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At the end of the 1980s, in my early teens, I was at my first DIY punk show in a run-down apartment building that housed a makeshift stage and had graffiti on the walls. To make it more spacious someone had torn down the walls between two apartments to make it possible to squeeze in a hundred people – tops. …

A story of success doesn’t necessarily need to involve chart-topping hits or millions of sold records, it could be to reach what you didn’t think was possible: to live off what you do and reach the goal that you dreamt of as a child. The story of Lights & Motion and the amazing adventures of its creator Christoffer Franzén starts …

Is there anything quite as excruciating as the suspended silence that follows when your favourite band or artist decide to pull the breaks? It’s that brief moment of uncertainty when you don’t know if it’s the end of a career that’ve had a major impact on your life or if it’s just a year off to recharge the batteries. Nicole …

Twelve years ago one of Australia’s most hard-working bands started off in Brisbane when Shane Parsons and Simon Ridley moved from Bundaberg for university studies, and soon after they formed DZ Deathrays and started playing local house parties in Australia’s third biggest city. A decade later and after relentlessly touring the world, including opening up nights for bands as Foo …

1977, the year of the so-called “German Autumn”, when the Baader-Meinhof axis flared up in one last burst of terrorist outrage before being effectively eradicated by a wave of suicides, was the year in which Krautrock as a whole was winding down or settling into mainstream, de-radicalised careers. The Neu! legend, however, was destined to lie in abeyance for decades. …

Shoegaze was developed by a number of UK bands in the late-80s and early-90s and is known for layers of distorted and processed guitar and keyboard sounds used to create atmosphere and mood as background for gently sung vocals. Artists such as My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Swervedriver were considered part of the original subgenre. Although those are old and …