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review, music
July 10, 2026

Review: Miles Nautu's the front

Naarm-based Aboriginal and Fijian rapper and producer Miles Nautu has delivered his most significant project. 'the front' is the solidest jazz-hop EP this continent has seen.

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review, music
July 10, 2026

Review: Miles Nautu's the front

Naarm-based Aboriginal and Fijian rapper and producer Miles Nautu has delivered his most significant project. 'the front' is the solidest jazz-hop EP this continent has seen.

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MUSIC, LIST, CULTURE
June 25, 2026

New Blak Music

New First Nations tunes we've been loving lately — genre-agnostic and always deadly.

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FEATURE, REVIEW
June 18, 2026

hendle. Why now?

There is heart in the record. There is life in it. There is a community that loves it. Those things are often discussed as consolation prizes when a work is not engineered for scale, as though sincerity and collective meaning are what artists receive in lieu of success. Hendle suggests another possibility: that community is not the fallback market for the work but the reason the work exists.

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Review, feature, music, culture
May 15, 2026

Golden Plains Review

Golden Plains festival, held each March long weekend on Wadawurrung Country, brings together 12,000 friends and soon-to-be friends. This year in particular, as the world feels as though it is crumbling around us, there was a collective spirit of defiance and hope.

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MUSIC
March 20, 2026

NEW BLAK MUSIC PLAYLISTS

Your go-to for new tracks from some of our favourite Blak artists updated monthly — now streaming on Tidal, Spotify and Amazon. Genre agnostic and always deadly.

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MUSIC, REVIEW
March 2, 2026

LIVE REVIEW: MR RHODES AT THE TROCADERO ROOM

Mr Rhodes steps up and instantly injects such undeniable energy into the room it’s hard not to smile and catch a groove — out of nowhere the dance floor has filled.

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MUSIC, REVIEW
March 2, 2026

REVIEW: COOEE – MESSENGERS

Whilst the core of Cooee is the duo of Kirli Saunders and Mark Chester Harding, they have been able to build bigger worlds and community through song. The best projects bring the Mob along with them, and this is what Cooee is able to do so effortlessly — a community centred on Blak joy and self-expression.

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MUSIC, REVIEW
February 9, 2026

REVIEW: Boox Kid - Barang Ngarang Kadjin (SOS)

Boox Kid has highlighted the power of connection to place, people and Country all while making you tap your foot. This happy track gives us something to look forward to. Go for a cruise along the coastline on a nice day and throw this song on in the car.

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Review, Music
February 6, 2026

REVIEW: Cooee – Yadingji

Creating a hook with a language word in the chorus has you singing gratitude long after this track ends, and we give yadingji to Cooee for this bright, Blak and heartened release. This one is a must for your driving playlist — just make sure you’re on a journey back home.

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