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The best new tunes you need in your life from this week from Clea, Ukiyo, SUPEREGO, RL Grime, Open Till L8 and more.

“Alice Springs is a good town to live [in]. People doing [bad things], it’s maybe 1%. The media need to see, it’s not only in Alice Springs, it can happen in every town, but they only show it in Alice Springs."

“There’s a small number of women who have had babies in the kind of cohort of the music industry I’m in, so we’ve made a fun Instagram DM group to kind of trade stories and tips."

“I can tell you what I’ve told others, that this next album will be the physical manifestation of a creature, the likes of which the world has never seen..."

From Kim Petras’ historic Grammys win to Boygenius’ indie-rock superstardom, 2023 has been a huge year for LGBTQIA+ music fans. Whether in the mainstream or the underground, queer music is thriving and unapologetically so. Ellie Robinson explores how it happened (and why this is just the beginning).

Here’s what you need to know about pop/R&B artist Awa Mbaye following her latest track 'Black Girl Magic'.

“It’s fifty per cent music, fifty per cent nostalgia."

"I guess the issue that we run into, being on the heavier side, is our abrasive sound. Not everybody understands it, but the people who do, they love it."