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Another year, another New Year’s Eve, and as the holidays come to an end, many of us are heading back to work, so we thought it would be the perfect time to reflect on the holiday fun and reminisce about the good times we had at Melbourne’s very first Heaps Good Festival! Unlike previous years, Melbourne was met with the …

Arriving in the scene as late as a few months into 2022, releasing her debut EP Sharks in November, Brockhoff ‘s hard work has finally paid off. During 2023, Brockhoff toured relentlessly and supported bands like Giant Rooks and Paolo Nutini, released her second EP I’ve Stopped Getting Chills For A While Now before ending the year with a headliner …

  In times of chaos, music can be a place of escape or comfort. The best albums of 2023 devised a wealth of helpful solutions and coping mechanisms for our everyday problems. Must-hear albums kept piling up at an insane rate, and with a few noted exceptions (including Miley Cyrus, Drake, and the, um, Rolling Stones), this wasn’t a huge …

Voted on by over nine Messed!Up music writers, we celebrate the year’s best tracks from John Grant to Depeche Mode and beyond. ********** John Grant: “Day Is Done” Kvelertak: ”Krøterveg te Helvete” The Reytons: “Little Bastards” Sleep Token: “The Summoning” Mindchatter: ”Growing Pains” Kite: ”Don’t Take The Light Away” Twelve’len & Denzel Curry: ”Lady Draco” Solen: ”Lovikka” Depeche Mode: ”Ghosts …

Let’s start in our amusing reality: when I jumped off the bus in Gothenburg for my fourth Viva Sounds Festival it was -11 degrees and snow. At the same time, our Melbourne photographer sent the first batch of photos from Good Things Festival and complained about light showers and +24 degrees. That’s an outtake from Messed!Up’s different realities on December …

I have a distinct memory from earlier this year of a walk home, slightly inebriated following a night of drinking and laughing and ironically going to clubs meant for university freshers (I’m 24) with some of my best friends. It was April, about 3 am and wet – Manchester’s iconic drizzling rain pestering the few remaining night owls out and …