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BIGSOUND adds basically every other exciting emerging Oz artist to this year's fest

Artists (AUS) Ric Leichtung – Adhoc (USA) Roy Amar – Bear Parts Music (AUS) Stuart Meyer – Sub Pop (USA) Sullivan Patten – Sullivan (AUS) Sylvie Piccolotto – Rock City (Argentina) Zan Rowe – triple

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Album Review: Make Them Suffer - 'Worlds Apart'

soundscapes all create a sonic experience that's near unmatched by most other metal sub-genres. Since the release of their blistering debut ‘ Neverbloom ’ back in 2012, Perth outfit Make ... these grand cinematic costumes that make each and every single track "pop" and sound utterly massive. For example, recent single ‘ Fireworks ’ relies on a collection of mid-tempo riffs

Sleep Token Continue Their Ritual Worship With 'Two'

based four-piece move gracefully between and outright merging together moments of delicate indie-pop, touching cinematic post-rock, and immensely heavy, low-tuned groove metal. For in the world ... band leader Vessel hovering above a sound bed of tight low-end subs, melodically warm ambient keys and atmospherics, well-used moments of silence, all of which creates

Live Review: Splendour In The Grass 2017 Day Two

Saturday afternoon sun. We're back at the Mix Up tent to dreamy electro pop icons Vallis Alps . It's been two years since they last played Splendour (their very ... with every chorus, which we oblige to unreservedly. The introducing of a booming sub-bass in every bridge and breakdown adds plenty of oomph to their already powerful guitar tones

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Album Review: Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence

minutes of pre-drugs Depeche Mode synth-pop mania. The Lovers and Not Anymore trot out reliable NIN tropes (plinky-piano; sub-conscious whispering; belligerent yelling) as the EP claws

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Premiere: Perth's J.F.K return with another breezy slice of garage-rock in Always

five-piece J.F.K since their Stages EP last year - tap into this sub-genre but in a slightly different way, only applying a light shading of this psych ... unique blend of garage-rock, psych-rock and even a touch of Brit-pop, unlike anyone else in Australia. With a couple of west-coast gigs to come (dates

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Deafcult | Stevie Scott

elements of Acid House and Stone Roses and lots of other things going on. Sub-pop bands like Mud Honey as well. There are loads of influences that we have

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Gangster Star (Sub Pop/Inertia) The Stevens - Good (Chapter Music) The Vamps - Night & Day: Night Edition (EMI) Various Artists - Punk Goes Pop Vol. 7 Compilation feat. Amity Affliction

The Top 30 Albums Of 2017 (So Far)

learn a thing or two from how thoroughly Saint Etienne explore all of pop’s sub-genres. No Swedish-producer-for-hire song template repeated over and over for this ... Cracknell's voice is more dynamic than ever. “Bob Stanley’s scholarly command of pop-styles provides a luxuriance of lyrical paronomasia and moreish candy choruses.” - Mac McNaughton AM King

BIGSOUND Festival 2017 Lineup Brings The Goods

respectively. They'll do so alongside dream pop queen Hatchie , Syndey/New York indie-pop artist Alex the Astronaut , Mansionair , Cronulla's Ruby Fields , and moody instrumentalists ... Quentin Tarantino’s music supervisor, Mary Ramos, A&R from labels Domino, Sub Pop, Ninja Tune, Trouble In Mind, 4AD and Communion, as well as agents and promoters including

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BIGSOUND announces casual first 64 artists playing this year's festival

Quentin Tarantino’s music supervisor Mary Ramos, A&R from labels including Domino, Sub Pop, Ninja Tune, Trouble In Mind, 4AD and Communion, as well as agents and promoters

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Electric Feels: Your Weekly Electronic Music Recap

most varied electronic albums of the year thus far, incorporating a range of sub-genres and species guests across Through The Distortion 's 13 songs. Leading singles such ... Time and They Don't Know Us are radio-friendly electro-pop anthems, enlisting LANKS and Woodes for the former two singles respectively. It would've been

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