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Live Review: Tame Impala's The Slow Rush is the soundtrack for a leap into the unknown

real world, that Parker might indeed find some solace in these new sounds. From the way too short 'Glimmer' to the new, freaked-out version of 'Borderline', the vast ... embrace it. The Slow Rush is out February 14th. Tame Impala are touring Australia throughout April, head here for information. Image: Neil Krug Words by Emma Jones LISTEN

The Neighbourhood

perform their music live, the way they and their fellow performers interact with the sounds, and in their stories themselves. Often within their narratives, words were unnecessary. Karan also limited ... façade, the slow regeneration, to the rebuilding of the idyllic neighbourhood: an idyllic Australia. The performers moved the stage around, pulling it apart, fragmenting it, manipulating it with their

Live Review: REVIEW: Community was the key at Southbound's Locals Showcase

When people think of underground electronic music in Australia, Brisbane isn’t exactly the first city that springs to mind. However, against the backdrop of larger scenes like Melbourne ... deep into murky bass music and dub territory à la Ilian Tape and Livity Sound, with frenetic techno making way for sub-pressure rollers. With each crew giving the other

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Premiere: Perth's Shangrila are at their best with new single, Happy

next generation, whether it be through acts that embrace that classic, 90s-popularised rock sound, or those that bring the genre forward to somewhat of a reviving 2020, and incorporate ... craftful, forward-thinking edge - finding a bunch of fans both in West Australia and the rest of the country in doing so. Fellow Perth band Shangrila are doing something similar

WAM's Song Of The Year Is Back For 2020

campaign from RTRFM and a two day recording and production session with Best Sound Engineer/Producer (studio) WAMAward recipient, Andy Lawson. Previous winners of the competition include Stella Donnelly, Carla Geneve ... Birdy and Abbe May. For more details on how to enter, click here . Australia is burning. To donate to the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities follow

The Used Announce Details For New Album 'Heartwork'

album is just as modern sounding. John Feldmann’s production is that professional. It sounds really good. Those are two really random examples, but I think if you listen ... over the place right now that The Used ﬁts in perfectly." Australia is burning. To donate to the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities follow the link here

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Yes, they’re changing: Inside Tame Impala’s dancefloor-ready The Slow Rush

space of ten years; their sound - crafted individually by Parker, for the most part - somehow intensifying and evolving parallel. Undeniably, they are Australia’s largest modern musical export, and Parker ... attempts to grow in songwriting, taking the barebones of that distinct Tame Impala sound and pushing it even more-so out of its comfortable limits than Currents ’ surprising embrace

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Premiere: Flyying Colours share new single Big Mess ahead of AU tour

Header image by Naomi Lee Beveridge. Australia’s shoegaze scene is a place that goes far deeper than many people would think, with the majority of commercial claim only thrown ... band who, like many others underneath the dream-rock / shoegaze umbrella, have a sound that has explored many genre crevices in the past seven years, from the more ‘chill stuff

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Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats have teamed up for a surprise album/film, UNLOCKED

songs with Smokepurpp, City Morgue, Wiki, Charlie Heat, Flying Lotus and - somewhat infamously in Australia - the cover of Bulls On Parade that called for a Rage Against ... Tang Clan (in Denzel's quick-firing, but often playful and light-hearted-sounding rhymes) and Madlib (through Kenny's production) incorporated amongst sounds that are distinctly that

Live Review: Joji, CLYPSO, Agung Mango: Ten best songs of the week

Tapping the rising star that is Genesis Owusu for a collaboration, the pair sound right at home on a track together with each artist working in harmony with ... ambition that is setting him apart from the over-saturated fray of rappers in Australia right now. 'RODENT' is just the latest example of what he's capable

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Premiere: FANGZ whip up a punk-rock storm with new single, Falling Out

without these heavyweight names, Australia's punk rock scene is bustling at the hands of the newcomers, the ones who are taking the genre's sounds and pushing it forward ... greater release tomorrow - proves that no gimmicks or experimentation upon the genre's traditional sounds are needed to exist as a pop act in 2020; good ol' punk music still

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Meet Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers, who channel teenagehood into 90s grunge

their lane as Australia’s rock scene diversify themselves from the surf-rock revolution of the last few years, hooking itself upon the sounds of the 90s and early

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