If you’re having a coffee in Marrickville and you hear a scathing punk takedown of the Catholic clergy, it just might be a Negative Gears rehearsal.

Lead singer and guitarist of ORB, HIEROPHANTS and The Frowning Clouds Zak Olsen has an off-kilter crack at another side project – the slow-burning Traffik Island.

Get into some Apple Isle post-punk pub rock that’s as crisp and acidic as a fresh Granny Smith.

US West Coast via Brisbane rapper Midas.Gold touches trap, dance, UK garage and pop – and you know what happens then.

After a three year recording hiatus, Bachelor Pad have come in hot this year with two EPs full of sub-2 minute uncut lo-fi gems.

A modern day oddity, Big Supermarket eschew social media for true long distance connection. Drawing members from Perth and Melbourne they make lo-fi 80s infused excursions across the Nullarbor.

The inner west’s Gravel Pit are giving us brazen, mangled and pulsating experimental punky electronica that might even get ya thinking about doomed primates in space.

Violence against women, government f**kery, drugs, organised religion, it’s all fuel for the raging fire that is Perra Vida – feminist punk direct from Lima, Peru.

Henri O.R. Asar is here to soundtrack your early-spring sun with his unfixed, IDM-influenced ambient soundscapes – music to get lost in.