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Stevan – ‘Ontogeny’ review: Bold second mixtape from rising psych ’n’ B star
The Wollongong up-and-comer shows a rawer side on his second project for 2020 – this time drawing on trap and electronic influences

Triple One: “We’re still trying to challenge people’s ideas of Australian rap”
The Inner West Sydney hip-hop crew sprawl out and open up on debut album ‘Panic Force’

JK-47: The First Nations MC from Tweed Heads keeping it both real and inspirational
On his solo debut album ‘Made For This’, Jacob Paulson doesn’t shy away from hard truths and heavy stories. But he remains a believer in music’s transformative power

Briggs: “I’ve got this far off my gut instinct, so I often go with it!”
The Shepparton polymath talks his bold new EP, ‘Always Was’, the next A.B. Original project and why some recent Black Lives Matter engagements have felt like “brand activation”

L-FRESH The LION: “Everybody is owning where they’re from, because you can’t silence us”
The Sikh Australian rapper pays tribute to his home of South West Sydney on his latest album, which he calls “a new beginning”

Ziggy Ramo is the Indigenous rapper who made 2020’s most important Australian album – five years ago
The Sydney-via-Arnhem Land artist asks big questions about Australia’s Black history on ‘Black Thoughts’, an album of reckoning and renewal

Not just any kid: Stevan takes his bedroom pop from Wollongong to the world
He’s released his debut mixtape, ‘Just Kids’. Now Stevan wants to use his growing profile in the Aussie music scene to inspire empathy and change

Queensland storyteller Miiesha on her new collection ‘Nyaaringu’: “I had to move a long way outside my comfort zone”
The buzz surrounding the rising soul ’n’ b star will only grow as she drops her first full-length project

SUPEREGO: Fremantle’s latest musical renegades are electrifying the Australian hip-hop scene
The Western Australian alt-hip-hop crew so impressed Sampa The Great, she insisted on a collab – but only now are they proud of their own art-rap