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And features some very queer friendly indie music! Games Gig is the official Thursday night Freeplay Festival 2021 event, described by its organisers as “a music focused afterparty featuring a line-up of indie, pop, and electronic game composers performing their music from Melbourne indie games.” Video World‘s Monster Mansion (aka Jacob Leaney) will headline the event alongside Maize Wallin, a composer who has worked on titles like the PS5 console exclusive Godfall and indie titles suc...

Cable Ties released their second LP Far Enough, an album that brings a towering wall of 70s hard rock and proto-rock to songs that explore hope, despair, and anger but offer no easy answers. Taking the three-minute punk burner and stretching it past breaking point, the trio of Jenny McKechnie (guitar, vocals), Shauna Boyle (drums), and Nick Brown (bass) deliver feminist anthems that are at once smouldering and urgent.  Far Enough encapsulates the passion and defiance in Cable Ties’ songwri...

Boogie Festival is going ahead this Easter, featuring a super-dooper local lineup Image by Steve Benn Featuring Angie McMahon, Bones and Jones, Mildlife, RVG and more. Following last year’s postponement, Boogie Festival has been given the green light to go ahead this Easter, announcing the good news today alongside this year’s huge lineup. What you need to know Boogie Festival set to go ahead this Easter The event will feature the likes of Angie McMahon, Bones and Jones, Mildlif...

Advertisement Music venues are struggling to put on viable live shows as they battle crowd restrictions and noise complaints outdoors, raising fears it will take years for Melbourne’s prized live music scene to recover. While the pain was nationwide, Melbourne bore the brunt due to prolonged restrictions during the second wave of coronavirus infections. Liam Matthews at Old Bar in Fitzroy. Credit:Joe Armao National music charity Support Act said 44 per cent of its crisis relief went to Vic...

72 per cent of the top 101 played tracks being from WA. That includes MissGenius, a Maduwongga and Noongar woman who scored two tunes in the Top 10 ( Wild Things and New Nausea, with Carla Geneve, whose song Female artists were once again dominant, with 54 per cent of the top 101 played coming from female artists and female-fronted bands. Fifteen per cent of those who made the list were international, with 13 per cent.  Thundercat’s  Cable Ties were the top placed interstate act, wit...

Photo by Lisa Businovski A mega triple bill hitting The Forum on Saturday February 20. If you missed out on this stellar lineup the first round, then stress less! Due to popular demand, MMW has dropped another Cable Ties gig on Saturday February 20, and we’re endlessly grateful for it. Cable Ties’ fusion of garage-rock and post-punk makes for a powerful, energetic show, encapsulating how live music should always be, sound, and feel. With catchy hooks and highly-relatable, highly-...

I love music, especially new music. I’ve always bought and listened to loads of it. Like everyone, I have my favourite bands and favourite genres but I’ve always been keen to hear new things. As i got older, I found myself doing this less as life became busier. I noticed that people in my age group were no longer interested in discovering new artists like they did when they were younger. Eleven years ago I decided to start writing a music list that talked about my favourite releases in the ...

Cable Ties foray into gaming By Cat Woods Normal text size Advertisement “And if I cant hope, nothings ever gonna change.” So go the lyrics to Melbourne band Cable Ties’ song Hope, which is the soundtrack to a new independent game. In April, the band were invited to collaborate with game designer Cecile Richard and producer Maize Wallin on crafting the soundtrack to Richards game, Hope. The game, free online, is designed to challenge feelings of hopelessness and confront issues of anxie...

As 2020 draws to a close, we reflect on 10 top PBS feature albums that helped us survive this most challenging of years. Before doing this, however, wed like to reminisce on PBS Radio Festival fundraiser, our annual two-week campaign that helps keep PBS going as an independent, free-to-air radio station.      In 2020, we ran Radio Festival under the banner, ‘You Can’t Stop The Music’. We chose to promote this message of resilience and hope for obvious reasons. Though nothing was obvio...

Theyve been my name is the lone e.-s. armadillo and i play street music on my own kind of instrument an instrument from mine i get a heart to see how i developed and built it myself i call it a distraught city its actually kind of a digerati do it grew out of a didgeridoo its made from drainage pipes and cable ties. i started playing a normal didgeridoo but it didnt get enough attention on the street because with this model car you know kids are often totally thrilled theyve never seen anything ...