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We get the UNIFY bands to answer some quick-fire questions for us, continuing with Earth Caller's Josh Collard.

Melbourne hardcore outfit Hopeless will return in 2015.

Is the next Lorde this 18 year old girl from Perth?. (Almost) 18 year old Perth singer Adria has hit the ground running with the premiere video of the first single off her debut EP - Pull Me Under. The EP's taken Adria to Europe and back, where it got the golden touch from Lykki Li producer Viktor Balter-Lundin, and the man behind Lorde and Florence and the Machine, Matthew Wiggins. The Pull Me Under clip, shot in black and white, is a sombre, sensual powerful couple of minutes of viewing, laden with dark shadows, water imagery, clever visual trickery and sensual close ups of the transfixing Adria, whose not a bad dancer, either. It was shot by Jason Eshraghian, a 20 year old Perth based filmmaker. It's a strong and assured debut track: while Adria's voice, upon first listen isn't as big or billowing as say, Hannah Reid's from London Grammar, or Florence Welch's, there's a lot of BANKS-like potential in her cool and smoky timbre, which rises to the occasion each chorus. A hypnotic piec

Dropping trap bombs with the Dutch trio ahead of Future Music next year.. While we eagerly await Future Music Festival's second lineup announcement to see who'll be joining the likes of Drake, The Prodigy, Tchami and a bunch more, we'll be getting in touch with some of the acts already announced. Dutch trio Yellow Claw consist of Bizzey (Leo Roelandschap), Jim Aasgier (Jim Taihuttu) and Nizzle (Nils Rondhuis), bringing a wide range of genres, with a strong focus on bigroom trap, working with artists such as Flosstradamus, and signing to Diplo's Mad Decent. We caught up with Nils to talk EDM's oversaturation, exploring new genres and trying out some "new album shit" when they make their Australian debut next year. I’ve read you guys were pretty tired of some of the dance music coming out a few years ago – was there anything in particular about it getting you down and what initially drew you to the realms of trap and working within those BPMs? Well it was the whole EDM overload, every r

It’s just Em-Oceans, taking Frank over.. If you’ve been thinkin’ bout Frank Ocean lately, and wondering what the Grammy Award winner up to since his widely loved and influential 2012 Channel Orange, the answer comes in new track memrise which Ocean quietly shared on his tumblr. “Can I come over now...I could fuck you all night long from a memory alone" sings Ocean (ooof) voice full of pleasure and pain, in this lo-fi number lyrically detailing an affair with a past lover. Ocean harmonizes with multiples layers of his own voice in an atmospheric opening, before some speak-singing and final power balladry. How great is it how he’s spelt it ‘memrise’ instead of ‘memories’ so it looks like the word sunrise? Sunrise being presumably the time he fucked his ex-lover until. Ocean's reportedly been in the studio working with producer Hit-Boy (Beyoncé's XO, Jay-Z's Niggaz in Paris). Rolling Stone anticipated in their Fall Music Preview that Ocean's follow up to Channel Orange would arrive this U

A very dedicated Yeezy fan has made a two-hour tribute from found footage.. While there's no word yet as to when acclaimed art director Hype Williams' Yeezus film, written by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, is due to hit cinemas, we can tide ourselves over with the work of one die-hard Yeezus fan, John Colandra, who has spent several months editing together guerilla-style footage from various fans, shot at different venues across the rapper's 38 date stadium tour, to create one cohesive film that captures the entire concert's duration (including Kendrick Lamar's opening set). The KanyeToThe.com user is pretty happy with his effort: "the film flows beautifully and not a single major aspect of the Yeezus tour goes unnoticed," he says in the film's description. Relive the memories / make new memories in your lounge room below:  Watch the trailer for Hype Williams' Yeezus below:

Ecca Vandal enjoys Sesame Street and mashes snarling riffs with frantic beats which marks her as an intriguing Australian artist.. Ecca Vandal's first single, White Flag, is a howling stamp into the ground that she is here. With its writhing pace and the attention-seeking voice of Vandal it is hard not to take notice. So with this in mind we thought it was worthwhile to ask her a few questions about herself, her music and what we can expect in the future. And in the process we found that she had a continued fondness for Sesame Street and has an EP coming out in early 2015. You can also see her perform at the Deathproof Christmas Party on December 5th at the John Curtin Hotel. Tell us a bit about yourself? I had an obsession with Sesame Street when I was a kid and secretly still do. What kinda tunes we talkin’? Good tunes to listen to while you’re being chased by zombies. Production/writing process: I started writing these tunes for my EP a lil' while back then met Kidnot who is a kill

Pilerats chat with Alex Burnett about songwriting for artists like Motez and Digitalism ahead of his panel at EMC this week.. Hey man how’s it going, are you still in London at the moment? I just got back to Sydney this morning. Feeling pretty wack. I’ve been in London.  A lot of the work I do is out of London but I do lots of work with Australian artists. So this trip is a to say hi to the family and work with some people who I started doing things with at the beginning of the year. Cool! So for people reading this who don’t know, you’ve worked with people like Motez, Digitalism, Elizabeth Rose and Flight Facilities, when did you shift from Sparkadia to working with producers? Before I had a guitar on, and did a lot of indie-pop and rock stuff, but I think around 2010 I got drafted in to write some stuff for Digitalism. I found it fun and easy. It’s about hooks all the time and tension release. Whereas the music I had done was more about leading into the chorus and adding more guitar