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Grime, rap and electronic madness - a god damn great day on the cards in Sydney..

Young Australian creatives share their career and life advice in a new video series.. They say if you write a wise saying, your name will live forever. What if you try and be a wisecrack on Youtube? Is that forever too? In our new creative talks video series, Insights, mostly ordinary (and occasionally extraordinary) young people share practical life and career advice on how to make it in the Australian arts and music industry. This week on Insights, we check in with Dani Marsland, a WA-based creative whose worked in the Perth arts and music industry across the past several years. Dani was the Club Editor at X-Press Magazine for a couple of years, then moving onto a role as the Editor at SixThousand, a weekly digital cultural guide to the city, where she worked for four years, before leaving to start her own freelance PR and journalism company, Dani M Publicity. After doing the publicity for CIRCO Festival in 2014, Dani joined creative collective Pilerats, where she continues to do PR,

Another warping beast of a track from our favourite new sewer-dwelling friend, Tobacco Rat..

An epic new track from Sydney soulstress Thandi Phoenix..

10 UK Grime Artists Making Waves Abroad in 2015..

Technology and science news, and why you can use it..

Chiefs' second EP this year is a big one, and comes with a sizeable tour to match..

Chvrches are back. And so is auto-corrects insistence on spelling it Churches..

WA garage-pop outfit The Spunloves get all road trip nostalgia on their new video..

Szymon's third single Medusa is here and his album Tigersapp is right around the corner.. Szymon's singles has become steadily more upbeat with his third single, Medusa, bubbling with joy ahead of the release of his upcoming album Tigersapp. Past singles like Katyusha danced between solemn drum beats and warbling synths whereas Golden carried the majesty of the rising sun but it's how Medusa is covered in a sheen of bliss that makes it stand out. And when Szymon rolls into his falsetto it almost sounds akin to Josh Pyke circa Chimney's Afire. But, there's always a but, there's a hidden darkness within this track as Szymon reflects on how things were once. It's such an Australian trademark to do this, create an uplifiting sounding song but then have the subject matter contrast dramatically, it's almost black humour at times.  For those who haven't heard of Szymon he is sadly no longer with us but as Dani Marsland wrote in her review of Katyusha, "There are three deaths. The first is whe