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Music can be live or recorded, it doesn’t matter how it finds us. What matters is if it has the ability to stir us, make us think and make us feel. We search for the different, the new, the inspiring, the upcoming and the underground. If it makes our knees tremble with excitement and our skin shiver with pleasure, we’ll share it.

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An insiders guide to the Dance Music scene in Berlin

Russ Marshalek Contributor

By Russ Marshalek in New Music on Wednesday 1 May 2013

Dance music and Berlin nightlife are essentially synonymous in 2013. Home to some of the most important labels, producers and spaces in dance and electronic, Berlin is a clubber’s mecca. The “Berlin sound“, essentially minimal techno/”micro-house” music championed and produced by, amongst others, techno legend Richie Hawtin, began to trickle into mainstream night clubs in the US around around 2003, as progressive house and techno fused into something dark, repetitive and hypnotic.

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Stand in the Sand: the first single from Twin Peaks

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By Pierce Adler in New Music on Tuesday 30 April 2013

Twin Peaks is living the dream. After a semester of going to college, they decided the rock n’ roll life was more their style. After a hype-garnering run at South by Southwest and a recent signing to Autumn Tone Records, the band will be reissuing their dreamy record, Sunken, on July 9. Twin Peaks sounds [...]

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Leaning Mess: the first single from Portland band Hausu

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By Pierce Adler in New Music on Tuesday 30 April 2013

‘It’s like if four 19-year-old Japanese kids who really like 1980s/1990s American rock n’ roll formed a band.’ This is how a friend of mine described the band Hausu to me. Despite hailing from Portland, Oregon, there is a definite Eastern presence in the quartet’s music. Combine that with sad tales about missing home and [...]

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North Arm: the new project of Firekites’ Roderick Smith

Cormack O'Connor Contributor

By Cormack O'Connor in New Music on Tuesday 30 April 2013

North Arm Cove in New South Wales’ Port Stephens region was to be the capital of Australia at one point. It was also the place where Firekites frontman Roderick Smith’s family came to build a holiday house in 1981 – the epicenter of his childhood dreaming. He spent long summers there roaming through the bush, [...]

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Great Gatsby’s star-studded soundtrack sampler

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Music on Monday 29 April 2013

The Great Gatsby movie is THE movie of the year. I’ve felt tiny tears in my ears every time I watch a new a trailer for it. And the soundtrack: it’s amazing. It’s perfect. And completely star-studded. Sia, Florence, Lana, The xx, Jay-Z, Jack White, and more. It’s not out until May 7, so in the meantime, listen to this soundtrack sampler. It’s brilliant.

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Garbage and Screaming Females channel Patti Smith’s Because the Night

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Music on Saturday 27 April 2013

When Garbage and Screaming Females team up, they can rip guitar solos and belt out choruses right on par with Patti Smith. This black and white music video is primo. What begins as a shaky, DIY, handheld camera home video picks up as these girls begin to sing and play Because the Night. Like what [...]

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The New Life: new music by Irish band Girls Names

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By Steven Quinn in New Music on Friday 26 April 2013

I have liked Girls Names for some time now. They were great at the recent London show and the venue was pretty packed. The have a black and white sound with hints of colour, a metronomic beat with a touch of Hank Marvin that should leave you starvin’ for more. If you’re a fan of [...]

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Entertainment: the epic new music video from Phoenix

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Music on Friday 26 April 2013

The video for Entertainment, the first single from Phoenix’s album Bankrupt!, is a dozen Asian soap operas mashed together to create the most epic visual experience possible. I love all the colours and confusing drama. Even though the song lyrics are in English, Phoenix masterfully creates the feeling of confusion typically experienced while watching a foreign film.

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Video medley for the new Flaming Lips album, Terror

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Music on Thursday 25 April 2013

This is four minutes in the mind of a mad genius. Between the abstract color display, the hidden, changing track titles at the bottom, and the constantly changing melodies, this album preview of the Flaming Lips’s latest release, Terror, is all the glory of the full length set packed into only 4 minutes. When I watch this [...]

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Hip-hop Doo-wop: cute rap music by Wally Clark

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Music on Wednesday 24 April 2013

What could be better than the grit of gangster rap mixed with the sweet bubblegum pop of the doo-wop generation? This is the soundtrack for you and your sweetheart to take a cruise down Lovers Lane with, hold hands on the beach, or buy a milkshake at the soda shop. Young lovers of today can enjoy a [...]

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Optus RockCorps: 5 questions with The Potbelleez

Cormack O'Connor Contributor

By Cormack O'Connor in New Music on Wednesday 24 April 2013

AdvertisementLast week we were hanging out at Sydney’s Optus RockCorps to bring to bring you all of the action from in the crowd and backstage.

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Wendel Patrick’s New York State of Mind

Nini Baseema Contributor

By Nini Baseema in New Music on Tuesday 23 April 2013

Wendel Patrick is making a name for himself as a producer, fusing different elements of jazz, electronica and Hip Hop to create lush musical collages. In this video, he reworks DJ Premiere’s instrumental track from Nas’ classic Illmatic in his studio without the use of samples. Most brilliant.

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Black Sun: the new album from Australian band Gold Fields

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By Gold Fields in New Music on Saturday 20 April 2013

We recorded our debut album in Mark’s parents’ garage at home in Ballarat. After initially recording the bulk of the album in expensive studios in LA and Sydney, with producers like Mickey Petralia (Ladytron, The Dandy Warhols) and Scott Horscroft (The Preserts, Silverchair, The Sleepy Jackson), we realised that what we were doing wasn’t us. [...]

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LIve three song set from Canadian band Great Lake Swimmers

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By Alicia Thompson in New Music on Friday 19 April 2013

I came across this Ontario band thanks to NPR’s awesome Tiny Desk concerts. Built around singer and songwriter Tony Dekker, this is music that really touches the soul. This video is a three-song set which includes Everything is Moving So Fast, Pulling on a Line and Various Stages. His voice and music makes me wonder [...]

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Stream Descender, the new album by Andrew Wyatt, from Miike Snow

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Music on Friday 19 April 2013

Andrew Wyatt (from Miike Snow) enlisted the entire Prague Philharmonic Orchestra for his new album. It’s amazing. It feels vintage and cinematic, yet new and fresh all at once. The album, Descender, won’t be released until April 30 in the States, but in the meantime, you can stream the full saga in all its glory here.

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