Author: Ivan

In a former life, I had the great pleasure of meeting Marita of Symmetrix at numerous Melbourne live electronic music events. A fellow solo artist, I always appreciated the work…

Following on from our exploration of Metal music in the Canberra region back in August, we recently had a chat with Scigod to see how things were shaping up for…

There are times when one assesses personal and key moments of the past, and how they’ve effected one’s creative future. One such time for us many a year ago, was…

The last few weeks we’ve been having a chat with Josh from SIRUS, a cutting-edge Melbourne cyberpunk music project. We met many years ago in the early mid 2000’s, if…

The last few weeks I’ve had some feelers out, searching for those often elusive local bands and projects of a metal variety. By “metal”, we’re referring of course to progressive,…

We recently met a wonderful fellow known as Doc, who runs a Rock and Metal show on 96.7 FM in Canberra and its surrounds. Rock Storm! We asked him to…

This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Boris Otterdam, founder of ENDE Records, an Australian independent label which focuses on abstract, dark, heavy and hardcore electronic music, among other…

Quite by chance, whilst making an effort to reconnect with what might be cooking in Melbourne’s live music culture (some 600km away unfortunately), I came across the work of Skye…