UQ rejects student activist Drew Pavlou's appeal rejected
The University of Queensland’s appeals committee has decided student activist Drew Pavlou’s suspension will be upheld for the remainder of this year and is to complete 25 hours of campus service.
Pavlou was originally handed a two-year suspension for multiple allegations of misconduct.
He was due to graduate at the end of this year.
UQ researchers begin human trials for COVID-19 vaccine
The University of Queensland (UQ) have begun human trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine in Brisbane.
The trial will see one hundred and twenty volunteers injected with two doses of the potential immunisation every four weeks.
Researchers will monitor the volunteers reactions over a twelve month period with preliminary results expected to be released in September.
Kllo: Maybe We Could
<p><span><span><span><span>- </span></span></span></span><span><em><span><span>Maybe We Could</span></span></em></span><span><span><span><span>, sure, why not? It’s never been difficult for Kllo before. Or has it? After a bunch of years banging out quiet, ambient house with tinges of UK garage and US r’n’b in an efficient manner, I hear the Melbourne pair nearly didn’t make their new record at all.
Protomartyr: Ultimate Success Today
- I’m strongly considering changing my writing name for the rest of this review to either Rip Van Winkle or the Purple Wiggle because Christ mate, I’ve been sleeping so incredibly hard on the glorious pomp of Protomartyr. I’ll need to astral project like in that one episode of The X-Files to give myself a different perspective on how the fuck this band could have possibly missed my orbit. It is everything I love and then some when it comes to janky post-punk, instrumentals droning and ramping tension.
Jerome Blazé: Open, A Home
- Jerome Blazé is just a young fella, he made his first moves on the Sydney music scene when he was only sixteen, in 2015 I think. That makes him, now, a very fresh-faced twenty-year-old. You can tell he’s just bursting with young-person energy and enthusiasm, because it’s right there in his new EP (which is certainly not his first one - that was back in 2015). Open, A Home.
Leanne Tennant: Happiness Is...
<span><span>- Leanne Tennant is a bit of a quiet achiever?!
Agency: Wild Possession
<span><span>- There aren't many positives to be gleaned from the current pandemic, least of all for the musical community. One small upside has been the number of bands releasing recordings that have been sitting on the shelf for a number of years. With not much else to do there's been time to put the finishing touches on these records, and – with further encouragement from Bandcamp's monthly fee-free Fridays – finally put them out for public consumption.
Natalie Slade: Control
- I shouldn’t say this, but I kinda decided I was going to like this record long before I pressed play. Natalie Slade’s latest full length outing, Control, has already been getting love from BBC1Extra, New York Times, NME etc, but I didn’t know that yet.
4ZZZ Top 20
1. Holiday Party - Holiday Party
2. Agency - Wild Possession (Album Of The Week)
3. Miiesha - Nyaaringu
4. First Beige - Not Gonna Feel The Way You Asked For (Single)
5. Blussh - Better Than This (Single)
6. Hearts And Rockets - Milk Bar (Single)
7. Sunbather - Brown Bread EP
8. VOIID - Socioanomaly
9. Pool Shop - Kiss The Sky (Single)
10. Ancient Channels - Deep Rest (Single)
11. Vladik - Girl (Single)
12. Apadalia - Hold You Hear EP
13. Tia Gostelow - Psycho (Single)
The Beths: Jump Rope Gazers
- I don’t know about you but I was under the impression I’d uncovered all the tops music my old man was listening to by the time high school had come and gone but boy howdy, having said sentiment proved wrong was a right proper delight and it was when the evidence to the contrary was The Beths. Hailing from off of New Zealand, the three-turned-four-piece power pop crew are following up on 2018’s Future Me Hates Me with this new effort Jump Rope Gazers.