When Adelaide rapper Claz found out his mother was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, he started work on a tender hip-hop record to ensure her name would be forever ingrained in the city’s consciousness.
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First Nations hip-hop group Sonz of Serpent fuse boom-bap bars about the “urban Blackfella” with centuries-old cultural references. Ahead of the outfit’s hour-long WOMADelaide set this weekend, we spoke with one of the MCs about the northern suburbs, community and their debut album.
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We've rounded up Adelaide's best new music for February, including Claz, Sacredd, St. Morris Sinners, Elsy Wameyo and Jess Day.
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One half of Australia’s most beloved and eclectic plunderphonic bands, The Avalanches, explains how music can contain snippets of a person's being, and why harnessing their own music in new ways for Illuminate Adelaide is extending the life of their art.
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A slate of emerging and established Indigenous musicians will perform live this November in a deadly new event, as part of the annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Rapper Brenton Torrens usually busks by the Balls every day. He says the ban on amplified busking will lock him and other artists out of performing in the city’s busiest strip, diminishing performance opportunities and earnings.
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