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Going back in time 18 years ago this week, I’ve dug out the second of the two anti-war mixes I did around the time of the Iraq war kicking off. There were plenty of songs to choose from as you can imagine and I remember performing a version of this live at the Autechre ATP, arriving super late, just as I was due to go on and setting up on stage with 2 decks and a CDJ and tearing through this in a burst of adrenalin. There’s a lot of angry music here as you would expect although not wit...

Taylor Swift holds for a second week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with her ninth album “evermore”, with the set debuting at the top in both America and Canada this past week. For most of the past decade, Taylor Swift has had an album near the top of the charts at the end of most years, but it’s the first time that she’s had the last No.1 album of the year. Previously she got close with “1989” which spent it’s fourth of nine weeks at the top on December 22nd, 2014 (2nd last we...

Bianca Busante, a world traveler with food tastes to match, talks about her "love language" — service.

The 30 best albums to come out of Melbourne in 2020, part two Gordon Koang and Hachiku We spotlight the second 15 albums of the two-part feature, ranked in no particular order. Here we go with part two of our feature spotlighting the 30 best albums to come out of Melbourne in 2020. Part one of the piece shined a light on stellar records from Andras, Sweet Whirl, Vintage Crop, RVG, Simona Castricum, Silentjay and more. While 2020 has been an absolute fiasco, music...

LOMA VISTA Recording in Hollywood with Sturgill Simpson in the producer’s chair, the Midwest farmer’s daughter tried her hand at a West Coast pop album for her third LP. Rather than country confessionals, then, here were 10 songs taking in Heartbreakers-esque new wave, gospel and prime Fleetwood Mac. Complete with a more oblique, lyrical voice from Price, the result was another step forward for a musician who respects tradition but has never been shackled by it. 49 GWENIFER RAYMOND TOMPKINS...

Wiretap Records bands list their favorite albums of 2020 Wiretap Records have shared their album of the year lists, including Talk Show Host, American Television, Mercy Music, LOVEBREAKERS, Catholic Guilt, Answering Machine, and In Parallel (who share a member with Hopesfall, who also made us a list). See their lists below. The Casket Lottery, who put out a record on Wiretap this year. photo via Bandcamp Weve always described our band with the beginning to a lame joke (“two recovering punks...

Image by Jamie Wdziekonski Words by Tom Walters For the next instalment of Beat’s best of Bandcamp, we spotlight four of the best releases to emerge on the platform in 2020. Hello and welcome to Beat’s best of Bandcamp, a fortnightly roundup of the best new Melbourne/Naarm bands and artists making waves on the internet’s most indispensable music platform.  If you’ve been meaning to buy some new music, are a seasoned Bandcamp veteran looking for something fresh, or are simply...

21.12.2020 Beat’s Writer’s Wrap-up 2020: Our inquisitive music critics tell us their favourite releases of the year From left to right - Phoebe Bridgers, Perfume Genius and Tame Impala We spotlight the best releases of the year through the eyes of our writers. 2020… what a disaster. Thank fuck we can say goodbye to the absolute slime ball that’s been the last 12 months and look towards 2021 through a positive lens. Fingers crossed ol’ mate COVID decides to take a b...

9 Best Songs of the Last Two Weeks: HAIM, Little Dragon and Moses Sumney, Taylor Swift, and More Plus Julia Jacklin, The Besnard Lakes, Anna Burch, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks Dec 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone) Little Dragon Welcome to the 45th and likely very last Songs of the Week of 2020. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because there weren’t quite enough inspiring songs to put together a full list, so this week’s list cove...

Under the Radar selects its top tips for the New Year Dec 19, 2020 By Dom Gourlay Photography by Natalie Kerr Web Exclusive As 2020 draws to a close, it’s time to get our collective crystal balls and look to see whose future shines brightest for the twelve months ahead. It’s been a difficult year for the music industry in general due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Thankfully, that hasn’t stopped a surge of incredible new music greeting our eardrums throughout the course of this...