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Festival Review: Singapore welcomes a stellar line up as the 2018 St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival kicks off in style

Another year, another Laneway Festival has come and gone. With the closure of Neon Lights last year, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival remains the only up-and-running premiere indie festival in Singapore – surpassing the short-lived likes of counterparts Hostess Weekender, The Gathering, and Camp Symmetry. And yet, this year’s edition of Laneway presented a mixed bag….

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Here’s where you can find SZA & Post Malone on the east coast in January!

Some of hip hop and R&B’s finest breakthrough stars are Australia bound next January for the FOMO tour – easily one of the festival’s biggest line ups yet. For fans looking for that one on one headline experience from Post Malone and SZA in particular, they’ve got some brand new headline dates confirmed, and here’s where you can be catching…

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SZA to make her Australian debut as part of next year’s FOMO Festival

The FOMO brand sure is bossing up in becoming an Australian festival to watch, with this afternoon’s announcement for the 2017 run seeing some heavy hitters bound for our shores. Namely, SZA will be making her Australian debut as part of the festival tour, having broken through in 2017 as more than a buzz artist on the Top…

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New Music You Have to Listen to This Week (15th May 2017)

Another great week for new music – we look back on what our writers have been digging recently; from the new chaotic fire from WAAX, to the new vibes from Nick Murphy (and KAYTRANADA), there’s plenty to revisit. Hit play on the playlist below! ———- This content has recently been ported from its original home on The AU…

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Listen to Nick Murphy’s two new Missing Link tracks, including the KAYTRANADA produced “Your Time”

Nick Murphy has emerged from the studio with a brand new EP in Missing Link – the first proper collection of material fans have gotten since he began making the musical transition from Chet Faker to work under his actual name. Two songs have been dropped from the EP for us to get around, as a huge world tour…

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The 40 Best Singles of 2016 (Part Two): The Top 20

Our Top 20 Singles from 2016 represent not only what was a strong and diverse year in new music, but they also presented themselves to be solid indicators of the trajectories of some of our favourite new artists. From NGAIIRE‘s “House on a Rock” to B Wise‘s “No Questions”, through to huge international hitters in Childish Gambino‘s “Redbone”…

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The Top 40 Albums of 2016 (Part Two): The Top 20

Top 20’s are always hard to pull together. As we saw with the first part of our Best Albums of 2016 countdown, the list was looking to be a varied one, with records from bands including Descendents, The Hotelier, Julia Jacklin and NO ZU all making the cut. As we look to the Top 20 records (as voted by our…

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ICYMI: A look back at our favourite music videos of May 2016

Continuing our look back at our favourite music videos, we turn the spotlight to May, where we became introduced to some more rad artists and their latest visuals; from MOSSY‘s “Ginsberg”, to Modern Baseball‘s brilliant video for “Wedding Singer”, there were definitely all angles covered. Hit ‘play’ and revisit them below! PLAYLIST Tim Wheatley – “78 Benz”…

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Music Video of the Day: KAYTRANADA “Lite Spots” (2016)

KAYTRANADA has continued to spur on the positive momentum surrounding the release of his anticipated album 99%, with the release of his new music video for “Lite Spots”. The Canadian producer linked up with director Martin C Pariseau for this visual outing, produced by Evren Boisjoli and Romeo & Fils (along with MuchFACT) – a narrative that sees the man himself create…

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Album News Weekly: 6th May 2016

In this issue: A lot of newcomers are set to release their debut albums this week! Keep the playlists alive with a bunch of brand new tunes. THE POSIES Stretching their on-and-off again relationship over four decades, The Posies release album number eight Solid States, via Planet! HOMEBOY SANDMAN Addressing themes such as; his personal insecurities,…

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Kaytranada bringing the 99.9% tour through to Australia and NZ in October!

Australia and NZ have been slotted into Kaytranada‘s first ever world tour, with the Canadian producer coming over our way for a run of hotly anticipated club dates in October! Kaytranada’s debut album 99.9% is out next month and comes with some killer collaborations that are sure to have this LP ranked as one of the best…

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