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Perth, Australia, includes a reputation to be perhaps one of the most isolated main metropolitan areas in the globe, with the majority of a continent separating it all from Australia’s various other big people centers as well as the vastness from the Indian Sea facing it all on the other …

Despite origins dating back so far as 1978, Crime & the town Solution didn’t truly emerge until 1984, arriving at life within the wake from the dissolution from the seminal PARTY. The group was led by evocative vocalist/songwriter Simon Bonney, a Melbourne, Australia indigenous who led some bands beneath the …

The Drones were a Uk punk music group, specifically from Manchester, made up of guitarist Gus “Gangrene” Callendar, bassist Steve “Whisper” Cundall, vocalist/guitarist M.J. Drone (Mike Howells), and drummer Peter “Ideal” Howells. They started as an R&B-influenced pub music group called Rockslide but produced the changeover to punk following its …

Melbourne, Australia’s enigmatic Witch Hats might have shaped in the mid ’00s (in fact, 2005, according to many sources), but their music scavenges all of the prior years for inspiration to forge a menacing mixture of post-punk, indie, sound, goth, and garage area rock — everything underpinned with an insidious …