Celine Teo-Blockey

2 weeks ago | undertheradarmag.com | Celine Teo-Blockey

Web Exclusive As the lights came up on Chaka Khan’s headlining set of career-defining hits on one stage, followed an hour later by Australian hip-hop stars Hilltop Hoods who brought Byron Bay Bluesfest 2025 to a sweaty, energetic, pyrotechnic-packed official end, it became plainly clear for those still unawares that the curtain would not be coming down on the festival after all.

2 weeks ago | undertheradarmag.com | Celine Teo-Blockey

Web Exclusive If 2023’s Hadsel was Zach Condon of Beirut emerging from a trough of depression, divorce, and vocal distress, with clear-eyed focus and a perverse sense of pleasure from the endless night and snow of the Norwegian surrounds he’d retreated to, A Study of Losses is a quiet acceptance and willingness to skate along the now even-tempered tide as daylight breaks and becomes abundant.

4 weeks ago | undertheradarmag.com | Celine Teo-Blockey

Web Exclusive Only three songs deep into The Libertines’ Sydney set, their first Australian show here since 2018, and you’re already overcome with the surging euphoria more akin to singing along with thousands in a major-sized festival field at the climax of a night, than this beginning in a modest, inner-city theatre. On stage tonight after all, is one of the best rock’n’roll bands to come out of this century.

2 months ago | undertheradarmag.com | Celine Teo-Blockey

Web Exclusive After a year of many a milestone in her ascendant career, Australian artist, Miss Kaninna adds Byron Bay Bluesfest 2025 to her list of achievements. She joins a stacked bill of rock, roots and blues-inspired acts from the legendary Chaka Khan to Tom Morello, Crowded House, Gary Clark Jr, Rag ‘N’ Bone Man, Neal Francis, Casey Chambers, Missy Higgins, Tones And I, Vance Joy, and more—for its latest installment, to be held over the Easter weekend (17 to 20 April).

Aug 1, 2024 | undertheradarmag.com | Celine Teo-Blockey

Web Exclusive The title of Grian Chatten’s debut solo album, Chaos For the Fly, borrows from the quote “What is normal to the spider is chaos for the fly,” attributed to Charles Addams, the titular creator of The Addams Family. It refers to the different modalities of reality we all exist in, implying there’s no such thing as a “normal” that suits everyone, in fact, one group’s normal is often another’s disaster.