STACK #124 Feb 2016

MUSIC

STREAMING ON

JB HI FI NOW music mobile: STACK LOVE IT

At STACK this month, we got mobile with JB HI-FI NOW MUSIC. And boy, are we loving it. While we’ve always loved streaming some favourites in the office after deadline madness (this month alone it’s been The Birthday Party, Mozart, Miles Davis and Sleaford Mods), using the service at home via our smartphones has been a wonderful revelation! The leap from ‘fun’ to ‘cannot be without it’ comes with a modern speaker system with bluetooth that allows for streaming. Once that’s set up, using JB HI-FI NOW MUSIC on the mobile opens you up to a swiftly eclectic world. Cooking? A few swipes of the screen and there’s a custom-made playlist as eclectic or as indulgent as you wish, playing for as long – and as loud – as you like, all without you having to leave the kitchen. And the catalogue is DEEP! With over 20,000,000 tracks to peruse, you could live to be 100, browse tracks everyday, and still not get through them all. You can go for a run, walk the dog, or chill out on public transport over those long commutes and your faves are still in there, even if you move out of Wi-Fi range. You can create playlists, go back to your stored favourites, and more; it will re-awaken your love of music like nothing before.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT ON JB HI-FI NOW

Mark Ronson Uptown Special

Fall Out Boy American Beauty/ American Psycho

Sleater-Kinney formed in Olympia, WA, in 1994, and set a new bar for punk’s political insight and emotional impact. Features Carrie ‘ Portlandia’ Brownstein! Sleater Kinney No Cities to Love

Joey Bada$$ B4.DA.$$

Mark Ronson’s impressive new album Uptown Special not only contains Uptown Funk with Bruno Mars, the much-vaunted producer has roped in Motown legend Stevie Wonder, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, and Pulitizer Prize- winning novelist Michael Chabon has written lyrics. The results are a splendidly performed tightrope walk between commercially sound modern pop, edgy soul, and spacious dancefloor grooves.

The notorious Joey Badass is a 19-year-old Brooklyn rap prodigy who has turned serious heads with his summer gigs. Crowned by XXL as one of their 2013 Freshmen’s Class alongside Schoolboy Q, Travi$ Scott, & Action Bronson, and praised as a teenage visionary, he’s leading one of the most compelling cultural movements out of NYC. Well worth checking out the stream if you’re after some groundbreaking hip-hop.

It’s punk as pop gets and vice- versa. The follow-up to 2013’s number two charting album, Save Rock and Roll, the new album features Centuries and Uma Thurman. In Australia Feb/ March headlining Soundwave. “Huge arena-rattling anthems, spectacular pop vocals, powerful electronic beats... sugary sweet delightful in delicate doses.” STACK

“As fresh as they sounded in ’94... equal amounts punkish middle-finger-defiance and sheer adrenalin-fuelled sweat. You need this!” STACK

Hellions: Indian Summer

SOundwave mix

Albums: new & old

After stunning and impressive supports for Deez Nuts, Attila and Every Time I Die, Sydney punkers Hellions release the follow up to Die

With Soundwave about to land in February and March (with TWO days in each city: SO many bands on the bill), the monster heavy music fans over at Soundwave have put together a

TOP ALBUM STREAMS Meghan Trainor Title Marilyn Manson Pale Emperor Pond Man It Feels Like Space Again Belle and Sebastian Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance

Classics nowavailable • Skyhooks Living in the ’70s • The Beach Boys Keep an Eye on Summer

• Cerrone The Best of Cerrone Productions • Various Artists The Complete Stax

Soundwave mix on JB HI-FI NOW for you to check out before you get on-ground!

Young : it’s called Indian Summe r.

After Sydney appearances at Warped, they decamped to Thailand to record the new album. They aim to carve their own new direction in hardcore and heavy music: check it out at JB HI-FI NOW if you’re after a heady dose of belting new Australian hardcore.

New albums • Enter Shikari The Mindsweep • D’Angelo and the Vanguard Black Messiah • Johnny Marr Playland

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