Music Wasted Time from CLOVES is a reassuring self-anthem everyone needs to hear by James Christie-Murray The universe has a really strange and inexplicable way of purveying messages to you. It takes time and patience to be able to really spot these messages, but when you…
Music “It’s OK to do things however you want to”: Jen Cloher chats the importance of making music for yourself by James Christie-Murray The Sydney Beer & BBQ Festival are going whole hog this year, with a saucy lineup to boot. Not only is the festival making waves in terms of showcasing a…
Music Introducing the low brow, high concept math rock of Basil’s Kite by James Christie-Murray It’s a warm Summer’s evening, there’s a slightly stinky ocean breeze wafting through the illuminated streets of Wollongong, and I’m on my way to one of our best local haunts;…
Music Find punky solidarity in Less The Love Between us, the gritty debut album from The Rollercanes by James Christie-Murray Us twenty-somethings have a lot to be angry about. We’re the in-between generation whom have been led to believe that our adulthood would be a piece of cake. Our student…
Features Pink Pills: how The Mavis’s stormed the ’90s by embracing their weird side by James Christie-Murray Australia in the ’90s; a decade defined by deep-rooted creativity, party drugs, sex, and an amalgamation of genre-bending music. The year was 1998, Matchbox 20 were dominating the number one…
News JENGYZ’s new track Remember Me is hard to listen to for all the right reasons by James Christie-Murray A couple of years back there was a film that I watched with Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams called Blue Valentine. The film was pretty simplistic, about a couple’s downward…
Music Vacations know what you’re going through on Changes, a perfect album about growing up by James Christie-Murray Music is truly a magical force of expression. Why else would you be here reading about it, or paying a monthly subscription fee to hear it, or dealing with those…
Music Introducing The Nah: a Wollongong band with something to say by James Christie-Murray I remember seeing The Nah for the first time last year at a local bar, and to be fair, I was really nervous to walk into it. Being queer, sometimes…
News Vinyl Lost & Found: Third Man Records to release The Supremes rarities on vinyl by James Christie-Murray Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard. The three incredibly talented women that made up one of the most influential groups of all time; The Supremes. Now we’re lucky enough…
News Open to all: Capitol Studios launch remote mixing, vinyl-cutting and mastering services by James Christie-Murray Capitol Studios, aka the most iconic Hollywood studio company around, is offering their services to anybody and everybody through their new online initiative. And now you, yes you, can have…
News Vinyl Björk has gone full Björk, releasing new remixes EP on “Slug Genitalia” vinyl by James Christie-Murray Björk has announced that she will be releasing a new EP including three remixes of Arisen My Senses, the opening track to her audacious 2017 album Utopia. The Icelandic artist…
News CupcakKe and fans slam YouTube for unfairly removing her music videos by James Christie-Murray After YouTube removed two video clips from former church poet turned rapper CupcakKe, she took to social media to slam the platform. The Chicago rapper, well known for her sex…
News PREMIERE: A Life’s Work In Equilibrium: Vian Izak breaks ground with new audiovisual project by James Christie-Murray I’m going to set a scene for you to imagine; you’re a child, laying on the grass in the backyard on a breezy summer afternoon. A huge tree casts a…