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LA rock trio Automatic on their new record, love of Karen O, Swedish sci-fi, and playing Splendour in the Grass
We spoke to Izzy, Lola and Halle about their new record, love of Karen O, Swedish sci-fi, and playing Splendour in the Grass.
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Chicken nuggets, iPhones, mother’s ashes: What’s up with audiences throwing objects onstage?
It seems the pandemic wiped our memory of concert etiquette.
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Triple J’s Ash McGregor rings in NAIDOC Week by curating a playlist of her fave First Nations artists for ‘RUSSH’
A collection of deadly artists curated by Wadawurrung woman and triple j presenter Ash McGregor for NAIDOC Week 2023.
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The best new music to drop in June 2023
From Grian Chatten’s solo album to new work from Youth Lagoon.
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What the ‘RUSSH’ editors are watching, reading and listening to in June 2023
A lot of watching, not a whole heap of reading! Oops.
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The unexpected promise of ‘Padam Padam’
Is it particularly deep? As far as electro pop goes, it’s no ‘Renaissance’, but it is textbook Kylie: deceptively simple, catchy and deliriously camp.
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Mark your calendars early, here are the 2024 Coachella dates
Mark your wall planners – send out the Google Calendar group invites!
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Watch the exclusive music video premiere for Jack Ladder’s new single ‘Home Alone’
The iconoclast with that voice is taking us home with his latest single.
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The ‘RUSSH’ editors share the books, songs and TV getting them through May
Hint: it mostly revolves around food.
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Take this playlist of the songs that soundtracked AAFW 2023
At Australian Fashion Week, sound was the unsung hero.
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Weyes Blood meditates on modern malaise, her new album and upcoming Australian shows
Mering’s latest release in an elegy for the Earth, a lush and orchestral homage to our intangible interconnectedness.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto curated his own funeral playlist – listen to it here
The late Japanese composer and musician engaged with music until the very end.
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Our pick of the best new music to drop this month
As the weather gets cooler and darker, we find ourselves drawing nearer to music that does the same.
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Revisiting ‘Cold Café’: The Many Lives of Karen Marks
“I knew at the time I didn’t fit into the Australian landscape – and I wasn’t going to beat my head up against the wall trying to fit in.”
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There are whispers of a third Frank Ocean album: Here’s what was revealed during his Coachella set
Hello?? Frank? We’ve been waiting for you for six years.
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Here’s the full lineup for this year’s Splendour in the Grass festival
Lizzo is set to be in good company at North Byron Parklands this July.
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Caroline Polachek doesn’t want to make things make sense
“I really enjoy the process of merging the themes and lyrical motifs from the music with what my life was actually like while making it and using the visuals as a sort of bridge between reality and this kind of deeper place.”
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A jasmine-perfumed summer evening in Sydney with Sébastian Tellier and CHANEL
French multi-instrumentalist Sébastian Tellier on his artistic trajectory, defying gender norms, and his relationship with the Maison CHANEL.