Jonti, 'Sine and Moon'
Like a cat dancing on a piano, Jonti’s musical ability is what gives Sine and Moon its varied terroir, from the head-nodding rhythm and rhyme of ‘Red... read more...
A Mixtape by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart make indie pop. In dee pop. They make it with considerable aplomb too. Aplomb and My Bloody Valentine-esque walls of... read more...
An interview with Yuck
Jonny Rogoff is chill guy from New Jersey (here’s a video of him appreciating art). Three years ago Jonny was living in the Israeli desert on a kibbutz... read more...
An interview with Girls
If I could pen an anthology of great, modern American stories, the life of Girls front man Chris Owens would be at the top of the list. Reared in the bizarre... read more...
An interview with OFWGKTA
Complete this sentence: If Odd Future were elected president, we would… Tyler – Make skateboarding legal and have a national titty day, and... read more...
Woollen Kits, 'Woollen Kits'
If it was early nineties Spin magazine would no doubt be calling this ‘slacker’ rock and yes it has a loose and relaxed feel but there is... read more...
Tako, 'Redlight Radio Mix'
Originally broadcast out of a shop in Amsterdam’s red light district, Tako’s mix is a 3.5 hour excursion in 70s boogie, 80s electro-funk, folk, psyche,... read more...
Happy New Year / Nite Fields split 7″
The first release for Brisbane-based Lost Race Records comes in the form of a split 7”, featuring the dream-pop of Nite Fields and the more experimental-pop... read more...
Levins's 13 Course 'Songs About Food' Degustation
We are lucky enough to be presenting Best Eats at this year’s FBi SMAC awards. It’s a brand spanking new award, and in celebration, Sydney’s... read more...
Unity Floors, "Womens Golf" 7 inch
Their sound is of the stripped-back garage variety, which is another way of saying no bullshit or ‘production values’. 7” opener ‘Boil The Ocean’... read more...
James Blake, 'Enough Thunder' EP
Boy genius of 2011 James Blake released his fourth EP Enough Thunder last week. This is not just a big moment in my tiny universe, but for overly sentimental,... read more...
The Bats, 'Free All The Monsters'
ASE, NASDAQ, NYSE, Deutsche Borche, Flying Nun. Stocks, fortunes, and people’s sanity are dealt, traded, and swapped within these entities; Flying Nun... read more...
An interview with Axemen
There’s more to the Flying Nun story than The Clean and The Chills and Dunedin. And luckily for us youngsters who came down in the last shower... read more...
Burnt Skulls, ‘Burnt Skulls’
An exploration in experimental noise, doom and free improvisation, Burnt Skulls eschews narcotic stumbles and psychedelic nuances. Try putting cutlery... read more...
Private Time (Dub) / Scavengers 12"
Rohan Bell-Towers has been making musical sandwiches all over the scene at his monthly Bamboo Musik parties and meatball sub, curveball mixes like the... read more...
A mixtape by Big Freedia
Among the host of things the world can thank Cash Money for (Birdman’s squawk, Weez’s tatts, ‘Project Bitch’), is bringing bounce further into... read more...
An interview with Donny Benet
Donny Benet. His legendary backstory precedes him. We’ve heard about his father, the Italian disco accordionist who’s worked with Giorgio... read more...
David Lynch, ‘Crazy Clown Time’
This untiring contrarian was hoping David Lynch’s debut album Crazy Clown Time would be crap. Bored with Facebook profiles featuring Twin Peaks as... read more...
Rat vs Possum, ‘Let Music & Bodies Unite’
Rat vs Possum exist in a post-LCD Soundsystem world where rock music can heavily borrow stylistic ideas from funk, dance and mainstream pop without feeling... read more...
936, Peaking Lights
The sonic architecture of dub – an emphasis on rhythm, booming, fuzzy bottom end, and the hypnotic, spatial sculpting of sound – has travelled... read more...
A mixtape by Kurt Vile
Before he landed a job travelling the world playing music Kurt Vile drove a forklift at a brewery. There is still a bit of that forklift driver in Vile.... read more...
An interview with Chet Faker
Chet Faker did the best debut live set I’ve ever heard, live on RRR last weekend. It was something eerie. After the performance I had a chat to Nick... read more...
CAN, 'Tago Mago' 40th Anniversary reissue
The Beatles bought glamour, pomp, and rock n’ roll chivalry to the musical landscape. No later than a year after Paul McCartney and co split their ways CAN... read more...
Throbbing Gristle box set
Whilst the western hemisphere is currently in the grips of an invisible economic tsunami spare a thought for England’sThrobbing Gristle who came to fruition... read more...