Mary Varvaris
Mary Varvaris covers contemporary music and live scenes with an emphasis on alternative, punk and metal, working across news, features and reviews for The Music and its Kill Your Stereo vertical.
She is a staff writer for The Music and Kill Your Stereo, filing pieces on international artists, the local scene and industry developments across multiple formats.
Her journalism also appears beyond The Music in outlets such as The Age, Australian Guitar Magazine, Blunt Magazine and Chorus.fm, as well as her own newsletter.
She brings a deep familiarity with heavy and guitar-driven music to her reporting, shaping how she selects artists, festivals and venues to cover.
Music News: Billy Idol, Post Malone And Beyond
Varvaris handles music news that sits at the intersection of artist careers, film and television, and wider pop culture moments.
Her coverage includes stories like the trailer for the Billy Idol documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead, where she tracks how legacy artists are reframed through new film projects.
She also reports on crossover moments such as Post Malone’s appearance in a Sesame Street special, focusing on the song he will perform with Elmo and Abby Cadabby and how that ties mainstream artists into family television.
Across these pieces she keeps the news concise and artist-focused, highlighting key details - release formats, collaborators, platforms and timing - that matter to music fans following both charts and culture.
Kill Your Stereo: Punk, Hardcore And Metal
Through her role with Kill Your Stereo, Varvaris is part of a team dedicated to punk, hardcore, metal, rock and indie music news, reviews and interviews.
This work leans into heavier and alternative sounds, aligning with her background as a lifelong metal fan and all-round music lover.
She uses that grounding to cover bands and releases that sit outside the mainstream but have strong live followings and engaged fan communities, reflecting the vertical’s focus on both Australian and international acts.
Her pieces in this space are structured around clear facts - tour announcements, new singles, album cycles and lineup changes - while still giving enough context for readers who follow specific scenes like hardcore or post-punk.
Good Things Festival And Live Reviews
Live reviews form another strand of Varvaris’ work, including detailed coverage of multi-stage events such as the Good Things Festival.
In her Melbourne wrap of the festival, credited photography and reporting capture bands like Fall Out Boy on stage while also noting how the event unfolds across the day.
Her live pieces balance description of the performance - set lists, crowd response, sound and staging - with a clear sense of where a show sits in an artist’s touring run and festival billing.
That same on-the-ground approach appears in her coverage of the venue Stay Gold, where she documents operational challenges such as a wall blowing off due to wild winds and the subsequent delay to reopening, tying weather events and logistics back to the live ecosystem.
Best Australian Albums And Artist Features
Varvaris contributes to year-end lists and features that take a wide view of Australian music output, including The Music’s Best Australian Albums of 2024 and 2025.
In these lists she helps place indie rock and metal alongside EDM, R&B and even a covers album, showing a broad range that goes beyond her heavy-music roots.
The 2024 list foregrounds artists like The Buoys and the rise of alt-rock acts, illustrating her interest in bands moving from the underground into wider recognition.
Her features extend to artist-focused pieces such as “We Leave Our Egos At The Door: How Nothing But Thieves Harnessed The Light On Dead Club City,” where she explores how a band approaches its creative process and album concept rather than simply reporting the release date.
Across these longer formats she shifts from straight news into analysis and narrative, synthesising quotes, discography context and live plans to show where an album or artist sits in the current landscape.
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