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"Now, if you want me to sing on a track I’ll sing on a track."

The WA electronic-pop duo return from the US with some great new music.. WA-based electronic duo GRRL PAL have arrived back from a recent stint in the US living and working with producer Parker Ighile (G-Eazy, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj), and the results are already paying off with the first of a few new tunes to come - Paradise. In the group's words - "We wrote about dating someone who likes their phone more than you... kind of like Her but mainly because we love Scarlett Johansson." As fellow lovers Scarlett Johansson we're definitely not ones to argue, but ScarJo obsessions aside, Paradise definitely feels like the duo of Danny K and Jay Lekat have come back with a more refined sound, erring a little further away from their previous pop leanings, and into a very cool focus on future-beats, still pinned down by the cooing vocals of singer Lekat, and with a mean ilttle breakdown towards the end. They're looking to release a new song a month, and we can't wait to hear what other fruits co

"It was all about letting the water find its own course."

Founder Peter Darwin is on a mission to give structure to and reinvigorate local music in SA

Pissing in photo shoots, missing band members... Yep, the Sticky Fingers fellas are back!

If you're gonna update an R&B classic, this is how you do it.. Melbourne experimental electro-pop twosome De̊ǰa have had a pretty great 2014 that most recently saw them tour their latest EP Infinite Ecstatic around Australia, and just a couple of weeks ago we were pretty chuffed to premiere their chiller remix of Allday's Always Know The DJ. Now they've followed it up a with remix/re-do/cover of Aaliyah's timeless tune Try Again, and the results are a sonic pleasure worthy of your headphones or the dancefloor. It adds a bit of that darker/mysterious De̊ǰa vibe, but also gives it plenty of bump'n'grind that elevates it to something else entirely. The guy I sit next to in my office (hi Pierce) considers himself a bit of a king when it comes to the DJ world, and he was massively vibing this as soon as it started - which is a pretty strong rating on the barometer of the vibes you're about to get:

When Planet Earth meets porn..

Perth Festival 2015 has some epic and inspiring music, theatre and film in store. Check out our picks!. I can't imagine what summers in WA would be like without Perth Festival. The things I experience from around the world, at Perth Festival every year, are enough to keep me culturally inspired, and in love with the Arts, for the whole remaining year to come.  Having been to seven or eight Festivals now, my Festival memories exist less as thoughts and more as collections of really good feelings: like the time after the 2011 production of Out of Context: For Pina, where I just sat in my chair at the State Theatre for maybe ten minutes after the show finished, unable to get up and exit, so floored by what I'd just seen - a dance piece that blew out of the water everything I thought I knew (/hated) about contemporary dance. I'll likewise never forget the exhilaration of being under the stars with an icy cider in my hand as a music angel I've loved since forever, How To Dress Well, sent hi

Some thoughts on the terminally ill brain cancer patient and the right to euthanasia.. By Hannah Valmadre Earlier this week, 29-year-old terminal brain cancer patient Brittany Maynard ended her life on her own terms. She moved with her family from California to Oregon where she could legally access The Death With Dignity Act, which is only available in certain states of the USA. Maynard’s story went viral, and she decided to share her story with the world in the hope that all Americans would one day be able to access the same public policy she was able to. In a video recorded not long before November 1, Maynard expressed that, “my goal of course is to influence this policy for positive change and I would like to see all Americans to have access to the same healthcare rights.”  It is my personal hope that Maynard’s story and her bravery will help influence other countries to embrace compassion and legalise regulated voluntary euthanasia and/or physician assisted suicide for terminally i