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It’s taken a while but Moroccan-born, Melbourne-based jazz guitarist Albert Dadon – who performs as Albare – has finally recorded a truly international album. Michael Smith discovers how it came about.

ASAP Rocky and Q team up in a music video with so much swag, it needs another backpack. Wordplay!

With two times the goodness of a second album announcement and an Australian tour, The xx have made many an indie fan wet themselves.

"I play requests. My sets are pretty loose."

Finding a good covers is like discovering that something you've gotten sick of eating is delicious again. Tell us what you think of our list!

Brendan Telford sorts through the shit with guitarist Lindsay McDougall to divine how punk legends Frenzal Rhomb are still pulling the wool over our eyes.

“AG did his verse first, and I still don’t know who’s singing on the hook!” Chasm, Chris Hamer-Smith to his mum, admits to Aleksia Barron of I Am Legend, a track off his latest album.

New Estate’s fourth album Recovery could be considered a definition of suburban Melbourne DIY garage music. Samson McDougall talks to the band’s Mia Schoen (and gets a brief comment from bassist Toby Dutton) about keeping shit real in a crazy world.

“There’s a lot of women who get onstage here and they’re just pretty and they can’t sing at all.” Melbourne raised, onetime Nouvelle Vague singer Nadéah Miranda informs Cyclone of how the French value charm over cred.

"We’re really into those early-‘90s dance sampling methods... using old African samples and vocal choirs to create this anthemic effect without actually having to create a big arena rock song.”

Bryget Chrisfield learns Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor has an encyclopaedic brain when it comes to music: “Unfortunately no one has ever asked me for any Frank Zappa or Roger Troutman of Zapp while I’ve been DJing.”

Kellie Lloyd has been ensconced in the Brisbane music scene for years as part of the wonderful Screamfeeder, but now she’s taken the solo road and, as she relays to Steve Bell, she’s discovered that she couldn’t be happier.