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Welcome to Check Check - an Australian music page bringing you closer to the bands you love, bringing you new music you'll love, and taking you front row to the gigs and festivals that you love.

26/07/2025

CLAMM's new album Serious Acts represents a subtle but significant evolution in the band’s sound.

The Melbourne/Naarm punk band voice their anger at the state of the world. But singer Jack Summers is unsure whether CLAMM are a political band.

"In a way, I don’t really care about politics because it’s stupid – the political system, I mean, and the system in which we live," Summers told Check Check. "I don’t agree with it, and politics is a part of that. It’s inherently stupid. But then obviously, my interest is in the human experience and how we exist. And, well, we exist within that system."

Read our feature with the band via the link in the comments.

24/07/2025

“Just tell me you adore me,” sings Emily Wurramara on her new single 'Adore Me,' her voice betraying a mixture of sober expectation and creeping impatience.

"It’s so important to tell people how you feel because, either way, it’s doing damage, whether to yourself or to the other party," Wurramara told Check Check.

Find the interview via the link in the comments.

22/07/2025

Music In Exile's main objective is to support musicians with lived experience of migration or displacement who are living and making music in Australia.

“A lot of the artists we work with might be performing or composing in a pretty specific genre or style and a language other than English,” said founder Joe Alexander. "The first thing we do is sit down with an artist and figure out what they want to achieve and how Music In Exile can best support that."

Music In Exile has just released its fifth birthday compilation, Music is Everything, featuring music by Chinese guzheng player Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 and Chinese-Malaysian Australian electronic musician Sui Zhen, Iranian-born santur player Maryam Rahmani, Guinea via Naarm sextet Jarabi Band, Ethiopian songwriter Muluu Baqqalaa, and more.

Read our feature on the label via the link in the comments.

21/07/2025

While there’s a perception that music festivals in Australia have been dropping like flies in recent years, there are still stacks of festivals on the calendar – from major multi-day events to new boutique pop-ups.

Find all the details of every music festival in Australia via the link in the comments.

18/07/2025

There are loads of artists on tour in Australia over the next few months, including Irish folk crew The Mary Wallopers, a retrospective double feature tour from Sarah Blasko, the return of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, a couple of arena dates for Cubana Mexicana pop star Camila Cabello, and more.

Find all the details via the link in the comments.

16/07/2025

The ballot is now open for Meredith Music Festival 2025. Meredith, now in its 33rd year, fits 13,000 people and it always sells out. The ballot is the number one way to obtain a ticket.

Link in the comments to enter.

15/07/2025

Emo stalwarts The Spill Canvas will tour Australia for the first time this month, co-headlining an east coast run alongside The Juliana Theory. Vocalist Nick Thomas chats about touring, addiction and the band’s legacy.

Find the feature via the link in the comments.

14/07/2025

With performances by aya, Moin, John Cale and Los Thuthanaka, Unsound Adelaide was a feast of disorientating, provocative and playful music.

Find our review via the link in the comments

09/07/2025

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07/07/2025

First wave shoegazers RIDE are big fans of Australian music. Brisbane indie legends The Go-Betweens were a major early influence on the band, and they were so enchanted by Melbourne-via-London dark wave duo Dead Can Dance that they covered their song “Severance” for a BBC radio session in 1990.

RIDE's co-leader Andy Bell and bass player Steve Queralt told us about their favourite Australian songs of all time. See their selections via the link in the comments.

04/07/2025

There are stacks of artists on tour around Australia during winter, including K pop six-piece STAYC, metalcore stayers Atreyu, Icelandic minimal techno duo Kiasmos, bluegrass guitarist Billy Strings, and indie rock and country songwriter Faye Webster.

Swedish rock’n’rollers The Hives are back in town, and British soft rockers 10cc are here to say farewell.

There'll also be a tenth anniversary run from The Preatures, and the debut shows for Bleak Squad, a new band featuring Magic Dirt's Adalita, former Bad Seed Mick Harvey, Dirty Three guitarist Mick Turner, and Art of Fighting drummer Marty Brown.

Find all the details via the link in the comments.

30/06/2025

Northcote Theatre was buzzing with the energy of a teenage rock show for the last night of Killing Heidi’s 25 years of Reflector tour.

Ella Hooper was all smiles and over the top dance moves during opening tracks “Mascara” and “Weir”; a turbo-charged introduction that sent the room into raptures.

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