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Fast rising Australian metallers Northlane are enjoying a breakout 18 months. Beginning with last year’s impressive studio album ‘Discoveries’ the band is quickly creating a strong reputation. Northlane is currently touring Canada with Obey the Brave, Stray from the Path and Counterparts. Killyourstereo.com is proud to present and host an EXCLUSIVE series of tour blogs from the group, beginning with Northlane’s first entry, written courtesy of guitarist Josh Smith.

"Lana Del Rey is a retired singer, now. She’s like Cher in the ’90s. You know what I mean? She’s thought of as a superstar, she has her own line of handbags, she spends more time going to premieres than performing gigs."

Melbourne-based garage pop duo Super Wild Horses have kept their cards close to their chest recently. Amy Franz shares the band’s secrets with Brendan Telford.

“We’ve got some friends who have made the move. Everyone kind of eventually moves out of Cairns. There’s a few people who are still there, but a lot of the musicians and artists usually move away.”

It’s Brisbane’s turn to experience The Wau Wau Sisters’ Last Supper. Aleksia Barron caught up with Wau Wau sister Adrienne Truscott.

“Australia has a lotta history of a lotta good things and a lotta struggle, so that’s depicted in our music very deeply.”

"I find the idea of genre – although it’s sometimes helpful – often amusing or distracting, so I just thought I’d create my own and try to make that the sound."

"He said, ‘Listen, that’s a single. You hear that?’ I was like, ‘No’. And he’s like, ‘Keep listening – that is a single, you hear me?’ And I’m like, ‘Ohhhh, okay’… It didn’t even come out like we intended at all, so it was a funny surprise for me."

"It’s always been a fear of mine that I’ll be so busy on the road that I’ll have to grab some guitar and go to some fucking hotel and try to come up with an album in a week. That would be fun as an experiment, but to do it as the culmination of all of the millions of insane fucking ideas that I have, that would be kind of scary."

Melbourne outfit THE DC3 are heading north to BIGSOUND, and frontman Damian Cowell tells Steve Bell how he’s come to terms with forever carrying the baggage of his mysterious past.

"I was really lost there for a while. I let my guard down I think, and thought maybe this is my big break and I can let someone else take care of it all… But ultimately I’m glad to actually be at the helm of my career and the one in charge."

“I’m really obsessed with contradiction – paradox. In everything. I’m continually headscratching. About everything.”