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Klinger Return with New Double A Side Single!

Fresh off a national tour supporting Bodyjar and Gyroscope, legendary Melbourne indie rock outfit Klinger have returned with their first new music in over two decades. Forming in the late 90s in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, Klinger achieved national success with songs like Hello Cruel World and Ben Lee dominating the airwaves and landing in JJJ’s Hottest 100 (twice!). They supported the likes of Green Day, […]

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LITTER Announce Jazz Show for Charity

The brilliance of LITTER’s album is rivalled only by the calibre of artists responsible for it. The brainchild of Matt Downey (Death Mattel/Cousin Betty) and featuring the arrangements and direction of Andrew Scott (along with The Pocket Trio Designed as a concept of uniqueness and limit, this band and this album will play their only two ever JAZZ shows, one being in […]

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LITTER Release Mini Documentary on The Making of a Jazz Album

LITTER and the journey to creating and releasing a jazz album in 2022. The idea and passion project of Matt Downey (Death Mattel, Cousin Betty) formed via contributions from home studios as distant as Philadelphia, Japan and all over Australia. LITTER’s album features ten original works in two different treatments, punk and jazz, making it […]

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LITTER Release ‘Hate Will Own You’

After an 8 year sabbatical LITTER are back with a new album and the lead single Hate Will Own You (out 11 July, 2022). From the mind of singer/songwriter Matt Downey (Death Mattel, Cousin Betty) comes another 10 songs with specific caveats and challenges to make it all interesting. This album is frankensteined together from […]

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Keep on Rockin’ in the Free Market

By Matt D. Off the bat, just so that you know where I stand: Joe Rogan is a blowhard. Occasionally funny, often inadvertently entertaining and the UFC-muscle car-thick neck-thin dick-spokesman for incels and reactionary conservative snowflakes. The fact he has an audience doesn’t surprise me, but the fact that Spotify can justify paying $100m for […]

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Royalty Splits

By Matt D. Running a studio and being an old band-dude, people would occasionally ask me questions. The question I’ve had more than any other is “How do I split my writing royalties?” The first few times I was asked I didn’t know what to say, because I had rarely shared credits. I started crudely […]

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Recording Session

By Matt D.There’s a justifiable buzz around a recording session, it is, after all, the commitment to tape of your idea, bashed, remoulded, contributed to and perfected – in a word- your baby.  In my late teens I was in a punk band that I assumed were destined for Queen supports at Wembley arena – […]

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