Sydney’s Whopping Big Naughty have been making noisy and beautiful rock n’ roll since 1988 and are still kicking in 2026. Led by Stanley Claret (guitar and vocals), the band have released several tapes and CDs since 1992 (including one on Half a Cow Records) and one 7” record on the prestigious Amphetamine Reptile label.

After several lineup changes, the current lineup consists of Claret, Jonny Turcinskis (bass) and Evan Cairney (drums). Stocked Records recently reissued the “Ralene” album (available on CD via Bandcamp) and there are plans to reissue the rest of the Whopping Big back catalogue this year. In addition to this there are plans to release a long awaited new album and 7”.

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Swiss psych-garage punk trio The Jackets are finally bringing their long-awaited Australian tour to life in February–March 2026.

Hailing from Bern, Switzerland, The Jackets are known for their ferocious blend of fuzz-soaked garage rock, raw punk energy and warped psychedelia. Frontwoman Jackie Brutsche commands the stage with a fearless, high-voltage live performance, while the band’s no-frills approach has earned them cult status across Europe, the UK, Japan and the US.

This tour marks The Jackets’ first full run across Australia, hitting intimate rooms and iconic underground venues across Victoria and New South Wales. Expect loud amps, sweat-soaked stages and zero compromise rock’n’roll — pure garage chaos, delivered at close range.

After years of anticipation, Australia finally gets The Jackets — loud, wild and unapologetic.

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Two Inner West stalwarts join forces for an evening of songs and stories.

Local alt-country rockers, Copperline will be unveiling their latest single Method to My Madness to their hometown crowd for the first time. They'll also be playing lots of fresh cuts from their soon-to-be-released third album, produced by multi ARIA and Golden Guitar winner, Shane Nicholson.

Sydney singer/songwriter Jill Jackson will turn up the volume and the heat with a her band of scallywags and misfits, electrifying her originals as well as some older classics from her time in Exploding Daisies and Fyreflyes.

Music kicks off at 7:30pm. FREE ENTRY.

Two of NSW's finest musical wordsmiths join forces on Friday Feb 20 for a FREE ENTRY double header show at Mixtape Brewing & Bar, Marrickville that's not be missed. Both Mark and Jo will be playing with their full band line ups.

MARK MOLDRE BAND
Mark Moldre's band is made up of an unlikely bunch of misfits and marauders who’ve travelled together from Canberra to France.
Gin and green tea drinkers. A group of musical pillager’s who sound like the un-oiled wheels on a lurching gypsy caravan. If you listen very closely you’ll experience tender romance and dark corners, death and redemption, human struggle versus biblical consequences, dreams/nightmares and bad weather. They can be as gritty as a 1920’s speakeasy or as smooth as Sinatra at The Sands.

"If Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Jeff Tweedy were pushed out to sea in a rickety old boat they’d come up with something like this" Timber & Steel

JO MEARES BAND
Jo is a Sydney based singer/songwriter who has produced multiple albums over 25 years of playing. The Jo Meares Band combine Jo's songwriting, his Cohen-esque weathered tone, halfway between a whisper and a growl, amongst textured sonic terrains with soundtrack-like emotionality. The band has an extraordinary level of musicianship. Expect lush backing vocals, sublime violin and saw, lovely electronic sounds and piano, gorgeous guitar and percussion and brilliant songs.

"Jo Meares has a dark whisper of a voice. He is like an introverted, quiet Paul Kelly." Simon Sweetman, Radio NZ

DADBOD makes stripped-back rock songs about collapse, personal, cultural, emotional. Breakups, bad habits, dead ends, and the quiet pressure of everyday life. Their sound sits somewhere between Britpop melody and pub-floor rock, shaped by jazz feel rather than jazz spectacle. Big guitars, elastic rhythm, plain language, no sentimentality. It is not always pretty. That is the point.

Ebony Tait, Lachlan Mills & Jack Rosenzweig are HEAPS GRASS. After meeting at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2023, the trio began writing music together combining dreamy textures and rich grooves with nostalgic storytelling, evoking the picturesque Australian coastline where they grew up. They released their debut 5-track EP in early 2025, recorded at Golden Retriever Studios with renowned Australian engineer Simon Berckelman, accompanied by a headline tour visiting Melbourne, Kiama, Nowra, Canberra and Sydney.

Winter Starlings is a Sydney-based folk rock band formed in 2019 by singer-songwriter Robin Fitzgerald, joined by Jack Dunn (electric guitar & vocals), Peter Marley (double bass & vocals), and Tony Bibby (drums). The band blends acoustic warmth with electric energy, crafting a sound that fuses pastoral Americana, alt-country, and British folk with a distinctly Australian storytelling flair.

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The Exile Co.
A unique take on garage rock n roll set against an Andalucian landscape of abandoned film sets and long distance surf guitars, The Exile Co. features members of The Hazlewoods, Spurs For Jesus and The Del-Emmas. The Sydney quartet re-launched in 2025 after a lengthy hiatus since a pre-pandemic Black Friday gig in their hometown. They get set to continue their live onslaught in 2026, next stop Mixtape, Thursday 12 February in Sydney with special guest Tristan Courtney-Prior.

Experimental post-punk guitar rock from Sydney musician Tristan Courtney-Prior - guitarist in bands Peabody and Shearin'.

Replication is the debut solo album from Tristan Courtney-Prior.

Feeling a need to do something with all his songs that had no place in any of the bands he played in, Tristan decided to embrace the unknown and explored recording an experimental post-punk / yobbo art-rock project in his home studio, experimenting with recording techniques, effects, and instruments he never touches in bands.

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DMc + Roids commence the 2026 freakout with two mind-bending sets. Intense stuff.

Lo Carmen is a cinematic storyteller, blending epic balladry, country soul, psych-folk, and slow-burning rock into genre-defying, immersive narratives rich with mystery and emotional depth.
Latest album, Transatlantic Light (2024), showcases her shimmering, timeless songwriting in full force. Self-produced and recorded with The Great Beyond, featuring Ken Gormly (Cruel Sea), Cec Condon (Mess Hall) and Sam Worrad (Holy Soul), it was hailed by rock critic Will Hermes as ‘a holy-glowing dreamscape of smoke-clouded guitars, loping basslines, and tantric drums that channel a history of sound recordings, from delta blues to chiaroscuro surf reveries, haunted pop ballads to modern bloodied valentines.’ Post To Wire describes their sound as ‘like the Velvet Underground jamming with Mazzy Star in a Nashville honky tonk after closing time.’

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Creme Brulee live at Mixtape! Kick off 7pm!

Love Police are thrilled to announce the return of two of Nashville’s most beloved country storytellers —JONNY FRITZ and JOSHUA HEDLEY— for a run of special Australian shows in January 2026, joined by their good friend and kindred spirit CHRIS ACKER.

It’s been a few years between drinks, but the wait is over. Fritz and Hedley are heading back to Oz to share new songs, old favourites, and plenty of good times, performing music from their brand-new albums alongside the country gold that’s earned them fans from Austin to Adelaide.

Jonny Fritz remains country music’s most charming outsider. Once known as Jonny Corndawg, Fritz has carved his own path as a songwriter of rare wit and warmth, blending humour and heartbreak in a way only he can. His latest songs on new album Debbie Downers (released October 2025), are full of crooked truths and plainspoken poetry, continue his legacy as one of Nashville’s great eccentrics — and a live performer like no other.

Joshua Hedley — the rhinestone-clad “Mayor of Lower Broadway” — first stole hearts with his stunning debut Mr. Jukebox (Third Man Records), followed by the sharp and swaggering Neon Blue. His new album All Heart continues to dig deep into the heart of classic country, all velvet tones, weeping pedal steel and honky tonk melancholy delivered with that unmistakable Hedley polish.

Rounding out the bill is Louisiana-born, Seattle-based Chris Acker, whose rambling, narrative-driven songs echo the spirit of Townes Van Zandt and John Prine while carving out a voice all his own. His presence on this introductory tour is the perfect complement to two artists who prize honesty, humour and heart above all.

Together, the trio promise an unforgettable evening of songs and stories, performed by three of Americana’s most authentic voices. Expect heartbreakers and two-steppers, banter and brilliance — a triple threat tour of the summer featuring three starts for 5 star night out that will remind you exactly why you fell in love with country music in the first place.

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Early Show!
Restless Leg 7:30
The Maladies 8:30

🎉 Get ready for the Pints for Paws Celebration! 🐾

Join us on November 30 at Mixtape Brewing for an afternoon of fun, prizes, and furry friends!

Be there for the big reveal of the Maggie’s beer can (expertly photographed by the amazing Gabriela Pupovac)! 🐾📸

There will be a huge raffle, a dog photobooth, and lots of activities for everyone to enjoy — perfect for friends, family, and of course, your four-legged companions. Enjoy plenty of delicious food and drinks for lunch at Mixtape while you join in all the fun! 🍔🍺

All proceeds from ticket sales, raffle prizes, and donations will go directly to Maggie's Rescue, helping us to provide urgent medical care, food, and loving homes for animals in need 💛

Key details:

• Date: From 12pm, Sunday, November 30

• Location: Mixtape Brewing (142A Victoria Rd, Marrickville NSW)

• Highlights: Maggie’s beer can winner reveal, huge raffle, dog photobooth, and lots more activities!

Bring your friends, have fun, and help celebrate the amazing work of Maggie’s Rescue while enjoying great food, drinks and summer vibes. Don’t miss out — it’s going to be a paw-some day! 🍺🐶🐱

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Knievel ’Steep Hill Climb’ vinyl launch show w/ Smudge.

Knievel are excited to announce that they will be launching the vinyl reissue of their album ’Steep Hill Climb’ with a gig on Saturday, November 29 at Mixtape with support from Sydney legends Smudge. It promises to be a gala night of indie pandemonium. Songs from the album will be performed but sources close to the band say they may fall short of preforming the entire album in sequence.

Limited copies of the Steep Hill Climb album will be available along with a smorgasbord of product themed merchandise such as Knievel caps and tee shirts.

ZSA ZSA and HINANO FUJISAKI will be performing one another's songs as a duo, with new instrumentations and blissy sounds and possibly unheard new songs.

featuring gorgeous improv trio
STRING CLUB

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HEAR YE HEAR YE THE KNIGHTS TRIUMPHANTLY RETURN TO THEE BIG SMOKE, COME HITHER OR RISK SMITING BY THE LONG SWORD
LIVE JOUSTING
LIVE BEHEADING
TOMATOES AT THE DOORE

Ariel is a Eora-based dream rock trio who combine contemporary songwriting with forgiving lyrics. Listen to their tracks ‘Housing Market’ and ‘Love bomb’ out on Spotify!

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Strap yourselves in for an evening of heart-on-the sleeve stories and songs from two of Sydney’s finest purveyors of alt-country.

Copperline

Take some disarmingly honest storytelling, flavour it with generous lashings of twang and gritty rock and you get Copperline. The Sydney/Blue Mountains alt-country four-piece have lived and breathed the highs and lows of the rock and low life – and that experience can’t help but find its way into their music.

With two records under their belt, and a third on the way (all produced by Shane Nicholson) Copperline have earned a reputation for their heart-on-sleeve songwriting and live performances – and have picked up a swag of award nominations, radio spins and festival slots along the way.

Adam Young and The Down Main

Having spent several years in successful indie rock acts such as the Daisygrinders and Big Heavy Stuff, Adam Young has had his songs covered by the likes of You Am I and The Lemonheads. This would be enough to make any musician retire happily.

But it his solo work with which Adam will truly leave his mark.

His debut solo album, Elementary Carnival Blues, features 10 tracks of real alternative country and we believe that it easily stands beside the best work from Wilco, the Jayhawks, Uncle Tupelo and other legends of the genre. But Adam hasn’t left his roots behind either. Imagine if Gram Parsons had fronted early REM or Steve Earle got together with Buffalo Tom.

La Sirene x Mixtape Brewing

As part of Sydney Beer Week 2025, Mixtape Brewing is proud to welcome the innovative and iconic La Sirène from Melbourne for a very special tap takeover.

Known for their farmhouse-style beers, wild ferments, and modern brewing approach rooted in tradition, La Sirène has long been one of Australia’s most exciting and creative breweries — and now Sydney gets a taste of what they’re all about.

A curated lineup of La Sirène’s best, pouring fresh from our taps.

Brewery insight – learn more about their unique brewing philosophy.

A chance to sample a limited La Sirène x Mixtape collab brew.

Whether you’re a farmhouse fanatic or new to the style, this is your chance to experience La Sirène in full flight, and connect with one of the most thoughtful brewing teams in the country.

Only at Mixtape Brewing for Sydney Beer Week 2025.

New album, new songs!

Free Entry!

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Welcome to Pucker Up! The Ultimate event for all sour beer lovers!

Join Mixtape Brewing for our annual celebration of sour beers, where tart, tangy, and wildly creative brews take centre stage. We’re bringing together a handpicked lineup of sour beers from top Australian producers and renowned international breweries, all under one roof.

Whether you’re a seasoned sour lover or just curious to explore, this event is all about discovery, diversity, and downright delicious fermentation.

Rare & limited-release sour beers on tap and in bottle

Featuring both local legends and imported gems

A chance to explore styles and breweries you may not usually encounter

Expect a flavour-packed afternoon where funk, fruit, and acidity collide — and where every pour comes with a story.

Mark your calendars and get ready to Pucker Up at Mixtape Brewing & Bar!

Only during Sydney Beer Week 2025.

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THIS CHARMING BAND

Calling all Handsome Devils, Salford Lads and Rusholme Ruffians.

There will be panic on the streets of Marrickville this October 17th at Mixtape Brewing and Bar as we celebrate iconic Mancunians and 80’s pop-rockers The Smiths. FREE!

For one-night-only This Charming Band (aka Nick Kennedy, Des Miller, Aidan Roberts, Liam Judson, Richard Anderson and Lucy Kaldor) will channel the jangling, singular sound of The Smiths for a set of favourite songs that will have you singing along and Sheila taking a bow.

Hosted by Bigmouth Phil Spencer, this fun-filled night will have a plenty of songs, a few rounds of Smiths Trivia, a dash of Morrissey Fan Fiction and a chance to win the Meat (is Murder) Veggie Raffle!

Don’t Panic - it’s all free!

Please, please, please come along and avoid making Moz’s quiff droop.

“I'm truly sorry but it sounds like a wonderful thing” (Morrissey)

FULL LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT!

KATRINA TODD = amazingly rich and thoughtful songwriting, introspective musings and pastoral montages. Grounding and piercing voice. Wise and playful.

INDIRA ELIAS = prophet from the pysche, weaving dreams and half forgotten feelings into beautiful fun reveries. Inviting and mystifying.

Plus Glenn Hopper and the band, they have 5! count them FIVE! new songs ready to go and let me tell you they are pretty sick.

On this very night, the third of October in the year of 2025, and long before the rooster crows, you cannot deny the musical showdown of apocryphal proportions on display at Mixtape Brewing & Bar.
We are the resurrection, the fishermen, ye merry gentlemen and keepers of the keys to your Friday night in rock.
SXY XMS are bringing the Yuletide-blues and lounge-boogie metal; and relative newcomers ST PETERS will bring their majestic psych and power-pop stylings to the table.
It might be their first supper together but it surely won’t be the last.

And it’s free, to all and sundry.

Artwork by Claire Fearon.

SWAMP ROCK

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Join us at Mixtape Brewing & Bar on Tuesday 9th September from 6.30pm for a night of good wines and good chat!

Trutta winemaker Jake Winther will be in town to take you through 6 Trutta wines, some new, some classics and all tasty!

If you enjoy a wine you will be able to place an order at discounted rates.

Nibbles will be provided!

THE VORS make noise with guitars. Is it rock? Sure. Is it indie? Maybe. Is it music? Most of the
time. It’s fast, it’s loud, it’s got melodies that sneak up on you and riffs that hit like a half-brick in a
sock. Don’t overthink it — they don’t.
Formed somewhere near Bondi after too much sun and not enough supervision, THE VORS
emerged fully formed, like a bad idea that worked out way too well. They sound like the smell of
burnt toast, coconut sunscreen, and broken promises. No one’s really sure how they got here, least
of all them. But they do know one thing…they don’t play music — they unleash it, like a possum in
a bin.
Peter Martignago hits the drums like they owe him money. Ed Heerey keeps the low end tight.
Davor Pavlovic and Chris Franklin trade riffs and vocals like two old drunks in a bar fight.
THE VORS: like getting tackled by a friend you didn’t know you had. Twice!

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The Outback Traitors are joined by the fabulous Jill Jackson (Vermentinos) Mixtape Brewing and Bar. You’ll be moved by authentic original sounds, vocals and harmonies with lashings of alt-country.

Thursday 4th September, 7:30, FREE

Great local beers, wines, food and everything! Quality local original music

Jill Jackson’s set at 7:30, The Outback Traitors at 8:30.

Artwork by Elyse Gullotta-Thomas

Hailing from the Inner West of Sydney/Eora, The After Thoughts are a four-piece indie rock band, whose original music radiates warmth and energy. Drawing from jazz to rock, their vast array of influences are channeled into their songwriting, creating a sound that blends punchy instrumentation with distinct vocal harmonies and vibrant melodies. In 2024, The After Thoughts placed first in the USYD Battle of the Bands Competition, and have since played packed-out shows at venues including Manning Bar and The Lansdowne, launching their debut single ‘Horses and Courtney’ at the Oxford Art Factory.

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