Astral Skulls
Leaning from solo to duo in 2015, in 2018 Astral Skulls ventured into a 4 piece excursion out of the bedroom. Astral Skulls is currently on hiatus.
Since beginning Astral Skulls in April 2014, Kurt Eckardt - as Astral Skulls - refined his own brand of jagged symphonies which swing back and forth across the pop-spectrum, stopping in at post-punk, electro and new wave.
Also check out Kurt's other band, Hearts and Rockets.
Beef Knuckles
Beef Knuckles is a group of 3 guys who put out a small zine of the same name. Full of comics and words, only 100 are made with each cover hand screenprinted. The past few years they've been busy putting out 7 issues, as well as another zine called The Ball Street Journal – a fanzine dedicated to the greatest sport in the world; basketball.
Bonnie Mercer
Bonnie Mercer explores the unknown worlds of unrestrained feedback, hallucinatory white noise and hypnotically evolving sonic guitar experiments. A captivating solo performer, Bonnie is also a member of The Dacios, Little Desert, Hospital Pass, Breathing Shrine, and Paul Kidney Experience, and was a founding member of Grey Daturas. She also collaborates with countless legends including Scattered Order, Dumb Numbers and Magic Dirt.
Double Vanity
Double Vanity are all dim lighting, velvet curtains and crystal tears. Their arrival in 2020 transported listeners into a new world they labeled ‘airportwave’, capturing their nostalgic brand of analogue sad indie disco.
fish leg
fish leg is the solo project of multimedia artist Scout Albertine, formerly the leader of punk powerhouse Piss Factory - with Liv too! And sometimes Kurt.
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Gnohms
A trio with three lead singers, Pat (guitar, vocals), Lauren (drums, vocals) and Mark (bass, vocals). Formerly Ohms.
Hannah Marjorie
Hannah Marjorie is a Visual Artist and Illustrator currently based on Djandak Country /Castlemaine, Victoria.
Hearts and Rockets
Hearts and Rockets is a two piece feminist brat-wave band based in Naarm - check out their film clips here to get an idea.
Hon Boey
Hon Boey is a member of Psychic Hysteria and Mixed Business Collective. He is based on Ngunnawal land, and is a graphic designer, zine maker and photographer.
Kalindy Williams
Kalindy is an artist, photographer, designer, videographer and illustrator based in Naarm. She takes photos and makes zines. She's ultra-femme.
Kalindy is a member of Psychic Hysteria and runs the art department, plays synth, guitar and sings in Hearts and Rockets.
Kurt Eckardt
Kurt is a Naarm-based writer, musician, zine maker and photographer. He plays in Astral Skulls and Hearts and Rockets.
Kurt started Psychic Hysteria and is a member of Mixed Business Collective.
Find him on Substack.
Magpie
No longer playing :(. Magpie featured drummer James Mclean (The Tropes, Junior Fiction), and Jesse (Pioneers of Good Science, Ghost Like Beast) and Leish (Ghost Dick) split guitar and bass, and Leish took on most of the vocals and told all of the tales.
Psychic Hysteria released their EP, Into Space, on cassette on November 2, 2018. Buy it here.
Mixed Business Collective
A trio of Australian photographers working together on cool-as projects (whenever they have time). Featuring Kalindy Williams, Hon Boey and Kurt Eckardt.
Check out their first book Fakation.
Orange Paw
Orange Paw is a project from Mara Williams (of bubblegum/garage bands The Pink Tiles & Pleather Purrs).
Party Pest
Post-punk, fun-time, gal-pals Party Pest will crash your party, drink your booze and pash yer Mum. It's not a party without a pest!
Piss Factory
Piss Factory was started by Scout in a suburban Sydney bedroom, sporadically releasing recordings acoustically and as sound collages. In the summer of 2016 Scout moved to the mean streets of Fitzroy and made the project into a three-piece punk powerhaus.
Plaster of Paris
Plaster of Paris are health goths and natural rebels notorious for their fresh-take on old-cake live shows.
Musically, they have a phantom limb in riot grrrl, and another firmly planted in a self-harming black hole.
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Porpoise Spit
Porpoise Spit generates a stirring brand of rock that merges heartfelt ballads, raucous energy, thrashing guitars and a socially progressive punk spirit.
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Roolette Records
Roolette Records and Psychic Hysteria teamed up to release a split 7” featuring Hearts and Rockets and Zig Zag, which launched as part of Brunswick Music Festival, 2020.
They’ve put out some of our favourite releases from the likes of Pinch Points, Girl Germs, Kosmetika, Jungle Breed and lots more.
Shrimpwitch
Shrimpwitch entered the collective consciousness of our city’s punters in 2015, playing countless shows and self-releasing a couple of absolute corkers - all the while challenging the notion of what a live show should be
Skink Tank
Skink Tank is a wimpy pub-rock trio from Naarm.
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Skipism
Skipism is the solo project of Dru Jones (Height/Dismay, Scattered Order, Lint, whisker floater).
The little hand of the faithful
On a sabbatical from Scattered Order, Mitchell Jones adopted the name the little hand of the faithful to record a selection of instrumental tracks with messed up guitars, odd beats, synths, found sounds and samples, which he combines to form a foreboding and urgent atmosphere.
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WARS
Fronted by Deon Slaviero (voice, synthesiser and samples), this duo take elements of dark psych, drone, noise, ambient and pop to craft their own brand of "Gloomy Synth Wave".
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Way Shit
Way Shit was a garage-punk 3 piece from the Western suburbs of Naarm. They explore themes of mental health, sexuality, gender based harassment/violence and bad traffic.
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Zig Zag
Straight from the brains of the punk-queer extraordinaire Kelly Dingeldei, Zig Zag was comprised of long-time friends and lovers Dan Barnes, Tom Gowan, Jess Kemp and Alex Pink.