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"Much more important to me than monetary richness is a spiritual-type richness which I felt when I travelled in India for six months. Who knows about the afterlife, so I want to feel like I’m doing what I want to be doing with my time as much as possible."

"We put a lot of money into it, so we have to take breaks where we can. We’ve all got day jobs and (then the band) save up more to move to the next stage."

"We felt that we had to be adamant about how we felt the word should be interpreted because we hadn’t created it to be obtuse. A lot of time could be wasted through misinterpretation, which isn’t the point here."

"We’ll definitely opt to take it to a more deeper side of things just because we love that European, cold, dark sound."

So Homebake is supposed to be our festival: Australian bands playing for a rabble of music-loving Aussies. But this year they've done it a little bit differently...

“I write all the songs as just normal songs, and then they end up taking sort of different directions."

"You [Australians] always go hard – wherever I play, and wherever I go, you seem to go along with [it]. And you don’t just go along with [it] for the sake of going along. You’re riding shotgun – you’re in the car with me."

Shady Lane, the wonderfully crafted project created by Jordy Lane will be launching their second albm 'Built Guilt' this Friday

"A lot of what I’m doing now, I never would have expected to do. I don’t think I can be disappointed whatsoever in what I’ve done to this point because I’ve done everything, and I really think I’ve got an amazing result with this album."

Clear your calendars come late September, because GIGAMESH is coming to town on his first ever trip down under.

This week we're taking you back to 2003 and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Fever to Tell'. Josh gives us the lowdown.