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Cults: Lovelorn Ode to the ’60s

Just in time for St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival this Sunday, Cults has just released a video to ‘You Know What I Mean’ off their self-titled debut. The narrative-focused music video is a paean to forbidden carnival love where lovelorn Madeline Follin ogles at devil-may-care Brian Oblivion as her ringleader dad sabotages his stunts. With distinctively […]

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OK Go: ‘Needing/Getting’

They’ve done it again! Already known for their insanely creative videos, the boys of OK Go have outdone themselves with the music video for ‘Needing/Getting’, a track off their latest album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky. The video has them driving a car that’s fitted with ‘arms’ and over 1000 musical instruments placed […]

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St. Vincent: ‘Cheerleader’

  Annie Erin Clark – better known as St. Vincent, released her third studio album, Strange Mercy on the 13 Sept 2011. If you enjoy listening to indie,  Baroque rock or jazz and not to mention pretty personal lyrics then this album is definitely worth listening to. Strange Mercy was written while St. Vincent was in […]

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K-Town Clan: Playground

Crunk ain’t dead!

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M.I.A: Desert Swaggin’

While JUICE was busy lollygagging during the holidays, music’s resident badass M.I.A released the video to her latest single ‘Bad Girls’, which could only be described as an epic tribute to the insane YouTube videos of vehicular stunts done by Arabs too bored by the recreational void that is their country. Directed by M.I.A’s favourite […]

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Sole and The Skyrider: Hello Cruel World

Hello Cruel World,the second LP from the Anticon alumnus Sole with the Skyrider Band.

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Ferns: Fairweather Friends

Ferns’ sophomore is a lot like its predecessor On Botany – jangly guitars, a sound informed by the past, and fuzzy sounds all around – but this time the band decided to anchor the record around a broad theme, the weather. Put away fears of second album delusion of grandeur though, this concept doesn’t carry […]

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Hysterical

When the first strains of the opener, ‘Same Mistake’, come breezing through, we soul searched like true music lovers do, and asked: “Is this the new The Killers track?” Of course not; it’s just Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s third album.

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Listen Up: Apparat

Apparat’s intelligent devil music

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Penguin Prison: Penguin Prison

First spin and it’s yet another act on the ’80s NYC/Euro synth-disco bandwagon. A second listen yields comparisons with Frankmusik, Holy Ghost!, a less cheesy Calvin Harris, and even George Michael.