Wondering what LISTEN has been doing this year? It has been a quiet and reflective year for us here at 9th CONFERENCE VIDEO – Gender and Language: new ways in music journalism Featuring: Catherine Strong (Moderator) / Anwen Crawford / Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen / Zan Rowe / Juliette 8th CONFERENCE VIDEO – Making Noise: gender diversity in experimental arts Featuring: Fjorn Butler (Moderator) / Christina Tester (Stina Tester…

By Max Easton If you genuinely want to listen, you have to stop talking. This is a simple mantra. It’s Listening Party #11 will feature some mint artists playing a delicious sonic feast of folk and 90s inspired alt-rock. TREES

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In this exclusive article for LISTEN, Evelyn Morris recounts a difficult story of sexual trauma and how it impacted her A special LISTEN event to host and showcase some incredible ‘freak folk’ bands from Japan! $13 entry, tix on the “Listen is a group that exists to spark and cultivate a conversation around women’s and…

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Calling all women and GnC people working as DJs! Get your name into the live database, and help us by sharing this form around. “LISTEN Lists” is our new project to build and distribute databases of women and gender non conforming people in music. LISTEN Lists aim to subvert the “go to” culture that continues…

To celebrate their inaugural camp, GR!M in collaboration with LISTEN have excitedly put together an all-ages evening showcasing a diverse When I got a perm, I was described as “a tall handsome girl, with curly brown hair.” This complement lasted

This statement is in regards to an article about Gaytimes festival, written by all around babe Jasmin Ashton, who gave the festival a thoughtful review, including some observations about its safety policy. The author described their own experiences with harassment and assault at the festival, and a “deafening” silence on this issue, despite the festival…

ALL AGES | ALCOHOL FREE EVENT Come experience the excellence of the LISTEN collective with a special one-off show at After a huge 2016, LISTEN are ready to take on the new year, and to celebrate will be taking over To celebrate their inaugural camp, GR!M in collaboration with LISTEN have excitedly put together an…

Evelyn Morris reflects on two successful Bigsound panels, Ask A Feminist and Safe Spaces. Read part one here. ‘Ask a This year LISTEN was proud to co-present three panels at Brisbane music industry conference, Bigsound. Here, LISTEN editor Kate Hennessy LISTENING PARTY #10 On the 1st of September 2014, LISTEN was officially launched (after having…