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New: Naik - Visit From Hell
Naik is launching his single, Visit From Hell, at The Bakery and you should be there.. Naik man has been ticking away for a few years now and is known for his eclectic music style which brings together warped guitar lines, psychedelica and snarling hip hop. Furthermore, Naik is also releasing the first single, Visit From Hell, off his second album, and to celebrate he's having a single launch at The Bakery this Friday 15 November in Perth. Furthermore, Naik is bringing along his mates Mathas (who we recently got to interview Allday), Lower Spectrum and Henry Kissinger, along with good friend of the Pile and the legend responsible for the mind-altering visuals at CIRCO Festival - COMBS. Check out this preview of what you can expect this Saturday, because it looks f'in incredible:
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Red Bull Music Academy x Boiler Room Chronicles - Australia
Boiler Room delves deeper into the Australian club scene with a new web series.. Well, this is cool. Red Bull Music Academy has teamed up with Boiler Room (who broadcast net streams of live DJ sets from clubs around the world) to create a special web series that hones in on Australian producer and DJ talent, to be launched with Boiler Room’s biggest Australian show to date. Entitled Chronicles, each episode will focus on an artist or group, and will see them not only perform a special live set for Boiler Room, but also curate a line up of artists past and present who have inspired them as an artist. Soulful R & B quartet Hiatus Kaiyote, who performed for Boiler Room when they came to Australia in 2013 (you can watch that show HERE), are the first cab off the rank to play Chronicles, which kicks off in Melbourne on Nov 21. They’ve chosen their mentor, Brooklyn-based producer, composer, beatboxer and pianist Taylor McFerrin, to play their show. McFerrin first noticed Hiatus Kaiyote on hi
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Friday Freebie: cln - Satisfy feat. Lou Millar
The Brissy gun takes a step back from remixes to drop a killer original.. If you read this blog at all you'll know we're big fans of 19-year-old Brisbane producer cln, who lately has been pumping out a series of quality remixes for the likes of Odesza, GRMM and Wookie. But it was his original Sideways EP we first fell in love with, so we're pretty excited he's back on his own stuff, just releasing Satisfy feat. the lush vocals of Sydney outfit Twin Caverns' Lou Millar. And it's another moody slice of electronica from cln, with winding bass and hypnotic melodies under-pinned by cln's ever on-point production. Download it for free below, and check his upcoming show dates after that: SHOW DATES: Friday 28 November – Mammal Sounds Christmas at Shebeen, Melbourne (EVENT) Friday 12 December – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane (supporting GRMM) Saturday 13 December – Seasoned Music, Sydney College of the Arts Friday 23 January – OH HELLO!, Brisbane (supporting ODESZA)
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Vices Party
We give you the lowdown on Beaufort Street Festival's big Kahuna; StreetX reveal their Top 5 Vices.. Are you a trendsetter? Are you a gogetter? Do you know better (but you do it anyway)? If the answer is yes to any of the above, then come and claim your spot at Vices, the tropical throw-down at Mt Lawley’s Astor Theatre this Saturday. Bad Vacation/Flamingos, Lab Six and Street X have all been on their grind putting this thing together. Vices will be a refreshing party microcosm in the Beaufort Street Festival party macrocosm, where dog shows, crochet bombs and 'live street art' reign supreme. Vices. Island vibes. Much island vibage. They’re going to transform the whole place into some type of South Pacific paradise. We're hoping all the trill boys will swap out their bucket hats for cute li’l sailor boating hats. SURELY all the trill girls will be wearing coconut bras made out of the shells of the coconuts that StreetX will be extracting coconut juice out of for their Pina Colada Bar.
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No Money Weekend
Maximum fun on minimum funds - your cheapskate's guide to the weekend.. Money can buy booze and gig tickets and movies and tasty food, all of our standard weekend-go tos, but money can't buy the thrill you'll get skating along the ocean's edge under the stars, experiencing the sweat and passion of live punk in someone's backyard, or the feel-good endorphins that come from watching puppies going insane. Welcome to your $0 weekend. (Image: James Whineray) NIGHT SKATE THE WEST COAST When I was in high school one of my favourite things to do on the weekend was to catch public transport to skate parks with group of friends. While it may not have been that many years ago, I’m fairly sure if I were to throw myself over a set of stairs on my skateboard these days, it would only result in me hurting myself, but that doesn’t mean I doesn’t mean I don’t still enjoy the occasional skate. While it may be dominated by cyclists and mums with prams by day, the coast road between Trigg and Hillarys is
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