Top 5's in Music: Duncan Jake from Party By Jake

In this series we're going to have a chat to a bunch of people in the music and creative industries about their Top 5's in music. Today we feature Duncan Jake from Australian music blog Party By Jake.  Party By Jake is based out of Canberra and covers indie, dance and popular music. The PBJ crew attend a shite-load of gigs and listen to mega amounts of new music. The blog features free mp3s, guest posts, reviews, galleries and event listings.

Top 5 Albums

Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Phoenix - United

Crazy Penis - A Night On Earth

The Temper Trap - The Temper Trap

Top 5 Australian Artists

The Temper Trap

Rüfüs

Vacant Field

Alpine

Cloud Control

Top 5 Tracks you have on repeat now

SBTRKT - 'Wild Fire feat Yukimi Nagano'

Foster The People - 'Helena Beat'

Vacant Field - 'Peppermint Tongue'

Starslinger - 'Mornin'

Anything from Pala/Friendly Fires

Top 5 Gigs you’ve been to

LCD Soundsystem - Hordern Pavillion Syd

Vampire Weekend GTM 2010 Canberra Meadows

Booka Shade - Transit Bar Canberra

Aeroplane - Field Day Syd

The Hives - Falls Festival Lorne

Top 5 places to go for a night out in Canberra/Australia/The World

Canberra has an awesome house party scene. With a core group of people really driving it along, teeing up staging, lighting and sounds, local and interstate entertainment, and sometimes free booze!

Of course Purple Sneakers is one of our main go-to's here in Canberra. Transit Bar dfloor, front and centre, every month!

Top 5 Music/Entertainment Websites (apart from Purple Sneakers of course!)

If you know how to use Soundcloud and Twitter well, you can be on top of some really cutting edge music, before it starts doing the rounds on blogs!

Also, it's pretty hard to find fault in Pitchfork's content - particularly when you have a diverse taste like we do. I can't understand how people can only be into one type of music...

Aussie blogs like Stoney Roads, provide great dance music and news; Pollo Erotico is fantastic for super smooth disco tunes.

WANNA BE INCLUDED? If you’d like to be featured or want to suggest someone to interview; comment below or email info@purplesneakers.com.au, we’d love to hear from you!