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Features / Hometown Guide

Towkio's guide to the best places to hang in Chicago

Live Review: Mickey Kojak channels some funky feels on 'Get Out'

Live Review: Nina Las Vegas shows a new side of herself on ballad 'Lucky Girl'

BIGSOUND unveils first line up for 2018 festival

The first line up for BIGSOUND 2018 has been announced, and as always it's overflowing with exceptional Australian artists!

Live Review: PREMIERE: Jesse Porsches shares new song, 'Know U' and lists the most inspirational places in LA

Jesse Porsches returns with an LA-inspired new banger called 'Know U', teaming up with indie band Transviolet for some soaring vocals.

Live Review: Ptwiggs reshapes gabber, techno and club on her free EP, 'RIP'

Sydney producer PTWIGGS pushes what we know of familiar genres to their industrial extremes on her three track EP, made to trigger an existential crisis

Live Review: With his 'Blue Pill', JVLY brings you closer to his music than ever before

JVLY's latest offering, 'Blue Pill', radiates an immediate gentleness, creating something more insular & intimate than anything we've heard from him before.

Features / Hometown Guide

Minorfauna's guide to Melbourne's punniest laundromats

Ahead of their debut EP, Melbourne's Minorfauna share some of their favourite, punniest laundromats to help make doing your laundry a little less of a chore

Live Review: Kaiit takes her place as the must-watch artist of the year with 'OG Luv Kush, pt. 2'

'OG Luv Kush, Pt. 2' doesn't simply justify Kaiit's spot on the list of 'must-watch artists', it demolishes the rest of the list all together.

Features / Music

Cult Shotta

Get To Know: Cult Shotta

Australian rapper and media personality CULT SHOTTA has been carving out his own path - and now people are starting to notice.

"Our biggest birthday yet" - Looking back on Purple Sneakers Twelfth Birthday

Live Review: Shake, get shaken and be shook by SOPHIE's debut 'Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides'

SOPHIE's long-awaited debut album is a game-changing, ear-assaulting and emotionally raw journey into the depths of sound and self

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