Hey friends! It’s been a couple of weeks between video-mix-tapes of Australian music I’ve been digging, here’s another from my hometown of Brisbane. In case you missed the first two you can find them here: Brisbane Band Video-Mix-Tape #1 & Brisbane Band Video-Mix-Tape #2. I’m especially loving DZ Deathrays, Tiger Beams, Dreamtime & Impossible Odds!! [...]

Tags: australian music, Brisbane music, Dreamtime, DZ Deathrays, Ghost Boy with Golden Virtue, Impossible Odds, J-Pan Fan, Millions, Schoolfight, The Boys, Tiger Beams

It took me some searching but I found some rad bands from Australia’s most southern (island) state Tasmania – which is also unfortunately usually an Australian state that’s often forgotten. It’s such a beautiful place and has been called “the island of inspiration”! I found a couple of all-girl punk bands from Tassie but they’re [...]

Tags: Amanda Palmer, australian music, Beatrix Bae Bouwman, Bone Rattlers, Deligma, Enola Fall, Luca Brasi, Map of Tasmania, Ride The Tiger, Tasmania hip hop, Tasmania music, The Native Cats, the Scandal, Tiger Choir

Melbourne is renowned for its arts and music scene… here’s a mix of some bands/acts I’ve been digging of late: Pow Pow Wow For more Pow Pow Wow. You can check out my recent chat with PPW’s Ben Ely at Collapse Board. Stranglehold For more Stranglehold. Killbot Kindergarten For more Killbot Kindergarten. I also interviewed [...]

Tags: Ally Oop, australian music, Ben Ely, Bits of Shit, collapse board, Icepick, Johnnie and the Johnnie Johnnies, Killbot Kindergarten, Melbourne music, National Airlines, No Idea, Noizebunny, Pow Pow Wow, Seedy Jeezus, Stranglehold, Teeth and Tongue, Wet Young Dolphin, Youka Snell

Perth is on the West Coast of Australia – the opposite coast to where I’m at. So many rad bands have come from Perth including the (now UK-based) act I love Pendulum. My pal, the beautiful and talented photographer/tour manager/life adventurer Bree Kristel Clarke also originates from that side of the country—her father’s art is [...]

Tags: Aaagh Bats!, All Eyes On Saturn, Arts Martial, australian music, Bastin's Happy Flight, Blud, Boys Boys Boys!, Bree Kristel Clarke, Chainsaw Hookers, Emperors, Felicity Groom, Pendulum, Perth Bands, The Darlings, Tobi-lea, Western Australia Bands, Western Australia music

“Early Adelaide was shaped by religious freedom and a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties, which led to the moniker: City of Churches” …Adelaide is also home to a lot of great music especially hardcore and hip hop. One of my all-time favourite hardcore punk bands God So Loved The World was from there [...]

Tags: A Devil Amongst The Tailors, A Tribe Is Forming, Adelaide Band, Adelaide Band Mix Tape, Adelaide Music, Ante Up, Armpit Stench, dan jones, Diamond Sins, Fire!, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fluffy, Glisk, god so loved the world, Night Hag, Ricochet Pete, The Battery Kids, White & the Writing

This week we head south of the border to Sydney (with a little stop in Wollongong – home of Topnovil and Mother & Son) for the Conversations with Bianca Video-Mix-Tape. I’m really loving Idea Idea featuring Antonio Rosselli and Lanie Lane. I hope you find something new to listen to! As always, if you know [...]

Tags: Antonio Rosselli, Brackets, Catcall, collapse board, Conversations With Bianca Video-Mix-Tape, Deathcage Topnovil, Def Wish Cast, Idea Idea, Lanie Lane, Mother & Son, Svelt, Sydney music, Syndey Band Video-Mix-Tape, The Drey Rollan Band, The Herd, The Laurels, The Rumjacks, Wollongong music

Art by SilentAwakening “To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do.” ~High Fidelity. As a teen I’d sit in my bedroom at night and listen to the radio. I’d sit beside [...]

Tags: Afrika Bambaataa, bouncing souls, Cade Circle One, death on wednesday, deathset, DJ Kool Herc, felinedown, gogol bordello, Grandmaster Flash, gwen stefani, hip hop, hobo obituaries, jhonny hobo, kanye west, M.I.A, messer chups, MFDS, Miss Bianca's Digital Mixtape, mix tape, mixtapes, moby, N*E*R*D, operation ivy, punk, rancid, santigold, shmoe, support music, the bronx, the Furious Five, uffie