- ARSE! It’s just fun to say, as the little old ladies -seated around the mostly empty foodcourt- look at you out of the corner of their eyes and clutch their fake pearls. The Sydney three-piece relish that part of their craft.

- With his plunking acoustic guitar stabs and rough balladeer vocals, Richard Dawson has become a darling of experimental folk music, taking pastoral whimsy into noisy and abrasive territory. His new record 2020 chronicles the malaise of British society with an almost forensic eye for specific detail. This, perhaps, is what explains the decision for Dawson to plug in and showcase a wider range of musical scope, including garage rock, psychedelia and post-punk.

- The sentiment of “product of their environment” has hardly ever rung more true for anyone than it does for Starcrawler. Their environment is LA. Said environment is on full display on their sophomore album Devour You. The group populates a new class of bands that comfortably straddle the divide between an occasionally gaudy, Sunset Strip rock flair and the grassroots, shotgun blast of energy coming from a crew of youngsters getting together and making noise.

4ZZZ's Boddhi Farmer and Jack Jones sat down to have a chat about the love letter to classic hiphop,  uknowhatimsayin¿, by hiphop's inveterate oddball Danny Brown.

Boddhi: What can we say about Danny Brown to kick us off? He's definitely an indie darling.