Features / Music

The Pierce Brothers stay mind-blown over their recent success.

Stand Atlantic (formerly known as What It's Worth) are an up-and-coming band from Sydney quickly capturing local listeners attention. Having recently come off a tour with New Zealand's Maybe Rave, the band has released a new single called 'Breakaway' and are currently planning the release of their debut EP later this year. Lead singer Bonnie Fraser recently took some time out to chat with us.

There isn’t a bad word to say about Every Time I Die. Throughout their career, fans, critics and peers alike have unanimously praised the band’s output. With new studio album, ‘From Parts Unknown’ dropping this week via Epitaph, we caught up with the group’s ever-affable frontman Keith Buckley to talk about the record, tweeting and plans for a return to Australia.

Everyone's favourite dreamboat has a great new single and tour.. We're getting really excited about CIRCO Festival this weekend (TICKETS HERE), and as if The Kite String Tangle knew this, he's just released a new single, Arcadia. Following up his breakout tune Given The Chance was always going to be a big ask, but we feel pretty comfortable in saying Arcadia is a worthy successor. Oozing with his signature downtempo electronica feels and of course those soothing vocals, it's the first taste from his upcoming debut EP, Vessel. Featuring both tracks, it's available from Friday 8 August, but you can pre-order it and get Arcadia from Friday 27 June. Take a listen below, and get out the old diary to mark one of the dates on his massive Australia-spanning tour this August/September. WED 20 AUG – DARWIN FESTIVAL, DARWIN NT FRI 22 AUG – AMPLIFIER, PERTH WA SAT 23 AUG – NORTH WEST FESTIVAL, PORT HEDLAND WA FRI 29 AUG – ADELAIDE UNI BAR, ADELAIDE SA SAT 30 AUG – REPUBLIC BAR, HOBART TAS FRI 5 S

We talk the future of dance in Australia, whose killing it elsewhere, and just good club music.. As people's obssession with the Australian dance music scene grows and grows with peoples' eyes and ears on us more firmly then ever, it's become essential that we have someone not only championing what we do here, but introducing us to sounds from around the globe to keep us on our toes. It's a tiny bubble down here, and while the Internet has seen to the ease of music discovery/sharing, it can get easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. Enter Nina Las Vegas, the former House Party hostess who after a well-deserved few months "off" (see: exploring music all over the world), she's back with a new tool for exposing the world to our scene and vice versa. Taking full control of Triple J's Mix Up Exclusives, hosting DJs and producers from here and abroad, it's the perfect platform for discovering new music, find out who's killing it here, and listen to something you perhaps never thought you

Introducing RBMA Stage feature artists, Nguzunguzu.. Splendour In The Grass is edging closer and closer, with a line-up that is stronger than ever (which is a kinda pointless thing to say given the fest manages to kill it every year), and we're really looking forward to getting back into the dark and wonderful world of the Red Bull Music Academy stage, featuring a host of underground electronica artists. You can click HERE for the original artist line-up that includes the likes of Young Franco, Flamingo, Sampology, and the people you're about to meet in this post, Nguzunguzu. Today also saw the announcement of a few additions, namely Nicolaas fucking Jaar (!), Africa Hitech, Oscar Key Sung and Hiatus Kaiyote. For more info on the rest of the line-up head HERE. Know Your Splendour with Nguzunguzu Who are you? Asma and Daniel.  What kinda tunes we talkin’? Sad, sexy, and scary.  Production/writing process: Varies every time, but mostly indoors.  What do you do outside of Nguzunguzu? Cas

Some lusciously chilled beats out of Melbourne.. Melbourne-based instrumentalist/producer Will Cuming AKA Lanks just released his debut EP, Thousand Piece Puzzle, with celebrations beginning at The Grace Darling last Thursday, and a Sydney show at Upsairs Beresford this Friday 27 June. As is becoming commonplace in the Australian music scene, Cuming also fronts another band, Farrow, but has turned his attention to a mature new side project that sees him delving into a beatsy world of folktronica, something akin to a mash-up of Bon Iver and Jamie xx. Green Light is the latest single he's released from it, featuring some beautiful vocals and delicate, sparse guitar work that builds into a light d'n'b feel. You can find it amongst the other six tracks on the full EP below, and head to Lanks' FACEBOOK to keep up to speed of his future goings on.

The newest members of the Pilerats Records fam have some new music and tour to boot.. Save for some rare appearances at Hong Kong's Clockenflap Festival, Australia's mighty Falls Fest (and of course their sell out solo tour!) Willow Beats have spent most of the last 12 months locked in the studio. We're stoked to tell you, IT'S BEEN WORTH THE WAIT, and today we welcome Willow Beats to the Pilerats Records family :))) Straight from their forthcoming sophomore EP check out the swampy twilight tones of brand new single Merewif. Stooped in fantasy, mystery, and the stories of Hare Krishna folklore, soul, love, and light burst through Merewif. Narayana’s tribal electronica, full of shadows and dust, with twisting starlight synths and heart-beat baselines, all wrapped up in the caramel vocal chords of the beautiful, and commanding, Kalyani Mumtaz.

CIRCO hype machine Golden Features drops a rad clip for his single.. If you asked me to pitch you an idea for a video accompaniment to Golden Features dark and dirty banger Tell Me feat. Nicole Millar, I honestly would have struggled (but then it's not my job, soooo). But whoever pitched the idea you see below has absolutely hit the nail on its proverbial head. All moody and black and white and dark, I haven't seen a video clip this perfectly suited to the music in a long time. It looks like some kinda dystopian sci-fi epic in the Mad Max/Book Of Eli mould - basically it feels like a movie, one that I would be really happy to watch. In fact I was, completely hooked for three-and-a-half minutes, and that never happens. So enough of my rambling, enjoy it below, and Perthians can see him this Saturday at CIRCO Festival - click HERE for tickets, and click HERE for the time we asked him to take photos of his five goldenest treasures.

Meet new Adelaide management collective, Young Muscle.. Young Muscle is the combined efforts of three mates outta Adelaide, born from a love of good music, good parties, and good local sounds - most often seen at the club night they started out together, Cats. Spending the past couple of years bringing over acts such as Flume, Chet Faker, Tokimonsta, Classix, Wave Racer and many more has given them the motivation to start working with local acts to get them the recognition they deserve. Part management roster and part collective, with a mandate to throw some damn fine parties, the Young Muscle roster features: FLAMINGO ARCHERS HOLY MODELS SKIES FERRIS MULAR   You can find Young Muscle on FACEBOOK, where you can get their free SAMPLER PACK.