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A shedload of good music yes - but a heap more too.. Saturday 29 November sees the inaugural CoLAB Festival hitting University Of WA's Oak Lawn and providing a laidback alternative to a certain event taking over two days that weekend and requiring weeks of gym prep in the lead-up. Billing itself as a one of a kind festival built on the collective ideas of crews local to these waters, to the soundtrack of some of Australia's raddest indie and electronic acts, it's gonna be a rad day out. Why? Well let's take a little gander of what's happening: MUSIC As we mentioned CoLAB boasts a top shelf lineup of established and up-and-coming acts, that looks a little like this: Hermitude, Midnight Juggernauts, The Jungle Giants, The Kite String Tangle, Sable, Indian Summer, Gang Of Youths, The Creases, Citizen Kay and KUCKA. Click any of those links to hear some music/get learned on them. FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD The organisers have teamed up with some of this state's finest fooderies to offer a huge

The Brissy gun takes a step back from remixes to drop a killer original.. If you read this blog at all you'll know we're big fans of 19-year-old Brisbane producer cln, who lately has been pumping out a series of quality remixes for the likes of Odesza, GRMM and Wookie. But it was his original Sideways EP we first fell in love with, so we're pretty excited he's back on his own stuff, just releasing Satisfy feat. the lush vocals of Sydney outfit Twin Caverns' Lou Millar. And it's another moody slice of electronica from cln, with winding bass and hypnotic melodies under-pinned by cln's ever on-point production. Download it for free below, and check his upcoming show dates after that: SHOW DATES: Friday 28 November – Mammal Sounds Christmas at Shebeen, Melbourne (EVENT) Friday 12 December – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane (supporting GRMM) Saturday 13 December – Seasoned Music, Sydney College of the Arts Friday 23 January – OH HELLO!, Brisbane (supporting ODESZA)

We give you the lowdown on Beaufort Street Festival's big Kahuna; StreetX reveal their Top 5 Vices.. Are you a trendsetter? Are you a gogetter? Do you know better (but you do it anyway)? If the answer is yes to any of the above, then come and claim your spot at Vices, the tropical throw-down at Mt Lawley’s Astor Theatre this Saturday. Bad Vacation/Flamingos, Lab Six and Street X have all been on their grind putting this thing together. Vices will be a refreshing party microcosm in the Beaufort Street Festival party macrocosm, where dog shows, crochet bombs and 'live street art' reign supreme. Vices. Island vibes. Much island vibage. They’re going to transform the whole place into some type of South Pacific paradise. We're hoping all the trill boys will swap out their bucket hats for cute li’l sailor boating hats. SURELY all the trill girls will be wearing coconut bras made out of the shells of the coconuts that StreetX will be extracting coconut juice out of for their Pina Colada Bar.

Maximum fun on minimum funds - your cheapskate's guide to the weekend.. Money can buy booze and gig tickets and movies and tasty food, all of our standard weekend-go tos, but money can't buy the thrill you'll get skating along the ocean's edge under the stars, experiencing the sweat and passion of live punk in someone's backyard, or the feel-good endorphins that come from watching puppies going insane. Welcome to your $0 weekend. (Image: James Whineray) NIGHT SKATE THE WEST COAST When I was in high school one of my favourite things to do on the weekend was to catch public transport to skate parks with group of friends. While it may not have been that many years ago, I’m fairly sure if I were to throw myself over a set of stairs on my skateboard these days, it would only result in me hurting myself, but that doesn’t mean I doesn’t mean I don’t still enjoy the occasional skate. While it may be dominated by cyclists and mums with prams by day, the coast road between Trigg and Hillarys is

A Splendour pow-wow with Australia's biggest live electronic act.. Summer is fast approaching, which means a lot of things festival wise but pertaining to us specifically, it means Wonderland Festival's Saturday 20 December date at Perth's Supreme Court Gardens is almost upon us. Featuring a carefully-curated, all-Aussie lineup and some of this country's best electronic-based acts, we can't wait to go deep down the rabbit hole. Click the poster to grab some tickets, and below that check our little Splendour pow-wow with headliners RÜFÜS, themselves currently living it up overseas, touring with Hermitude and getting cracking on the follow-up to their huge debut album, Atlas.

Raw visuals from Melbourne DIY dance party bizarros Zanzibar Chanel.. Melbourne DIY dance party bizarros Zanzibar Chanel are an act that come along once in one’s clubbing lifetime. Their super-weird greatness is hard to describe but their esoteric house certainly stands out a mile in a sometimes bleak nightclub landscape of mediocre house, uncreative electronica and grating trap. Baba-X (who does brilliant solo stuff, too) makes groove-laden hi-fi beats, while part-time diva, full-time dead set legend Zac Segbedzi sings and raps over them and is a delight in a live situation, a big fella, he often goes bare-chested, and sometimes dons a balaclava and nipple tassles. Oh yes. They’ve played in Perth a couple of times and both times the party situation got very, very sweaty. They’ve just released a raw-as-fuck video feat. "Dungeon Master Posse" (who I think is just ZC in alter ego form?) for their new track Mustn't Evolve, from their Drunk at the Jazz Club EP (released in September), whi

Plantlife, light-beams and topless women. Nailed it, Rustie.. That devilish wee Scot rave-maker Rustie (whose about to tour the US taking in dates with Danny Brown and Oneohtrix Point Never, the lucky lad) brought buzzing producer Redinho onboard for his track Lost, his second single from the brilliant Green Language. Director Adam Hummel’s just turned out this video clip for the track, which he describes as: “the real-world, physical iteration of his 3D video work for Rustie’s new AV live show.”  The clip depicts a bunch of intersecting illuminated light sculptures, that flash on and off in time to the robotic but heartfelt lyrics (“I’d…be…lost…with..out…you..”), interspersed with plantlife and subtle hints and shadowy silhoutttes of topless, tattooed women. It’s the perfect visual accompaniment for the soulful ambience of the track:  Rustie’s headed our way for dates around the country at Laneway Festival next year. Green Language is available now on Warp.

Coin Banks delivers on months of hype with his Tails EP.. Perth MC Coin Banks has worked with the likes of Ta-Ku, Homeboy Sandman, and countless other new school legends, first on the Heads EP, then a couple of tracks with Ta-Ku (like the astounding Hatches) and a massive run of live shows supporting everybody from Action Bronson to Cypress Hill, and coming up soon, an opening slot for Wu-Tang legend Ghostface Killah. Teasing us with screenshots from new videos, and audio clips from the EP for some time now, we're stoked to let you know that his Tails EP is finally here, five tracks of head nodding summer business with catchy-as-you-like soul hooks and some top shelf word smithery from Dan Banks. It comes after his barnstorming set at last weekend's WAM Festival, and the just-announced news that he's been nominated as a triple j Unearthed Arist Of The Year. Big things are coming for a humble and super-talented dude, you can stream the lead single from Tails - Someone below (a track we

Built On Glass gets its final go round with some huge dates early next year.. As his huge year draws to a close, Nick Murphy AKA Chet Faker has announced the details of his biggest Aussie tour to date, and the final tour celebrating his world-beating debut LP, Built On Glass. The homecoming national tour (featuring Chet in three-piece band form) will take in five capital cities February 2015, and see him supported by fellow Melbourne producer Roland Tings and rising cosmic-funk duo GL. The announcement comes on the back of a simply massive year - here and abroad - which included his sold out Australian July tour, ARIA Award and J Award nominations, and some incredible international shows including a recent performance at FYF Festival in Los Angeles that had the 7,000-person arena at capacity for his performance and breaking through barriers bringing the festival to a stand still. Murphy also recently recorded his first iTunes sessions - an exclusive six-track set only available on iTun

Get to know the exciting Melbourne trio ahead of their EP launch this weekend.. Currently riding a wave of hype since the release of their debut self-titled EP, Melbourne trio Leisure Suite are gearing up for the launch of said four-tracker this weekend at Melbourne's Boney, with a few friends in tow. Click on the tour poster below our chat with Bridgette Le from the group to head to the Facebook event. Tell us about about yourselves:  We’re Leisure Suite, a three-piece electronic act from Melbourne. What kinda tunes we talkin’? Down-tempo electronic with a wee bit of soul. Production/writing process: We usually start with the sounds first; so a specific synth, guitar tone or drum beat, which will immediately trigger the mood of the song for me. From there onwards, it’s a process of improvisation where the first words and melodies that come to mind are then written down and recorded. What do you guys do outside of Leisure Suite? We’re usually scoping out good burger joints and general