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Perth dude's brilliant Steve Aoki impersonation prank at Stereosonic goes viral..

Is the next Lorde this 18 year old girl from Perth?. (Almost) 18 year old Perth singer Adria has hit the ground running with the premiere video of the first single off her debut EP - Pull Me Under. The EP's taken Adria to Europe and back, where it got the golden touch from Lykki Li producer Viktor Balter-Lundin, and the man behind Lorde and Florence and the Machine, Matthew Wiggins. The Pull Me Under clip, shot in black and white, is a sombre, sensual powerful couple of minutes of viewing, laden with dark shadows, water imagery, clever visual trickery and sensual close ups of the transfixing Adria, whose not a bad dancer, either. It was shot by Jason Eshraghian, a 20 year old Perth based filmmaker. It's a strong and assured debut track: while Adria's voice, upon first listen isn't as big or billowing as say, Hannah Reid's from London Grammar, or Florence Welch's, there's a lot of BANKS-like potential in her cool and smoky timbre, which rises to the occasion each chorus. A hypnotic piec

Maximum fun on minimum funds.. Arm yourself with this guide for righteous feels when you see people out this weekend forking over $50s at the door for last-minute gig kicks and indulging in pricy yet unsatisfying thrills.  [Image: Jorge Bonelli] BETTER OFF AT LONE The legends at Red Bull Music Academy have been treating Perth club music lovers with some of the most influential musicians from around the world, recently throwing free parties featuring DJ Mitsu and DJ Godfather. Up tonight is electronic music producer, Lone. With impressive releases on the highly revered Ninja Tune and Warp and over 100 tracks released through R&S records, it’s safe to say Lone is no amateur! Setting the mood is a local line up to be reckoned with: Boost Man Hero, Ben Taaffe and Lengman DJs. – Jack Burton The Good Shepherd, 663 Newcastle St, Leederville. RSVP HERE for free entry. Doors open 8pm this Friday, Nov 28.   TAAFFE'S TGIF A new sunset warm-up for the weekend, in the vein of the free Friday vibes

A Pilerats Pocket Dictionary Guide to the Pilerats X-Mas Party.. You might have heard the phrase ‘salad days’ bandied about before when people are describing times of youth and wildness. We decided that, here at Pilerats, as content-creators we are what you eat, and if Pilerats were a musical salad and these are your wild and youthful salad days, we’d like to make sure that as well as being comprised of lettuce leaves (well-known tunes and artists we love) - which are the base of any good salad – that we have some wilder salad ingredients thrown in from time to time, because we like flexing our individuality and discovering new weird crunchy unconventional things amongst the lettuce. Like pepitas. Or peanuts. Or pear. To wit: we’re merging districts with I.C.S.S.C. for a Christmas death match party (event HERE), and we’ve programmed some more forward-thinking salad ingredients to make your night extra wild. Get to know them via our Dictionary definitions below, and grab your cheaper pr

Welcome to your $0 weekend.. Just cause your bank account’s in the negative doesn’t mean your weekend’s gotta be a drag. Here's our guide on how to extract the mostest fun on the leastest money.   Header Image: Lukasz Wierzbowski LET MEI MOVE YOU Hands down the best thing you’ll spend a fiver on all weekend. Yep, it’s not free, but it’s cheap-as, and it’s worth every cent. One of Perth’s most captivating and soulful female singers, Mei Saraswati (whom you might have seen totally destroy the Boiler Room in her other act, Savoir - check out new music from those guys here), has assembled a super group of talented Perth musicians to back her (already brilliant) solo compositions. You’ll also get to check out the loose, spaced-out experi-funk/disco of Cosmo Gets, who have a new live show, replete with trippy visuals and alien vocoders, that absolutely rules. Sat Nov 22, 8pm – 12am, The Bird, 181 William Street, Northbridge. $5. “Dress breezy”. Event HERE. Above: Mei Saraswati (photo by Amb

The banger-machine has been vibing on Perth duo Slumberjack.. We're not sure what's bigger news this week - that Skrillex just performed a Celine Dion cover on a grand piano on Diplo's boat party in the Carribean, or that young Perth producers/Wonderland local headliners Slumberjack just had their track Body Cry feat. Father Dude (the first from an upcoming EP release) hand-selected by the internationally renowned Skrillex to feature on his Top 10 Tracks on his Skrillex Selects Soundcloud. The second one is definitely more exciting to us... and means huge exposure for Perth's electronic music scene - although Skrillex does have a quite nice voice.   On top of Skrillex's heckers tour schedule (that in the last few months has seen him play huge festivals Coachella, Hard Summer, Ultra Festival, the Mad Decent Boat Party, and will very soon see him jet around Australia for Stereosonic Festival), the producer otherwise known as Sonny Moore is widely regarded for his taste making and talent-

We give you the lowdown on Beaufort Street Festival's big Kahuna; StreetX reveal their Top 5 Vices.. Are you a trendsetter? Are you a gogetter? Do you know better (but you do it anyway)? If the answer is yes to any of the above, then come and claim your spot at Vices, the tropical throw-down at Mt Lawley’s Astor Theatre this Saturday. Bad Vacation/Flamingos, Lab Six and Street X have all been on their grind putting this thing together. Vices will be a refreshing party microcosm in the Beaufort Street Festival party macrocosm, where dog shows, crochet bombs and 'live street art' reign supreme. Vices. Island vibes. Much island vibage. They’re going to transform the whole place into some type of South Pacific paradise. We're hoping all the trill boys will swap out their bucket hats for cute li’l sailor boating hats. SURELY all the trill girls will be wearing coconut bras made out of the shells of the coconuts that StreetX will be extracting coconut juice out of for their Pina Colada Bar.

Maximum fun on minimum funds - your cheapskate's guide to the weekend.. Money can buy booze and gig tickets and movies and tasty food, all of our standard weekend-go tos, but money can't buy the thrill you'll get skating along the ocean's edge under the stars, experiencing the sweat and passion of live punk in someone's backyard, or the feel-good endorphins that come from watching puppies going insane. Welcome to your $0 weekend. (Image: James Whineray) NIGHT SKATE THE WEST COAST When I was in high school one of my favourite things to do on the weekend was to catch public transport to skate parks with group of friends. While it may not have been that many years ago, I’m fairly sure if I were to throw myself over a set of stairs on my skateboard these days, it would only result in me hurting myself, but that doesn’t mean I doesn’t mean I don’t still enjoy the occasional skate. While it may be dominated by cyclists and mums with prams by day, the coast road between Trigg and Hillarys is

WAM Conference: Things We Learned This Weekend.. WAM Festival wasn't just about the awards and block parties - the WAM Conference chalked up a successful two day stint of incredible knowledge-sharing this weekend. Over Friday and Saturday, curious music fans, band members, producers, music journalists, managers, bookers, label owners and more gave up their free time to jump into some lecture theatres and hear experts from all over Australia have a chinwag about hot topics in the music industry, as well as share their practical insider tips. It was kind of like a voluntary music university! Big props out to WAM for putting together such a relevant and stimulating program of panels and giving us a leg up on our never-ending journey of discovery. We relayed the best truth bombs to those playing at home via our live Twitter stream (follow us HERE) - here’s some of the stuff that really stuck with us:  Despite popular opinion, getting your music played on triple j is not going to ‘make or b

Grace is heading out on tour to showcase her latest single, Pluto and you should be there.. Despite Perth being the most isolated city in the world, the place pumps out artists that challenge the rest of Australia's talent. Just look at Grace, who recently supported Alt-J when they toured 'Australia' (read Sydney & Melbourne) and has released a pulsating, sparse electronic single titled, Pluto (which you can listen to HERE). To celebrate she is heading out on her first national tour, showcasing not only Pluto but other tracks that were produced by the likes of David Sitek from TV On The Radio and Sam Spiegel of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. So check out her latest track and the dates below while we all wait in anticipation for her debut EP slated for early next year. And if you're keen to hear more of Grace's voice she also has a live version of a song called, Eliteless, which really shows off her delicate voice: PLUTO TOUR DATES - On sale November 5 Saturday 29 November - Mojos, Perth Thursda

Maximum fun on minimum funds.. If you spent all your dough renting yourself a dope Halloween costume and splurging on drinks and lollies and fake blood, you're not obliged to hide under the covers all weekend due to lack of funds (unless you're stupidly hung over, in which case, you will definitely need to get out of the house at least once, Vitamin D is important). Here's our guide on how to extract the mostest fun on the leastest money. HEAR IT FROM AN EXPERT An ideas forum straddling geopolitics, science and the arts, the Disrupted Festival of Ideas started in Adelaide 12 years ago, with just a couple of people – it’s now become a biennial fixture on Adelaide’s cultural calendar attracting 30,000 people, with speakers ranging from scientists to ethical hackers, Russian literature specialists and sexuality experts. It’s also expanded to WA, taking over this weekend. Tom Sulston’s talk on public surveillance, Phil Bland’s talk on meteorites and Steve Dalby’s talk on copyright look pre

Fun for everyone with minimum funds.. Just cause your bank account’s in the negative doesn’t mean your weekend’s gotta be a drag. Here’s some no money weekend options for you. You can thank us later. Or now. Or never. We don't mind.  Norfolk Lanes Youth Festival  Fremantle Youth Plaza, The Esplanade. Sun Oct 26, 12pm – 7pm. Free. Fremantle’s (semi) new Youth Plaza / Skate Park is set to get a workout this weekend thanks to the Norfolk Lanes Youth Festival. This event has slowly built from a small gathering in the laneways of Fremantle to a strong, mini music and cultural festival, featuring some of the city’s best independent music acts. This year, Hideous Sun Demon, Koi Child, Elli Schoen, Kings Justice, Indecision, 3 Minutes of Kaos, Current Mood, Children Under 3, In Denial, and more are all set to play under the Norfolk Pines. There’s also skating and parkour workshops, skate contests (with prizes) Dismantle’s annual bicycle Tweed Run (actually hilarious and mostly self explanatory