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Raave Tapes @ BIGSOUND

BIGSOUND Unleashes Complete 2025 Program

Jessie Parker - Laneway Festival (AUS) Jim Hennessey - Untitled Group (AUS) Joel Farland - Far Land Creative (AUS) Johnno Keetels - BIG LOUD (AUS) Jonathan Heeter - Black Pine Agency (USA / CHINA) Jono ... SEDREICE - Artist (AUS) Seth Clancy - Oztix (AUS) Skully Sullivan Kaplin - ATC (UK) Sophie Kirov - Lost Motel (AUS) Stu Watters - Queensland Music Festival (AUS) Sylvie Maclean - Tixel (AUS) Tash Sultana - Artist

Web Story / Gallery

Black Star

Live Review: Black Star @ Carriageworks, VIVID Sydney

were. But even as syllables occasionally drowned in the soup, the message was never lost, especially when Bey or Talib Kweli took the mic unaccompanied. “Studio 54!” Bey called ... power was undeniable: a masterclass in rhythm-as-weapon, language bent at impossible angles. “ Land mine, mainline, your spine goes snap/ Vainglorious, phantasmagoria / Crack-panned all y’all? ” The crowd

Industry / News

Darwin Festival

Venues: New Starts, Alliances, Tech Deals, Name Changes & More

Zealand’s L.A.B with openers, Yolŋu funksters Andrew Gurruwiwi Band from Northeast Arnhem Land and Juran . Both gigs are via a new event-bar-entertainment partnership with Darwin-based ... million, over $400,000 expected price when eleven parties made bids. PLAQUES FOR LOST VENUES Two live music fans from Stoke-on-Trent in England have started placing blue plaques

Jessica Pratt

Live Review: Jessica Pratt @ Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House

voice. Her lyric—“I know this world is tainted, living on the wild times”—landed with more weight than it had on record, the words now freighted by distance ... ever-expanding sprawl of VIVID’s programming, it’s easy to feel lost among the neon and noise. But nights like these remind us that the festival’s greatest offerings

Features / Music

effie isobel

Effie Isobel On Worship, Online Dating, And Transcending The Body

work of art by effie isobel . The singer-songwriter, born and raised on Kaurna Land, creates mesmerising dream pop with grungy undertones. Her music is mystical, witchy ... feeling really settled into my own body, I feel like I could get really lost in dates, and kind of end up feeling a little bit unsteady. So I spend

Bruce Springsteen

Donald Trump Threatens Bruce Springsteen: “Keep Your Mouth Shut”

United States to his audience in the UK. Currently on his The Land of Hope and Dreams tour, here’s what Springsteen had to say upon introducing the tour ... release Tracks II: The Lost Albums , which contains seven full-length albums recorded from 1983 to 2018 that were never released. He continues his The Land of Hope and Dreams

Features / Music

The Empty Threats

The Empty Threats: "We Have A Lot Of Power Now"

Empty Threats are transforming. Making music on Kaurna Land, the colourful and queer post-punk outfit are renowned for their stylistic flair, their commitment to authenticity, and their rousing stage ... Flinders Ranges for two weeks, and we all turned off our phones and lost our minds a bit, and wrote this album together. And I feel like that

Selve at Abbey Road Studios

Selve Announces First Album Recorded At Abbey Road Studios By Aboriginal Artist

element." The history-making element of the album’s recording was not lost on Liddle, who says, “Despite the awe of it all, I was gripped every day with ... glass brick shimmering with the light of the sun. A brick that has landed in your living room - as a gift, not as a threat. The embers of a project

Industry / Feature

South Summit performing live

Can Aussie Indie Acts Compete In The New Streaming Era?

services to scrap free tiers and do more to prod users into ‘paying subscribers’ land. Streaming services are either raising their prices or reducing them to give them ad-filled ... year before. Distributors and indie labels are more loudly expressing dissatisfaction with these lost royalties. 71 per cent of the latter are worried about the situation, from 64 per cent

Features / Music

Southern River Band visit Europe

From Thornlie To Europe: Five Lessons Southern River Band Took From Their First International Tour

everybody and touch basically everything. Two days later, we were all completely fucked, I lost my voice, drank nothing but water for three weeks, and recovered after a bout ... fuck me it’d be unreal to see shit happening here in the land of Aus on any given night! Embedded Content Southern River Band are touring Australia this month

Features / Music

Sia @ AAMI Park

Seven Global Music Success Stories Which Started In Adelaide

plan but to travel around, it’s an understatement to say Robert Stigwood landed on his feet. In the 1960s, he was among the first in British entertainment to juggle ... Scott hit the car with such ferocity that he went through the windscreen. He lost his teeth, broke his collarbone, slashed his neck and lay near death in a coma

Features / Music

The Beatles, Baker Boy, Chet Faker, Chappell Roan

Red, White & Green? Why It’s Important To Get Colours Right In Song Titles

high schools who sent off 99 aluminised Mylar balloons (originally 100 but one got lost) tied with ribbons to a traffic flare. That gave it a red glow ... green meant thick jungle, plenty of cover, no defoliants liker Agent Orange and few land mines. Light green alerted thinly wooded areas, little cover and a high likelihood

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