After discovering lip magazine in 2011 I realised that I was quite the feminist. I always have been but I never connected my opinions with feminism or even really tried to understand what feminists believed in. That is, until now. The problem is that I know that I am a feminist and I am all…
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Sex sells. I’m not denying that, but it shouldn’t have to be used to sell everything. Anyone with even an online advertising degree would agree. There was a time when advertisements for socks didn’t include a mostly nude woman lying in a provocative pose just to guarantee sales. Now it seems that the advertising world…
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A band that would perform ‘absolutely, entirely for free’ simply ‘because they love it’, the Easy Star All-Stars sure know how to please a crowd. Returning to Australia for the first time since 2009, the band had a blast at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on December 30th, 2011. The All-Stars are best known for…
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LMFAO – ‘Sexy and I know it’ I never thought that such a stereotypically ‘clubby’ song like this would make my top five, but here it is. LMFAO has officially contaminated my brain, enough that if I’m at a club and it comes on… just try and keep me off of the dance floor. I…
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Confident enough to demand drinks from their audience and good enough to actually get them, Ball Park Music is one dynamo sextet you don’t want to miss. Front man, Sam Cromack, leads band members Jennifer Boyce, Brock Smith, Paul Furness and twins Dean and Dan Hanson, into energetic sets that leave crowds hollering for more….
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Melburnian singer-songwriter Laura Jean Englert sings with reckless abandon and sincerity in her third LP, tongue-twistingly titled A Fool Who’ll. With lyrics entwined with beautiful imagery and shameless honesty (“I wasn’t kissed until I was eighteen”) she delivers unique vocals that are taught with emotion. This is an album to listen to in one sitting,…
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Lanie Lane, a Sydney-born singer songwriter is one of the few lucky people amongst us who gets to do what she loves and get paid for it. ‘I really like pretty much all parts of my job. It’s really fun,’ she says. Living a life without routines, Lane’s days are made up of touring, playing…
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“Don’t worry.” “Just Relax.” “Calm down.” I think if I hear these words directed at me just one more time I might actually go mental. Oh wait, technically I already am. I have what is called Social Anxiety Disorder, which amongst other things means I now get to tick all sorts of extra boxes on…
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Auckland’s totally unpredictable punk band, the Coolies, are set to wow Australian crowds when they return to Melbourne and Adelaide for the first time in eight years this October. Lip caught up with singer and guitarist Tina who, along with Sjionel (vocal and CZ1), has been with the band since its first song graced the…
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A collection she describes as ‘something with no end or beginning,’ Laura Marling’s third album, A Creature I Don’t Know, is sure to impress. With an angrier, more foreboding tone, this album is very different to her first and second, particularly noticeable in the dark themes that permeate it. Despite being about love and hate,…
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