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Vance Joy goes bladin' and gets his kicks in North America.

Attila have a bad reputation, and Chris Fronzak knows this all too well. Their sixth full length album 'Guilty Pleasure' is out on November 27 and promises to be every bit as offensive and fun as their previous records. The band will also destroy venues on their tour, presented by Destroy All Lines and Killyourstereo.com, in support of the aforementioned album next April. Ahead of their arrival, we chat with Fronz about his ventures outside of music, the new album and how to claim a position as his personal party assistant.

Sydney's new badass is up to No Good..

Digging a little deeper into their latest single, Blood Tapes.. Twin Haus are currently on tour throughout the East coast of Australia to promote their latest single, Blood Tapes. Pilerats were lucky enough to premiere the vicious pysch track, which you can listen to below, and are also promoting their tour. Amidst all this I was lucky enough to take five with Twin Haus and discuss the creation and meaning behind their latest work. And you can catch Twin Haus at Oxford Art Factory on Saturday 15 November, so get on down!

10 wide-ranging November selections from futurebeat purveyors Surface Tension.. Perth-based club collective Surface Tension have been quietly creeping up as promoters to watch in the past year – we’ve very much been welcoming their diverse taste in talent curation – after teaming up with Get Weird to present the maximalist sounds of Sinjin Hawke in May, in August Surface Tension hosted the oblique club sounds of Melbourne’s Air Max 97, chasing that up in September with Melbourne fringe-dweller Galtier, whom they teamed with the sexy weirdness of New Zealand’s Steezie Wonder. Their local line ups too, bring together a broad spectrum of sounds; from beats through to bass-heavy rhythms. Above: Matt and Stu, two-thirds of Surface Tension   Up next for Surface Tension is international future-beat tastemaker Joe Kay, founder of the super trendy LA-based, internet label Soulection – home to Esta and Lakim, whom you may have caught at Circo Festival earlier this year. If you're in Perth, head

With the water EP tour approaching, Willow Beats drop the EP's second single.. As the twilight tones of Merewif continue to burn up the FM dial, Kalyani & Narayana continue to take their Willow Beats project to the world stage. The truly unique duo already have a sold out single tour under their belt, and with the impending national tour for sophomore EP water, it's time to unleash single number two onto the Australian airwaves: Chess. A track that has been labelled as a "masterful summary of the Willow Beats sound", and the EP track that sat at the #1 spot on Hillydilly for a whole month, begins with buoyant drums, tumbling into a breathless amen-break and an ice cold, dripping back beat. Nobody does the dark/light dichotomy quite like Willow Beats, and when the track gives way to Kalyanis' alluring vocals, we're once again transported to another world, a journey through the astral plane, a subterranean journey through planet earth - en route to a late night dance party with the faeri

The Internet's own rap prince is flexin' his vision harder than ever in Volt..

The Sydney twins are back in the studio, taking a softer approach on new single Snare.. Fresh from a heap of festival appearances and a five-month studio break, one of Australian electronic music's most hyped acts Cosmo’s Midnight have put the lights back on in front of the speakers, dropping their new single, Snare, featuring London-based vocalist Wild Eyed Boy. It's the first taste of their early-2015 EP release, and shows a little shift in direction for a duo that's never been one to hold back from genre-hopping - turning towards a softer, R&B approach with a chilled, low-slung beat pinned down by Wild Eyed Boy's soothing vocals. They're returning to the festival realms to end the year, with appearances at Beyond The Valley and Harbour Party NYE.

A new single and EP, with all the sales going to charity.. Throughout ten years of music and monkey business, Midnight Juggernauts have long maintained their adventurous course through the music scene. Recently separated across different countries and different projects, they banded back together on impulse to record a series of EPs, the first called Aerials, (out now via the band's own label, Siberia Records) reflects the world from a vertical perspective above and below, explored in the music as well as accompanying video clip and live show production. They're also taking the opportunity to do something a little different with the album release structure - making Aerials available immediately, and in return for a donation to the Aboriginal Benefits Foundation specifically for Healthcare. It's a classic win-win, rad new music from Midnight Juggernauts for you, and supporting a good cause in the mean time. Check out the truly global video clip for the first single from the EP, Freefall

A shedload of good music yes - but a heap more too.. Saturday 29 November sees the inaugural CoLAB Festival hitting University Of WA's Oak Lawn and providing a laidback alternative to a certain event taking over two days that weekend and requiring weeks of gym prep in the lead-up. Billing itself as a one of a kind festival built on the collective ideas of crews local to these waters, to the soundtrack of some of Australia's raddest indie and electronic acts, it's gonna be a rad day out. Why? Well let's take a little gander of what's happening: MUSIC As we mentioned CoLAB boasts a top shelf lineup of established and up-and-coming acts, that looks a little like this: Hermitude, Midnight Juggernauts, The Jungle Giants, The Kite String Tangle, Sable, Indian Summer, Gang Of Youths, The Creases, Citizen Kay and KUCKA. Click any of those links to hear some music/get learned on them. FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD The organisers have teamed up with some of this state's finest fooderies to offer a huge

Some new music from some artists you may not know of yet..