Busy week, right? We get it. It never changes. It's why we made this Second Chance Sunday thing. There's no need to thank us. Just sit back, relax, and click away. Which, actually, is kind of how you can thank us.
The Music & x-press magazine make perth a town big enough for two
Legacy outlet X-Press Magazine and our very own Perth edition of The Music have joined forces to create a unified front, with X-Press handling the print side of things and theMusic.com.au taking on online coverage for the state.
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Celebrate Independence With These Nine Great Recent Indie Albums From ‘murica
All right, so Independence Day was technically yesterday, but with time zones and all this is still pretty timely, and contains a tonne of good music, so why not spend a bit of your day digesting some new tunes? You don’t hate freedom, do you?
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Justice League Of Music Want Some Sweet Government Cash To Help Our Artists
Several music industry bodies – specifically, Music Australia, AIR, APRA AMCOS, the Association Of Artist Managers and the multi-armed Australian Music Industry Network – issued an open letter to Federal Arts Minister George Brandis calling for a nationwide funding task force to assist the continued survival of Australia’s contemporary popular music industry.
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Watch Modest Mouse Go Full Game Of Thrones In Their Madcap New Clip
Modest Mouse have seemingly looked for inspiration in the fantasy world of George R.R. Martin and HBO's Game Of Thrones for their latest clip, for Strangers To Ourselves cut The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box – albeit with the tweak that most of the population of whatever mediaeval hellscape is depicted here is totally fine with getting about looking like human garbage. Come for the song, stay for the popped eyeballs.
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Modular Founder Stephen Pavlovic Opens Up After Universal Music Suit
The Tame Impala royalties saga came to at least its first conclusion here in Australia as the NSW Supreme Court found in favour of Universal Music Australia in its case against Modular Recordings founder Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic - and he understandably has a few regrets about the whole thing.
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punch your day right in its stupid face with the wonderfully retro synth fighters
Cardiff-based indie label Thirtieth Floor Records put together this gleeful throwback compilation, an homage to the music of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Street Fighter II: Champion Edition and Super Street Fighter II - and it is. so. good. It’ll make your chores feel like a motivational montage. Feel the power, baby.
