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Longform music journalism and photography from Australia.
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A journal of longform Australian music journalism and photography.

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Noise in her head
Noise in her head

Canberra-based musician and artist Shoeb Ahmad is embracing new directions. She speaks to Cher Tan in Swampland 03 | June 2018

From the editor: welcome to Swampland
From the editor: welcome to Swampland

A note on the origin of Swampland | July 2016

Pure performance: the glittering intensity of V
Pure performance: the glittering intensity of V

The Melbourne-based musician’s latest record So Pure melds dark-wave intensity, pop performance and intimate reflections on grief and loss | April 2019

Mojo Juju: “Our stories will be documented and remembered”
Mojo Juju: “Our stories will be documented and remembered”

Throughout her third solo album Native Tongue, Mojo Juju tells personal stories to confront larger ideas of resilience, racism and truth | September 2018

Sarah Mary Chadwick and the case for melancholia
Sarah Mary Chadwick and the case for melancholia

In this experimental collaboration, the editors of Swampland and Difficult Fun consider the musician’s determined embrace of the melancholic | July 2018

Brown girl on the hill
Brown girl on the hill

Sampa the Great shoots the breeze with Maxine Beneba Clarke in Swampland 04 | June 2018

Consider the meatspace
Consider the meatspace

Throughout Tropical Fuck Storm’s A Laughing Death in Meatspace, Gareth Liddiard’s technicolour lyrics toy with ideas of our digital-driven demise | May 2018

A very modern convenience
A very modern convenience

The debut album from MOD CON is a frenzied, critical observation of life under late capitalism—best witnessed live | April 2018

RVG: The Old Bar, Melbourne
RVG: The Old Bar, Melbourne

For three nights in February, RVG graced Melbourne’s Old Bar ahead of their debut voyage to America | February 2018

Gareth Liddiard is at the eye of the fuckstorm
Gareth Liddiard is at the eye of the fuckstorm

The former Drones frontman tells Triana Hernandez he’s been cooking up something new | November 2017

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