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We sat for a chat with Flume who's just been added to the bill for Parklife 2012; visit parklife.com.au for tickets and details

“In an ideal world, I’d love to go away and set up somewhere, which is what we have done before; sleep there, wake up and record,”

Last year while on tour, the girls spent a lot of time watching ‘old-school’ rock and roll videos as well as lying in their bunks listening to their own playlists. “The good thing about having an iPad is you all go back to your bunk and listen to your own music at night,”

“I’m not a purist,” he admits. “I am not opposed to people using loops and visual effects, but I dunno … we just play our songs!”

Some things you cant DIY. Use those white-coated, backroom devils like Adam Rhodes and Casey Rice and Simon Grounds! They have skills and knowledge of arcane gadgets and mics. They know how shit works.

I am doing all of the promotion myself, it’s pretty much all self-generated. So I am up against it. It’s very hard. I have to try to spread the word in other ways and that’s how I came up with the idea of using the films

Flashback to the Cocteau Twins, the precursor of today's indie-dream-pop.

The life of a full-time touring musician can be quite bittersweet, as Jack Carty has discovered. But it’s all grist to the creative mill, he tells Michael Smith.

Gomez fans rejoice! The folksy five-some will be returning to our shores this Spring for their 'Quinceneara' Tour. Find out more within

Some people hate the new direction Ceremony have taken, says frontman Ross Farrar, but there’s no way this band is changing for anyone.

Allegations of wide-spread drug use in the music industry have rocked the scene to its very core.

Funk educationalist Grant Saunders – aka Sonic Nomad – from hip hop crew Whitehouse, talks to Tony McMahon about his band’s album, A Funky Intervention and its new single, The 26th.