Music Junus Orca crafts blood-pumping, glacial beauty on his singular debut EP by Luke Saunders Junus Orca steps into an ethereal space of industrial mountains and grinding metal glaciers, all humming to a fervent, beating pulse. On his debut EP, Christchurch DJ and producer Junus…
Features A guide to Asylum Records in 5 essential albums by Luke Saunders In the psychedelic ’60s the Sunset Strip was soaked with LSD, counter culture rhetoric, and free loving ways. Iconoclasts of the movement will say it’s all a bunch of hogwash,…
Features Happy’s Guide to starting a record label by Luke Saunders Once upon a time it was virtually impossible to start a record label. Sun Records was one of the first independent record labels and played a major roll in the…
Interviews Ocean Alley on mental illness, life on the road, and another Like A Version by Luke Saunders We chat with Ocean Alley about the frightening prevalence of mental health in the arts, dream supports, and doing another Like A Version. Ocean Alley have recently come off the…
News Record Store Day 2019 saw vinyl sales reach a near all-time high by Rianna Manuel When April 13th rolled around, and Record Store Day kicked off for the 12th time, people from all over flocked to their local store. Everyone itching to get their hands…
News From the decks to the bench: Alex Dyson is running for parliament by Rianna Manuel You read that right, Ratdog is going after the big wigs. In the upcoming federal election, everyone’s best mate Alex Dyson is running for a spot in parliament. Dyson was…
News PREMIERE: Jacob Lee navigates vulnerability and misunderstanding on his stunning new single Suitcase by Lara Smetannikov On his new single Suitcase, Jacob Lee sings about vulnerability, putting your heart on your sleeve and giving all you have to a relationship that is at the end of…
Interviews Music Facing the Comedown: chatting sold-out shows, album number 2 and the after-tour blues with Ocean Alley by Chloe Kay Richardson Since the 2016 release of their debut LP Lost Tropics, Ocean Alley have reached audiences far beyond their Northern Beaches digs, and have been intoxicating the masses with their cruisey…
Interviews Things got weird when we sat down with Ocean Alley to talk album details, touring the world and fork branding by Sam Dawes The life of a touring band is a strange one. One day, you’re riding the ten-foot wave of ecstasy that is a great gig, the next you’re fending off drunken…
