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"In the UK there’s obviously a great heritage of music and you can’t deny having The Beatles as the backbone of all that, but Motown was also big in my upbringing."

"The songs [are] very upbeat and immediate, so the transition from the studio to the stage for this record has probably been easier than any other record we’ve worked on – it’s in the spirit it was recorded in as a band."

Ball Park Music introduce us to some easy-to-learn road trip games, including as 'Hey Cow' and 'Throw Rocks At Shit'.

Hard work pays off. Northlane are living proof of this statement. Last year's acclaimed 'Singularity' - user voted number #1 Killyourstereo.com Australian album of the Year - will be released as a deluxe edition this May. With Free Your Mind on the horizon, we quickly caught up with guitarist Josh Smith to chat about it all.

WA trio Crooked Colours continue their good run with a cracking new single.. Following on from the hugely successful single Come Down, Crooked Colours have released their follow-up, very much in the sparse-followed-by-synth-waves mould set by Come Down. In Your Bones lures you in with minimalist guitars, rhythmic percussion, and Phil Slabber's smooth vocals until it finally lets loose in a wash of synth. After Crooked Colours initial beginnings of leaning too heavily on their influences (understandable for any new band), it's exciting to watch them develop into something almost entirely their own. But enough of my jibber jabber, just listen to it below, and keep your eyes peeled for the release on Sweat It Out, May 9, coming with a huge remix package featuring Casino Gold, Chiefs, Craig Williams, CRNKN, Sampology, Trinidad and Young Franco. You can catch the lads live at Bunbury Groovin' The Moo on MAY 9, or supporting Rufus on their massive national tour at the following dates: Fri 3

1 ticket. 34 acts. 4 stages. A Festival celebrating WA music!. Whilst being a pretty isolated city, Perth is definitley not lacking in the musical department, and this year's State Of The Art Festival is testament to that, with 34 acts taking over four stages across the Perth Cultural Centre, Saturday 31 May. Not only that, it's for the measly price of $35+BF; a little over one dollar per band. Which when we think about it seems kinda ridiculous. The line-up casts a wide net over a broad spectrum of homegrown talent, and seen as it's an all-ages event with drinking areas, there's something for everyone: Drapht, San Cisco, Optamus, Sable, Split Seconds, Bitter Belief, Gunns, Axe Girl, Eskimo Joe, Felicity Groom, Mathas, Kučka, Slumberjack, Gina Williams & Guy Ghouse, Simone & Girlfunkle, Indigo, The Stems, The Blackeyed Susans, Kim Salmon, The Kill Devil Hills, The Floors, Ruby Boots, Pat Chow and Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) DJ set, with a fourth stage TBA. We are of course proud as punc

The kawaii bromance that keeps on giving.. The keen beans out there who gave Alison Wonderland's mix for Diplo & Friends for BBC1 a spin may have heard this already, but now it's out officially and to download for free. We're incredibly excited about the prospect of Basenji and Sable working together (we cannot wait to show off Basenji's Foolin' remix), and Sable's re-do of Basenji's Speak With A Dofflin is all kinds of great:

Comeback Kid have become a driving and leading force in contemporary hardcore. Have inspired countless bands, toured the far corners of the world multiple times, the band is enjoying the early success of 2014's 'Die Knowing'. Lead singer Andrew Neufeld took time out of his breakfast in Budapest to talk with us about the album, touring, record labels and a whole lot more.    

"You know, they can have whatever idea about the music, everyone has their own opinion. But I at least want them to have a proper opinion."

Get to know Cali punkers Plague Vendor, celebrating their debut album.. California four-piece Plague Vendor have just released their debut album, Free To Eat, which packs a shitload of punk-rocking good times in all of 18 minutes. It's all killer, and definitely cause to get to know 'em a little better. You can grab their album HERE: Who are you? We are Plague Vendor. P-L-A-G-U-E-V-E-N-D-O-R, like the song on FREE TO EAT. We're from Whittier, California.  How’d you meet? We met some time early on in high school. All of us were in different bands at the time, except for Michael. He didn't start playing bass until we asked him to join P.V.  What kinda tunes we talkin’? Someone said "graveyard groove" recently. We dig that. FREE TO EAT is definitely 6ft under. I just can't tell if the next thing we do is going to head straight down to hell or dig it's way back up through the soil. Writing process: All four of us have to be together. Once one of us sniffs the slightest bit of bogusness in

Movement give us the lowdown on their amazing self-titled EP.. We've been crushing hard on Movement ever since we stumbled across their first couple of songs, especially Feel Real, and later last year Us with its incredible VIDEO CLIP. Needless to say we're pretty fucking excited about the upcoming EP release - it's been on repeat since we got a sneaky preview a little while ago, and Sean and Jesse from the group were kind enough to give us a little track by track rundown ahead of its release on May 2 (pre-order HERE). LIKE LUST Like Lust is about attraction, confused and half remembered. It's a fairly heavy track - we kept it repetitive because that's how it feels. We had the concept of this track being a fairly repetitive thing from the start, we worked with the one particular vocal loop in the chorus and just explored a whole bunch of things musically. We wanted a track that wasn't so reliant upon vocals - because this occupies a large part of our writing space. We kept it fairly b