Brandon John

Editor of Tone Deaf until 2017, Brandon then wrote gaming and music news for The Brag Media. He now leaves the writing to the next wave of journos, but you'll still find him in the shadows of his favourite Melbourne venues.

Are your Spotify playlists full of “fake” artists?

How often do you check to see who made the tracks you're currently listening to in your Spotify playlist - and if that artist even exists at all?

Could Radiohead’s “little tour” in 2018 finally be the Aussie run we’ve been waiting for?

Radiohead have been busy knocking over a long tour and celebrating 'OK Computer's 20th anniversary, but Australia has so far been left out of the equation.

Meg Mac scores this week’s triple j Feature Album with her debut LP ‘Low Blows’

Meg Mac's first and highly-anticipated long-player Low Blows drops this Friday, and has fended off Jay-Z to nab the Feature Album honours.

Rise Against frontman onstage with a megaphone

Rise Against announce an Aussie tour of “dangerous spaces where misogyny and xenophobia can’t exist”

Rise Against are heading back to Australia for their biggest tour yet to bring their eighth LP Wolves to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Jet just released their first song in 7 years, and it’s definitely not what we were expecting

With Jet's brief reformation earlier this year and a new global deal, we thought there might be new music on the way - but not this.

Premiere: Phebe Starr’s ‘Wonder’ is a sentimental synth-pop gem

Phebe Starr has just released a clip for her gorgeous new synth-pop track 'Wonder', taken from her long-awaited sophomore EP 'Chronicles'.

Bob Geldof is making another Boomtown Rats album after 33 years

After more than three decades on the backburner, Irish rockers The Boomtown Rats are back, with frontman Sir Bob Geldof announcing a very big album project.

The main stage at Splendour in the Grass 2016

An international act pulls out of Splendour as set times are announced

Good news and bad today, as Splendour in the Grass announces all of the set times for this year’s festival, along with the sad news...

King Gizzard score another U.S. chart #1 with ‘Murder of the Universe’

King Gizz were sadly held from their first #1 album in their home country, but they've had another breakthrough on the U.S. charts.

Violent Soho are back to playing headline gigs this August

After saying they were taking a break for "at least a year", the Soho boys are back on the stage for another headline set just.

Sesame Street meets the Beastie Boys in this ridiculously good mashup

An incredibly well-edited mashup reenacting the Beastie Boys' iconic clip for 'Sabotage', which took out best video at the MTV VMAs way back in '94.

LCD Soundsystem’s Gavin Russom has come out as transgender

Russom joined the band in 2010 to contribute her synth expertise to This Is Happening, also working on her own projects and analogue synth production.

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