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Features / Music

The Bright Future Of Tkay Maidza, Australia's Own Queen Of Hip Hop

that, it makes it a lot easier for everyone else to accommodate me." Indeed, Australia's Queen of Hip Hop needed space. Maidza claimed a layover year, ostensibly to concentrate ... bass!). "I feel like now I'm just more attracted to music that sounds, I guess, timeless. I wanna have real drums or an element of something that sounds like

Heading To BIGSOUND? Here Are The Buzz Acts You Need To See

Each year BIGSOUND brings together Australia's most promising talent. Here's who you should be seeing so in five years time you can say you were a fan from ... album, Future Me Hates Me , which is a winner in both sound and name. Carla Geneve Australia loves itself a charming slacker pop lyricist that can take the empirical

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Passenger - Runaway

already spent years busking around the world, particularly falling in love with Australia and becoming chummy and collab-y with the Katie Noonan, Boy & Bear and Josh Pyke crowd ... album as Passenger was recorded in studios both here and in England, Runaway sounds like he's hitchhiking through the US, reflecting on lost loves and harsh political times whilst

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OG Flavas BIGSOUND Buzz Acts

winner of triple j's Unearthed High. 10. paces Following the US, Australia has spawned its own super-producers – like the Gold Coast's PACES (aka Mikey Perry). Early ... album's theme is change – and Perry is aiming for an epic sound, amping up the EDM, hip hop and pop. Perry has long championed hip hop's female

Features / Music

'Gross' Snakes & Fake IDs: Alice Ivy Plays 'Two Truths & A Lie'

German, but it’s not a lovely sounding language. But yeah, German was my first language. My parents came out to Australia like 30 years ago and um… they started ... from smaller towns, you must get this sort of scenic, full-on, removed-from-Australia experience. A: It’s beautiful, my grandma lives really close to this really big forest

Live Review: Queens Of The Stone Age, CW Stoneking, The Chats

begin, bluesman CW Stoneking soon had the crowd toe tapping to that Louisiana sound. Back-up vocalists in their shimmery, sequinned dress’s complemented Stoneking’s Americana accent and jangly ... voodoo swing of The Zombie and Jungle Lullaby brought that American south via Australia twang. As the lights dimmed, a medley of Singin In The Rain and A Clockwork

Features / Music

Meet Adelaide's Pinkish Blu and their M83-esque single Capricorn

minute burst of energy that unites their 80s influences with this punk-meets-dance sound which needs to be blarred out at full volume. With Capricorn well ... rest of 2018 will see us getting to see as much of Australia as we can, while also working on a third single to hopefully be released before next year

Features / Music

Introducing QRTR and her slamming house stomper, DRIVER

sweaty house coming out of Brooklyn at the moment, with acts like the Australia-bound Yaeji adding unique, R&B-leaning spins on an otherwise classic genre to create ... back with a charging single that perfectly showcases her house-driven sound, with DRIVER combining this swelling, bass-reliant production with a pitched up and twisted vocal that

Features / Music

Dear Seattle and STUMPS interview each other ahead of Trophy Eyes support slots

favourite rising rock groups out of Australia this year have been Dear Seattle and STUMPS, the former signing to Domestic La La (the record label brainchild of Violent Soho ... Seattle: Brae, how influential was the toilet reverb in our family home for the sound DS have cultivated? Paramount. Creating music is like creating a scene in a movie

Features / Music

This week's must-listen singles: Sophiegrophy, Tyne-James Organ, FRITZ + more

Every week, we're hammered with tonnes of new music from Australia and afar, so much so that at times, it feels a little overwhelming and you're not quite ... lyrics and messages on loss and other themes with his charming, vocal-driven indie sound which is simply spectacular. Arriving ahead of a heap of dates over the next

Live Review: Beatrice offers stunning debut single 'Grid' & tells us what she's been listening to

album and it has that driving sound of his that I love, supported by such beautiful harmonies and textures. His also coming to Australia in November and I am excited ... most inspiring people in my life. I love the way he relates to sound and synthesis and how he makes music. We’ve written a few tracks together and every

WAMCon Unveils Second Speaker Announcement

Perth conference later this year. A handful of local legends will be joined by Sounds Australia’s Dom Alessio , Groovin' The Moo’s Richard Moffat , triple j’s Karla Ranby ... Declan Byrne - Home & Hosed Presenter, triple j Dom Alessio - Digital Export Producer, SOUNDS AUSTRALIA Esti Zilber - Associate Producer, SOUNDS AUSTRALIA Karla Ranby - Weekend Lunch Presenter & Group Music Researcher

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