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Kutaap is new to the CANT SAY family and is a dude pretty keen on dance and hip-hop music. So we got him in for his Top Fives.

“I don’t know if my tunes are so different to the others out there," Aeph says, "but I always try to add something unique in what I do."

Striking while the iron is hot comes naturally to Christopher Arias-Real, bassist for Australian deathcore outfit Make Them Suffer, a band on the verge of a career-defining national tour. Simon Holland examines the band’s approach to cracking the big time.

“There’s no deeper meaning behind that song. I was just imagining that I was in the zombie apocalypse and I recognised someone I used to know who had turned into a zombie,” Pip Brown - aka Ladyhawke - is setting the record straight.

"I don't have favourites all the time – and I also don't listen all the time to music and usually I'm not up-to-date. I'm not a DJ and [so] I don't buy music all the time."

At a glance the movers the shakers the industry tastemakers that will be sharing their knowledge at the WAMI Industry Conference 2012.

At a glance the movers the shakers the industry tastemakers that will be sharing their knowledge at the WAMI Industry Conference 2012.

On touring with Airbourne, Mammoth Mammoth drummer Frank Trobbiani tells Doug Wallen, “It introduced us to a lot of bogans, which we appreciated. We like them.”

Tjimba Possum Burns is one half of Indigenous rap duo Yung Warriors. He talks to Chris Yates about the massively important role hip hop can have in the lives of young Indigenous Australians.

American sportspeople talk about the sophomore slump, while university students call it the second year blues. Vocalist Gustav Wood explains to Brendan Crabb why British rockers Young Guns were determined to avoid such dramas following up their hit debut.