It’s rare that a band’s debut album sounds as confident and self-assured as Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s Hope Downs. The hard-hitting debut is a testament to Rolling Blackouts’ tight-knit and hard-working bonafides. Prior to forming the band in 2013, singers/guitarists Fran Keaney, Tom Russo, and Joe White had played together in various... Read More →
This week in the charts, Sheppard takes the #1 albums spot with Watching the Sky on both charts, while Alchemy by Willaris K debuts #13 and Waak Waak ga Min Min by Waak Waak Djungi debuts #9 on the Independent Labels albums chart and #3 on the 100% albums chart.Emily Wurramurra debuts #20 on the 100% chart with Milyakburra and Mike Champion debuts #12 with Experience. ...... Read More →
After their ode to Australia ‘Coming Home’ (complete with its nod to Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley), Sheppard are keeping with the theme as their new track ‘Hometown’ celebrates today’s global launch of their album ‘Watching the Sky’.Sheppard have silenced the nay-sayers, throwing off the shackles of their global smash... Read More →
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Nominated in one of the most important categories at the 2018 AIR Awards, BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR - PRESENTED BY PPCA, is Angie McMahon for Slow Mover. ... Angie McMahon is quickly gathering a reputation for moving audiences with her soulful ruminations of life, love and takeaway food. ... It’s been an enthusiastic entry into the music scene for self-proclaimed slow... Read More →
Nominated in the 2018 AIR Awards in the BEST INDEPENDENT HARD ROCK, HEAVY OR PUNK ALBUM category for their album More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me, are Melbourne's The Smith Street Band. ... From enormous festivals like Reading and Leeds (UK), Groezrock (Belgium) and Splendour In The Grass to stageless squats and dive bars all around the world, The Smith Street Band have seen... Read More →
Winner of the 2015 Carlton Dry Independent Label of the Year Award, Milk! Records, was started by Courtney Barnett in 2012 to release her debut EP I've Got A Friend Called Emily Ferris.(Jen Cloher and Courtney Barnett) ... ... Since then it's become home to six more Melbourne based bands/artists. The label is artist run and happy to stay boutique and sustainable. Jen Cloher... Read More →
