I’ll start with a quick aside, before I get to the topic of Super Rugby Pacific’s alleged Super Round.I was 18 or 19 and at Athletic Park with a mate, to watch Wellington play New South Wales. These were the days before Super Rugby and… Read More »Super Round should be a celebration of rugby – that’s why it should have never been held in Melbourne
You can imagine it now. A massive NFL stadium, a coast-to-coast TV presentation, not a cloud in the sky and rugby league posts at either end of the field. That’s what will mark the start of the 2024 NRL season this coming Sunday as Manly… Read More »‘We got the basics and it was live on ESPN!’: How Cool Runnings and a banned union star put RL in an NFL stadium
With kick-off to the NRL season just a few days away, nine sides are hoping to continue a trend where at least one side leaps from also-ran status into the finals on the back of a five-win improvement or more. Over the past nine seasons,… Read More »Leaping to finals conclusions: Predicting which team among the nine also-rans can make giant step forward in 2024
Noise rock, extreme metal and post-punk have often gone hand-in-hand, with the genres overlapping sonically and often sharing fans. If you, dear reader, are one of those fans, then we have a treat for you today: a complete stream of Wax Donut Records‘ new compilation, New… Read More »Full Album Stream: “New Wave Donut: A Raucous Tribute to the Birth of Post-Punk”
Welcome to our latest semi-regular Decibel feature. Here, talented musicians from across the metalsphere provide us with their Last Tape Before Doomsday. Sebastian Thomson’s range of reference when it comes to his drumming is infinite in its eclecticism. As a studious player, Thomson brings the… Read More »Last Tape Before Doomsday: Sebastian Thomson (Baroness)