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post-show, and had “a good chat” – Billie even admired Isabella’s orange camo pants) and Lana Del Rey, of whom she is a massive fan. “My favourite person ever,” she laughs. “I have three different pressings of her new album [ Norman F-cking Rockwell! ].” Those three LPs (the JB deep blue, a US-released pink with alternate cover image, and a UK-released green edition) are part of a cherished collection of vinyl, which runs the gamut of Isabella’s diverse musical interests from the big guns like U2 over to local Aussie acts like electro-pop fivesome Parcels. “I went to their

concert at The Metro in Sydney last year and I was absolutely blown away,” Isabella says. “[I love how] in touch they are with their instruments. There was one part where the guy on the piano tuned a radio to blend in with one of their songs… this is past [live looping like] Tash Sultana! It was taking something that was live, on-air, and incorporating it. It was insane.” That Isabella gets to talk about music and discover new artists in her role at JB is dear to her, but not moreso than the friendships she’s created at Glendale store – “friends for life,” she says. You can experience that delightful community feeling when you

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I f you see as many live shows as Glendale JB music staffer Isabella Hottes does, you get to know the outfit requirements of each venue – specifically, the likelihood of the temperature rising to magma-level in the moshpit. But on the freezing evening Isabella went to see BROCKHAMPTON at the Enmore Theatre in ‘18, she somehow made the terrible choice to wear a turtleneck. “A bad idea,” she laughs, “but

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Greatest Hits II 4. The Smith Street Band Don't Waste Your Anger 5. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Chunky Shrapnel 6. Queen Greatest Hits 7. Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon 8. Billie Eilish WHENWE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DOWE GO? 9. Ocean Alley Lonely Diamond 10. Ocean Alley Chiaroscuro

pop in-store, to talk either of Isabella’s most anticipated upcoming titles – BROCKHAMPTON’s Iridescence on clear vinyl, and Lana’s Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass , an audio recording of the musician’s poetry – listen to some Tame Impala (" The Slow Rush was a fantastic album of this year; I play it in the store so much, everybody probably hates me!") or anything else music- related. Get in!

that’s a good show, when you come out sweating! And wow, what a show – triple j still talk about it. Just the energy in that room – the whole place was bouncing.” Isabella rates that concert up there with her favourites, alongside U2 (she attended their last two tours), one of Billie Eilish’s early EP tours (at which she actually bumped into the artist outside the bathrooms

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