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A dreamy summertime ballad from Lost In Tundra.. From the group formerly known as Tundra, Lost In Tundra return with the other A side single of their double A side release and it's titled Photograph. Photograph is a mellow, blissful cut of a summer by the beach where the sun is shining and the sea salt infused wind is wafting onto you. It's all there in the track, the tingling guitars is the sun glinting on the water and the vocal cuts are the wind gently blowing over your body. And while often music is subjective as to what means what and why that chord is there it seems almost undeniable that this song recreates that sense of peace that comes by the beach in summer. Definitely something to listen to on a drive by the ocean this summer. Follow Lost In Tundra: FACEBOOK

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

Is the noise rap game ready for RPatz?. Recently our interest level in Twilight 'hunk' Robert Pattinson has gone from zero (maybe negative one) to something at least numbering in positive digits. Here's why (stick around to the end):  He’s Dating FKA Twigs Unexpectedly, he’s dating (possibly marrying) ultimate future R & Babe FKA Twigs.  Which is highly convenient for rising singer FKA Twigs, whose now getting a fair bit of exposure for her music from Pattinson’s star power. But anyway, respect to Pattinson for this one, and for buying her flowers bigger than her whole body: He’s Acting in Challenging Films David Cronenberg was off his game a bit with recent film Cosmopolis but the fact that Pattinson acted in a Cronenberg film, based on a complex post-modern novel by author Don DeLillo, is cred-worthy – it’s good to see Pattinson shooting for projects like this, as well as Australian film The Rover (dir. Animal Kingdom’s David Michod), and Anton Corbijn's next flick, James Dean bio

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

A haunting but beautiful look into the remains of Chernobyl twenty-eight years after the nuclear disaster.. As part of a CBS News '60 Minutes' special Danny Cooke has created a short clip of what remains of the town of Pripyat which was near the epicentre of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in 1986. At first glance we're shown a world filled with Soviet iconography; imposing concrete buildings and the Hammer and Sickle in an overgrown wilderness. It's as if every post-apocalyptic TV show has come to life in this one place. And it's hard not remark at how well shot it is or the clash of nature with society.  For those unaware of what Chernobyl is, it's the name of a nuclear power station in Ukraine that exploded on April 26 1986. This explosion was caused by a large increase in power that saw the core of the reactor explode. In the immediate aftermath 31 people died putting out the flames and controlling the radiation. It is not known how many people have been affected by the radiation in