Pilerats, Journalist

Splendour chats and urinating in bottles with Wavves.... This one time at Splendour In The Grass we had the pleasure of interviewing a - let's be honest, very drunk - Wavves after their barnstorming mainstage set earlier in the day. What resulted was our favourite chat of the festival, and a bottle full of urine...

Our Stagebound selection selects five WA-based artists of their own.. As part of Southbound's Stagebound competition, three acts have been chosen to go in the running for a chance to play at next year's edition of the Festival, with three media outlets each picking one to get behind. Dream-pop shoegazers HYLA are our boys (click HERE to get to know 'em a little better here), and we thought we'd find out a few of their favourite local tunes ahead of voting closing for the Stagebound competition at the end of the month. You can vote for them HERE before 11.59 Sunday 30 November, it will take you less than a minute, and automatically puts you in the draw to WIN A HAPPY CAMPER DOUBLE PASS TO SOUTHBOUND. FIVE FAVE WA TUNES w/ HYLA Dream Rimmy - Sunshine  Awesome tune that just washes over you, excited for their EP to come out. We are big fans of these guys. Fait - Slow Glow Ambient and epic all in one, incredible live show to watch aswell. Methyl Ethel - Rogues Always pretty blown away b

The boys give us a guide to their new self-titled EP.. Perth production duo Slumberjack are having a pretty great run lately, most recently popping up on the influential Skrillex Selects Top 10 Soundcloud chart for their track Body Cry feat. Father Dude. That same track pops up on their new self-titled EP, which has just been released today, and which you can buy HERE, and Morgan and Fletcher were kind enough to take us through each song on the four-tracker: BODY CRY FEAT. FATHER DUDE Morgan: The original version of Body Cry was actually a completely different track to the one that’s on the EP.  We wrote it almost a year ago and just kept tinkering with it as we improved our production skills. We only recently got in touch with Father Dude to do some vocals on it and it was almost set to go but there was just something about the whole track that didn’t quite sit right and it frustrated us for the longest time. The ‘answer’ came to me mid-shower; I ran out to write the whole thing down

Pusha T, Future, French Montana, and Travi$ Scott do over Hudson Mohawke's 'Chimes'.. 28 year-old Glaswegian tyke Hudson Mohawke makes earth-shaking, maximalist electronic bangers and devastates pretty much every building he's asked to play in. A few months ago he released his first proper solo record since 2009's Butter - dropping the Chimes EP on Flying Lotus' Warp Records label. Packed tight with spectacular synthwork and brass bad-assery, the four tracks sit somewhere between experimental and danceable, and whilst at four tracks in length it might not be a feast, there's certainly plenty enough to blow your mind in there. The cover art's a trip, too. Yung HudMo's no stranger to the rap world: as one half of the triumphant TNGHT duo, his unreleased track R U Ready formed the backbone of Blood On The Leaves, a huge number off Kanye West's Yeezus (there's a good read about HudMo's work with Yeezus over at Pitchfork). HudMo went on to rack up production credits on Kanye's I Am a God, D

Talking Turkish electronic jazz clubs, her industrial goth band and Slayer.. Porn star-turned-author-turned-model-turned-actress-turned-DJ (not all in that order) Sasha Grey touches down in Australia in a couple of weeks for her upcoming Here I Am DJ tour, and we were fortunate enough to get a little bit of chat time in between her traversing the globe. As mentioned in the tour announcement (check it HERE for all the show dates), the time for getting sulky when someone you know from a different career turns to DJing is over. As long as they can back it up with actual skill, it's fair game. I guarantee at least one person in your friend circle is a DJ. I guess we'll see in a couple of weeks what Grey's got, but until then you can find a little more about how she got started in the clubs, what we can expect for the shows, and her knowledge of Australian music. Hey Sasha, thanks for taking the time to answer these questions! I’ll start with a pretty basic/annoying one – your DJ career is

We're still mad about Giraffage. He christens his new EP on Australian shores this week..

San Cisco's new clip is a psychedelic dream run wild.. The San Cisco express is picking up steam ahead of what no doubt be a very busy summer for the WA indie-pop outfit. Following the release of their first single in a fair while - Run, said song now has a Matt Sav-directed video clip. You may remember Sav from our own HAMJAM's recent beach-bound video clip for Love, and Run contains more of the director's signature bright, colourful, retro styilngs, and heaps of lycra. After premiering with TheMusic.com.au this morning, you can watch it below, and check their remaining Run tour dates after that: RUN TOUR DATES: THU 20 NOV | FOWLERS, ADELAIDE SA (ALL AGES) FRI 21 NOV | THE ZOO, BRISBANE QLD (18+) SAT 22 NOV | ALHAMBRA LOUNGE, BRISBANE QLD (U18 MATINEE) SUN 23 NOV | THE NORTHERN, BYRON BAY NSW (18+) THU 27 NOV | THE METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY NSW (ALL AGES) FRI 28 NOV | THE SMALL BALLROOM, NEWCASTLE NSW (18+) SAT 29 NOV | CORNER HOTEL, MELBOURNE VIC (18+) SUN 30 NOV | CORNER HOTEL, MELBOUR

More new music from the WA trio.. New music from Perth outfit Savoir is always cause for celebration, and we've been fortunate enough in the past month to get not one but two new tracks from them. First we had Malala a couple of weeks back, and following a premiere on DummyMag today, they've dropped the second half of the upcoming double-A side EP release in Eternal. While Malala brought the afro-house vibes, Eternal strips it back for a more laid-back, lounge vibe, with rhythmic percussion and Mei Seraswati's smooth vocals once again owning the track. The EP is out November 24 via Plastic World, until then enjoy this stream: Follow Savoir: FACEBOOK

Meet the duo behind Stoney Roads Records' second-ever release.. Since announcing the launch of their new Stoney Roads Records label, the good lads over at Stoney Roads have dropped two tunes thus far. The first saw some fairly chilled future-beat stylings in the form of 20-year-old German producer Mazde and his tune Shifted Thoughts feat. La Mar. Since then the featured vocalists on that track - La Mar - can proudly laid claim to release 002 - Anchor, another very chilled slice of groovy electronica. Take a listen below, and get to know the Sydney duo after that: What kinda tunes we talkin’? Smooth, slow, electronic. It’s about taking the vibe that inspired us and making other people feel the same way. Production/writing process: Plug in a Fender Rhodes, a moog and a microphone. Then have a click around in Ableton. Keeping the process as fluid as possible. What do you do outside of La Mar? We are both pretty focused on music and it is a huge part of our lives. Andrew works at REC stud

In a world where old ladies can get high legally..