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EVENT: Willow Beats National Tour. We were lucky enough to host the Willow Beats National tour earlier in 2013. We booked the venues, found the best local acts in each city and managed to sell out The Workers Cub, Melbourne; Bowler Bar, Brisbane; F∆MILY in Perth and Spectrum, Sydney with the up-and-coming beatmakers! They've gone from strength to strength since then and we can't wait to party with them again and see more of Narayana's magic tricks.

Is there a place for musical theory in modern music journalism?. I know I'm a little late to this particular internet call-and-response circle jerk party but hey, it never hurts to prolong the life of an engaging subject, especially when it is one that I am (and you should be) interested in. Last week a one Ted Gioia published an essay on the current state of popular music criticism and the general lack of any actual musical theory within. You should take the time to read the full article here. Gioia is a heavyweight jazz critic, musican and historian who has edited encyclopedias on jazz music and was a founder of the jazz studies program at Stanford University. In short, he knows his shit. In the piece he is essentially lamenting the loss of the inclusion of any sort of proper musical theory by modern music critics and jounalists in their reporting on today's popular music offerings, which is an understandable annoyance from someone of his position. His post has generated a couple of

What would be awesome to happen to street litter..

The Jersey Club king is bringing the booty down under.. DJ Sliink, the Jersey Club king himself, is bringing an abundance of bouncy grooves and hard kicks around Australia in April. Already indulging ears with a Soundcloud full of remixes, DJ Sliink has been causing a ruckus on the airwaves and in clubs around the globe. Most recently his latest collab saw him enter the studio with none other than DJ Hoodboi and Trippy Turtle on a remix of August Alsina’s Sucka. Boasting sets filled with a delicious amount of sounds ranging from pop and dubstep, to hip hop and moombahton, the 23 years young producer will be bringing heat. TOUR DATES:  FRI 4 APR - Laundry Bar, Melbourne - (TICKETS) SAT 5 APR - The Bakery, Perth, supporting A$AP Ferg (TICKETS) THUR 10 APR - Sugar, Adelaide  FRI 11 APR - Oh Hello!, Brisbane SAT 12 APR - Chinese Laundry, Sydney

Sydney young gun Cory Blake has brought out a new, free, and massive EP..

Their new album is announced with a cracking new single - Fever.. The Black Keys have announced their new album, Turn Blue, will be released May 9, featuring 11 tracks produced by The Black Keys themselves along with some help from Danger Mouse. In event better news, they've released a single - Fever - to go with the announcement. Check the video clip below (but don't look at it for too long 'cause your head might explode), and get excited because The Black Keys rise has been an exponential curve that has lost none of the initial intergrity everyone fell in on love on their earlier albums. TURN BLUE TRACKLIST:1. Weight of Love2. In Time3. Turn Blue4. Fever5. Year in Review6. Bullet in the Brain7. It’s Up to You Now8. Waiting on Words9. 10 Lovers10. In Our Prime11. Gotta Get Away Keep up to speed via The Black Keys' WEBSITE // FACEBOOK.

Cam Girlz is a documentary exactly about what the title says.. Sean Dunne is a documentary filmmaker who you most likely recognise as the guy who made that amazing short film AMERICAN JUGGALO, about hardcore Insane Clown Posse fans who meet once a year for four days at The Gathering Of The Juggalos. It's one in a long line of incredible online documentaries which culminated in his feature-length document OXYANA last year. The dude is seriously inspiring, so when we heard about his next project, Cam Girlz, and his Kickstarter drive to help move the film along, we jumped at the chance to have a chat with him. Check the trailer for that film below, followed by an interview and all the relevant information on how you can help this film come to fruition - because it'd be really nice to learn a little more about those pop-ups you get when you're looking at porn.

The weird and wonderful world of Michelle Devereux and 'Dude Pizza'..

ART: Flowermouth 'Nostalgia' EP Artwork. Another Perth release I was really happy to be a part of. More of this EP package and others on my work blog here Client: Flowermouth / Hindsight Records Flowermouth

How good are your ballpoint pen skills?.

We chat to Greens Senator Scott Ludlam ahead of the WA Senate re-election.. A couple of weeks ago you probably saw a Youtube video doing the rounds featuring WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam "Welcoming" Tony Abbott to Western Australia. Obviously we use the term welcoming with tongue firmly in cheek, as it addressed pretty much every problem all your 'lefty' friends have been complaining about on Facebook since Abbott & Co. came into power last year (If you haven't seen it, you definitely should down the bottom). Anyway it inspired us to reach out to the Senator (inbetween him going to Nine Inch Nails/QOTSA CONCERTS), go a little deeper into what he is trying to achieve, and how he's going about getting back into the Senate at the upcoming WA Senate re-election (after last year's was discounted following a recount and a bunch of missing votes). [UPDATE] Before you read below, enjoy this sweet little video of DJ S Ludz on the decks at a recent fundraiser with the legends at Death Disco -

We've held off on text interviews for a while, but decided Skrillex was a good reason to start them again.. Last week saw the - somewhat surprising - release of Skrillex's debut album, Recess, via a mysterious App/game he put up on his website. Unlocking a new track every 30 minutes, you could stream it via said App until its ACTUAL RELEASE in Australia last Friday - tomorrow in America. What it also meant was we had an opportunity to not only revive a format which we put to bed for a while in the Text Interview, but chat to an old friend who we hadn't seen around this part of the world for a couple of years. What ensued was plenty of bro-ing out, some emoji descriptions, how Recess came to be, Australian producer discussion and some TV show called Heavyweights.