Lars Brandle

Australia, Brisbane

Overnight Editor and Australia Correspondent at Billboard

Head of Content at The BRAG

Journalist and family bloke. Head of Content at The Brag Media. I could dunk when I was young and fit.

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Articles

EDM Icon VASSY Disusses New 'BossAcoustics' EP

5 days ago | tonedeaf.thebrag.com | Lars Brandle

VASSY just might be Australia’s most underrated superstar singer. The Darwin-raised, US based singer and songwriter is a trailblazer in the EDM world, a bonafide hitmaker with upwards of 3 billion streams. She hangs out with the heavyweights of electronic music, counting David Guetta and Tiesto among her collaborators. And, in 2023, became the first female recipient of the Icon accolade at the EDM Awards in Miami.
Kirk Pengilly Remembers Epic INXS Music Video Shoot

6 days ago | au.variety.com | Lars Brandle

Back in 1985, everything was big. Hollywood heroes. Boom boxes. Hair. And music video budgets. The title track from INXS’s fifth studio album, “Listen Like Thieves,” is a fine example of a feature film crammed into a five-minute promo. “Some of the budgets of videos back then were, for one song, greater than what you spent on making the whole album,” recounts Kirk Pengilly, INXS’ founding sax player, guitarist and backing vocalist.
Duke Dumont's New Album Is 'Introspective' With 'Rave Tendencies'

6 days ago | tonedeaf.thebrag.com | Lars Brandle

Rain, mud, thousands of hands in the air. If that sounds like your idea of a party, Duke Dumont is your guy. Dumont is ready for another round. Five years after his debut LP, Dumont will unleash his second studio album, Union (via Neon Records/Universal Music Australia) on July 25. An exploration of connection, freedom, and unity, it’s led by the singles “All My Life” with Panama, and “Your Loving”, an old-school party track out today, May 9th.
Chris Lake Unpacks Pop-up Show With FISHER

6 days ago | tonedeaf.thebrag.com | Lars Brandle

The secret’s out. Chris Lake and FISHER’s pop-up show in Sydney will be a marathon and a sprint. As previously reported, the superstar DJs will spin the wheels of steel on Saturday, May 10th for a special show. That performance is now confirmed for Sydney’s Charles Moses Stadium, where, for the first time in Australia, the besties will go back-to-back. “We’re going to do a long set. I think we’re doing four hours.
Justice Once Said 'No' to Remixing a Tame Impala Song

1 week ago | tonedeaf.thebrag.com | Lars Brandle

Magic tricks take years to perfect. Just ask Justice and Tame Impala. Gaspard Augé and Xavier De Rosnay, the French electronic music duo better known as Justice, and Tame Impala mastermind Kevin Parker worked alchemy on “Neverender”, a track that won Grammy Awards gold earlier in 2025 for Best Dance/Electronic Recording. The collaboration was “an idea that we’ve been cultivating for a long time now,” explains De Rosnay on a Zoom from the French capital.
Shazam Launches ‘Viral’ Australia Chart

1 week ago | themusicnetwork.com | Lars Brandle

The tastes of music fans across Australia are captured and ranked by new charts published by Shazam, a subsidiary of Apple Music. The music recognition platform today (May 8th) launches its Shazam Viral Charts, which feature a Global top 50 frame and scores of country tallies, including the Top 200 Australia and separate top 50 charts for the five metro centres: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Also, the charts are searchable by genre (dance, hip-hop/rap, pop).
MPEG Teams With VMDO For Jetsetting ‘Fast Track’ Fellowship

1 week ago | themusicnetwork.com | Lars Brandle

One lucky (and highly skilled) Victoria-based music producer or engineer will spread their wings for a “life changing” UK opportunity, thanks to new fellowship provided by MPEG and VMDO. Launching today, May 7th, the Fast Track Fellowship offers a Victorian based producer, producer/writer, mix engineer or recording engineer a pathway to the UK for up to 8 weeks in July and August of 2025. During that time, the fellow will have access to mentors, studios and industry events.
Rag'n'Bone Man Talks Silver Screen Ambitions

1 week ago | au.variety.com | Lars Brandle

Rag‘n’Bone Man has conquered music, cinemas awaits. “I’d love to try it,” the British soul man says of acting, “but I don’t want to be one of those guys who thinks they can do everything.”The British soul man admits he has been approached for movie roles “a couple of times. I was asked to be in some kind of gangster film. Maybe I should stick to what I’m good at. If it felt like the right thing, I’d give it a go.
Rag‘n’Bone Man Recounts Wild Early Career, Preps New Music

1 week ago | tonedeaf.thebrag.com | Lars Brandle

With his new hip-hop tinged single, Rag‘n’Bone Man is getting back to his roots. Three albums into his career, and recently turned 40, the British soul man can do as wants. He enjoyed the type of meteoric rise that etches its way into the history books, by landing consecutive UK No. 1 albums (his third dropped in at No. 3), and a swag of BRIT Awards, including the BRITs Critics’ Choice Award.
Drummer Co-Founded Hoodoo Gurus

1 week ago | tonedeaf.thebrag.com | Lars Brandle

James Baker, the moptopped drummer who played a steady hand in the Victims, Hoodoo Gurus and Beasts of Bourbon, and the Scientists, died Monday night at his home in Perth, after succumbing to cancer. He was 71. James discovered rock ‘n’ roll early, and never shook it from his system. By his late teens, he was a member of Black Sun and the Slink City Boys, two short-lived bands that took their cues from the Stooges, MC5, Alice Cooper and New York Dolls.