STACK #130 Aug 2016

MUSIC

STREAMING ON

AC/DC BRING IT on

absolute stone-cold classics in their repertoire, such as High Voltage (1975), Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976), T.N.T. (1975), Highway to Hell (1979), Fly on the Wall (1985) and Stiff Upper Lip (2000). Since the mid-1970s, Angus Young and his brother Malcolm have survived a stormy band history, including the death of original singer/wildman Bon Scott, all the while bashing out their simplistic, yet highly addictive, brand of bluesy rock. It's time to rediscover their radical riffs, and you can do it as easy as pie on JB Hi-Fi NOW.

F or years, iconoclastic Aussie

rockers AC/DC were enormously concerned about streaming; the

listener experience, they argued, could be harmfully fragmented and/or damaged by encountering the band's albums split up and presented as individual songs. But the guys have recently changed tack and decided to release their spectacular catalogue to the streaming world – and we've got the whole lot! You can row your boat merrily down the JB Hi-Fi NOW streams of their most recent album, 2014's Rock or Bust , as well as the previous 16 (!)

AC/DC

IN THE SPOTLIGHT ON JB HI-FI NOW

The Rubens Hoops

The five fellows which comprise Dead Letter Dead Letter Circus Aesthesis

Foals What Went Down

Disturbed Immortalized

American heavy metal darlings Disturbed announced a hiatus in 2011, but at the beginning of last year began sneakily writing material for this, their sixth studio album. It was recorded at the appropriately-named The Hideout Recording Studio in LA, and boasts some of their slickest material to date – and look out for the Simon & Garfunkel cover nestled in amongst the originals.

Praised as "swaggeringly self-assured" with a "muscular edge" by our man Jeff Jenkins (read the full review on page 96), The Rubens sophomore effort Hoops is a wonderfully confident return for the four-piece alt-rock act from NSW. From the gorgeous piano-driven Hold Me Back to the rollicking Hallelujah (not a cover, mind you), the boys are back and on track.

Foals have been giving our eardrums riotous caresses since 2008; the English lads have now

Circus have brought another welcome smack in the face in

the form of third album Aesthesis . The title refers to our capacity for feeling and sensation,

burst out of the gates with the eponymous lead single from their fourth album What Went Down , and the remainder of tracks on the release promise to floor you. Recorded in France with acclaimed producer James Ford (Florence + The Machine, Arctic Monkeys), this astonishingly well- crafted LP is quickly asserting itself as one of the best releases of the year.

and is more than apt for this collection of deeply emotive, heavy rock belters. Start with single While You Wait , and move on to other standouts X , Show Me and In Plain Sight .

Swaggeringly self-assured STACK

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best hip hop into your ears: featuring Urthboy, Thundamentals, Hermitude, Hilltop Hoods, Seth Sentry, 360, Illy, One Day and

says STACK reviewer Doug Wallen (check out his full write-up on page 96); Speakerzoid lifts the young Brisbanties up above the label of "catchy", and into an echelon of smart self-awareness (while still remaining magnificently hummable).

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a cavalcade of others, this is exactly where you should start to get your head around the country's brightest.

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