Pilerats, Journalist

World's Fair rep Remy Banks goes head-to-head with fellow Queens native Wiki, of RATKING.. It makes sense that Remy Banks and RATKING's Wiki would team up for something. Individually, they're putting Queens rap back on the map; reigning over the borough of today in the way that 50 Cent and NAS reigned the borough of yesteryear. Banks, whose in the World's Fair Collective - a group making rugged, eerie raps - chucked out two new songs today, including the fast-but-smooth One Twenty Five., featuring RATKING’s Wiki on a killer guest verse with RATKING's Sporting Life providing a typically off-kilter beat that fans of the act will know and love. Banks proves he knows how to get down; the precision with which he delivers his parts of the track should have more than a few watching him more firmly than ever now, and looking forward to Banks' forthcoming project higher, which has purportedly been close to release since around October last year. "It's like doing 75-80 mph on the GCP heading to

The first album you should definitely listen to this year.. One of my cultural resolutions heading into the New Year was to listen to more albums start to finish, instead of just zoning in on hyped tracks and thrashing them. First cab off the rank is Panda Bear’s Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, and as I come to closing bars of the final track, I couldn’t have asked for a better album to confirm this was the right resolution to make. Interesting enough, nobody heard it first as a cohesive whole: in a cool marketing move, the album was premiered track-by-track on radio stations across the globe (including Sydney’s FBi). The fifth album from Noah Lennox, the co-founder of one of the most influential alternative pop-rock acts of the 21st century, Animal Collective, was has given us a pretty damn strong album showcase in Grim Reaper, going all over the place with his beatmaking (in a good way): thematically sitting between the drippy-hippy warmth of 2007’s Person Pitch and the darker, mor

Electro-popstress Elizabeth Rose chills New Navy's out even further.. November last year saw the release of New Navy's latest single Pelican, a typically breezy piece of chilled-out pop from the Sydney three-piece. And with the new year they're kicking things off with an equally chilled-out start thanks to Elizabeth Rose applying her certain set of electronic skills to a remix of Pelican. Unsurprisingly it's a bouncy little effort from Rose that keeps things pretty downbeat until the final stanza, where it grows to almost dancefloor-worthy. If your dancefloor is a sunny patch of grass or the beach: Follow Elizabeth Rose: FACEBOOK / SOUNDCLOUD Follow New Navy: FACEBOOK / WEBSITE