In December, US musician and songwriter Jenny Lee Lindberg released her debut album right on!, her first foray into solo work outside of Warpaint. Under jennylee, Lindberg made a record that holds an instant appeal to fans of Warpaint in the establishment of some dreamy soundscapes, but the songs on right on! have a intimate…
It feels like it’s been a long time coming but finally, fans will be able to get their hands on the debut DMA’s album Hills End, next month! It’s another step forward for the band who, through 2015, have been firmly establishing themselves as international favourites as well as Australian legends, with sets at Bonnaroo,…
Horror My Friend may have taken a while in crafting this beast of a debut record but the wait is most certainly worth it; the Adelaide band has come out guitars thrashing, confident and ambitious – the trio has harnessed some well established post-punk/90’s rock influences in producing a record that isn’t scrappy. It’s aggressive…
Dappled Cities are giving fans a taste of some long awaited and much anticipated new material with a special gig in Sydney next month! We haven’t really heard much from the band since touring 2012’s Lake Air wrapped up, but they’ve been working away on the upcoming fifth Dappled studio release and no doubt there’s…
20 year old Amber Bain aka The Japanese House is gearing up for her first ever Australian show tonight when I’m put through to her. Flying in from the UK in time to witness Sydney’s manic storm yesterday, any signs of jet lag or nerves surrounding her upcoming gig aren’t evident at all. “The first…
Rock band. Industrial work site. A lot of metal. Noise. The perfect setting for Monster Truck‘s new music video, no? “Don’t Tell Me How To Live” is an excellent little package of hard hitting riffs, classic hard rock vocal and well, it’s a lot of damn fun to listen to. Taken from the Canadian band’s…
Along with the announcement of their first album in five years (if we don’t count their film soundtrack work) comes the new single from Explosions in the Sky, “Disintegration Anxiety”. Opening with ambient an ambient soundscape, this track builds into crunchy and intense drums backing ambient post-rock guitars we’ve come to know as the band signature….
Today’s video of the day comes from Sydney’s Charlie Forster Anderson with a unique and well-executed concept involving a heap of post-it notes and an out of focus urban Sydney background. The track itself hails from Anderson’s debut LP Long Story Short which will be out March 16 and promises to be compulsory listening based…
New Zealand is about to get their first taste of a festival like no other! Auckland City Limit hits Western Springs Stadium in March with Kendrick Lamar and The National topping the bill, while some sick additions in Sydney’s Gang of Youths and Melbourne’s Jarryd James among the latest additions to the whopping lineup! With the…
He won us over completely at the Falls Festival before New Year’s and it would seem that the rest of the country is in for a similar experience, with Hein Cooper revealing a whopping amount of live shows to take him right into March. The songwriter’s debut album The Art of Escape is coming out…
For another year, the Laneway Festival crew are keen to ensure that the festivities don’t stop once the headliner has wrapped up the final set of the event at the main gig, and have revealed details of the official after parties set to go down in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane this year. Right after the…
While he’s out in Australia with A$AP Rocky, Raury will be fitting in two headline dates of his own for Melbourne and Sydney fans! Bringing JOY. on for both shows, the Atlanta hip-hop buzz artist will be hitting the stages with material from both his All We Need and Indigo Child releases, including current single…
Panic! At the Disco will be releasing their fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor, everywhere tomorrow, but even though they’re quite far out from those initial debut album jitters, frontman and songwriter Brendon Urie admits to feeling incredibly anxious in the lead up to the record’s official release. “I’m always really anxious up leading…
The deep, booming voice of Chali 2na will be heard once again in Australia as the iconic member of Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli plans a return down under for a few shows with Canadian duo The Funk Hunters. Promised to be a one-of-a-kind AV experience combining DJ culture and hip hop, funk, soul, and electronica,…
British duo Oh Wonder broke out as an exciting musical outfit to be listening to in 2015; their story of releasing one song a month via their Soundcloud for a year has turned them into a band that people have wanted to find out more about, the cultivation of a strong fan base without having…
While in town for the Falls Festival and some very well-received headline dates, Gary Clark Jr. sat down with Sose to have a chat about how 2015 treated him. Not only did he release another killer record in The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, but Gary also became a dad when son Zion was born…
Following on from their hectic Falls Festival sets down the east coast Foals continued to make sure fans got their fix of What Went Down and the usual sweaty antics they’re known for bringing to live shows, with some excellently attended headline sideshows. Both Larry and myself split it up and hit both headline dates…
Kanye West’s collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign, “Real Friends”, was shared online last week as part of the rapper-producer’s revitalised “GOOD Fridays” series, presenting us a with a dusty, soulful track leaning towards the earlier days of ‘Ye’s career. Just days later and supreme soul queen Erykah Badu has added her own spin to the…
The 2015 FBi SMAC Awards were held overnight in Sydney, celebrating local artists, music and culture. The ceremony, hosted by Joyride (with Raph on award presenting duties) at Carriageworks, featured performances by Big White (today announced on the third artist reveal for SXSW), FLOWERTRUCK and Gordi, while the awards themselves saw a stellar group of…
Adelaide group Cabin Cults will be launching their new single “Lights Out” at the Hotel Metro this weekend, taken from their debut EP Riot is the Watchword and to get keen for it, we’re stoked to be premiering their new music video! Filmed at local Adelaide live music haunt Jive, “Lights Out” was shot by…
In This Issue: 2016 is bringing all of the sophomores with some great female artists at the forefront this month! Check out all of the indie vibes coming through to you below. St. Lucia St. Lucia have released their new song “Love Somebody”, the slow-burning centerpiece off their forthcoming sophomore album MATTER, out 29th January…
The Josh Pyke Partnership, established by the artist himself and APRA, returns in 2016, offering one lucky musician an impressive $7500 grant to help kick-start their career! The winning artist, in addition to taking out the cash prize, will also receive invaluable mentorship from Pyke and a meeting with Gregg Donovan (Wonderlick Entertainment) and Stephen…
It’s been nearly three years since Mystery Jets’ critically acclaimed record, Radlands, was released, and the band are finally about to drop their follow-up, Curve Of The Earth. It’s the band’s fifth record and front man Blaine Harrison tells us about how it all came together and what we can expect from the band in…
The Wombats have been solid favourites in the eyes of Australian fans for years now and when they were announced to be ringing in the New Year with us at the Falls Festival, we were glad to have them back for another spell. Murph took some time out before they played Mt. Duneed to have…
Savages recently dropped the music video for their single “Adore” and man, what a way to kick off the year for them! If you’ve been following the band for a while, chances are a main drawcard of their talent is the captivating Jhenny Beth, whose presence is just stunning on record as it is live….
Last week we published our contributors’ picks for the best gigs of 2015, bringing up memories of some diverse, amazing shows by local and international artists alike. Below we’ve got some memories from our editors from the year past, taking in shows both in Australia and abroad. Roll on 2016… Sosefina Fuamoli #1 Gig of…
Last year was a great 12 months of discovering Australian artists who, as the year went on, kept demonstrating a bold approach to music and the creation of artistry that didn’t necessarily stick to any set of conventions established before them. We’ve seen a broadening of perspective when it’s come to the way Australian hip-hop…
It seems international trap lord RL Grime can’t get enough of Australia. The L.A producer is set to join co-headliner, Harlem emcee A$AP Rocky, for this year’s edition of the Under 18’s festival Good Life. RL adds to an already packed lineup which will makes its way around the country from February 19th to 27th. It was…
For Banoffee, aka singer songwriter Martha Brown, 2015 was her year to break out on to the music radars of many fans and industry folk around the country. Her second EP, Do I Make You Nervous?, reached out to more fans last year with an incredible tour in tow and to wrap up, Banoffee brought…
The Hilltop Hoods have got a huge 2016 ahead, with their national orchestra-backed tour set to bring them to some huge stages around the country. At the Falls Festival, the Adelaide trio sat down with us before they performed to the Mt. Duneed punters to chat about it all; from the success of current single…
