Features / Music

On the eve of her sold-out Aus' tour, Meg Mac shows off some of her fave things.. Everything's coming up Meg Mac on the eve of her upcoming Australian tour. All dates on said tour have now sold out (check 'em HERE anyway), and she's just dropped a new single that will feature on her self-titled debut EP, out Friday 12 September. So here's the plan, put that new song, Grandma's Hands, on now, and then check out five of Meg Mac's favourite things, which she kindly took some time out of her busy EP/tour prep to take some photos of and talk about for us.

Matt Farsalas chats to one of Aussie hip hop's brightest young things.. Quite simply, Baro is creating some of the smoothest hip hop in Australia right now, which is no mean feat given he's all of 17-years-old. Having caught the ear of Triple J presenters with his early work Word Smoother, his latest mixtape Howgoodisgood? has caused quite a ripple, and there's a very good chance you'll be able to catch him live in the near future, so we figured it best to get to know him a little better. Drawn from an Odd Future, Chance the Rapper and MF Doom kind of world, Baro’s tunes also hark back to the sound of A Tribe Called Quest – they come off like modern classics. Hey man, cheers for the time, I understand you’ve been pretty busy gigging alongside UV Boi, Milwaukee Banks and the like. How have you been enjoying the live shows and licensed venues? They have been mad. I didn’t expect to go and have people knowing words to my shit, I thought it was just going to be go, get up and perform to 1

Meet the Melbourne brothers bringing the bass.. Two Can have been steadily making waves in 2014 with a stream of remixes and originals, dabbling in the realms of tropical chiltrap, with a production quality that extends far beyond their relatively young (producer) age. They also seem like very nice chaps. Stream they're latest release - a remix for American producer and lord of the summer time Viceroy, and get to know Two Can a little better. Tell us about about yourselves: Hey guys, Oscar and Myles from Two Can here. First and foremost, we are brothers from Melbourne, Australia, living on Chapel Street amongst an array of cafés, bars and shops. Our musical background and influences are wide-ranging and we like to think that this shows in some of our music. We had both been dabbling in music production before taking on Two Can, creating more EDM-inspired works, which we released under a different name. This was fun, however we wanted to explore other types of music. Therefore, we deci

5 of the best with the most troppo dude we know - Young Franco.. Sunday 21 September sees good vibes party Stranded hit South Stradbroke Island with a killer line-up featuring Alison Wonderland, Allday, Safia, Client Liaison, Just A Gent, Paces, Promnite, Designated, Young Franco and Fishing. We couldn't think of a better crew to get your desert island rave vibes on with, and to get you in the mood we asked Young Franconstein for a few essential tropical club bangers. These are his stories: Nicole Millar - Taken (ISLND Remix) This song is absolutely nuts. Literally EVERYTHING about is dope. The ISLND dudes are killing it at the moment and bringing something pretty fresh.  Mickey Kojak - Feel My Pain (Poolclvb Remix) Classic House vibes, vocals are awesome and so is the remix. Mickey Kojak is gonna be doing some big things in the next six months. Cherokee - Don't Matter (feat. Darianna Everett) Play this one all the time, the production on it is so on point. Love this kinda vibe. FKJ

We caught up with the young and talented rapper, Tkay Maidza.

There’s a pronounced sense of lust I hear in tracks like First Impressions and Coasting and My Hotel Room

“Maybe what we didn’t need was to break up?”

The Wednesday Experiment reckon their album felt like it took "approximately 10 million billion trillion gazillion years" to write and record.

“It’s weird to put out a record when you’ve never played a show"

“I’d probably actually get more feedback from overseas than I do in Australia.”

So I decided to strip down everything, to take only what really matters

He sort of came back from a tour and made a joke about if I wanted to play bass.