Matt O'Neill, Journalist

"If I gave the same amount of energy into my real life, I think I’d end up as some schizophrenic freak or something.”

It’s an admirable approach for a chart-topping act on the comeback trail, though it’s complicated somewhat by sub-par material.

There’s an unpretentious streak of fun and funk that runs through the band’s work that makes it hard not to love everything they do.

The Butterfly Effect have been rocked by the departure of vocalist Clint Boge. Matt O’Neill catches up with drummer Ben Hall to discuss the band’s storied history – and uncertain future.

Encompassing everything from avant-garde percussion to post-classical jazz, Topology and Clocked Out are two of Brisbane’s most respected musical ensembles. Matt O’Neill catches up with Clocked Out pianist/composer Erik Griswold to discuss new collaborative album From Small Things Grow.

The rapper formerly known as Phatchance has ditched the pseudonym to release music under his “weird enough” given name, Chance Waters. Matt O’neill finds out why.

A faceless album made from plastic by the very artist who proved that pop could be so much more than that.

His greatest departure yet, Iradelphic finds the British producer largely eschewing his fetish for manipulated rhythms in pursuit of processed texture and melody.