Stew Magzine Vol. 2 No. 6

Our final issue of the year lands with Guppy on the front cover as shot by Jacob McCann. We talk with the Meanjin four-piece about their fantastic debut LP ‘777antasy’ as well as all the juicy context of the band’s journey and their individual histories through the local DIY scene. The record is available to listen through Gimime’s bandcamp, which is linked in our bio!

In our subscriber edition of #006, across 86 pages (biggest Stew to-date) we cover a large selection of the underground, keeping you up-to-date with the latest in alt music locally and abroad. We feature interviews with Girl and Girl, Boyfriend TV, Billiam, Jade Imagine, ENOLA and Delivery and also a tonne of reviews (for both gigs and LPs) of Cloud Ice 9, e4444e, Super Death, Dry Cleaning, Lackadaisies, Verity Whisper, Big Thief, Boing Boing, Alex G. Mini Skirt, Phil and The Tiles and much more…

There’s a few juicy essays in there as well, Nase talks about 65dos and their use of artificially generated music, Ryan pens an interesting write-up of a Aldous Harding gig in a Lacanian framework, and Lillians muses on Mark Fisher’s concept of ‘futuristic music’ and cultural death…

This issue caps off a big year of moosic writing over at Stew and hopefully signals the sorta mix of high/low brow and opinion/documentation that we’ve been working on for a while now. - Stew