We recorded Bibby’s support set for Spinning Top amigos Pond recently, and like a real upstanding gent, he’s offered one of the tracks for you to have for free. In ‘Home Alone’ he’s “high like Macaulay Caulkin” and “like a drugged-up Al Capone” – yet we still want to share a glass of cheap red with him.

Take it from a guy who’s literally Gone Away and Left It All Behind – Aussie music rules, and you should get it in your ears. Start with this free compilation from Bedroom Suck featuring Blank Realm, Primitive Motion, Lower Plenty, Totally Mild and more!

There’s something inexplicably calming about Fergus Miller’s voice and the way it flies over the jangly shoegaze of ‘We Lied’. It’s soft and it’s fuzzy and you just know he was wearing a great sweater when he wrote it.

Score yourself a special live version of ‘Father’ by local up-and-comers Thieves – recorded at Newtown Social Club when they supported Jen Cloher.

We’ve been glued to our headphones for the past couple of weeks, listening to all of the entrants to our first national Northern Lights competition, and finally the time has come… Meet the shortlisted finalists for 2014!