Broods - Free
NZ duo Broods tell you how they wrote breakthrough hit 'Free' as a secret message to the people around them - a middle finger to the man.
NZ duo Broods tell you how they wrote breakthrough hit 'Free' as a secret message to the people around them - a middle finger to the man.
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1997 saw the Melbourne trio release 'Prisoner Of Society': a short, sharp invitation to thrust your fist in the air and shout.
Jungle Giants frontman Sam Hales explains how Ernest Hemingway helped him overcome writer's block in Paris to make 'Feel The Way I Do'.
The duo lay out the song's year-plus-long conception: its origins in, fittingly, an airport, and the film soundtrack that spurred them to take a stylistic leap that paid off.
The Scottish band's Alex and Paul untangle the complex web of influences, inspirations and revisions that fed into 2004's Hottest 100 number one.
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The talented multi-instrumentalist on the complicated genesis of her breakout hit 'Jungle'
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