Aussie ravers will be pretty stoked with the news of the awesome lineup for the 2013 Future Music Festival that’s just been announced. With artists who created some of the world’s most intense yet dancable music, you know you can more than get your groove on while feeling fucking pumped!
When you and your mates start planning a night out, you’re all pretty stoked about heading out to the clubs and getting smashed beyond belief. But then the ball drops: someone just asked if you could be the designated driver! Upon hearing this, you think, “What did I do to deserve this?”
Though it’s only October, New Years Eve is only around the corner and before you know it, it’ll be 2013 (though Mayans will tell you you’ll be dead by then). But being the big party starters they have always been, The Marquee Club plans to end 2012 with a big bang (a good one that won’t destroy the world) Back To The Future style (sans DeLorean, though that awesome time traveling automobile does appear on the event’s poster).
Heaps of bars and nightclubs play old school rock anthems that everyone immediately recognises from its opening drum beat or guitar riff. They have stood the test of time and new generations have embraced them. Despite the recognition these bad ass songs have gotten for being so rockin’, the bands that made them think their own songs are goofs.
The folks at Triple J are once again bringing us all into the new year with the Pyramid Rock Festival in Phillip Island. Named after Pyramid Rock which is a basalt rock formation just offshore from where the festival’s happening, you may be disappointed if you expect an actual pyramid to be there (I recommend either Egypt or Guatemala for the real deal).
Remember when you were a kid how whenever a photo was being taken, you would put your index and middle fingers up behind the kid in front of you to make it look like they had bunny ears? Classic, huh? You may think people old enough to go clubbing have well and truly outgrown doing that old childish joke, but you’re wrong. After more than a few drinks, peeps can’t help but revert back to childhood jokes when they see a camera about to take a snapshot
Though many rap fans think of Tupac and Biggie Smalls as the pioneers of rap, many seem to have forgotten that the 1980s happened before the 1990s, therefore have forgotten all the rappers of that decade. Big Daddy Kane was around years before those two hit their stride, and unlike them, is still alive and rapping.
If you’re regularly on either Facebook or YouTube, it’s pretty likely that you’ve come across the term “gangnam style” a few times recently. For those who don’t know what Gangnam Style is, it’s a dance from the music video of a Korean rap/dance song of the same name by rapper PSY, parodying the hipster district of Gangnam in Seoul.
Many scoff when they hear Aussies trying to rap, with thoughts of them being wannabe Americans or just lame. The Homegrown Hip Hop Night at The Esplanade Hotel will showcase local rappers performing their very own rhymes that will show these guys are the furthest thing from wannabes.
Hardcore heavy metal fans may look like a rough bunch who have no qualms about getting into punch ons, headbang others around them (causing them concussions) or just pushing and shoving in the moshpit. These people could easily have been called bastards (probably worse names actually) at some point or another. Well, these types of heavy