Jack Isaacs is Del-Slackers, a garage-rock project recently founded on the sunny coastal town that is Byron Bay. His debut track, Want Ya, released on April 24, is a promising introduction to his musical journey into the world of surf rock and pop rock.

Love Australian hip hop? Love Australian alt-rock? Well, you’re in luck! Queensland hip-hop alt-rockers (yep, you heard me) Butterfingers have released their third album, Bad News.

Self proclaimed ‘noodle flavoured noise punx’, KNT, recently released their newest single ‘Fix My Head’, a heavy garage-rock-esque tune about mental health. ‘For fans of Amyl and the Sniffers, Violent Soho, and IDLES’, the heavy track cracks open with immediate drums, heavy guitar and gnarly vocals from vocalist Fuji which track the whole way through, and jumps straight into the bulk of the song. It’s like KNT is reading our minds…

From start to finish, the brilliantly written & mixed tracks build perfectly throughout the EP, gradually introducing more and more nods to heavy influences as it plays through. Personally, I just really love the whole record. I struggled writing this up because I just wanted to listen and listen and listen, and that was it.

I legitimately hit my head on the wall behind me when bopping back and forth to the intense and emotional tunes - so yeah, it’s a literal banger.

Overall the track is a solid step in the band’s personal sound and style development, with influential nods to IDLES and Lazertits and great clear instrumental and vocal sound recording quality, especially notic…