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Premiere: Aela Kae - We Come Back
Aela Kae's latest single We Come Back is the perfect way to start Monday.. When I last wrote about Aela Kae's track Pure Zone I spoke of the sense of quiet embedded within her music. We Come Back takes cues from Pure Zone but showcases a delicate strength not seen before with the airy vocals and frisky drumbeat. Much like Pure Zone, We Come Back never becomes too loud but the differences appear in the elemental nature of the track seducing your attention. And that discreet difference is what makes We Come Back so soothing and enticing. It doesn't reveal itself in one listen but over time its layered beauty appears. A perfect track to start a dreary Monday if ever there was one.  We Come Back is the first song off Aela Kae's upcoming EP Reverie, and Aela Kae is also part of the same management group, Breaknative, as wunder-artist JOY. so you won't want to miss this EP.    Follow Aela Kae: FACEBOOK / INSTAGRAM
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New Music: Alison Wonderland - U Don't Know feat. Wayne Coyne
Alison Wonderland employs Miley Cyrus-collaborator Wayne Coyne on a new single.. While this is only a teaser of the full track, it's worth a blog post anyhow based on a few things. U Don't Know is the first track Alison Wonderland has released since last year's killer Calm Down EP, which featured a heap of respected and loved producers like Lido and Carmack, alongside Alison dropping bombs in the form of I Want U, Lies and Cold. This new effort also features The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, who generation-i most likely know following last year's dalliances with pop queen Miley Cyrus. Alison Wonderland had a barnstorming 2014, with huge sold-out warehouse tours and once again slayed the new year festival season, and 2015 sees her making her US debut at a little festival called Coachella. She also signed to legendary electronic label Astralwerks in USA, home to deadmau5, The Chemical Brothers, Empire of the Sun, Duke Dumont and more. They're obviously liking what they're hearing, and so ar
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No Money Weekend
Blow off steam with our low-income adventure inspiration.. Welcome to your $0 weekend. (Image: Lotte Stekelenburg). MEMES AT THE MOVIES If watching 85+ internet LOL cat videos on a big movie screen sounds like a good idea to you, then, high five, because it sounds like a good idea to us, too.  The Northbridge Piazza have partnered up with the Cat Haven curate a bunch of the best Internet cat videos (think: Grumpy Cat, Keyboard Cat, Henri, Nyan Cat), and have thrown in a few bonus locally made videos too (AKA Vines from Perth people who have cats) The only major flaw in this festival is that if you’re a crazy cat lady / man, this will require you to leave your furry children at home for the night and step out in public to hang out with… actual humans.  - Dani Marsland Free. Sat Jan 17, 5.30pm. No bookings required. Northbridge Piazza, Corner Lake and James St, Northbridge. Bring your own picnic, get there early to get a beanbag. No pets...haha.  CHICKEN, BEER & T-SHIRTS We’re not going
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New Music: Slum Sociable - Anyway
Welcome to the washed out lo-fo jazz-hop world of Mordialloc, Victoria-based duo Slum Sociable.. Dubbed as Mordialloc’s filthiest animals in the presser I received about Slum Sociable, that is unfortunately about all I'm able to tell you at this juncture. The first thing it did was introduce a place known as Mordialloc to me, which I now know is in Victoria, and whatever goes on out there has produced an absolutely killer piece of lo-fi psychedelic-pop. It first appeared on influential UK website The Line Of Best Fit, and it's not hard to see why - the trip hop elements that have become synonymous with the Bristol area of the world abound on Anyway, and instantly stamp them as an act to watch in 2015. You can do just that when they make their live debut at Sugar Mountain Festival in a couple of weeks, but until then chuck this one on repeat: Follow Slum Sociable: FACEBOOK / WEBSITE / TWITTER
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Video: FKA Twigs - Pendulum
Watch FKA Twigs hang from her own hair in new video Pendulum.. She was one of the artists we couldn’t take our eyes off in 2014; and 26 year-old British singer FKA Twigs seems intent on maintaining our attention in 2015; yesterday receiving two nominations for the BRIT Awards -  British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act – on the back of her Mercury Prize nomination for her breakthrough album of last year, LP1 (out now on Young Turks), yesterday releasing her most transfixing video yet for LP1 track Pendulum.  I'm your sweet little love maker, sings FKA Twigs, as the professional dancer, clad in a nude leotard, slowly spins (a human Pendulum, one assumes), suspended in mid-air, in a complex harness of rope, intertwined with her braids, so she’s essentially being supported by her own hair. She then begins sinking into a silvery, digital liquid, which eventually completely coats her and she becomes a CGI creature; before she re-emerges in human form, donned in tough silver h
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