Australian psych-pop duo Empire of the Sun played their first and perhaps last show during an early morning solar eclipse today. The heavily stylized six and a half minute video performance took place during the longest such event of the 21st cen...
A colossal collection of 28,000 rare recordings and samples were made available by The British Library on September 4, in what’s sure to be a boon for musicologists, DJs and anyone else interested in what music sounded like in 1898, the year of t...
Underworld have broken their silence about new recordings they’re working on with ambient maestro Brian Eno. In an exclusive interview with UK radio station BBC6, Underworld reported that they have holed themselves up in a studio in Australia and...
One of Australia’s finest independent labels, Future Classic, will release electronic popster Jamie Lloyd’s Beware of The Light next month. Emanating from Sydney’s Mad Racket scene, Lloyd moved into the limelight after his 2006 debut Trouble Wi...
Australian dance trio Infusion will be releasing their long awaited second album All Night Sun Light this December. The follow up takes a more disco pop-inspired direction, channeling Depeche Mode and Human League. It’s been roughly five years si...
New York punk-funk group The Rapture are working on their fourth as yet untitled album with Cassius’s very own Philippe Zdar.A very exciting prospect indeed, word of the collaboration passed down via an interview Zdar completed whilst recently in...
Grammy Award winners and friends of Electronic Beats, Phoenix, have released a free downloadable live album as a token gesture to all their loyal fans. The French band recently experienced some huge success with their album Wolfgang Amadeus and a...
According, to Cut Copy’s MySpace, the group has finally completed their as yet untitled third album. Recorded in the outskirts of Melbourne, the synthy-pop band will release the newest installment come January 2011. With the album already recorde...
Australian noise-niks PVT (formerly Pivot) are giving away their new single 'Window' as a free download ahead of the launch of their third album, Church With No Magic, later this summer. The single will be released officially at the beginning of...
Stelarc’s artform is unique. Genius or insanity? Come to your own decision! The Australian-based artist considers himself as a living Cyborg, as a platform for his own body-artworks. He developed a third hand, which is controlled only by electric...
BEARDYMAN“I recently toured New Zealand and Australia with Bacardi. I travelled on a train for two days, up the South East coast of Australia from Melbourne to Sydney, stopping off to play two gigs a day. It was crazy. The bands I was touring wit...
There’s only one band that can truly pull off 1980’s majestic chic, that can break through the monotony of electro/new wave mainstream abuse and that can really ‘give you what you want!’ That’s the enviably cool ‘New Young Pony Club’. ‘electronic...
From the Alt-MOR pop of Ariel Pink to the African infused charms of Mim Suleiman via grimy London bass-house, as usual we have had a whole stack of music for you that soundtracked our June. In between England's failures and Germany's triumphs at...
So you know Modular first and foremost as the home of some of Australia’s hottest electronic music, but that’s not all they do. Tame Impala are a prime example of the label venturing into other territories. The psychedelic rock three-piece, origi...
It’s probably fair to say that Steve Pavlovic (those in the know call him Pav) is something of a legendary figure in the Australian music scene. He first got a foothold as a promoter bringing some of the biggest names in nineties music – think Be...
Let me just start off this one-sided review by shouting from the rooftops very calmly, this is already my favorite album of 2010 so far. An LP that holds so much weight it could sink their hometown, which coincidentally is the most isolated city...
A different set of sounds and instruments, and I would hazard a new way of working, has led to a significant development in the sound of PVT as aptly demonstrated on the nausea inducing video for 'Window' (which you can see below). However, for b...
An urban art project started by UK artist Luke Jerram caused quite the musical stir in London over the weekend. Jerram took the unique step of installing 30 stand-alone pianos across the city, upon which anyone was free to play.This idea proved a...
Coinciding with our new Antipodean Electronic Beats magazine issue, the innovative Australian fashion label Eleventh Commandment have released pictures of their exciting new line.Designers behind the new Spring/Summer 2010 collection are the Sydn...
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