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year-old Nikki Thorburn, aka indie chanteuse Iluka, has taken her soulful, yesteryear sound from her Sydney home and shared it, recording it with primo industry names along ... mythical lyrics offer an insight into her vivid personality. So when Commercial Radio Australia and the Mushroom Group announced Iluka as the inaugural winner of their First Break competition back

once more with Love Me Again . As he prepares for his first tour of Australia, he reveals how a fellow so young got to have the soul of man triple ... what album you're listening to at the time and skip in between sounds. I quickly realised I didn't want to do that, even though I was doin

sure it's equally difficult to get out of Australia. We're culturally isolated from a place like America, which is so insular and self-contained ... advantage of their new Californian home. “We recorded everything at a place called Sunset Sound, which is right in the centre of Hollywood,” Powers says with bemusement. “Which

using this exception to illustrate his point. “West Coast has always had a distinctive sound and a distinctive presence,” he continues. “Like everything, the basic principle stays the same ... more like a movement than an individual push.” A regular visitor to Australia, he says that this time around the trip was made easier via a detour to an unlikely

Interpol , Lily Allen and Two Door Cinema Club leading the bill of one of Australia's premier camping festivals. The reformed hip hop duo leaked themselves via a premature website ... great effect in crafting his ambitious, experimental pop. Drawing influence from "world" music sounds derived from the traditional tunes of regions such as west Africa and the Indian subcontinent, Triple

days in terms of the line-up this year. The layered and looped party sounds of Tijuana Cartel got the Mojo stage off to a flyer with ... dance floor. Matt Corby is one of the best live singers in Australia, his vocal loops reached soaring heights before Corby looked strained, but when he did look like

Both Dalton and Adalita affirm that record stores are an integral part of Australia's music scene. Adalita says that “[Record stores] are passionate about music. And it's also ... excited. It's such a satisfying feeling and I'm really happy with the sound quality, it's just exactly what I think vinyl should sound like

seen at shows, and we appreciate that from the bottom of our hearts. “It sounds clichéd, but we couldn't do anything without their support. But it just so happens ... matter what.” Since releasing 2012's Notorious , Buried In Verona have become one of Australia's most polarising heavy acts. The album debuted at #20 on the national charts

guitarist Josh Lording about touring, the album and the state of deathcore.  Besides Australia and Europe, what plans do you have ... What equipment did you use to capture that heavy, powerful and mature sound you got?   I used a Schecter Hellraiser C-7, which is just a standard seven-string

If you haven't yet heard of Free Is Better, it's basically a new model for providing the public

have the privilege and ability to reach people in countries like America, Canada and Australia, who all have pretty ugly histories, and to try and overcome these issues ... area of our band. One side is the love for this kind of music, sound and scene and the other is the work for these issues that ultimately concern