Features / Music

Stick ya future-beat up ya butt using your trap-hands, mate.. With the term ‘Australian Sound’ fortunately very quickly falling out of favour, the focus still remains on the artists who fall under that banner, who are admittedly killing it *cough* Sable *cough*. Today however... Today is about the 4x4 as we cast our gaze outside of that particular scene, and onto this country's killer haus music scene. House as a genre is a perennial stayer, but its popularity definitely ebbs and flows in Australia, especially in today’s EDM/ADD club climate. Overseas acts like Disclosure and more recently Tchami are definitely paving the way in 2014 for a more accepting-to-groove climate. ANNNYWAY, yes there’ll be a couple of familiar faces on here, and yes this is another list just rattling off producer names who we think are doing good things... But hang a while, click play on a couple of these tracks, and next time you’re out on the dingleberries and the guy in the DJ booth takes the vibe from 145

The southern hemisphere's largest tattoo event hits Oz in June..

This Wild Life have an interesting history in their short time as a group already. Transitioning from your run of the mill pop-punk outfit into a soft, melodic and emotional acoustic duo, the group has been making waves. Having amassed hundreds of thousands of video views, over one-hundred thousand followers on Twitter and eighty-thousand  likes on Facebook, This Wild Life are enjoying healthy acclaim. On their trip down under supporting Johnny Craig, we managed to speak with the duo, Kevin Jordan [vocals] and Anthony Del Grosso [guitar] backstage in Melbourne about touring, new album 'Clouded' and the reason why they moved to an acoustic duo.    

We had a quick chat to French producer Joakim in the short days before he releases his latest LP Tropics Of Love

Experimental electronica babe Kučka gives us her new single.. One of Perth's most intriguing and exciting acts, KUČKA has today released her new single, Unconditional. Having A$AP Rocky first sample then ask KUČKA to provide some backing vocals on his huge album Long. Live. ASAP from last year has obviously rubbed off on the producer - Unconditional is a cracking R&B-infused slow jam featuring her ever-alluring vocals and spacey synths. It just oozes sex basically, and you can stream it below or better yet - download it for free: We had the opportunity to catch KUČKA live when she supported Oliver Tank a little while back, and we were blown away - so mark Saturday 7 June in your diary, as she'll be launching Unconditional at The Bird with a new live show featuring commissioned visuals by Venice-based conceptual artist Martina Menegon, plus producer, DJ and Dysney club night founder, fm, Mudlark and DJs Rex Monsoon & Salut Barbut (Facebook event HERE). If you can't wait til then, she's

"It was our first time putting together a record, so it was a pretty big learning curve, and there was a lot of juggling between working and schedules."

AlithiA (sadly) say farewell to the Vodka, lack of showering and shitting in holes experience that has been their Russian tour.

"The songs have been around for a while, so we know ‘em all pretty well"

"[The set] is very different structure-wise, even dynamically"

"So it’s like sitting down to watch TV in a different language"