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Independent Artist of the Week: Freesouls
Photo by Yomi After starting fresh on more than two years of creative work, Liverpool trio Freesouls are going deeper and darker with their own informed hip hop. From drugs and politics to local...
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Independent Artist Of The Week: Air Max ’97
Photo by Hannah Wickramsuriya From the Netherlands via New Zealand to Melbourne, meet nomad DJ, producer and label head: Air Max ’97. Music autodidact Oliver van der Lugt began DJing under the cult...
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Independent Artist of the Week: DIN
Photo by Jordan Munns FBi SMAC darling Rainbow Chan pairs up with pal, and fellow Northern Lights alumni, Alex Ward (aka Moon Holiday) to explore club-ready sounds they couldn’t elsewhere. What...
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Independent Artist Of The Week: Flower Boy 卓颖贤
Photo by Yin Yue Chan Sydney producer Flower Boy 卓颖贤 is breaking the mold, combining electronic production skills with a classically trained music background. For Non Chalant, AKA Flower Boy 卓颖贤,...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Elijah Yo
A key player in Western Sydney’s hip hop community, 20-year-old New Zealander Elijah Yo was always destined for a career in rap. It’s little wonder Elijah Yo started experimenting with music at 15,...
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Independent Artist Of The Week: Nardean
Photo by Ryan Henwood White Hailing from Western Sydney, Egyptian-Australian MC Nardean is a dark horse in the hip hop scene, blending rap, poetry and song. Having never sung or written music, Nardine...
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Independent Artist of the Week: The Buoys
Image credit: Sophia Compton A shuffled lineup, a solid stream of shows and an incoming second EP – the first six months for the new iteration of The Buoys has been productive, to say the least. With...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Kaiit
Photo by Lydia Rui Not a lot of artists stir up the same feelings as Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu did before them, but Melbourne jazz and soul queen Kaiit is one of them. At just twenty years old, Kaiit...
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Independent Artist Of The Week: Kobie Dee
Photo by Robin Hearfield Maroubra rapper Kobie Dee reps the Lexo area as proudly as he wears the Aboriginal flag tattooed on his forearm. Gamilaroi man Kobie Dee is one of the many fast Indigenous...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Shady Nasty
Photo by Andreas Damouras With a name they embody (in a good way), Shady Nasty is also like their music – unpredictable, considered and dark. Straight out of Sydney, Shady Nasty are Kevin, Luca and...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Bored Shorts
Bored Shorts’ pedigree is strong, with members being drawn from Sydney staples Big White, High-tails and Flower Truck. And when you hear them, this Venn diagram makes sense. But even though it’s easy...
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Independent Artist of the Week: imbi the girl
Photo by Emily Contador-Kelsall Articulate, poetic and wise, imbi the girl is that special artist we are occasionally blessed to know and hear, and should not sleep on. If not just for the music...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Nooky
Photo by Gabe Gasparinatos Australia has a rich black history but Nooky is a part of the local hip hop contingent getting us ready for a black future. Originally hailing from Nowra, Yuin Nation man...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Mango
Photo by Sam Stephenson With a debut record that’s equal parts sci-fi utopia and raw, four-on-the-floor throwback, Mango’s soulful spin on house music heralds an alternative future Mango, aka Max, is...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Laik Aífe
Photo by CAIT Pronounced lake ee-fa, Newtown’s Laik Aífe is responsible for electric indie folk that transports you to distant, cinematic scenery while remaining confrontingly present. For Laik Aífe,...
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Independent Artist of the Week: JEFFE
One listen to ‘Undecided’ and you’ll be anything but: JEFFE’s second single establishes her as one of Sydney’s brightest pop prospects. Co-written with producer Dave Hammer (Thundamentals/Megan...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Henri O.R. Asar
Photo by Bethan Cotterill Henri O.R. Asar is here to soundtrack your early-spring sun with his unfixed, IDM-influenced ambient soundscapes – music to get lost in. Henri O. R. Asar is the anagram...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Vape Dadz
Photo by Vape Dadz Self-proclaimed audio wellness experts Vape Dadz present Whiskey Priest, their latest take on ‘crunchy dance music for misfits’ Sydney’s Vape Dadz formed on Christmas 2016, when...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Perra Vida
Photo by Anibal Tafur Formed in response to dire statistics for women in both punk rock and their home country generally, Perra Vida are resisting preconceptions and the patriarchy through their...
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Independent Artist of the Week: Karli White
Photo by Joanna Nilson Karli White’s moody dystopian sound blends goth, industrial, and new wave into peculiar dark pop songs Karli White makes dark electronic music, drawing from new wave,...
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