Party Dozen 
Sydney's sax-and-drums duo Party Dozen take their fifth album, 21 Bum Salute (out 6 November on City Slang), on the road. Recorded, mixed and mastered entirely by Kirsty Tickle and Jonathan Boulet, it boils years of jams and loops down to little more than half an hour of their loosest, most fun music yet, including the single "Euro Stomper". Live, it only gets louder.Kirsty screams her saxophone through a wall of effects, Jono hits the drums like a full band, and no two shows are the same. After a year that took them from the Sydney Opera House to Red Rocks with Amyl & The Sniffers, they close out 2026 with a BANG!

Iona Iorgu
Ioana Iorgu crafts a hypnotic, shadow-lit soundscape. An immersive wall of sound, drawing from the weight of doom, the haze of shoegaze, and the edge of post-punk fused into one, cohesive force. As distorted guitars, layered in thick reverbs, swell and splinter over thunderous drums, her vocals move like a double-edged sword: soft and intimate, then suddenly breaking open, cutting through with a crushing intensity.