The On and Ons dishing up taste of Number Seven

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By The Barman

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02 October 2025

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Revered Sydney powerpop combo The On and Ons will be previewing songs from Album Number Seven at their old stamping ground, Marrickville Bowling Club, on Saturday, November 8. Tickets are selling here.

The as yet untitled album is due on US label JEM Records in early 2026. JEM issued “Come On in””, a part retrospective-part new release that re-introduced The On and Ons to the North American market. The band had put out a single with American label Get Hip.

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The Cha Cha Chas return home with debut album in hand

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By The Barman

The Barman

02 October 2025

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The wonderfully rocking and highly mobile based duo, Thee Cha Cha Chas, is returning home to Australia from Europe  to present their debut LP “Temple Of Mirth”, playing 13 shows across NSW and Victoria. 

The Cha Cha Chas have spent the past year playing across Europe, where “Temple Of Mirth” has been met with genuine enthusiasm. 

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The Fadeaways add mystery band to their Sydney bill

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By The Barman

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30 September 2025

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Mystery band The Dull City Destroyers have joined Jupiter 5 and Cheetah Beat on the undercard to Japan's garage rock kings The Fadeaways for their only Sydney show at Marrickville Bowling Club on Thursday, November 13. The gig will sell out so don't delay. Tickets are here. 

FRI 14 NOV - PFR Lounge
SAT 15 NOV - River Rock Festival
SAT 15 NOV - Hald Baked Festival

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The new Chris Masuak's Dog Soldier album is nearly here even if the tour isn't

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By The Barman

The Barman

28 September 2025

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The Australian tour is off but you can get yourself a slice of the Chris Masuak's Dog Soldier action by pre-purchasing the new album on I-94 Bar Records. "Chris Masuak's Dog Soldier" will be on CD or digital and your copy wil be with you before it lands in retail. Go here to find out more.

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Bless them lord for they have sinned

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By The Barman

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27 September 2025

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Death Crossed The Street – Reverend Beat-Man & Milan Slick (Voodoo Rhythm)

In a world content with the cute and besotted with the bland, Reverend Beat-Man is the ultimate trashman. Whether he’s in one-man band guise or fronting the four-headed fuzz-fest that is The Monsters, this intense Swiss eccentric has been touring the garages and licensed shitholes of this world since 1992 peddling primal rock and roll, both live and via his own Voodoo Rhythm label.

The label’s slogan is “Records to ruin any party” and it’s home to some of the most esoteric, trashy and weird music that rock and roll’s hatched. “Death Crossed The Street” is no exception.

This time out, it’s Beat-Man on vocals, guitar and drums and a younger collaborator, Milan Slick, on vocals, guitar and keys. Of course, they met while soundtracking a vampire film. What else do you do in Switzerland during a pandemic?  

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Chris Masuak Australian tour and Spanish dates off after medical emergency

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By The Barman

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24 September 2025

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It is with extreme regret that Chris Masuak has been forced to cancel his forthcoming Australian tour with Dog Soldier and Spanish dates with Los Revelators after emergency surgery to save the sight in an eye. 

Chris was rushed into hospital in Lugo, Spain, on Monday after experiencing a week of deteriorating vision. A surgeon re-attached a retina and Chris is now at home recuperating. 

He is under doctor’s orders not to fly and will need time to manage his recovery. Ticketholders should contact venues or agencies. Chris hopes to re-schedule the dates for early 2026 and his new CD, “Chris Masuak’s Dog Soldier”, will be released on I-94 Bar Records on November 7.

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If it's too loud and fast, you know what you can do

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By The Barman

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22 September 2025

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He spent his early years as a player in Sydney’s underground music scene and also broadcasting its music on community radio. So it was a labour of love for ex-Vanilla Chainsaws frontman-turned-solo-artist Simon Chainsaw in 2009 when he put together a covers record of the songs of the era that inspired him.

Sixteen years later after the “Fuck The Neighbours” record, he’s taking to Sydney stages with a band bearing the same name whose members helped birth the music.

Named after a Thought Criminals song, “Fuck The Neighbours” is an all-Australian punk supergroup playing Oz punk classics for a limited number of shows. You can catch them for a matinee show at MoshPit Bar in St Peters in Sydney on Saturday, November 29. Tickets here.

Comprising Simon Chainsaw on vocals, guitarist Cub Calloway (The Saints, New Christs), bassist Bob Short (Filth, Urban Guerillas) and drummer Murray Shepherd (Fun Things, Screaming Tribesmen. Hitmen DTK) as the core band.

They’ll be joined at the MoshPit by guests including Mark Easton (Suicide Squad, Bedhogs, The Kelpies, Soggy Porridge), Geoff Holmes (X, Evil Rumours) and others to-be-announced.

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New music from Masuak and Los Revelators: "Dotted Line"

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22 September 2025

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As preparations wind up for his first Australian shows in a couple of years and the release of his new album "Chris Masuak's Dog Soldier" imminent on our own I-94 Bar Records label, ex-Radio Birdman guitarist Chris Klondike Masuak is busy with his Spanish band Los Revelators. This is their newest song, "Dotted Line", with the filmclip shot in the wilds of Galicia. 

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Veterans bring some magic on "Trauma Magnet"

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By Ed Garland & The Barman

Ed Garland & The Barman

07 September 2025

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Trauma Magnet – Van Ruin (Crankinhaus Records)

It has been an explosive 12 months for Van Ruin, a band formed in Sydney only a year ago that almost immediately began recording their first mini album. Band leader Phil Van Rooyen had a batch of deeply personal songs he had written about his years of counselling substance abuse in the underbelly of the city's Northern Beaches.

Phil threw himself into a flurry of  writing and recording, working with his decades-long mate and Al Creed, of local legendary bands like Dr Fruitworld and Panadolls, as well as the New Christs.

Enter Stuart Wilson (Lime Spiders, New Christs, Chris Masuak’s Dog Soldier and The Crisps) on drums. There were a couple of the raggedy, under-rehearsed gigs that were hanging by a thread at times, and as thrilling as they were they did not capture the brutal darkness and brilliance of what would the debut EP,  “Jails, Death and Institutions”.

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