Pilerats, Journalist

The kid with the midas touch strikes again.. We'll always have time for Melbourne young gun Japanese Wallpaper, who has been consistently impressing us since day dot (when he was like 12 or something), and his latest release is no different. Waves dabbles in downtempo electronica like only JW knows how, and this time he's got the added bonus of Jinja Safari's Pepa Knight providing drifting, dreamy vocals. Take a listen below, and if you're in Melbourne on Sunday 18 May, you can catch Japanese Wallpaper launching the single at the Grace Darling, supported by Rat & Co and Lanks (details HERE).

Alldeezy is takin' his tricks on the road this May/June.. Aus' hip hop prince (or is that jester?) is touring the country once again this month with his party-starting flavour of hip-hop and good times on a 10-date tour, including regional stops and underage shows, with support from up-and-comers Jackie Onassis and Mikey Hundred. Coming hot off the release of his latest single Right Now and receiving national airplay as well as a rap battle challenge from 360, dope will do when it comes to descriptors for what it's gon' be like. You might even get some samples from his upcoming debut album, which is getting the finishing touches put on it in Los Angeles. Click the picture above to grab whatever tickets are left, and below you can check an interview we did with the Adelaide hip hopper on a previous tour to the west. And speaking of the west, we have some double passes to giveaway to the FLYRITE SHOW, just flick us an email ([email protected]) with ALLDEEZY MY NEEZY in the subject heade

Free bangers courtesy Sydney bang gangers Wordlife.. Currently traversing the country supporting Aus' dance legends The Presets, Sydney duo Wordlife were kind (see: fucking awesome) enough to give us a free tune for your downloading pleasure. Kato and Adam Bazetto like to get deep, and have informed us this little ditty has been killing it at their shows this year. They're supporting The Presets in Perth at Capitol TOMORROW NIGHT, and again after that show at the official after party which slams into the rave heaven of Ambar (details HERE), and then their own show the following night at Player's Bar in Mandurah. So stream the tune below, or click HERE to download it for free, follow the dudes on FACEBOOK, and have a raving good time this weekend. As a little bonus, here's a remix they did for our WA brethren Crooked Colours recently for what has become their breakout track - Come Down.

Alison Wonderland has dropped an epic new single/video clip.. While you're all sitting there hitting refresh on your Splendour ticket thing and getting fucked over by scalpers, one of the stars of last year's festival, Alison Wonderland has dropped a new single and video clip - both of which are huge. I Want U featuers the producer/DJ now adding "vocalist" to her bow, in a beautifully shot clip which lacks no production values. It's the first taste of her upcoming Calm Down EP, which you can pre-order HERE, and also a nice little precursor to the upcoming Wonderland Warehouse PROJECT, which you might be able to get some TICKETS for again after some extra ones were released. Until then, enjoy one of the raddest video clips we've seen for a while.

New music you should get around.. After the mysterious Golden Features released an EP a couple of weeks ago with little more than his name and some quality sounds, we're all about the unknown at the moment. So when Melbourne duo Hopium sent us Cut, with its beautiful, striking video clip and brooding, post-industrial/darkwave beats, we got pretty excited. We can't wait to hear more from these guys, but for now take in Cut in all its glory below, and follow Hopium on FACEBOOK // SOUNDCLOUD.

Dan Whitford's still having a damn good time on the Cut Copy train.. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of chatting to Cut Copy's Dan Whitford while the group were setting up for a show in Manchester. Being a massive Cut Copy fanboy, I was pretty stoked to finally chat to him (after interviewing everyone else in the group probably twice each), and was fairly dismayed when the first five minutes of our chat became basically indecipherable thanks to a dodgy connection. Fortunately we reconnected and I got some quality time in with a dude who's probably the most responsible for my descent into dance and club music. They're playing a few east coast shows next week, and we've got a DOUBLE PASS to giveaway for the Brisbane show - just email [email protected] with CUT COPY in the subject header. [After re-establishing connection] I’ll go back to my last question, you guys seem like you’re almost touring overseas more than here, was that a conscious effort on your behalf around Zonoscop

An exhibition celebrating the late photographer Bob Carlos Clarke..

If you build it, they will come.. Last year our in-house bros Metric and ICSSC curated a mid-year festival that blew Perth away with a top-notch line-up featuring acts from Australia and abroad, the over and the underground and the big and the small for an epic day that we're still feeling the effects of (proof in the video below). So it's with much excitement we're announcing round two of WA's only indoor music festival, one that we feel tops last year's and has us more excited and nervous than we've ever been before. It looks a little something like this: VIOLENT SOHO KELE NINA LAS VEGAS ONRA THE KITE STRING TANGLE TOUCH SENSITIVE NOSAJ THING ODESZA MYKKI BLANCO SABLE BASENJI GOLDEN FEATURES DMA'S DJ Q VISIONIST ESTA & LAKIM DJ EARL BENEATH TEETH SULLY CHIEFS + MORE TBA Visuals by COMBS & SHADOW DATA Getting shit done over three stages, out of the rain at the Claremont Showground Pavilions on Saturday 28 June, you can grab tickets via HERE, and follow Circo on FACEBOOK for new develo

WA trio Crooked Colours continue their good run with a cracking new single.. Following on from the hugely successful single Come Down, Crooked Colours have released their follow-up, very much in the sparse-followed-by-synth-waves mould set by Come Down. In Your Bones lures you in with minimalist guitars, rhythmic percussion, and Phil Slabber's smooth vocals until it finally lets loose in a wash of synth. After Crooked Colours initial beginnings of leaning too heavily on their influences (understandable for any new band), it's exciting to watch them develop into something almost entirely their own. But enough of my jibber jabber, just listen to it below, and keep your eyes peeled for the release on Sweat It Out, May 9, coming with a huge remix package featuring Casino Gold, Chiefs, Craig Williams, CRNKN, Sampology, Trinidad and Young Franco. You can catch the lads live at Bunbury Groovin' The Moo on MAY 9, or supporting Rufus on their massive national tour at the following dates: Fri 3

1 ticket. 34 acts. 4 stages. A Festival celebrating WA music!. Whilst being a pretty isolated city, Perth is definitley not lacking in the musical department, and this year's State Of The Art Festival is testament to that, with 34 acts taking over four stages across the Perth Cultural Centre, Saturday 31 May. Not only that, it's for the measly price of $35+BF; a little over one dollar per band. Which when we think about it seems kinda ridiculous. The line-up casts a wide net over a broad spectrum of homegrown talent, and seen as it's an all-ages event with drinking areas, there's something for everyone: Drapht, San Cisco, Optamus, Sable, Split Seconds, Bitter Belief, Gunns, Axe Girl, Eskimo Joe, Felicity Groom, Mathas, Kučka, Slumberjack, Gina Williams & Guy Ghouse, Simone & Girlfunkle, Indigo, The Stems, The Blackeyed Susans, Kim Salmon, The Kill Devil Hills, The Floors, Ruby Boots, Pat Chow and Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) DJ set, with a fourth stage TBA. We are of course proud as punc

The kawaii bromance that keeps on giving.. The keen beans out there who gave Alison Wonderland's mix for Diplo & Friends for BBC1 a spin may have heard this already, but now it's out officially and to download for free. We're incredibly excited about the prospect of Basenji and Sable working together (we cannot wait to show off Basenji's Foolin' remix), and Sable's re-do of Basenji's Speak With A Dofflin is all kinds of great:

Get to know Cali punkers Plague Vendor, celebrating their debut album.. California four-piece Plague Vendor have just released their debut album, Free To Eat, which packs a shitload of punk-rocking good times in all of 18 minutes. It's all killer, and definitely cause to get to know 'em a little better. You can grab their album HERE: Who are you? We are Plague Vendor. P-L-A-G-U-E-V-E-N-D-O-R, like the song on FREE TO EAT. We're from Whittier, California.  How’d you meet? We met some time early on in high school. All of us were in different bands at the time, except for Michael. He didn't start playing bass until we asked him to join P.V.  What kinda tunes we talkin’? Someone said "graveyard groove" recently. We dig that. FREE TO EAT is definitely 6ft under. I just can't tell if the next thing we do is going to head straight down to hell or dig it's way back up through the soil. Writing process: All four of us have to be together. Once one of us sniffs the slightest bit of bogusness in