- Melbourne’s Bananagun are an oddity within the Australian Indie scene. While psychedelia acts look to the future with electronic influences, the six-piece band has instead reiterated the past with a focus on afrobeat and '67’s Summer of Love. First catching my eye with excellent singles, the ensemble continue to lay down a never-ending groove on their debut album The True Story of Bananagun.

- In 1965, folk troubadour, Bob Dylan released the six-minute rock epic, Like A Rolling Stone. Now regarded as one of the greatest songs of all time, Columbia records were apprehensive to release the song due to its unconventional length and sound. Fifty-five years on, not much has changed in the conventionality department. On 26th March 2020, Dylan released the seventeen-minute track, Murder Most Foul. Ever the visionary, Dylan still manages to find new trails to blaze.

- There are precious few good things about COVID-19 and self-isolation. Even the store of music recorded pre-pandemic, that continues to be released and thus stops me going insane, is going to run out at some point. However, homes and bedrooms don’t have to be purely claustrophobic hells and it’s nice to be able to draw attention to the artists who’ve turned adversity into opportunity and -really only in a couple of months- produced the music of our new reality.

<p><span><span>- The term "influential" is thrown around a lot by music critics, but few artists can legitimately claim to have changed the course of rock'n'roll as much as Ian Mackaye.</span></span></p>