American funeral doomsters Evokenare pleased to announce that they will be heading out to Europe this summer for their ‘Mendacium Tour’. Confirmed dates and venues are at your disposal via flyer below.
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Oz Dhun Live Featuring Girish and the Chronicles – Live in Perth
Oz Dhun Live is bringing an international rock night to Metro City, Northbridge on 28 March, featuring one of South Asia’s fastest-rising hard rock acts, Girish and The Chronicles (GATC).
The band has built a global reputation with their soaring vocals, classic hard-rock sound, and high-energy performances. They’ve previously shared stages with legendary rock band Guns N’ Roses and gained worldwide attention through their appearance on America’s Got Talent, introducing their music to a global audience.
Joining them on stage is Nepali rock legend Deepak Bajracharya & The Rhythm Band, whose folk-rock anthems have been the soundtrack of generations across the globe. Known for powerful live shows and crowd-singing moments, Deepak continues to be one of the most respected figures in south asian rock music.
Together, the two acts will deliver a high-energy end-of-summer rock night in Perth, blending international hard rock with nostalgic South Asian rock influences for a unique live music experience.
Event Details
Metro City, Northbridge
Friday, 28 March
8:00 PMTickets are available online, and the indoor venue has limited capacity.
Ticket Link: https://megatix.com.au/events/Oz-Dhun-Fest-Vol-I
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Rochdale Music Stories Presents: Kenion Street – Album Launch
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“Guilty as Charged!” — Berlin Post-Punk Outfit Agatha is Dead! Bring Down the Gavel With “Courtroom Drama”
Hold me in contempt, for there is nothing that I do to please
I put myself on trial, I let my judgment bring me to my knees
There are days when the mind turns magistrate, when every small failure is entered into the record, and every private doubt returns in a powdered wig to prosecute the self all over again. You replay the evidence, rehearse the apology, write the sentence before anyone else has spoken. That is the suffocating chamber Berlin post-punk outfit Agatha Is Dead! enters with “Courtroom Drama,” their new single, a fierce, self-lacerating dispatch that arrives with the announcement of their debut album Concrete, due out on September 11th via Duchess Box Records.
Lyrically, Courtroom Drama unfolds as an internal trial, suffocating in its own logic, tracing the slow collapse that comes from taking on all responsibility until perspective erodes and certainty dissolves. Here, guilt becomes instinctive rather than earned, confession a coping mechanism rather than truth. Shaped by inherited judgments and internalised authority, the track exists in a space where dissenting voices are muted, and the trial never adjourns. Bleak yet piercingly intimate, it captures the exhaustion of living under constant self-surveillance, asking what remains of identity when judgment and self-imposed moral perfectionism replace understanding.
Musically, the song is pure post-punk: thick, propulsive basslines move like quick footsteps heralding impending judgment; angular guitars slash through the mix; and the drums march with taut, anxious precision. The riffs are dirgeful, suspenseful, and cinematic, while the icy guitar solo two-thirds in is one any gothic rock band would be proud to claim. Vocally, Agatha Is Dead! strike a compelling balance between smouldering contemporary intensity and bruised theatricality, calling to mind PJ Harvey and Whispering Sons. The chilling, forceful refrain of “guilty as charged” is set against the more resigned, inward mantra of “I’ve got no alibi,” augmenting the song’s cruel emotional tug-of-war.
The lyric video heightens that tension with a stark, confrontational visual concept: two mirrored black silhouettes face one another across a central microphone, suspended against a blood-red backdrop, while massive white lowercase lyrics strike the frame like evidence entered into the record. The symmetry suggests an interrogation staged inside a divided self, part deposition, part confession, part psychic standoff. As courtroom language like gavel, jury, deposition, and wrong confessions flashes across the screen, the clip becomes less a conventional lyric video than a ritual of self-prosecution, with no judge in sight beyond the one already living inside the speaker’s skull.
Watch Courtroom Drama below:
Formed during the lockdown winter of 2021, Agatha Is Dead! began as a post-punk experiment between longtime friends Lilly and Noah, who first made music together during their school years. Drawing from Joy Division, The Cure, Molchat Doma, and Fontaines D.C., their sound is defined by urgency, tension, and atmosphere. The addition of drummer Joey Ramone Hansen, bringing a grunge and pop-punk bite, alongside Arthur on bass, completed the lineup. After their first shows in 2022, the band quickly established themselves within Berlin’s underground scene.
In 2025, Agatha Is Dead! signed to Duchess Box Records and released their EP order, before selling out a run of headline shows on their first tour, including a 500-capacity performance at Lido Berlin that sold out four months in advance. With “Courtroom Drama,” the band sharpen their claustrophobic intensity still further, marking a decisive step toward one of Berlin’s most compelling new post-punk statements.
Agatha Is Dead! will make their US live debut at SXSW beginning on March 12th. Tickets are already on sale for their 25th February 2027 show at SO36 Berlin, their biggest headline show to date.
The release of Courtroom Drama lands just ahead of the band’s first shows in the United States at SXSW, with more tour news to follow.
Pre-save / stream “Courtroom Drama” here:
Tour Dates
SXSW
- 12.03. @ Low Down Lounge, SXSW, USA
- 16.03. @ Speak Easy, German Haus, SXSW, USA
- 18.03. @ Valhalla, SXSW, USA
2026
- 08.10. @ Hannover, Cafe Glocksee
- 09.10. @ Leipzig, Neumanns Tanzlokal
- 10.10. @ Nuremberg, Club Stero
- 11.10. @ Erfurt, Engelsburg
- 13.10. @ Cologne, Bumann & Söhne
- 14.10. @ Mainz, Schoen Schoen
- 15.10. @ Munich, Substanz
- 16.10. @ Wien, B72
2027
- 18.02. @ Marburg, KFZ
- 19.02. @ Bremen, Lagerhaus
- 20.02. @ Bochum, Trompete
- 21.02. @ Hamburg, Molotow
- 23.02. @ Reutlingen, Franz K
- 24.02. @ Dresden, Groove Station
- 25.02. @ Berlin, SO36
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