Ozi Batla/Shannon Kennedy – Cyclic Selects
Shannon Kennedy, aka Ozi Batla, is a formative member of Australian hip-hop collective The Herd,…
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Cyclic Selects: Tim Koch
Tim Koch started out with reel-to-reel recorders and early computers, so it’s no surprise he…
Sound Quality: Pimmon interview by Matthew Levinson
Paul Gough’ wearing the same brown, short-sleeves and collared shirt as his press shots from…
Cyclic Selects – Christos Tsiolkas
Billed as grunge fiction, Christos Tsiolkas’s first novel Loaded was packed with sex, drugs and…
Cyclic Selects by Adam D Mills
Adam Mills runs the online label Sound & Fury out of his house in Nimmitabel,…
Shoeb Ahmad interview by Matthew Levinson
It begins like the fade-out at the end of a song. Barely sputtering guitar. A…
Cyclic Selects: Paradise Lost
With music, context matters. And rarely more so than with disco. High gloss, debt-laden aspiration,…
Jamie Lidell @ the Bowery Ballroom, NYC (7/6/2008)
Watching Jamie Lidell on stage it’s all too easy to see his thing as one…
Robbie Avenaim interview by Carla Teixeira
The What is Music? festival has returned for 2008 with a national road trip taking…
Cyclic Selects: Nicole Skeltys
It’s been a long ride since Nicole Skeltys and her band Area 51 were asked…
Blank Realm interview by Richard MacFarlane
The back of an organic food restaurant in Brisbane’ West End provides a surprisingly good…
Westernsynthetics interview by Matthew Levinson
Rhyece O’Neill is an intense young man. A polemical folk singer, a producer of bass-heavy…
Aluf interview by Matthew Levinson
“Club and bar audiences find my music ‘downbeat’s and ‘soft’. Audiences with a more experimental…
Cyclic Defrost Issue 19 Sydney Launch – Thursday April 3
Cyclic Defrost #19 will be online soon. However, if you’re in Sydney, come along to…
Baby Dayliner – Critics Pass Away (Longtime Listener/Inertia)
There’s a skinny white stripe between cocky arrogance and a confident swagger. There’s an even…