Pilerats, Journalist

CAMPAIGN: Flipside x Pilerats Burger. One day our marketing guru came up with the genious plan to create a signature burger, and with the help of the awesome people at Flipside Burger Bar in Perth, that dream became a super-awesome tasting reality.

EVENT: Willow Beats National Tour. We were lucky enough to host the Willow Beats National tour earlier in 2013. We booked the venues, found the best local acts in each city and managed to sell out The Workers Cub, Melbourne; Bowler Bar, Brisbane; F∆MILY in Perth and Spectrum, Sydney with the up-and-coming beatmakers! They've gone from strength to strength since then and we can't wait to party with them again and see more of Narayana's magic tricks.

Is there a place for musical theory in modern music journalism?. I know I'm a little late to this particular internet call-and-response circle jerk party but hey, it never hurts to prolong the life of an engaging subject, especially when it is one that I am (and you should be) interested in. Last week a one Ted Gioia published an essay on the current state of popular music criticism and the general lack of any actual musical theory within. You should take the time to read the full article here. Gioia is a heavyweight jazz critic, musican and historian who has edited encyclopedias on jazz music and was a founder of the jazz studies program at Stanford University. In short, he knows his shit. In the piece he is essentially lamenting the loss of the inclusion of any sort of proper musical theory by modern music critics and jounalists in their reporting on today's popular music offerings, which is an understandable annoyance from someone of his position. His post has generated a couple of

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Their new album is announced with a cracking new single - Fever.. The Black Keys have announced their new album, Turn Blue, will be released May 9, featuring 11 tracks produced by The Black Keys themselves along with some help from Danger Mouse. In event better news, they've released a single - Fever - to go with the announcement. Check the video clip below (but don't look at it for too long 'cause your head might explode), and get excited because The Black Keys rise has been an exponential curve that has lost none of the initial intergrity everyone fell in on love on their earlier albums. TURN BLUE TRACKLIST:1. Weight of Love2. In Time3. Turn Blue4. Fever5. Year in Review6. Bullet in the Brain7. It’s Up to You Now8. Waiting on Words9. 10 Lovers10. In Our Prime11. Gotta Get Away Keep up to speed via The Black Keys' WEBSITE // FACEBOOK.

The weird and wonderful world of Michelle Devereux and 'Dude Pizza'..

ART: Flowermouth 'Nostalgia' EP Artwork. Another Perth release I was really happy to be a part of. More of this EP package and others on my work blog here Client: Flowermouth / Hindsight Records Flowermouth

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We've held off on text interviews for a while, but decided Skrillex was a good reason to start them again.. Last week saw the - somewhat surprising - release of Skrillex's debut album, Recess, via a mysterious App/game he put up on his website. Unlocking a new track every 30 minutes, you could stream it via said App until its ACTUAL RELEASE in Australia last Friday - tomorrow in America. What it also meant was we had an opportunity to not only revive a format which we put to bed for a while in the Text Interview, but chat to an old friend who we hadn't seen around this part of the world for a couple of years. What ensued was plenty of bro-ing out, some emoji descriptions, how Recess came to be, Australian producer discussion and some TV show called Heavyweights.

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