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Top picks for Melbourne Music Week

Shaad D'Souza

So, let’s talk about Melbourne Music Week. It’s cool! A solid ~fun idea~ by City of Melbourne. Throw a bunch of cash at cool local and international musician...

Lovely Head, 'Always'

Angela Schilling

Lovely Head knew what was up when she started making music a few years ago. For one thing, she called herself Lovely Head, and it more than suits what the so...

LISTEN to a GR!M mixtape by Chelsea Bleach

As the good folk at Pussy Riot point out: patriarchy is fucked and boring. In light of this Girls Rock Melbourne (aka GR!M) are teaming up with LISTEN and...

A mixtape by Lossless for Paradise

Us

Takes some hubris to call a festival Paradise but last year there were times when the place really did live up to its namesake (especially as the sun rose th...

A mixtape by Lower Plenty

Lower Plenty are the kind of band who make melancholy feel good. You put on their albums and suddenly your hangover feels more poignant than sore. Like, you ...

A mixtape by Bored Nothing

Fergus Miller (aka Bored Nothing) has died at aged 26 after a battle with depression. Fergus was an incredible talent, the rare kind of artist who could brin...

An interview with Dominic Talarico

Del Lumanta

Dominic Talarico is a pop musician from Western Sydney and has long been one of our best kept secrets, performing and releasing music for more than five year...

A mixtape by Lost Animal's Jarrod Quarrel

Us

Garage rock is dead and the dole wave has receded but it turns out one cool thing from 2011 will always endure and that's the calypso post-punk of Lost A...

An interview with Ela Stiles

Del Lumanta

5am is an eerie hour to be awake on your own. Our state of consciousness during this time feels quite distinct to any other hour of the day. It may be caused...

Rainbow Chan, 'Spacings'

Angela Schilling

Some things take time. Usually, it’s the best things. A proper bolognese, saving for a big holiday, making a paper mache statue of a family member or friend,...

Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, 'Mid Thirties Single Scene'

Max Easton

Craig Dermody is a Melbourne-based singer-songwriter who has played under the Scott & Charlene’s Wedding moniker since 2010, the year of their debut LP P...

Holy Balm's 'Fashion' inspiration

Takes a special talent to get the rudest settings on a synth to work for you. Holy Balm have it. In fact their latest album Activity might just pitch-shift y...

Good Boy choose songs for bad boys

Savannah van der Niet

Brisbane's Good Boy make fine music with crisp drums, dirty basslines and cheeky bright guitar. The video to their latest single 'Poverty Line' i...

A Father's Day Playlist by my Dad

Nick Buckley

I called my Dad yesterday for some Father's Day content and he pulled this out in an hour and a half. He actually has really good taste in music and I wa...

A French mixtape by Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds

Us

Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds make music just as their name suggests - wacked out. The psych-pop-garage quartet have been around the traps for a while ...

RRR Radiothon starts this Friday

Us

It can definitely sometimes (always) feel like you’re trying your hardest to be community conscious, sustainable, ethical, healthy, adorable, whatever – and ...

A youtube playlist by Billy Davis

Nick Buckley

Melbourne soul wunderkind Billy Davis blends R&B, Gospel and Rhodes piano along with modern synth flourishes for a luminous, groovy vibe. Make sure you ...

The Metronomes, ...

Nick Buckley

Legendary Melbourne Post-Punk band the Metronomes allegedly chose their name after a succession of difficult experiences with drummers (why do those guys alw...

A youtube playlist by Golden Girls

Us

To coincide with Golden Girls' August residency at The Workers Club GG Tim, AKA Shaquille McNiell has shared some of his favourite jams from the last mon...

Holy Balm, 'Activity'

Angela Schilling

Sydney Trio Holy Balm's second record Activity is here, and we've been waiting eagerly since their debut It's You was released in 2012. That part...

Nicholas Allbrook, 'Pure Gardiya'

Aurora Peralta

Tim Costello's been worried about Australia losing our soul, and so has Nicholas Allbrook. The POND/ex-Tame Impala and solo artist has released another s...

Sarah Mary Chadwick, 'Roses Always Die'

Max Easton

Before her solo records (last year’s 9 Classic Tracks and 2012’s Eating for Two), Sarah Mary Chadwick wrote five LPs (from 2007 – 2011) as the lead of grunge...

A mixtape by Chastity Belt

Seattle's Chastity Belt are about tour here for the first time on the back of their second album Time To Go Home. It's riot grrl with a thousand-yard...

A mixtape by the Girl Fridas

Thomas Blatchford

Have you ever spotted one of those tote bags or iron-on patches that says 'Support Your Local Girl Gang'? Here's an opportunity to obey that requ...

WEET, ‘Dark Retreat’

Del Lumanta

WEET is the solo project of David Scutts who has played in heaps of bands around town, most recently in the newish group Heartburn. His debut EP Dark Retreat...

Zone Out, 'Transience'

Nick Buckley

There are countless songs about love. They can come from the perspective of the besotted, the jilted or broken-hearted lover. There are songs filled with reg...

A mixtape by Witch Hats

Neil Young soloing off into the horizon? Check. Marianne Faithfull in a transcendent and unholy mess? Yep. John Coltrane sounding like he's using his sax...

An interview with Paradise Daily

Del Lumanta

Paradise Daily is an independent record label based in Sydney responsible for releases from local greats such as The Rangoons, Sex Tourists, Orion and The Ga...