Love Of Diagrams, a Melbourne three-piece that put out some pretty noisy ’80s music, have been around for a little while. Most recently, they wound up 2011 with a string of shows to launch their 7″ In My Dream. So here’s a few questions, and their answers. I’ve been keeping track of you guys ever…
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Speaking to Brigid Dawson of Thee Oh Sees is one of the oddest, and yet most enjoyable interviews I’ve ever done. It kind of feels like being on a first date, where you’re interested in what they’re saying, and they’re polite and informative, but it’s not until you hit on that magic question that brings…
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It’s not every day you meet two sisters who grew up on a Hare Krishna commune. Even less frequent are two sisters who grew up on a Hare Krishna commune and now make music taking inspiration from horror soundtracks, revelatory psychedelic explorations, the codeine drone of slowed and chopped rap, and, of course, Hare Krishna…
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For American band Lydia, their music is renowned throughout the indie music community and for their legions of loyal fans. But they almost never got to releasing their latest album Paint it Golden, which came out in late 2011. After a falling out with another band member during 2010, Lydia embarked on what they thought…
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A veteran and darling of Australia’s music industry, Melbourne singer and songwriter (not to mention, writer and painter), Jess McAvoy, has now moved to the US to show the northern hemisphere why her home country fell in love with her. Have a read of her inspiring Q&A with Lip, and just keep your fingers crossed…
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Read Dunja Nedic’s interview with Australian blues rocker, Abbe May, ahead of her appearance at the Pyramid Rock Festival! Check Lip Magazine every day for new music content!
Describe your sound in five words or less. Poppy – Folk – Fun – Lyrical – Multifaceted Was there a particular moment or artist that made you want to pursue music when you were growing up? Who were your early influences? I didn’t grow up wanting to be a rock star… but as a kid…
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I used to hate memoirs. I thought they were self-indulgent and lacked a certain composition in the writing. But when I was twenty, I read Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and something shifted. In the past year, likely since I’m working on my own, I’ve devoured memoirs. I’m fascinated at how other…
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Describe your sound in five words or less. Ghost on a lost highway. Was there a particular moment or artist that made you want to pursue music when you were growing up? Who were your early influences? I grew up in a household that was always filled with instruments, rehearsals and musicians coming and going….
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Describe your sound in five words or less. Eclectic jungle African indie dance Was there a particular moment or artist that made you want to pursue music when you were growing up? Who were your early influences? Harrison: Not a single moment, but, as a 90s kid, like everyone else, I was obsessed with Nirvana….
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An interview with Aureliao Amadei about his autobiographical film 20 Cigarettes, now screening at the Italian Film Festival.
Olivia Dikambi is an inspirational, entrepreneurial young woman. Aged just 24, she has already represented over 50 clients in the entertainment industry and has spent the last year running her own PR agency in New York. This interview with Olivia Dikambi covers what inspires her, how to succeed and lead in a competitive industry like…
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The pioneering band The New York Dolls are renowned for pre-empting punk music in the early 1970s and influencing groups such as The Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads, just to name a few. The remaining members including front man David Johansen and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, recently re-formed and are set to perform at the boutique…
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When Morrissey has said of a band, ‘It’s so easy to fire out remnants of snobbery where new music is concerned, but once every three thousand years, a band comes along who restore that precious component of faith’, you have to assume that they’re worth a listen. Having just made an appearance at Splendour in…
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