CULTURE 'Start the Party, Build the Community' with EMC's latest online toolkit Its second resource, with expertise compiled from three experienced promoters, artists and managers, is a must for anyone aspiring to do their 'own thing'.
FEATURES Label Spotlight: Trackwork Having just recently celebrated the label's 5th birthday at Australia's most prestigious venue, the Sydney Opera House, Trackwork has found itself at the centre of music's most exciting cultural crosspoints, Jonno Revanche writes.
COVER STARS Kia: A shared sense of scenius The Animalia & Cirrus label head, un:send festival founder & DJ is Mixmag ANZ’s Cover Artist for July 2025.
FEATURES Honouring Volition Records: Australia's club culture catalyst Martyn Pepperell dives into the history of one of Australia's most influential labels, perfectly timed with Efficient Space's re-release of some of its most important work.
SCENE REPORTS The pure spirit of Unsound Adelaide Australia’s cult experimental music weekend ditches branding to focus on the most mind-expanding music anyone can hope to hear, and still has fun while doing it.
CULTURE No more excuses: hotbabe93's FLINTA* database demands diverse lineups An ongoing conversation about the scene's diversity gains a vital modern resource.
FEATURES The Lubly Dae Crew & visibility beyond NAIDOC Week With their annual NAIDOC Week events kicking off this weekend, we sat down with the trio to understand what these yearly events mean for them and the national scene.
LISTS A love letter to the sounds of Summer: looking forward to Strawberry Fields 2025 In the depths of winter, it's easy to yearn for warmer days. With a plethora of recorded mixes, that's never been easier.
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.
LISTS Looking back at the sounds of ‘90s and early 2000s house, 2-step/garage and broken beat in Aotearoa Martyn Pepperell once again shares some of New Zealand's earliest & most influential digs.
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.