Local Focus

Cover photo: Jay Reitze-Swensen Elise Reitze and Rosie Taylor aka. Feels have been going from strength to strength recently, both on stage and in the studio. The Perth duo have just finished a run of live dates at Listen Out, Laneway and Perth In... Read More...

Calling Network Connection a record store would be selling it short. It's a beautifully considered space which embodies the deep respect owner/operator Josh Leenaars has for the music he offers. For this edition of Local Wax, Josh takes us on a tr... Read More...

This edition of Local Wax comes from one of Sydney's finest purveyors of electronic music, Andy Garvey. With an impeccable ear and far reaching taste, Andy brings a diverse palette of local and international dance music to the airwaves with her own s... Read More...

Support your dealer! As part of our new Local Wax series, we'll be hitting up our neighbourhood record shops and local selectors on the regular, asking for their top picks of recently released Australian vinyl. This time around, we took a stroll u... Read More...

If you missed out on a ticket to Diplo’s sold-out show at the Hordern on the weekend, there’s still an opportunity to catch the producer in a much more intimate setting. This Sunday at the Giant Dwarf he’ll be sitting down with Nina Las Vegas for a Q... Read More...

Digging around in Soundcloud hoping to stumble on new music you'll love is like being that guy on the beach looking for gold with a metal detector: you need both optimism and spare time in large amounts. So to stumble upon Gentle Records was almost a... Read More...

A vinyl mecca of Australia, Melbourne is evidently reversing the trend of dwindling record stores seen in other cities. There's even been new stores joining the wide sprawl and you'll often be amazed by what exotic records beach themselves here. H... Read More...

For a very limited time the lower floor of Liveschool has been transformed into "The Record Dungeon" - a pop up record store selling stacks of black wax from the overflowing collections of two of Sydney's most notorious selectors - Barney (aka Kato o... Read More...

Sound system culture is not something that usually goes hand in hand with Sydney or even Australia for that matter. Popularised in Jamaica in the 1950’s then exported by Caribbean communities who immigrated to the UK shortly after, sound system cultu... Read More...

Ahead of his presentation at our INPUT event on Saturday 29th November at FBi Social, we caught up with Jensen Interceptor (Motorik / BoysNoize Rec) for a quick Q&A. Don't miss his talk on 29th where he'll be taking the audience through how to g... Read More...