolittle: Inside the Album That Changed Alternative Rock

Pixies made Doolittle stranger, sharper and more accessible without losing any of their bite. We go track by track through the 1989 album that helped rewrite the language of alternative rock.

1 Oct 2026
Jonesing For This One

Jonesing For This One: Portishead – Third

Matt Jones returns to make the case for Portishead’s Third, the darker, stranger and more adventurous album hiding in the enormous shadow of Dummy.

3 Sept 2026
Column

Phoebe Bridgers, Ryan Adams, and the Songs That Keep Emotional Receipts

Annette Geneva unpacks Phoebe Bridgers’ Stranger in the Alps, Ryan Adams, complicated fandom, and the songs that keep emotional receipts long after the people attached to them have changed.

4 Aug 2026
Forever Five

Forever Five: Pinky Beecroft (Machine Gun Fellatio)

Five albums Pinky Beecroft can't live without.

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