This week I feel like I have been burned by the music industry again. And each time it happens, it By Max Easton If you genuinely want to listen, you have to stop talking. This is a simple mantra. It’s I’ve been playing guitar since I was like, fourteen, or something – basically from since…

To celebrate their inaugural camp, GR!M in collaboration with LISTEN have excitedly put together an all-ages evening showcasing a diverse Halloween PARTY!!! The Girl Fridas have put together this awesome Lineup for Listening party #11 as a fundraiser for the

When Evelyn suggested I write an article for Listen about a band or show that had influenced me, a name immediately entered my head, Monika Fikerle. Since listening to Love of Diagrams as a teenager in Brisbane and eventually becoming Monika’s bandmate (we play in Stationary Suns together), she has inspired me on many levels.…

5th CONFERENCE VIDEO – A Community Response to Abuse: Creating Safer Spaces Featuring: Elspeth Scrine (Huntly) (moderator), Helen Marcou, Vaxx Be Dis(ALTERITY COLLECTIVE), Katie Pearson (Whiskey Houston), Em

You obviously have the confidence to write and play music. Did you always have that confidence, or have you had to build it? Build it, definitely. I started writing as a teenager but I could barely play guitar and still can’t, so doing that in public wasn’t an option. Confidence to have a playing and…

The website is where we will be collecting and workshopping material for the eventual publication. Although the writing is intended to be in book form eventually and not everyone’s work will be published, we’d like to present this site as a forum for discussion and a place to write the way you want to. (Write…

This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger…

In the LISTEN Facebook group, a post was made by a LISTEN core member, where they mistakenly copied & pasted a transphobic and transmisogynistic term from a third party.  The reaction from the core member that occurred after these errors were pointed out was at times argumentative and defensive. LISTEN does not agree with the…

Elysia Crampton is an Aymara trans woman artist, musician and poet based in northern California. She is unarguably one of the most important voices in contemporary electronic music. Catch her in Melbourne for the first time with an amazing line up featuring: Various Asses, Kandere, Tt Sktls, Makeda and Waterhouse  More info here. Presented by Liquid Architecture. Tags : elysia…

TEMPERED poster, Däryl Prondöso; photo by Celeste Aldahn Before he moved to Montreal last week, Sydney writer and musician Max Easton pulled together a journal “about backwater Australian music” called TEMPERED If you genuinely want to listen, you have to stop talking.  This is a simple mantra. It’s one I use every time I interview…