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Alison Wonderland has dropped an epic new single/video clip.. While you're all sitting there hitting refresh on your Splendour ticket thing and getting fucked over by scalpers, one of the stars of last year's festival, Alison Wonderland has dropped a new single and video clip - both of which are huge. I Want U featuers the producer/DJ now adding "vocalist" to her bow, in a beautifully shot clip which lacks no production values. It's the first taste of her upcoming Calm Down EP, which you can pre-order HERE, and also a nice little precursor to the upcoming Wonderland Warehouse PROJECT, which you might be able to get some TICKETS for again after some extra ones were released. Until then, enjoy one of the raddest video clips we've seen for a while.

New music you should get around.. After the mysterious Golden Features released an EP a couple of weeks ago with little more than his name and some quality sounds, we're all about the unknown at the moment. So when Melbourne duo Hopium sent us Cut, with its beautiful, striking video clip and brooding, post-industrial/darkwave beats, we got pretty excited. We can't wait to hear more from these guys, but for now take in Cut in all its glory below, and follow Hopium on FACEBOOK // SOUNDCLOUD.

Dan Whitford's still having a damn good time on the Cut Copy train.. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of chatting to Cut Copy's Dan Whitford while the group were setting up for a show in Manchester. Being a massive Cut Copy fanboy, I was pretty stoked to finally chat to him (after interviewing everyone else in the group probably twice each), and was fairly dismayed when the first five minutes of our chat became basically indecipherable thanks to a dodgy connection. Fortunately we reconnected and I got some quality time in with a dude who's probably the most responsible for my descent into dance and club music. They're playing a few east coast shows next week, and we've got a DOUBLE PASS to giveaway for the Brisbane show - just email [email protected] with CUT COPY in the subject header. [After re-establishing connection] I’ll go back to my last question, you guys seem like you’re almost touring overseas more than here, was that a conscious effort on your behalf around Zonoscop

An exhibition celebrating the late photographer Bob Carlos Clarke..

If you build it, they will come.. Last year our in-house bros Metric and ICSSC curated a mid-year festival that blew Perth away with a top-notch line-up featuring acts from Australia and abroad, the over and the underground and the big and the small for an epic day that we're still feeling the effects of (proof in the video below). So it's with much excitement we're announcing round two of WA's only indoor music festival, one that we feel tops last year's and has us more excited and nervous than we've ever been before. It looks a little something like this: VIOLENT SOHO KELE NINA LAS VEGAS ONRA THE KITE STRING TANGLE TOUCH SENSITIVE NOSAJ THING ODESZA MYKKI BLANCO SABLE BASENJI GOLDEN FEATURES DMA'S DJ Q VISIONIST ESTA & LAKIM DJ EARL BENEATH TEETH SULLY CHIEFS + MORE TBA Visuals by COMBS & SHADOW DATA Getting shit done over three stages, out of the rain at the Claremont Showground Pavilions on Saturday 28 June, you can grab tickets via HERE, and follow Circo on FACEBOOK for new develo

WA trio Crooked Colours continue their good run with a cracking new single.. Following on from the hugely successful single Come Down, Crooked Colours have released their follow-up, very much in the sparse-followed-by-synth-waves mould set by Come Down. In Your Bones lures you in with minimalist guitars, rhythmic percussion, and Phil Slabber's smooth vocals until it finally lets loose in a wash of synth. After Crooked Colours initial beginnings of leaning too heavily on their influences (understandable for any new band), it's exciting to watch them develop into something almost entirely their own. But enough of my jibber jabber, just listen to it below, and keep your eyes peeled for the release on Sweat It Out, May 9, coming with a huge remix package featuring Casino Gold, Chiefs, Craig Williams, CRNKN, Sampology, Trinidad and Young Franco. You can catch the lads live at Bunbury Groovin' The Moo on MAY 9, or supporting Rufus on their massive national tour at the following dates: Fri 3

1 ticket. 34 acts. 4 stages. A Festival celebrating WA music!. Whilst being a pretty isolated city, Perth is definitley not lacking in the musical department, and this year's State Of The Art Festival is testament to that, with 34 acts taking over four stages across the Perth Cultural Centre, Saturday 31 May. Not only that, it's for the measly price of $35+BF; a little over one dollar per band. Which when we think about it seems kinda ridiculous. The line-up casts a wide net over a broad spectrum of homegrown talent, and seen as it's an all-ages event with drinking areas, there's something for everyone: Drapht, San Cisco, Optamus, Sable, Split Seconds, Bitter Belief, Gunns, Axe Girl, Eskimo Joe, Felicity Groom, Mathas, Kučka, Slumberjack, Gina Williams & Guy Ghouse, Simone & Girlfunkle, Indigo, The Stems, The Blackeyed Susans, Kim Salmon, The Kill Devil Hills, The Floors, Ruby Boots, Pat Chow and Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) DJ set, with a fourth stage TBA. We are of course proud as punc

The kawaii bromance that keeps on giving.. The keen beans out there who gave Alison Wonderland's mix for Diplo & Friends for BBC1 a spin may have heard this already, but now it's out officially and to download for free. We're incredibly excited about the prospect of Basenji and Sable working together (we cannot wait to show off Basenji's Foolin' remix), and Sable's re-do of Basenji's Speak With A Dofflin is all kinds of great:

Get to know Cali punkers Plague Vendor, celebrating their debut album.. California four-piece Plague Vendor have just released their debut album, Free To Eat, which packs a shitload of punk-rocking good times in all of 18 minutes. It's all killer, and definitely cause to get to know 'em a little better. You can grab their album HERE: Who are you? We are Plague Vendor. P-L-A-G-U-E-V-E-N-D-O-R, like the song on FREE TO EAT. We're from Whittier, California.  How’d you meet? We met some time early on in high school. All of us were in different bands at the time, except for Michael. He didn't start playing bass until we asked him to join P.V.  What kinda tunes we talkin’? Someone said "graveyard groove" recently. We dig that. FREE TO EAT is definitely 6ft under. I just can't tell if the next thing we do is going to head straight down to hell or dig it's way back up through the soil. Writing process: All four of us have to be together. Once one of us sniffs the slightest bit of bogusness in

Movement give us the lowdown on their amazing self-titled EP.. We've been crushing hard on Movement ever since we stumbled across their first couple of songs, especially Feel Real, and later last year Us with its incredible VIDEO CLIP. Needless to say we're pretty fucking excited about the upcoming EP release - it's been on repeat since we got a sneaky preview a little while ago, and Sean and Jesse from the group were kind enough to give us a little track by track rundown ahead of its release on May 2 (pre-order HERE). LIKE LUST Like Lust is about attraction, confused and half remembered. It's a fairly heavy track - we kept it repetitive because that's how it feels. We had the concept of this track being a fairly repetitive thing from the start, we worked with the one particular vocal loop in the chorus and just explored a whole bunch of things musically. We wanted a track that wasn't so reliant upon vocals - because this occupies a large part of our writing space. We kept it fairly b

Some sweet new beats outta Sydney.. We can't tell you a whole lot about Sydney beatsmith Raph Lauren, besides the fact one of his tracks, the so-far unreleased Home, featured in Ryan Hemsowrth's COOL DJ MIX a few weeks ago. When that one comes out officially we can't tell you for sure, but we're pretty excited to share today his first official release, Chicago. Coming from a hip hop background, his solo work is kinda like the midpoint between house/techno and trap, which doesn't really make sense until you listen to it, because it works real good: Be sure to follow Raph Lauren on SOUNDCLOUD // TWITTER to be onto new releases as they come, because it's frankly refreshing to hear something a bit out of the norm.