Tyson Budd

Dune Rats launched while the room was still filling, people navigating around spills of drinks and avoiding stepping on each other’s feet. They didn’t make any kind of entrance, just their instruments and sound that caused everyone’s talking to basically stop dead in its tracks. Some songs were a little off, and a few of their newer ones dragged, but nobody cared. The pits formed sporadically, people laughing as they collided with each other, their heads banging, phones raised high in the...

Hardcore isn’t meant to be clean or polished  and neither is this tour. Knocked Loose  are finally coming back to Australia this December, and honestly, it’s about time. They’re jumping on the Good Things Festival  lineup, but they’re also squeezing in a couple of proper sideshows, the kind of shows where the walls sweat and nobody leaves in one piece (in the best way possible). Their new album,   You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To , is easily their most intense stuff yet  somehow...

[ Photo Credit - Chris Klumpp ] New England-based genre-warping heavy outfit Wind Walkers  return with their latest release, I Don’t Belong Here , out now through Fearless Records . The new EP is their first release since 2023’s What If I Break? , and brings a darker, more introspective edge to their evolving sound. To accompany the drop, the band has released a visualizer for the track “Hereditary” , a standout song that cuts deep with its themes of inherited trauma and emotional survival....