COVER STARS KSMBA: Being sensitive goes 'hard' The rising star in Naarm/Melbourne's techno scene is Mixmag ANZ's Cover Artist for June 2025.
SCENE REPORTS Dildo walls, a car crash and transcendent music: 24 hours at Dark Mofo 2025 With a new Artistic Director at the helm, Nipaluna/Hobart’s winter festival has the opportunity for reinvention. The question is, will it take it?
CULTURE EMC's first online toolkit provides 'Foundations for DIY Creatives' The Gadigal Land/Sydney-based organisation deepens its commitment to the uplifting of local scenes.
FEATURES Tribqu celebrates the deep, diasporic power of dub This week, the Naarm-based club night and event series spearheaded by Zjoso celebrates its sixth anniversary with dub maestros Tikiman and Richard Akingbehin.
FEATURES "A tropical fish yearns for snow", on Other Joe's 'Flawless' The Naarm/Melbourne-based producer and instrumentalist has long been making music in his own sonic language, & in this intimate piece his close friend Emile Frankel acts as translator.
FEATURES NYMPHO are bridging the gap between queer club culture in Aotearoa, Australia & beyond In the midst of ATARANGI's first headline tour across the country, writer Laura McInnes spoke with the Aoteaora-born crew to better understand the momentum they're now taking to the world.
FEATURES In loving memory of: Bunker The Naarm/Melbourne techno promoter calls it quits after 12 years, with plenty of memories & homes to boot.
COVER STARS Lady Shaka is the past, present, and future of Pasifika club music So much more than a DJ, the Samoan, Tokelauan, Tahitian, Māori, and Cape Verdean is Mixmag ANZ's Cover Artist for April 2025.
CULTURE Venue Spotlight: Galaxy Bar The Ōtautahi/Christchurch venue's story is one centred entirely around community passion & safety.
LISTS Mixmag ANZ's favourite EPs & albums of 2025 thus far A belated list of everything we've been loving from across Australia & Aotearoa/New Zealand.
FEATURES Skeleten's journey through being 'Mentalized' Having just released his second LP, the Gadigal Land/Sydney has found himself just a little bit more.
COMMENT Does anything actually change after IWD? A week on from International Women's Day, a series of women across the industry spoke with Mixmag ANZ about what we can really be doing to enact change.
LISTS Mara shares her 'illogical memoir' playlist in celebration of new single 'City Pop' A playlist designed to ease us into her world, and deeper into a year likely fraught with very conflicting energy.
CULTURE Venue Spotlight: Solace Only a little over a month into opening, the latest piece of Naarm's ever growing nightlife tapestry has already made its point.
ARTISTS MOKOTRON is carving his own path with Indigenous Māori Bass In preparation for this Waitangi Day, Laura McInnes spoke with MOKOTRON about his mission, his peers, and how music fits into Aotearoa's broader political landscape in 2025.
ARTISTS Juliet Fox's brand new source of inspiration The Australian-born DJ and producer has just given birth to her first child, and with it, a whole new source of drive & inspiration.
SCENE REPORTS A dip into Ballista, operating beneath Naarm's surface Having just wrapped up its fourth year, the small-scale festival has proven that for many punters and artists alike, quality always beats out quantity.
FEATURES Is 'The Sesh' starting to catch up with Millennials? Attitudes to drugs have changed significantly since the late '80s, becoming more widely used and socially acceptable. But while Gen Z are embracing sober curiosity, the toll of sustained drug use is becoming more pronounced in older generations. David Hillier reports.
COMMENT 2024 Year in Review: Hyper-detailed, hyper-fast and hyper-connected As we start to catch our breath, let's ask ourselves, "what did we really learn this year?"
FEATURES Culture & Kaupapa transmitting on a Twisted Frequency As one of Aotearoa's favourite community festivals prepares to celebrate a decade, we spoke about what makes it what it is.
LISTS Willaris. K shares the playlist that got him through recording his latest record With the release of 'Everything Is As It Should Be' still very visible in the rear view, the artist shares a vulnerable list of tracks that pushed him through it.
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