Being fashionably late is no longer fashionable. I find this out when I arrive as soon as the 3rd or 4th song from The Letter String Quartet and the venue is nearly full already. As soon as I walked through the door, this collection of strings had me captured. The tones which the four players…
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A great short clip here looking back at the Official 2011 Parklife Afterparty at Fakeclub in Sydney, featuring Diplo, Nero, Simian Mobile Disco and more… This video was put together by the good fellas at Negative Films.
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Released on Friday was the highly anticipated new live album and film from Iceland’s Sigur Ros, entitled Inni. We have the FULL album stream (first disc only) here for your listening pleasure. But go and pick yourself up a proper copy – it has two discs and a DVD with a concert film directed by…
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Every once in a while, there comes along an album that has the ability to shape and influence the way you perceive the world and the people in it. However you look at it, the re-issue of an album simply means that its success had the ability to resonate with the targeted listeners, which is…
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While at the Aussie BBQ at CMJ last month, Larry Heath caught up with Sydney outfit The Trip to talk about the ups and downs of their CMJ experience, the long recording process for the debut record, their “infamous frisbee skills”, plans for 2017 and much more… How has New York been treating you? My…
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Last night Vodafone hosted the “Summer Beats Party” at Beach Haus in Sydney to launch the new HTC XL & XE smartphones in partnership with Beats by Dr. Dre (“the headphones for music’s A-List”). We headed along and got to play with the new phones (what massive screens they have!), and listen in on the…
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One of our favourite records of the year is The Jezabels’ enormous, ARIA #2 debut record, Prisoner. “Trycolour” is the second single from the album (following “Endless Summer”) and the impressive music video has just been released. Check it out here! On the track, Samuel Lockwood had this to say: “‘Trycolour is our 90’s song….
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From the streets of New York to LA, it’s cops, secos and a whole lot of bums as Set Sail makes their way from coast to coast. Follow them as they start their journey across America!
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My final day of CMJ was spent admiring the music of Australia from afar. Though I was at The Delancey for the entirety of The Aussie BBQ, I once again enjoyed little-to-no music as I undertook a pile of interviews on the roof. You, however, will be enjoying those soon. That said, I did catch…
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The late Amy Winehouse, who died in July this year, aged 27, is following a long line of musicians to have their material released to the public after their death. Plans have already been made for an album to be released on December 5 titled Lioness: Hidden Treasures and feature 12 tracks that are yet…
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While we were in Los Angeles last month for the annual Filter Magazine Culture Collide Festival we sat down with Sydney born, UK based artist Alex Burnett aka Sparkadia to talk about playing America for the first time, upcoming plans in Australia (where he just played Fat as Butter) and much more…
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