While Little Dragon were in town for their blink and you’ll miss it two stop sold out tour they managed to sneak in to the triple j studios to take on Kelis’ Millionaire as part of the Like a Version series… and just when you thought you couldn’t crush any harder on Yukimi she goes and does the André 3000 rap… Phwoar!

 

As the anticipation builds for the release of Royal Blood’s debut long player this Friday we thought we’d revisit an interview that resident wordsmith Wax Volcanic penned ahead of the guys’ first trip (as a band) down under back in May/June of this year*

What were/are you doing at 16 years of age?*

We’re guessing you weren’t/aren’t making music as good as East.

Just in case you haven’t been listening to triple j and didn’t already know, Old Age is a proper JAM.
 

There’s a fair amount of mystery surrounding Melbourne’s Hopium not to mention a severe lack of information on the world wide web about them but here’s what we do know…

Their new single featuring Phoebe Lou of Snakadaktal fame is ALL KINDS OF GOOD.

Dreamers is… well, a dreamy slice of indie-tronic pop and since landing in our inbox has been on constant rotation, seriously we’re gonna be dreaming about this track tonight and Soundcloud, if you’re listening do us a solid and build a repeat button into your player please.

When it comes to hip hop memorabilia the Beastie Boys are connoisseurs; true understanders of the value of brand and its potential for useless (but collectible and subsequently expensive) offshoots. Even as we speak the brilliant UNIQLO store in Japan is featuring several Beasties derived T’s in its summer range.

But very few acts have their own designer wallpaper. As in real wallpaper you put on Walls, not something for your computer. So collectors, up your game and paper the smallest room in Mike D’s hand printed Brooklyn wallpaper:
 

via The Guardian

via Pile Rats - Too good not to share

A couple of years ago my band posted a song on Unearthed and Dom Alessio played it on Home & Hosed, and it was really exciting. Our music was played on national radio! Dom seemed to like it, and we were all very stoked. Since then though, it hasn’t really been played much since, and any new music we put up hasn’t really gotten much attention besides a couple of Unearthed spins.

And this is completely fine.