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Riding the momentum of her previous single ‘Bad Routine’ – which hit #41 on the Countrytown Hot 50 airplay chart – Bianca Joulianou returns with ‘Cowboy Casanova’, a feel-good rush of classic-meets-modern country rock that captures the thrill of falling hard and fast.

Dynamic and electrifying, Bianca continues to carve out her space in Australian country music with a unique voice. On ‘Cowboy Casanova’, she leans into grit-laced guitars, driving drums and an undeniable hook, delivering a love song that feels both timeless and right on cue for now.

Produced by Jake Davey – known for his work on the audio desk or behind the camera lens with artists including Taylor Moss, Saralyn and Melanie Dyer – the track blends raw energy with polished restraint. Bianca says the recording process unlocked something new in her artistry.

“Working with Jakey Davey in the studio really brought this track to life. He knew how to harness the raw grit of the guitars and drums while keeping the vocals front and centre, so the emotion hits hard. The process felt like capturing lighting in a bottle, Jake pushed me to dig deeper, and the energy we created together made the song exactly what it needed to be”.

The song itself marks a daring creative shift. “Cowboy Casanova is a song that I never thought I would write, a bold new step that marks something entirely new for me as an artist. The writing process came so naturally to me, once I got the idea of the rhythm in my head, the words kind of just fell out on the paper”.

There’s an ease to ‘Cowboy Casanova’ – a sense of abandon – but beneath the swagger is intention. Bianca balances classic country storytelling with a modern rock edge, drawing comparisons to the confident femininity of artists like Ella Langley and Stevie Nicks, while keeping her voice distinctly her own.

A 2025 Semi-Finalist for Listen Up Music’s ‘The Songwriting Prize’, Bianca has quickly become one of the most compelling emerging voices in the scene. She has opened for artists including Rachael Fahim, Dylan Wright, Shannon Noll and Diesel – sharpening her live show in front of some of the country’s most loyal audiences.

Outside of music, Bianca works as a mental health support worker, helping people rediscover a sense of purpose and passion in their lives. That perspective – witnessing firsthand the power of creativity and reconnection – feeds directly into her songwriting. Whether it’s a bold, high-energy anthem or a vulnerable confession, there’s always a beating heart beneath the sound.

With ‘Cowboy Casanova’, Bianca Joulianou doesn’t just follow up ‘Bad Routine’ – she levels up. It’s confident, catchy and charged with a spark that feels impossible to ignore.

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Frontier Touring is pleased to announce two shows from fast-rising Byron Bay three-piece HEADSEND this April, hitting Sydney and Melbourne for a pair of unmissable rock shows.

Built first and foremost as a live band, HEADSEND’s rise has been defined on stage – the band’s ferocious, up-close energy fuelling their rapid ascent. Having already stepped onto arena and stadium stages in 2025 alongside global heavyweights Tool and AC/DC, Rasmus King, Kyuss King and Bon Soric have sharpened their reputation through relentless touring, which also including supporting UK outfit Wunderhorse on their sold-out Australian run.

It’s a trajectory earned the hard way: loud, direct sets that prioritise feel over polish and leave little distance between band and audience. Playing more than 40 shows across Australia in the past year alone, the trio now bring that same intensity back into intimate rooms for these two headline appearances in Sydney and Melbourne – part of a wider tour run that includes slots at The Great Escape in the UK, with additional UK/EU tour dates to follow.

Today’s tour announcement follows news of the band’s debut EP Angel Glands, arriving March 27 – preorder here. The release features the ferocious tracks ‘Stove’ and ‘Chugg’, alongside the recently released woozy anthem ‘And Angel’. Drawing directly from the raw onstage energy shown during their recent performances, the EP channels the unfiltered intensity of HEADSEND’s live shows. Recorded live in-studio by Nick DiDia (Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots), the EP preserves the dynamics and physicality that have fuelled their word-of-mouth rise as a live act.

Frontier Members can get early access to tickets via the Members presale, which starts Thursday 12 March (11am local time) – see frontiertouring.com/headsend for full details. Tickets will then go on sale to the public on Friday 13 March (12pm local time).

Building momentum the traditional way – in rooms, on stages and in front of crowds – don’t miss HEADSEND in Sydney and Melbourne when they hit stages this April.

HEADSEND
​APRIL 2026
​Presented by Frontier Touring

FRONTIER MEMBER PRESALE ​
​via frontiertouring.com/headsend
​Runs 24 hours from: Thursday 12 March (11am local time) ​
​or until presale allocation exhausted

TICKETS ON SALE
​Begins: Friday 13 March (12pm local time)

ALL SHOWS 18+

** Also playing (not Frontier shows – check band website for info):

Friday 27 March – Howl and Moan, Byron Bay, NSW
​Friday 3 April – Tracks Party, Torquay Surf Club, Torquay, VIC
​Sunday 19 April – The Northern w/Helmet, Byron Bay, NSW
​Friday 1 May – Tracks Party, Coollangatta Hotel, Coolangatta, QLD
​Friday 15 May – The Great Escape, Brighton, UK

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Welsh songwriter Gene Madoc steps into the spotlight with Revelation’s Dog, a striking blend of psychedelic folk and introspective storytelling. Rooted in raw, live-recorded performances, the track carries a stripped-back intensity that allows Madoc’s evocative lyrics and haunting melodies to take center stage. Drawing inspiration from literary voices like Kafka and Murakami as much as folk revival traditions, the song explores the modern obsession with self-help and the elusive search for meaning. Revelation’s Dog feels both timeless and reflective—an intimate, thought-provoking piece that favors emotional honesty over polished perfection.

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Philadelphia emo act Hit Like A Girl deliver a bright and heartfelt moment with Are You In Love, featuring Zayna Youssef of Sweet Pill. Blending playful synth-pop touches with punchy emo guitars, the track captures the dizzy excitement of a new crush. Nicolle Maroulis and Zayna Youssef trade vocals with effortless chemistry, turning the song into a charming dialogue of curiosity and tentative hope. Lighter in tone but still emotionally sincere, Are You In Love stands out as a catchy and uplifting preview of the band’s upcoming album Burning at Both Ends.

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Album Review: Rush – Grace Under Pressure

Reviewed by Dan Barnes

Not going to lie – but I loves me some Rush. There are, naturally, some of their studio records I reach for less than other: Caress of Steel, perhaps, and maybe Presto; but generally I’m down with all phases of the band, from their hard rockin’, pre-Neil Peart, debut, through the synth-heavy Eighties output, to the overlooked later gems, such as Test for Echo and Snakes & Arrows. I even like the much-derided Hold Your Fire record, and the 2012 swansong, Clockwork Angels, is a vital as anything the band have done.

By the time of the original release of Grace Under Pressure in 1984, Rush had already established themselves as one of the most inventive and technically proficient bands of the scene. The run of still-classic releases started with 2112 in 1976 and continued, unabated through A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres and Permanent Waves; those progressive elements were not quite as noticeable on Moving Pictures in 1981, but that didn’t stop the band’s eighth album being rightly recognised as one of their crowning achievements.

Eighteen months later and Signals would attract criticism from some quarters for its emphasis on synthesisers in favour of Alex’s guitar; while others praised the bravery of the band for continuing their electronic exploration and not simply making a Moving Pictures, part II. Lauded for its more adult lyrical themes, Signals would ultimately lay the groundwork for album number ten: Grace Under Pressure in 1984.

The subject of this Super Deluxe Reissue set, Grace… found Rush pushing on with the wide use of synthesisers, while also incorporating ska and reggae elements. Guitars, which had taken a backseat on Signals, now came back to the fore and vied for prominence across the album’s eight tracks.

The lyrical maturity continued through this album – which took its title from Earnest Hemmingway’s comment that “courage is grace under pressure” in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald – in the poignant Afterimage, the Holocaust imagery of Red Sector A, and the trenchant critique of the Capitalist model that is Between the Wheels.

Those ska and reggae influences can be heard through The Enemy Within, Kid Gloves seems ahead of its time, especially with the knowledge of what would come barely a decade later, and the digital-humanoid protagonist of The Body Electric is represented by sharp, staccato musical phrasing. More traditional Rush flavours can be heard on opener – and lead single – Distant Early Warning, which blends the synths with some hard rocking sounds, and Red Lense’s upbeat vibes. It’s notable that Grace Under Pressure does not sport any acoustic guitar and has no relieving ballad to break up the force of the generally bleak message.

A month after its April 1984 release, Japan, Canada and the UK all got an additional single issued, though each territory got something different: Afterimage in the Far East, Red Sector A in the Frozen North, and we here in good ol’ Blighty had The Body Electric. With all that activity it’s almost Rush’s Thriller.

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CD Boxset

Disc one features a new remaster from the original 1984 analogue stereo tapes, which gives the album some hefty low end. Disc two gives the us the chance to hear what the album would have sounded like had long-time co-producer, Terry Brown, who had worked with Rush on every album, barring the debut. Mr Brown was not only in the producer’s chair for the band, but would also appear as an additional musician, arranger and backing vocalist, but did not work on Grace, with his place being taken by Peter Henderson, who had worked with the likes of King Crimson, Paul McCartney and Jeff Beck. Terry’s version of Grace Under Pressure is a lush love song to what might

have been, including supplementary musical pieces and punishing driving energy. That Terry also produced for Dream Theater and Voivod might give you some idea the man is no stranger to heavy music.

Discs three and four (and five for the vinyl collectors) contain the hometown show at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, on 21 September 1984 as part of the Grace Under Pressure world tour. Originally released in full on VHS, and in an edited version on 2006’s Rush Replay x3 DVD boxed set, the audio was originally issued in 2009, again in truncated form, on the Grave Under Pressure Tour album.

These discs represent the first time the complete twenty song performance has been made available after having been newly remixed from the original masters. The whole of the Grace Under Pressure album can be found here, with the exception of Distant Early Warning; other Rush classics The Spirit of Radio, Tom Sawyer, and Red Barchetta vie with more proggy parts of the band’s past: The Temples of Syrinx, Fly By Night’s closing tune, In the Mood, taking a similar position here, as well as YYZ and the obligatory Neil Peart drum solo.

This Super Deluxe reissue is available in a couple of media options: a four CD version and a five vinyl edition, both are accompanied by a Blu-Ray which features an array content, including the video of the Toronto show, various audio mixes of the album, including Dolby Atmos and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 of the 1984 recording, and PCM Stereo version of that and the 2025 album mix; and the promotional videos for Grace Under Pressure’s four single releases, offered in TrueHD 5.1 and 48khz 24-bit PCM Stereo, some of the audio options being available for the first time.

Away from the discs, the package comes with a hardcover book, featuring sleeve notes by Geddy Lee and new illustrations for each song by cover artist, Hugh Symes, an illuminated LED display, replicas of the Grace Under Pressure tour book, a poster and replica ticket from the Toronto show, a back-stage pass, band photos and a six-page press release.

The review version I got was just the audio parts, but knowing the care and attention Rush put into their packages, the bits that I didn’t see are sure to be of the highest quality. The price tag appears to reflect that, but to a collector, this represents exceptional value for money.

Coming out a little after the R50 Something shows went on sale, with Rush-fever starting to build over the next twelve months, I can’t imagine a better time to be reacquainting yourself with that unassuming Toronto three-piece.

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