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Tyrone Frost wants Kamandi to be standing long after certain sounds die.

"I think doing support slots for so long with really big bands taught us heaps."

Johnny Craig is a household name - whether for the right or wrong reasons that is open to debate. Known for his unique and powerful voice, Craig has a new musical project that has already seen steady attention: Slaves. The band wasted no time putting out their debut record, 'Through Art We Are All Equals'. Now, Slaves will grace Australian shores this September. Killyourstereo.com caught up with Craig to talk about the tour and the album.

Bound to get you excited.. Ry Cuming is an interesting man, he toured as a support act for Maroon 5, was signed to a subsidary label of Sony Music releasing an album and lived in Los Angeles. Originally he came from Angourie which has a population of 170 people, a median age of 47 and is south of Byron Bay. He was making pretty...well awful tracks, like below: But then Ry dropped his major label contract with Sony and the horrendous pop tones when he moved to Berlin in 2012 in which he stated in an interview at the time, "The songs I have released prior have all had some hint of predetermined influence whether from a part of myself or from outside sources. This can be convoluting to the process of communicating who you are as an artist honestly, and also misleading for the people receiving that work." And this is what happened: He essentially became the ultimate hipster. Okay not really but he started the first of three projects which would mark him out as an act to watch. When he ar

A beautiful collection of downtempo electronica.. It's almost hard to believe there is music like this coming out of my hometown. At a time when everyone's doing the trap/half-time/bouncey/wavey beats thing (and quite often doing it well, mind), Traces, the new EP from Fremantle-via-Melbourne producer Lower Spectrum is a breath of fresh air. We covered the first single from it, Khlever, A FEW WEEKS AGO, and now the full release is available via iTunes/Bandcamp, with options for a purchase on clear vinyl for the purists out there. And to be honest this is something I'd like to have in physical form - it's the kind of music best put on and left on, a six-track journey for your ears and mind. I mentioned it before (basically because it's the only comparison I can draw upon), but it has some very Nicolas Jaar-esque vibes about it that I am completely in love with. Opener Levity grows and grows into a brilliant drum breakdown, Hex is all dark and dirty '80s sci-fi cinema soundscapes, and th

Dutch muralist re-invents his drawings as a four-year-old..

Guilt Free are set to bring progressive and powerful rock to UBERfest

The "beautiful mess" that is Adelaide's The Unset

Some great new music from a fresh-faced Perth 19-year-old.. We'll have to admit we hadn't heard of 19 years young Perth artist Troye Sivan until recently. This makes sense on one hand as the single we're rocking today - Happy Little Pill - is his debut release. But on the other hand, the kid has almost 900k fans on Facebook - yep, almost a million. We can probably put the latter down to the release of his song The Fault In Our Stars - released last year and selling upwards of 100,000 copies worldwide, with all proceeds going to a Perth children's hospital. A re-worked version of that song, along with Happy Little Pill will be found on his forthcoming debut EP release, TRXYE, due August 15. The EP promises five tracks of atmospheric pop, beats and ballads, citing the likes of Lana Del Rey, Lorde and Frank Ocean as influences, and you can hear a bit of each in Happy Little Pill below. Produced by Perth duo SLUMs, mixed down by Tom Elmhirst and Jason Cox (Gorillaz, Adele, Empire Of The Su

One of Brainfeeders' finest is headed back down under.. The Operatives are a collective of multi-talented musicians and curators responsible for presenting tours of ground-breaking international talent and a platform for emerging artists to be heard, and 2014 sees them celebrating a decade of killer events with the return of producer Teebs. Whether it's by the skateboard deck, paintbrush or on Roland SP 404 pads, Teebs is all about positive energy, the LA-based beatsmith's music swirls like his artwork; delicate and richly composed, with textured expressions that have been garnering fans since debut album Adour. His latest EP, Estara, is another slice of gold: The tour kicks off in Melbourne on the first day of August, and you can grab some tickets by clicking the picture below: