Pilerats, Journalist

Lido is bringing some Christmas cheer to Australia this December.. Gun Norwegian producer Lido is making his way to Australia for the first time in 2014 (well, he may have already been here under a certain half-shelled moniker previously), and we're beyond excited to have him play our Pilerats X-Mas party (get a full run-down HERE), in addition to the Future Classic x BBE Christmas Weekender. Those shows will see him joined by some serious forward-thinking producers like Sophie, QT, Nadus and HWLS (read an interview with HWLS HERE), and we were fortunate to get some time with him before he lands down under in a couple of weeks.

Win a soul-stirring Willow Beats experience in Perth.. There's a tonne of events happening this December in Perth. If you're feeling overwhelmed by how all the parties and gigs are ramping up, and feeling indecisive as to what exactly is worth your social time and money then hey, we'll make it easy for you. Go to Willow Beats next week at the Astor Theatre next Thursday. Essential. Why? Because seeing an act play a proper headline gig at a proper venue, where they'll play a full set with heaps of added extras, and you have room to dance and meditate on sound, is about 100x better than seeing them play a rushed 'best of' at a crowded music festival with rubbish sound. Also, as far as venues go, a historic art-deco theatre built in the 1920s, is pretty shit-hot place to experience a gig. And lastly (most importantly) Willow Beats are positively peaking right now, entering into the tail-end of a huge year of live shows - all of which you could say have been leading up to this Water EP tou

Hear supermodel Cara Delevingne sing with Pharrell Williams in a film for Chanel.. Chanel’s Métiers d’Art collection runway show is a pretty special event each year - a new Chanel ready-to-wear collection is debuted outside of the official Chanel show schedule, and the show always hones in on a city that's somehow linked to Chanel's history. This year it heads to historic Salzburg, and is sure to be a spectacle of epic proportions. Head designer Karl Lagerfeld has premiered a film that will accompany the show - Reincarnation - a musical inspired by the history of an iconic Chanel jacket, starring international catwalk crazy chick Cara Delevingne and multiple Grammy-award winning singer Pharrell Williams, an aspiring fashion mogul himself. Pharrell plays an elevator bell-boy whose wearing the jacket in Austria in 1954, and becomes a muse for Delevingne, who plays Coco Chanel.  You can't deny it's a beautifully shot l'il thing, and worth it to hear Delevingne sing for the first time (ap

Is the next Lorde this 18 year old girl from Perth?. (Almost) 18 year old Perth singer Adria has hit the ground running with the premiere video of the first single off her debut EP - Pull Me Under. The EP's taken Adria to Europe and back, where it got the golden touch from Lykki Li producer Viktor Balter-Lundin, and the man behind Lorde and Florence and the Machine, Matthew Wiggins. The Pull Me Under clip, shot in black and white, is a sombre, sensual powerful couple of minutes of viewing, laden with dark shadows, water imagery, clever visual trickery and sensual close ups of the transfixing Adria, whose not a bad dancer, either. It was shot by Jason Eshraghian, a 20 year old Perth based filmmaker. It's a strong and assured debut track: while Adria's voice, upon first listen isn't as big or billowing as say, Hannah Reid's from London Grammar, or Florence Welch's, there's a lot of BANKS-like potential in her cool and smoky timbre, which rises to the occasion each chorus. A hypnotic piec

Dropping trap bombs with the Dutch trio ahead of Future Music next year.. While we eagerly await Future Music Festival's second lineup announcement to see who'll be joining the likes of Drake, The Prodigy, Tchami and a bunch more, we'll be getting in touch with some of the acts already announced. Dutch trio Yellow Claw consist of Bizzey (Leo Roelandschap), Jim Aasgier (Jim Taihuttu) and Nizzle (Nils Rondhuis), bringing a wide range of genres, with a strong focus on bigroom trap, working with artists such as Flosstradamus, and signing to Diplo's Mad Decent. We caught up with Nils to talk EDM's oversaturation, exploring new genres and trying out some "new album shit" when they make their Australian debut next year. I’ve read you guys were pretty tired of some of the dance music coming out a few years ago – was there anything in particular about it getting you down and what initially drew you to the realms of trap and working within those BPMs? Well it was the whole EDM overload, every r

Is the noise rap game ready for RPatz?. Recently our interest level in Twilight 'hunk' Robert Pattinson has gone from zero (maybe negative one) to something at least numbering in positive digits. Here's why (stick around to the end):  He’s Dating FKA Twigs Unexpectedly, he’s dating (possibly marrying) ultimate future R & Babe FKA Twigs.  Which is highly convenient for rising singer FKA Twigs, whose now getting a fair bit of exposure for her music from Pattinson’s star power. But anyway, respect to Pattinson for this one, and for buying her flowers bigger than her whole body: He’s Acting in Challenging Films David Cronenberg was off his game a bit with recent film Cosmopolis but the fact that Pattinson acted in a Cronenberg film, based on a complex post-modern novel by author Don DeLillo, is cred-worthy – it’s good to see Pattinson shooting for projects like this, as well as Australian film The Rover (dir. Animal Kingdom’s David Michod), and Anton Corbijn's next flick, James Dean bio

It’s just Em-Oceans, taking Frank over.. If you’ve been thinkin’ bout Frank Ocean lately, and wondering what the Grammy Award winner up to since his widely loved and influential 2012 Channel Orange, the answer comes in new track memrise which Ocean quietly shared on his tumblr. “Can I come over now...I could fuck you all night long from a memory alone" sings Ocean (ooof) voice full of pleasure and pain, in this lo-fi number lyrically detailing an affair with a past lover. Ocean harmonizes with multiples layers of his own voice in an atmospheric opening, before some speak-singing and final power balladry. How great is it how he’s spelt it ‘memrise’ instead of ‘memories’ so it looks like the word sunrise? Sunrise being presumably the time he fucked his ex-lover until. Ocean's reportedly been in the studio working with producer Hit-Boy (Beyoncé's XO, Jay-Z's Niggaz in Paris). Rolling Stone anticipated in their Fall Music Preview that Ocean's follow up to Channel Orange would arrive this U

A very dedicated Yeezy fan has made a two-hour tribute from found footage.. While there's no word yet as to when acclaimed art director Hype Williams' Yeezus film, written by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, is due to hit cinemas, we can tide ourselves over with the work of one die-hard Yeezus fan, John Colandra, who has spent several months editing together guerilla-style footage from various fans, shot at different venues across the rapper's 38 date stadium tour, to create one cohesive film that captures the entire concert's duration (including Kendrick Lamar's opening set). The KanyeToThe.com user is pretty happy with his effort: "the film flows beautifully and not a single major aspect of the Yeezus tour goes unnoticed," he says in the film's description. Relive the memories / make new memories in your lounge room below:  Watch the trailer for Hype Williams' Yeezus below:

The indie-pop trio are streaming their self-titled EP for free..

Cabana's debut single gets a super-8 shot video to go with it..