COVER STARS Mincy: Punter, Promoter, Producer, Pioneer Gadigal Land/Sydney-based DJ, producer, Extra Spicy label head & Dayshift organiser is Mixmag ANZ's latest Cover Artist.
FEATURES Independent Music Exchange is an algorithm-antidote From 6-7 June, Northcote Town Hall welcomes the return of the Independent Music Exchange, a two-day celebration of local, community-minded releases and the people behind the action.
SCENE REPORTS The Breakfast Club: Freedom from the 9-5 since 2014 As the iconic Naarm/Melbourne-originating after-hours party celebrates a dozen years, writer Hugo Hodge reflects on its enduring and hedonistic legacy.
LISTS Mixmag ANZ's favourite EPs & albums of 2026 thus far 30+ releases we can't get enough of from across Australia & Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2026.
SCENE REPORTS Sydney Opera House's Forecourt is a litmus test for its city One of Australia’s most beautiful venues has long struggled with spreading its wings. Its latest series of forecourt shows proves that it’s space worth giving.
FEATURES Repetition as devotion: Inside Pugilist’s ‘Found Sound’ The Scotland-turned-Aotearoa-turned-Australian producer’s debut album comes after a mammoth 70 releases, but not a moment too soon.
CULTURE Hiko: 'Creating Māori oases in a concrete desert' Writer Nicholas Lindstrom dives into the potency of a musical movement only recently given its own name.
FEATURES Label Spotlight: Butter Sessions A pillar of Naarm/Melbourne's underground & one of Australia's most revered labels celebrates its 15th year this weekend.
CULTURE Venue Spotlight: Carriageworks One of Gadigal Land/Sydney’s most iconic spots, Carriageworks has long been a supporter of music, art and culture a little left of the zeitgeist, to great effect.
SCENE REPORTS Melbourne to Mexico, Animalia connects two underground worlds Writer Hugo Hodge finds a slice of Naarm/Melbourne in Mexico City, as Kia's beloved label sees the two cities converging over two weekends.
FEATURES Nicole Skeltys on rebooting B(if)tek & Artificial In the wake of an exciting reissue of ‘Sub-Vocal Theme Park’, B(if)tek’s first record, Nicole Skeltys talks about touring again, her solo project Artificial, and reintegrating into a new DIY scene nearly three decades on.
COMMENT Skynet in the age of AI: Hear My Eyes' Terminator 2 The rework of James Cameron's action classic by Peter Van Hoesen, Robin Fox & others was a celebration of creativity in a world increasingly devoid of it.
FEATURES Faithless & the enduring echoes of the 90s The iconic UK group visits Australia for the first time in 15 years this weekend.
SCENE REPORTS The beauty if finality: vale ABSORB(ED) Naarm/Melbourne’s most experimental festival says farewell to a short life, but a long legacy this weekend.
COVER STARS Cousin: music without a mirror The Gadigal Land/Sydney-born producer, DJ and Moonshoe label head is Mixmag ANZ’s first Cover Artist for 2026.
CULTURE murmurations: sonic entrainment & mutual tuning The event, focused on stepping outside familiar club frameworks, takes a different approach to intentional listening.
FEATURES More 'place' than 'piece' on Climes' 'Water & Music' The Gadigal Land/Sydney producer's debut album, paired alongside a full-length album visualiser by Naarm/Melbourne filmmaker Jordan James Kaye, is an ode to humanity when we've never needed it more.
FEATURES Coding, collapse & clarity on r hunter's 'Yield' The LP, released via Naarm/Melbourne label Absorb, finds new life in the form of an accompanying work by artist Eek.
ARTISTS Life between languages: Takeo.K's dreamlike debut album ‘Home Is Everywhere and Nowhere at Once’ is Naarm/ Melbourne based artist Takeo.K’s debut album, a multidimensional collage piecing together home through a decade of experimentation.
LISTS Machine Beats - exploring the sounds of ‘80s club music in Aotearoa Writer Martyn Pepperell dives into a generation of club music defined by hairstyles and fashion changing more rapidly than ever before.
FEATURES Our most anticipated sets for Wildlands Festival Ahead of this coming year's Wildlands instalments in Boorloo/Perth & Meanjin/Brisbane, we put a list together on who we're most excited to hear from.
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