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Dumped Chinese chick so devo she spends a week living in KFC.. Have you ever gone to a café just to swindle their wireless, and felt really guilty for staying longer than the regular time it would take to drink a cup of coffee, and bought more coffee you didn’t want to drink just to feel like you have a right to be there? A 26 year-old woman in China has clearly never felt those ‘overstayed your welcome’ guilts – Tan Shen just spent a week in a 24-hour KFC restaurant in Chengdu, after getting dumped by her boyfriend. The staff didn’t initially notice as there was such a high volume of people coming through – then, said worker Jiang Li Lung, after about three days, they realised, and asked her if she was okay – at which point she asked for another box of chicken wings and said she “just needed time to think”. She even phoned in sick to work! “I didn’t want to go back to my apartment because it was full of memories of him,” said Shen, "so I stayed." When she attracted media attention, sh

There's some rad sideshows coming up around next year's festival.. When a touring festival like St Jerome's Laneway Festival announces a bunch of sideshows with some of the lineup's biggest hitters it's a sure sign that a) tickets are running like hot-cakes, and b) you're wallet is going to be hurting even more. Laneway have announced a heap of sideshows, which we've kindly collected into one little place for ya'all right here. BANKS Tuesday 3 February - St. Stephen’s Uniting Church, Sydney (TICKETS) Read our recent interview with Banks HERE. BENJAMIN BOOKER Monday 2 February - Newtown Social Club, Sydney (TICKETS) Thursday 5 February - Northcote Social Club, Melbourne (TICKETS) HIGHASAKITE Tuesday 27 January - Metro Theatre, Sydney (TICKETS) Wednesday 4 February - Corner Hotel, Melbourne (TICKETS) Watch their awesome video for Darth Vader HERE. LYKKE LI Thursday 29 January - Forum Theatre, Melbourne (TICKETS) MAC DEMARCO Friday 30 January - Metro Theatre, Sydney (TICKETS) Wednesday 4

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Last year, Canberra resident and punk rock uber fan Nicholas Sofer-Schreiber - A.K.A ‘The Ginger Ninja’ - was tragically murdered. The punk community has since come together and in an effort to raise funds for Vision Australia, will host the inaugural Gingerfest this year in Sydney. Melbourne locals, Anchors, were recently added to the mini-fest – which also includes Hightime, Revellers, 28 Days, to name a few - and we caught up with the band's drummer, Pat Murphy.

Tucked away in the northern section of this vast land lies a band that is aiming to revitalise the local music scene. Northern Territory metalcore upstarts I, The Burden have provided the Darwin scene much needed traction and support. Killyourstereo.com chats with the band as part of a new AUSSIE FEATURE.

Hip hop superstar Future has released a dark new mixtape just in time for Halloween weekend.. Future has released a new mixtape just in time for Halloween weekend - the appropriately named Monster features 16 speaker-shattering tracks. Monster is dark in mood – is it a deliberate Halloween theme-ing thing or has his recent break up with Ciara gotten the guy down? Unusually for a hip hop artist, who usually have loads of collaborations on their releases, there’s a lone guest spot on this one – from Lil Wayne. After That takes a more streetwise direction than the two’s last collaboration, club hit Love Me. Over a trap beat by TM-88 and Southside, the artists wax poetic about a few of their favourite things, from expensive watches and paper stacks to liquor shots and fellatio. Additional production on the tape cones from Metro Boomin and DJ Spinz. Download the release free HERE or stream it below: Future, Monster video clip:

This year it's all about Discovery featuring Flume and over 30 new speakers.. This year's Electronic Music Conference has released details of its daytime program, featuring more than 80 artists and industry leaders speaking over 20 panels to be held across The Eternity Playhouse, The Beresford Upstairs, Lo-Fi and The Standard Bowl in Sydney's Darlinghurst from December 2-4. In addition to already-announced names like Porter Robinson, Steve Aoki, Will Sparks, Peking Duk and The Aston Shuffle, EMC will host some of the world's leading industry figures including Donnie Estopinal - regarded as the Godfather of dance in the US, co-directing Electric Daisy Carnival along with hundreds of major shows each year; Gary Richards AKA Destructo of Hard Events (Holy Ship, Hard Summer); Matt Colon - Steve Aoki and Nervo's manager; and Johnny Shockey - LED Presents founder (booker of Sahara Stage at Coachellla). EMC will feature over 20 programs, with Production Masterclass sessions and the EMC Play l

The Melbourne cousins add more reasons to be excited about their upcoming EP.. Following impressive turns earlier this year in debut single Make Me Wonder and then False Calls, Melbourne cousins Klo have premiered their latest single Under Lies via Thump this week, and it's doing nothing to quell our excitement for the duo's debut EP Cusp to be released Friday 14 November via Dot Dash/Remote Control. It comes with beautifully chill garage vibes, and Chloe Kaul's delicate coo washing over my Monday-morning is making life much more bareable. They've got a few shows coming up in November, check the dates after taking Under Lies in below: SHOW DATES: SAT 15 NOV: Melbourne Music Week Hub, Melbourne, VIC THU 20 NOV: Laneway Presents MMW Showcase @ Kelvin Club, Melbourne VIC SAT 22 NOV: Strawberry Fields Festival @ The Wildlands, VIC SAT 22 NOV: Paradise Music Festival @ Lake Mountain Ski Resort, VIC WED 31 DEC: Beyond The Valley Music Festival @ Phillip Island, VIC

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

"I’m a guy who likes to keep people guessing, and I like taking people on strange twists and turns"