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Gig Review: Beyond The Beat - Melbourne Hip Hop Show On a winter’s night in Melbourne City, you can’t predict the weather - the city of four seasons. And still, despite the rain, tonight’s event BEYOND THE BEAT presents a night of rhyme and rhythm, supporting the underground local hip-hop where all proceeds go to not-for-profit organisation BEYOND BLUE dedicated...

Ciecmate – The Yin Ep Perhaps his most personal release to date, The Yin is more than just an EP. It’s like a tête-à-tête across a table with the man Ciecmate himself. He has always been one to share himself inside the music he creates, but this release is more intimate than anything else he has done before, and is...

KERSER live @ Max Watts W, Rates, Jay UF Supports: Skrub & Nerve   As evidenced by tonight’s turn-out, where Hilltop has history Kerser has an army of soldiers loyal to whatever ABK 225 does next. Never has a homegrown rapper been such the puppet master as this Sydney-sider. Tonight could very well be a recruitment drive. Outside the event at...

DISCOURSE, STARVIN B, LAZY GREY, FLUENT FORM, MAUNDZ, EXIT STRATEGY @ The Back Room - Chardons Corner Hotel, Annerley Friday 14 October, 2016 It’s a turn out tonight of real hip-hop heads. While everyone is here to witness DJ Discourse wreck the decks, the General is in the building and he later shows why he’s kept the state on lock...

Gig Review! The Big Chill Festival 2015   This year we were lucky enough to spend New Year's Eve in Brisbane at The Big Chill Fest, taking over West End for the second year running. And, if last year's festival was anything indicator, then tonight punters were certainly in for a treat. Although it would be hard to squeeze every...

FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS Live @ The Milk Factory, BNE – Saturday 18th April, 2015 Supports: DJ Backlash (BNE), Upryt (BNE), Tendancee (BNE), Tailor Made (BNE) & Verbill (BNE). For OHHS & Rip2Shredz Press Words by RIP NICHOLSON Live Image by Dwayne Bridgland Tonight the Fundamental Elements bring all they have to their EP launch at South Brisbane’s Milk Factory, a huddled corner space just fit...

Seth Sentry live @ Hi-Fi Brisbane on February 20th, 2015. Photo courtesy of Dave Kan. With a show that hosts a broadened hip hop audience, Seth Sentry bridges the underground scene to the fickle hipsters coupled up into one crowd craving to break from reality, just for one night with one of Australia’s best storytellers. Seth Sentry Live...

Ghostface Killah live @ Woolly Mammoth, Brisbane on December 12th, 2014. Photo courtesy of Jann Angara. Ghostface Killah made it known that he’s travelled 22 hours to showcase the cult hero rep that comes from being a member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Short of wearing an official Wu-cut jacket, he banged the Clan to the fullest as did DJ...

When I first arrived at legendary Melbourne venue the Espy (Esplanade Hotel,) for Raise the Roof IV, my most prominent thought was relief to be out of the icy rain bucketing down outside. I certainly didn’t envy the mass of patiently shivering hip hop heads still waiting in line. But once inside; warm, dry, and with a beer in my...