the NOW now presents music, sound and art without borders, with a wide scope including sound sculpture, improvised music, performance art, installations, composed music, new collaborations, trash rock, noise, silence, electronic music, comedy, and everything in-between. New Weird Australia, the NOW now celebrates the 13th […]
Rural, Regional & Remote, the second New Weird Australia compilation release of 2014, exhibits the sounds of Australia outside the metropolitan and into the ‘other’. The ten tracks explore and expose the diversity of Australian experimental composers from regional areas. Available as a Name Your […]
Sixes and Twelves, the first New Weird Australia compilation release of 2013, explores the guitar in all its varied forms and nuances.
A compilation of exclusive in-studio recordings from the final months of the New Weird Australia show on FBi Radio. Features new material from Thomas William vs Scissor Lock, Pollen Trio, Seaworthy, Secret Birds, Shisd, Cycle 440, Emily Grantham, Gold Model, Haunts, Kevin Purdy, Nadir, Oscar key […]
The second in an ad-hoc series of geo-specific New Weird Australia compilations, featuring eighteen bands and artists from Perth in Western Australia. The Western Schism is as much geographical as it is artistic. These artists are outliers in both the literal and creative sense of […]
New Weird Australia and Fallopian Tunes team up for a compilation double-header. 22 tracks, 11 a-piece, representing precision and imprecision – controlled chaos and chaotic control. Features Kristian M Roberts, Bad Bones, Simon Gardam, Trjaeu, Jacob Silver, WORNG, Matthew Brown, Document Swell, Exotic Snake, Yolke, […]
This compilation celebrates the conclusion of the New Editions project, combining a track from each release with unreleased and rare material from many of the artists involved – CAUGHT SHIP (Melbourne), BLAKE FREELE (Sydney), PANEYE (Sydney), TANTRUMS (Melbourne), NO ZU (Melbourne), KRIS KEOGH (Darwin), FORENZICS (Sydney), SPARTAK (Canberra), THOMAS WILLIAM VS SCISSOR LOCK (Sydney) […]
Since 2009, New Weird Australia has broadcast a weekly show on Sydney’s FBi Radio – playing two hours of new, experimental and eclectic Australian music. As well as covering off the best of the week’s new releases, the show also features regular guest performances, playing […]
Eight bands over two venues raising cash for FBi Radio, presented by New Weird Australia, Octopus Pi, Sound Series and Refraction + 8-track promotional compilation.
The voice is re-appearing in the experimental context, and emerging more experimentally in popular music. This New Weird Australia compilation brings together a selection of artist working across this spectrum of play. Available as a Name Your Price download / stream from Bandcamp. Tracklisting. 1. KUSUM […]
“This isn’t your Slayer or Metallica or Pantera, to be certain. It’s heavy sonic seance shit. Big walls of fuzzed out guitars or sludgy numbers swimming in the murky murk or knob twiddling feedback frenzies or straight up droooooooone or sort of industrialized punk frock […]
Throughout 2009 and 2010, we were listening to a heap of bands and artists that were clearly starting to coalesce into some form of vague and abstract grouping. Either through sound, technique, image, a reverence for the past, or just a common, skewed take on a […]
