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Courtney Barnett at The Tivoli: Staying in Her Lane

Live Reviews + Photos

Courtney Barnett returns to Brisbane's Tivoli with a formidable power trio, a new album and a renewed sense of joy. Chris Searles finds an artist entirely comfortable in her own skin.

Forever Five: Sam Hales (The Jungle Giants)

Forever Five

Sam Hales of The Jungle Giants reveals his Forever Five essential albums.

Ecca Vandal: The Long Road to LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW

Record Of The Month Deep Dives

Nine years between albums. Explore Ecca Vandal's remarkable return with LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW in our Waxx Lyrical Deep Dive.

Deep Dive

Nine years between albums. Explore Ecca Vandal's remarkable return with LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW in our Waxx Lyrical Deep Dive.

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.

1 May 2020
Record Of The Month Deep Dives

MAY ROTM : Thundercat's 'It Is What It Is'

It Is What It Is is the HUGE new album from the mighty Thundercat and it is our Record of The Month for May. It's the follow-up to the...

27 Feb 2020
Exclusive Records

Waxx Lyrical Exclusive : CSS' 'Cansei De Ser Sexy'

Read how post-punk influenced one of the finest records to come out of Sao Paulo in the mid-noughties.

2 May 2019
Record Of The Month Deep Dives

Waxx Lyrical Exclusive: Bad//Dreems - Dogs At Bay

We are insanely excited to announce our Limited Edition, Exclusive release of Bad//Dreems cult classic record Dogs At Bay! This Limited Edition version of only 150 individually numbered LP's are exclusively available to Waxx Lyrical members, through our Vinyl Record Club. It has been pressed at Zenith Records in Melbourne on translucent blue with white splatter vinyl and comes not only with WL exclusive alternative artwork, but also with the addition of not 1, but 2 bonus tracks! From the...

4 Oct 2018
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Freedom Sounds Jamaica

The Caribbean island-nation of Jamaica is little over 230 km wide and holds a population struggling to make 3 million (2.8 million as of...

9 Apr 2020
Interviews

Five minutes with Yumi Zouma

Upon approaching the new album Truth Or Consequences from Kiwi dream pop outfit Yumi Zouma, it's immediately clear that these four unique characters are pretty easy-going. They do, after all, maintain the band from four far-flung cities around the globe - London, NYC, Wellington and their native, Christchurch. Needless to say, the theme of distance effortlessly seeps into their music metaphorically and it's in this figurative chasms that this album, Truth Or Consequences, finds its narrative:...

31 July 2019
Exclusive Records

British India's 'Controller' Finally Comes To Vinyl - A Waxx Lyrical Exclusive Pressing

On vinyl for the first time ever, this limited edition version of 500 individually numbered LPs are exclusively pressed by Waxx Lyrical .

14 Oct 2018
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Top Tips: Buying Second Hand Vinyl

Damage Have a look for deep scratches, if you find some then the record will most certainly skip. Which of course is the most annoying...

2 Oct 2018
Interviews

PICK 5 - HASHFINGER

We had a quick chat with HashFinger, one of the UK's most respected underground beat makers and asked him to pick his top 5 records of...

15 Mar 2020
Interviews

Dune Rats : The Waxx Lyrical Interview

You're well across it by now - Dunies' new album Hurry Up And Wait is our March Record of The Month and it has our club frothing. We got on the phone to Brett (centre) from the band to chat vinyl, band meetings and how they got K. Flay, two members of Blink 182 and a member of Violent Soho on the record. WL: G'day Brett, aside from this pesky interview what are you doing today? Brett: We're taking out all the bands and crew from the tour we just finished on a rusty old boat past a bunch of...

28 June 2019
Album Reviews

Thom Yorke, 'Anima'

No one has to tell Thom Yorke to use his inside voice. Mr Yorke makes inside albums.

12 Oct 2018
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Review: Glebe Record Fair

image courtesy of: Glebe Record Fair Facebook Page Sydney’s pre-eminent record fair rolled into Glebe’s Peter Forsyth auditorium on...

6 Sept 2017
Interviews

Interview: Tiff Manuell

We sat down and had a bloody good yarn with the South Australian queen of colour, designer Tiff Manuell to talk about her life,...

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