[EVENT] Matrimony by Alabama Blonde

Matrimony by Alabama blonde is a celebration of love in all its forms. 

Launching her latest collection for Melbourne Fashion Week, Alabama has collaborated with a cast and crew of some of Melbourne’s most creative and diverse indie talent to bring you a fashion event you will fall in love with.

After an epic sell-out show in March with the amazing Collection du Mal for VAMFF, Matrimony will be a much more intimate affair.

Thu. 30 August 2018

8:00 pm – 10:30 pm AEST

Yah Yah's

99 Smith Street 

Fitzroy, VIC 3065

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Join us this Thursday for the premiere of Alabama's new short-film, Matrimony, which will accompany the launch of the collection.

Tix include a limited edition, hand printed Alabama Blonde tote and a latex keepsake. 

Don't miss out, get your tix now: tiny.cc/alabamamatrimony

Bitch Diesel // Red Love Witch

''Just a couple of broads chasing down fame and fortune in a liquor infused haze."

Bitch Diesel are a butt load of rockin' fun with sweet riffs and a good sense of humour. Behind the simple punk rock the gals serve up some serious live stage presence and a trio of feverish charisma. 

The three-piece punk outfit have been bringing their raw rock n’ roll to Melbourne since the bitter end of 2016, with a residency at the Tote front bar, appearances at Gizzfest 2016/17, Dark Mofo and Boogie Festival 2017, plus support slots with The Cosmic Psychos, The Courtneys and Spiderbait under their sequined belts. 

📷 @paularmourphotography

Pam Hogg // Autumn/Winter 2018 Ready-To-Wear Collection

CELESTE XXX

Photo by @deadmansjoy13

Based in Los Angeles, CELESTE XXX is a dark wave musician with shock value and dark feminine tones to her music and performances. Often explosive and unapologetic, she experiments with realms of her personality with hints of inspiration from cult horror films and deities. She leaks her on stage persona into the transformation of the face through makeup artistry exploring the avant garde. 

Her vocals whilst sultry and full of sass, pack a dark synth-pop punch to the hips whilst delivering unabashed confident feminine power prowess. Celeste's onstage persona leaves little to the imagine and nor shouldn't it. She is unafraid, raw and on her own mission to delve into herself and the feminine contradictory universe we create. 

Celeste XXX succeeds in exorcising her demons and sexual female rebellion and does it all to one hell of a sexy groove and dark electro lusty beat. 

Photo via LA Weekly

https://www.xcelestekamppilaxx.com

https://xxxcelestexxx.bandcamp.com

https://www.instagram.com/celeste.x.x.x/

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[LISTEN] Lái

Lái has produced 5 tracks of of blistering Swedish influenced d-beat punk propelling raging vocals right into the face of the listener. Vocalist Aldas lyrics engage with voices that explore politics, religion, feminism and queer rights in South East Asia and the diaspora. Sung in both Bahasa Indonesian and English and the band name taken from the Chinese Mandarin phrase meaning 'to come/next,' Lái invoke identities and themes that often inter-connect but also conflict in the world around us. 

Lái is:

Vocals - Alda 

Guitar - Timmy 

Bass - Tessa 

Drums - Nissa 

Recorded May 2018 in the Roach Room by Moose 

Mixed and mastered by Moose

ART // LIZZ LOPEZ

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SRSQ // The Martyr

Photo © Kristin Cofer

SRSQ  (pronounced  seer-skew)  is  the  solo  project  of  Kennedy  Ashlyn  (vocalist/keyboardist  of  Them  Are  Us  Too).  Creative voids aren’t filled, but rather holes left that push the edges of the present into new realms of consciousness. SRSQ’s pulse began after the  death  of  Kennedy’s  closest  friend  and  TAUT  collaborator  Cash  Askew, a casualty in  the  sudden and tragic Oakland  Ghost  Ship  Fire  of  2016.  Driven by loss, SRSQ became the vehicle for Kennedy’s transformative process, exploring nuance, nostalgia, reflection, and reconciliation, manifesting in the aural landscape of Unreality.

The Martyr is the first single from the upcoming debut album 'Unreality'

As a debut, Unreality is entrance into a new form of  storytelling, traversing the present while pulling from a deep swath of experience, immersion, and sound. Like the impulse it pulls from, each song evokes the complex duality of meditation—where simple intersects with infinite. Ambient  synthesizers  that  approach  harshness,  relentless  arpeggiations  act together with Kennedy’s  vocals as a lush weapon, weaving cloudlike fables over orchestration that’s familiar and foreign. Trance-like at times, yet always rooted in cadence and structure, the synesthesia of sound and feeling takes cues from the delicate miasma of Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, or Dead Can Dance, using their example as the ground floor for building a new temple of frequency. Kennedy proves an adept architect of rhythm, using sequenced electronics as a deep backbeat that allows the harrowing beauty of her vocals to lead the journey.

Produced  by  Matia  Simovich  of  Inhalt, Unreality  is  simultaneously  crisp  and  full,  each  tone  and  note  occupying  its  own  unique  sonic  world - grief butted against power, tracked to a heavy heartbeat.

SRSQ Unreality will be out October 26^th on CD, LP, and digital formats via Dais records.