The new double a-side 7” from Hearts and Rockets, featuring Get Bored and Best Dressed.
Brand new tracks from Cong Josie and Hearts and Rockets on black vinyl. A limited run of 300 records. Shipping March 8, 2024. To purchase a digital version only, why not head to our Bandcamp page
Limited edition cassette of the 2022 compilation cassette 'Psychic Hysteria & Friends #1' featuring 30 tracks donated by artists as a fundraiser for Dreamtime Aroha's 'Biggest Mob Christmas Appeal'. To purchase the digital version, please head to: psychichysteria.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-hysteria-friends-1
Please accept this compilation of some of our label's bands and some of the extended Psychic Hysteria family as at November 2022. All profits raised will be donated to Dreamtime Aroha's 'Biggest Mob Christmas Appeal', and once that's complete the next fundraiser organised by Dreamtime Aroha.
You can donate directly at: www.gofundme.com/f/dvcrb9-biggest-mob-christmas-appeal. We highly recommend you folllow www.instagram.com/dreamtime_aroha.
A huge thank you to all of the bands that have donated their song to this fundraiser, to Dreamtime Aroha for all of their hard work, to Mikey Young for mastering the tracks and the cassette and to the B.East for hosting our launch party (on November 26 & 27).
There is a zine that accompanies this release with contributions from local artists, including some featured on the tape.
We (Kurt & Kalindy) feel so lucky to be a part of such a nurturing and supportive music community. Thank you to everyone whose labour, commitment and passion makes it so.
This show is taking place on stolen land that belongs to the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded, and a treaty has never been signed: this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
The cassette release features a bonus track: Marville - Fiction.
Compilation mastered by Mikey Young. Curated and sequenced by Kurt Eckardt.
To purchase a digital version only, why not head to our Bandcamp page?
Get your hands on a special pack consisting of the cassette release of Hearts and Rockets’ new EP TV Is Boring, plus a few extra bits and pieces exclusive to this release. Cassettes duplicated in real time hi-fi with full colour 2-sided J-card cover, black cassette.
To purchase a digital version only, why not head to our Bandcamp page
The two latest singles from Hearts and Rockets, Workout and Dead As Disco , are both on this new double a-side 7” release, due out on limited edition white 7” vinyl on Saturday October 31, 2020.
Workout is a fun ode to home workout videos from the 80s and 90s. The forthcoming second single, Dead As Disco, is a synth heavy banger, ready for the dance floor.
Order your copy of Hearts and Rockets’ second LP, the 14 track dude smasher, Power.
To purchase a digital version only, why not head to our Bandcamp page for an instant download.
Hearts and Rockets have pushed themselves beyond the hazy Heat Wave days, taking the fun and energy of their debut album Dead Beats and adding some serious pop smarts. They’re set to take it on the road for an East-Coast tour in September 2019.
Power features the single Dance Off; the party tune with a middle finger to the dudes at the front, which featured on a split 7” with garage-punk legends Shrimpwitch in late 2018 and had an incredible self-produced video that’s got to be seen to be believed (their 5th official video). Kurt and Kalindy have plans for a string of singles and video clips throughout 2019, and there is no shortage of options amongst these 14 earworms.
Power’s effect is in its simplicity: Hearts and Rockets don’t mince words, and they don’t waste time. Their short-sharp and catchy tracks are fun, without being vapid. They’ll make you want to dance, and definitely sing along, but heads up - you might elbow a few bigots along the way.
Hearts and Rockets release remix EP for their latest single ‘You Don't Know What You Have Until You've Had Enough' featuring re-workings by Pat Telfer (Mystery Guest), Mino Peric (No Sister), Jimmy Cass & USER. Available from heartsandrockets.bandcamp.com and all digital and streaming platforms.
It’s available here for free, but feel free to either purchase it from heartsandrockets.bandcamp.com or send what you’d like to pay to paypal.me/psychichysteria.
Written by Kalindy Williams and Kurt Eckardt
Remixed by Pat Telfer, Mino Peric, Jimmy Cass and USER (Andrew Nunns and Frank Galgano)
Mastered by Mino Peric
Artwork by Kalindy Williams
Original track engineered by Kurt Eckardt (excluding live drums)
Mixed and mastered + live drums played and recorded by Matt Chow
Available on split 7" b/w Zig Zag - Crying All The Way To The Bank out now via Roolette Records and Psychic Hysteria
Ultra-limited lathe cut, hand numbered 7" featuring new Astral Skulls tracks This Place / Take It Away.
To purchase a digital version only, why not head to our Bandcamp page for an instant download.
To purchase a digital version only, why not head to our Bandcamp page for an instant download.
Psychic Hysteria presents our first split 7" release, featuring brand new songs from Melbourne punk trio Piss Factory and bratwave duo Hearts and Rockets (FKA Heat Wave).
After Piss Factory headlined the then called Heat Wave's first ever venue show in September 2016, they've been sharing bills as often as possible. After much talk, they've finally put out a split release featuring short bursts of energy from both acts.
The recording of Piss Factory's 1 minute 20 second long 377 bubbles over with the urgency of their live shows, dragging the listener with them to an end that seems to come around all too soon, but as with everything from Piss Factory, leaves you wanting more.
Hearts and Rockets' home recorded synth-pop-punk song Psychic Powers continues in the spooky vain of their debut album Dead Beats, with drums that can throw a punch and a synth line to melt your eyeballs.
A year after launching Dead Beats on cassette, Hearts and Rockets have decided to press a run of 25 x 12" copies of the album on lathe cut vinyl. Get the download immediately. Vinyl shipping in August 2018. There will be a few extras printed, pre-order one here if you’d like one.
Written, recorded and produced by Hearts and Rockets at Psychic Hysteria Studios, Preston, Victoria 2016.
Mixed and Mastered by Mikey Young.
To purchase a digital version only, why not head to our Bandcamp page for an instant download.
Two of Melbourne's favourite duos have come together for a very special, very limited vinyl release. On one side of the single, you'll find Shrimpwitch's shrimp-charged garage punk masterpiece, Digestion - the first taster of their wildly dramatic debut album (out January 2019). Digestion imparts the aspiring sequel, of sorts, to their 2017 hit Lust For A Kick.
Flip the record to hear Dance Off, the latest from bratwavers Hearts and Rockets. It's a party tune with a middle finger to the dudes at the front.
These two duos don't find themselves on the same release by accident. The songs sound different, but the story remains the same. Don't snooze on the buy button, with only 100 copies being pressed you'd best jump on it.
Fakation is out now!
Fakation, the first release from Mixed Business Collective (Hon Boey, Kalindy Williams and Kurt Eckardt), explores themes of homecoming – re-exploring once familiar scenes and discovering new hometowns.
All shot on 35mm in Australia and Malaysia
A5 (148mm x 210mm, portrait) + 3 x A6 (105mm x 148mm) postcards
32 pages, full colour
Digital print (HP Indigo) on 140gsm Pacesetter
250gsm Pacesetter cover
Edition of 250
Published May 2016
Kalindy Williams and Kurt Eckardt went to Warhol / Ai Wei Wei at NGV in 2016 and everyone just kept getting in their way! This A5 photo zine (b+w with colour cover) is more about the people at the art show than the art show - at what point do we become the art? Who cares, it's all just for fun so stop thinking about it and look at the pretty pictures.
Edition of 20.
Now sold out: the limited edition cassette version of Hearts and Rockets (FKA Heat Wave)'s debut album, Dead Beats. You can download the album x infinity at psychichysteria.bandcamp.com.
There is a limited 12” re-issue of this album available here.
A tiny zine full of huge jokes about ghosts from Melbourne band Heat Wave (Kalindy Williams and Kurt Eckardt). $2pp in Australia.
The last few remaining copies of the limited edition run of 50 clear and 20 picture disk 10 inch lathe cut records of Say Cheese and Die's final release, Repetition Repetition. Made by Peter King in NZ, and the only release on what was to eventually become Psychic Hysteria - Booger Records!
Everyone can download the album for free here.
Swampland 03 - quality longform music journalism with contributions from some of Australia’s most respected music writers, some exciting up-and-coming names and with a strong focus on high quality music photography.
Includes a photo essay featuring Kurt Eckardt's work.
Swampland 01 - quality longform music journalism with contributions from some of Australia’s most respected music writers, some exciting up-and-coming names and with a strong focus on high quality music photography.
Includes a couple of photos by Kurt Eckardt.
contact:light is Astral Skull's debut LP. Mixed by Jonathan Snipes, mastered by Thomas Dimuzio, photography and artwork by Hon Meng Boey.
contact:light is available on CD, cassette, deluxe 180 gram 12" vinyl or as a digital download. For cassette purchases outside Australia please go here.
Purchase the vinyl, cassette or CD release receive a free digital download of contact:light. (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more). A download code will be sent within 24 hours of your order.
To purchase the digital album only, it's easier over at the Astral Skulls Bandcamp page.
Astral Skull's first physical release! A 7" double A-side single, mixed and mastered by Mikey Young, recorded in Astral Skull's home studio and with artwork by Kalindy Williams.
Includes unlimited streaming of Sexism Sux / Bite My Tongue 7" via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Ships out within 3 days and a digital download code will be sent within 12 hours of your order.
To purchase a digital download visit the Astral Skulls Bandcamp page.
Kurt Eckardt
Kurt is a Naarm-based writer, musician, zine maker and photographer. He plays in Astral Skulls and Hearts and Rockets, and is the music curator at Psychic Hysteria.
Kurt started Psychic Hysteria and is a member of Mixed Business Collective.
Find him on Substack.
In the (Australian) summer of 2026 I started writing a novel, and loved that much of it could be broken up into individual short stories. Enjoying this format, I decided to keep writing short stories as well, and to put together a zine featuring a collection of them: Running Writing Volume #1 .
I decided to start the Running Writing Substack to allow even more freedom in publishing these stories - please subscribe to me there.
I named this project Running Writing, as the stories are usually stream of consciousness, written on the run - often on the notes app on my phone, on dog walks, while waiting for someone - and occasionally the ideas have come to me while I’m on a run or bike ride.
A5 - Edition of 50