Features / Music

Before Periphery drop their two new records; we hit up seven-stringer, Jake Bowen, to talk about Periphery in 2015.

We catch up with Prepared Like A Bride vocalist Ryan Bowles to chat about 2014, America and the band’s future.

Watch the trailer for a documentary about the fall of the Atari gaming empire..

A dash of '90s house big with a pair of big ol' swingin' balls.. Following the release of his Take Me EP last year (listen HERE), one of Australia's long-standing key figures in a currently booming house scene, Danny T is back with "complete burner" (Golden Features, 2015) in Let Me Go. And after you have a listen to the stream below you will concur with the likes of Bag Raiders, Sinden, RUFUS and more, who've all thrown their support behind the mo in the business. I even had the pleasure of playing it out about a week ago and can confirm all the ladies in the front row lost their minds. One even said to me: "My boyfriend DJs in Sydney and he would probably think you're pretty good", after I played it. True story. Let Me Go takes all the pleasure points of '90s house, before updating it with plenty of that bass-house sound the legends at Sweat It Out! have been rinsing for a while now. And given Danny T is their man on their ground, it's no wonder he's leading the charge. Take a listen

Björk has surprise dropped her new album today, two months earlier than planned.. Well. Talk about a treat for Hump Day. Two months ahead of its original release date (in a note on Facebook last week, Icelandic musician Björk told us she'd be releasing the album in March), Björk has released her album Vulnicura on iTunes today, rolling it out over 24 hours. It's her first album in four years, following 2011's Biophilia. The early than announced digital release is most likely in response to the fact that it leaked over the weekend (although, unlike Madonna, she didn't go so far as to call the leak "artistic rape").  Vulnicura notably features co-production with our favourite New York Venuzualen Arca, producer for Twigs and Yeezus. British experimental producer The Haxan Cloak also chipped in on one track, and handled most of the mixing, save for two mixed with Chris Elms. Antony Hegarty, of Antony and the Johnsons, features on vocals on one track.  Björk posted (again... she is really

All of the yes.. Simon Green AKA Bonobo is headed back to Australia and New Zealand this coming March for a series of DJ sets, which while not the master-producer in live form, are damn sure the next best thing. An artist that constantly pushes himself outside of his musical comfort zone, Bonobo’s is constantly and rightly hailed as one of the world's most forward-thinking producers and live performers. In 2013 Bonobo released his fifth album, The North Borders, and it’s become the high watermark of his career to date. Take him some of his DJ sets in this Soundcloud playlist below, and check the dates for the shows after that. Tickets on sale Friday 23 January via HERE. TOUR DATES: FRI 13 MARCH | THE STUDIO | AUCKLAND SUN 15 MARCH | ROYAL CROQUET CLUB | ADELAIDE THUR 19 MARCH | PRINCE OF WALES | MELBOURNE FRI 20 MARCH | HI FI | SYDNEY SAT 21 MARCH | VILLA | PERTH Follow Bonobo: FACEBOOK / WEBSITE

Feisty MCs El-P and Killer Mike tell us what they know about love..

Perth electronic trio release beautiful new track, Don’t Tell Me.. Following the release of their EP Swim back in 2013, Perth-based electronic trio Lilt (fronted by the sensational Louise Penman) have returned to the centre stage with a beautiful new single, released independently earlier this week. Don’t Tell Me, the duo's first release since their Coming Down single ten months ago, is remarkable. Swelling synth work, crystalline, soft vocals and bouncing percussion build and build until it seemingly explodes at the chorus, dense with menacing drums. Accompanied by a pretty cool video clip and also available for free download (both below), Don’t Tell Me is just the start of a massive 2015 for the group and we are pretty damn excited. FREE DOWNLOAD: Follow Lilt: FACEBOOK / WEBSITE

Fast-rising Australian MUTO producer drops a fiery new remix.. Australian-based producer Miles Davidson, better known under his beat-making moniker MUTO, is no newbie when it comes to remixes. His recent remix of Justin Timberlake’s What Goes Around Comes Around has clocked over two million plays on his Soundcloud (we covered it in our 5 Under 500 a lil while BACK), and his remixes of Azealia Banks’ Chasing Time and his latest touch-up, on Stwo’s slow-burning Eden, are just as flame-emoji worthy. Eden, Parisian producer Stwo’s latest tune, is amazing in its own right, with soaring synth work, march band-like percussion and impressive vocal loops combining to create an absolutely impressive slow-burning jam. However, MUTO’s remix does the impossible by taking it to the next level, adding a deep, yet simple, breakdown packed to the brim with heaving bass and percussion loops, and goes to a few different places whilst remaining a certain flow that is, put simply, bloody great: Follow MUT