Second Chance Sunday: The Stories You Might Have Missed This Week

There's been no rest for the weary this week as the post-Splendour comedown has been punctuated with Azealia Banks' high-profile Twitter beefs, Ja Rule's performance issues and a mass recital of Learn To Fly — and those are just some of the bigger things that kept us busy this week.

While you were sleeping, a bunch of other stuff went down too — but that's exactly why Second Chance Sunday exists. Kick back and bring yourself up to speed with some of these lesser-seen gems, why not?

the nima awards happened, and you should care

While Briggs proved himself an editorially gifted wordsmith this week with a heartfelt op-ed on racism in the Herald, his lyrical and musical ability was also low-key being recognised along with artists such as Dan Sultan and Jessica Mauboy for their contributions to Indigenous arts at the annual NIMAs.

this is why fall out boy isn't on that 'simpsons festival' poster

When we posted a story about a hypothetical music festival populated with bands named after characters/things/places in The Simpsons, everyone chewed our nuts off on Facebook about Fall Out Boy not being on the poster, as though we really wouldn't have thought about that band and not addressed it, I don't know, two paragraphs in but y'all are too busy bringing us down to bother getting the full story so maybe you should just do that now and hear us out. It's not too late.

qld musicians to fight to the death for shot at $25k fellowship

The annual Grant McLennan Fellowship is worth $25,000 and sends a talented Queensland musician to the culturally and creatively vibrant city of their choice, as long as the city of their choice happens to be London, New York or Berlin. Most recent winner Thomas Calder, of The Trouble With Templeton (pictured), has been honing his skills over in merry old England, but soon it will be time to name a new artistic ambassador with a license to chase their dreams. MAYBE IT WILL BE YOU.

officer kevin bacon would like to talk to you about texting and talking during the movie in this very strange public service announcement

We don't even fucking know.

watch now→

earl sweatshirt straight-up decks a stage-rusher in sydney

Ain't nobody messing with Earl Sweatshirt. Ain't nobody. That's definitely the lesson at least one person took home from his gig at Max Watt's this week after rushing the 21-year-old performer from behind andwarpping their arms around him to seemingly try and take the microphone from his hands. Go figure; you pay to hear someone perform and you try and swipe their mic.

grimes has had it with your gender-normative bullshit

"The thing that I hate about the music industry is all of a sudden it’s like, ‘Grimes is a female musician’ and ‘Grimes has a girly voice.’ It’s like, yeah, but I'm a producer and I spend all day looking at fucking graphs and EQs and doing really technical work."

behold the perfect majesty of the smiths vs tears for fears

Who'd have thought disparate '80s Brit acts The Smiths and Tears For Fears would sound so perfect when laid atop one another? Depeche Mode's webmaster, as it turns out. Not even kidding a little bit. This one is definitely the mash-up of the week.