Rhythmic Rebellion Makes the Case for Controlling Valuable Fan Relationships

Karen Waldrup, one of a growing number of artists using Rhythmic Rebellion. 

Karen Waldrup, one of a growing number of artists using Rhythmic Rebellion. Rhythmic Rebellion has long helped artists, labels, and others to build and benefit from fan relationships by harnessing the power of one-stop digital […]

Rian Treanor and Ocen James: Saccades review – Rotherham producer meets Ugandan folk fiddler | Music

The cover of Rian Treanor and Ocen James: Saccades.

Within the grid-based continuum of contemporary electronic music, Rotherham producer Rian Treanor is an experimental outlier. Shunning four-to-the-floor kick drums and repetitive synth melodies, Treanor trades in squeals, shrieks and scattergun bass, stretching formulaic structures […]

Maxi Jazz obituary | Dance music

Faithless in 1998: Maxi Jazz, centre, Sister Bliss, right, and Dave Randall, guitarist with the group between 1996 and 1999.

Maxi Jazz, who has died aged 65, was a founder member of the British band Faithless. During the late 1990s and early 2000s they became one of the biggest names in electronic dance music, creating […]

Sia, Lime Cordiale, and Pnau with Troye Sivan: Australia’s best new music for December | Music

Gena Rose Bruce

Pnau and Troye Sivan – You Know What I Need For fans of: Modjo, Spiller, Chillout Sessions On only the second day of the season, Pnau dropped the first serious contender for song of the […]

How Painters and Dockers’ hedonistic rocker Paulie Stewart cheated death – with help from some ‘punk’ nuns | Australian books

Journalists Tony Stewart (left) and Greg Shackleton enjoy a meal in Balibo hours before the village was attacked in October 1975.

Paulie Stewart was 48 years old and had been on the waiting list for a liver transplant for more than 500 days when, at death’s door, he was visited in Melbourne’s Austin hospital by Sister […]