Our love affair with music is a constant and ever growing affection, that rises and falls daily. We are introduced to new sounds that we fall head over heels for; rekindle relationships with old musical flames; and close our hearts off to those melodies we no longer connect with. Our arousal can be fickle or […]
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The dynamic and unique soulfulness of YVÉ GOLD is hard to ignore. It settles on your skin, seeps into your pores and injects your bloodstream with a melody of honey amber. It is sweet yet hard, sugary yet complex. The sensational YVÉ GOLD is a rapper, singer and lyricist from Melbourne. Currently featured on Triple J’s Unearthed, YVÉ GOLD really […]
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Big Day Out is a religion. Throughout its decade long tenure, this festival has seen a convoy of sanctified artists, grace its stages at various venues around our nation girt by sea. And the Big Day Out faithful have followed uninhibited. In fact, uninhibited is a gross understatement. The devoted fans are completely out of control. […]
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Patriotism means different things to different people in different countries. It can be viewed as the display of pride of one’s home land, or the innate need to want to protect its liberties and rituals. In Australia, we have one particular ritual that has survived a lengthy occupancy throughout our land. It is one custom […]
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Big Day Out is a force to be reckoned with. I wanted to begin this article by entering into some lavish introduction about how Big Day Out is over two decades old, with 101 shows so far exhibited nationwide. I wanted to display in words the enormity of this music festival that trumps all in […]
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It needs to exist as common knowledge that LA hardcore punk rockers, The Bronx, are hands down one of the best live performances you will ever see. That may seem like an overtly zealous and sweepingly biased statement, but I’ve been to enough gigs in my thirteen years as a music journalist to make such […]
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Sister duo Tegan & Sara were in stellar form at the opulent and ethereal Forum Theatre last Wednesday night in Melbourne. Performing to a sell out crowd over two nights, the Quin twins from Canada displayed their stage prowess on their final night, to an enthusiastic, hearty and utterly ecstatic crowd. Despite their understated indie […]
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It seems as though only a fraction of society really knows about this incredible group. Yet, that unique portion was in full and hearty abundance at the Prince of Wales on a sweltering Wednesday night in December. As though pulled in by a magnetic force generating from the stage, patrons waited with universal baited breathe […]
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There’s nothing like a road trip down the Great Ocean Road to kick start your foray into the chaos that is New Year festivities. A pilgrimage taken by 15,000 Australians, to the heart of the Otway National Park, all in the name of music and close quarters camping. Very close. This was my first trip […]
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In an increasingly shallow musical world where everyone wants to be, or believes they are, a budding DJ, I therefore have a profound respect for Josh Davis. No, in fact it goes far beyond that. It is sheer adoration for the man that goes by the name of, DJ Shadow. He is the pioneer of […]
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