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"It’s a great thing for the whole literary world. Hip hop is perfect for school.”

"With five people there, there was gonna be some good stuff crop up.”

“It was a really great experience to spend a bit more time on songs"

"After Nas there will be no one else."

"I think that’s just where that vibe came from and it was so much bigger than we were used to."

New music you should get around.. After the mysterious Golden Features released an EP a couple of weeks ago with little more than his name and some quality sounds, we're all about the unknown at the moment. So when Melbourne duo Hopium sent us Cut, with its beautiful, striking video clip and brooding, post-industrial/darkwave beats, we got pretty excited. We can't wait to hear more from these guys, but for now take in Cut in all its glory below, and follow Hopium on FACEBOOK // SOUNDCLOUD.

Dan Whitford's still having a damn good time on the Cut Copy train.. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of chatting to Cut Copy's Dan Whitford while the group were setting up for a show in Manchester. Being a massive Cut Copy fanboy, I was pretty stoked to finally chat to him (after interviewing everyone else in the group probably twice each), and was fairly dismayed when the first five minutes of our chat became basically indecipherable thanks to a dodgy connection. Fortunately we reconnected and I got some quality time in with a dude who's probably the most responsible for my descent into dance and club music. They're playing a few east coast shows next week, and we've got a DOUBLE PASS to giveaway for the Brisbane show - just email [email protected] with CUT COPY in the subject header. [After re-establishing connection] I’ll go back to my last question, you guys seem like you’re almost touring overseas more than here, was that a conscious effort on your behalf around Zonoscop

"Everyone wants to sell out – it’s great! Just get your music in commercials and films and all that stuff – ‘cause no one cares anymore."

"It’s not like when we started the band we dreamed of playing arenas, it’s just something that’s happened."

"I don’t really let myself get too wasted before a show. Not anymore. We did a few when we first started where we were just hammered drunk."

If you build it, they will come.. Last year our in-house bros Metric and ICSSC curated a mid-year festival that blew Perth away with a top-notch line-up featuring acts from Australia and abroad, the over and the underground and the big and the small for an epic day that we're still feeling the effects of (proof in the video below). So it's with much excitement we're announcing round two of WA's only indoor music festival, one that we feel tops last year's and has us more excited and nervous than we've ever been before. It looks a little something like this: VIOLENT SOHO KELE NINA LAS VEGAS ONRA THE KITE STRING TANGLE TOUCH SENSITIVE NOSAJ THING ODESZA MYKKI BLANCO SABLE BASENJI GOLDEN FEATURES DMA'S DJ Q VISIONIST ESTA & LAKIM DJ EARL BENEATH TEETH SULLY CHIEFS + MORE TBA Visuals by COMBS & SHADOW DATA Getting shit done over three stages, out of the rain at the Claremont Showground Pavilions on Saturday 28 June, you can grab tickets via HERE, and follow Circo on FACEBOOK for new develo