Old school hip-hop meets new. Hoodlum is hard hitting with strong lyrics, but in his inimitable style Dallas Woods softens the blow with cheeky wordplay and a sweet hook. The hook adds a copacetic element whilst retaining the lyrical intensity giving you a comfortable place to sonically soak in this message.  ... “Stigmas and stereotypes really drove me to write... Read More...

This week in the chart’s, Confidence Man debut #12 with Santa’s Comin’ Down the Chimney on the 100% Independent Singles chart. Over on the Radio charts Chloe Styler debuts #19 on the Independent Labels Radio chart and #12 on the 100% Independent Radio chart with When Your Light Burns while Fanny Lumsden debuts #15 with Real Men Don’t Cry from her 2017 album,... Read More...

Since the release of their latest single Black Mamba, the buzz around Melbourne's Alpha Wolf has continued to grow at an exponential rate. From touring the country with Thy Art Is Murder, to most recently being announced as part of the line up for Impericon Festival Oberhausen, as well as being represented by Avocado Bookings in the UK &... Read More...

This week in the charts, Hilltop Hoods debut #1 with Leave Me Lonely on the Independent Label Singles charts and Thy Art Is Murder debuts #20 with Death Perception.Death Perception also lands at #11 on the 100% Independent Singles charts and GRAACE debuts #13 with Last Night. ... Missy Higgins debuts #1 with her highly anticipated greatest hits album – The Special Ones. ... Over... Read More...

Jess Ribeiro has today released her new track ‘Love Is The Score Of Nothing’. Premiered yesterday on Double J's Mornings with Zan, the new single is something of an indie rock banger from Ribeiro, signalling a new sound for an artist whose previous albums explored a kind of intricate folk-noire.This time round Ribeiro recalls the... Read More...

This week in the charts, Fergus James debuts #7 on the 100% Independent Singles chart and #8 with What Are We Doing, ABC Kids debut #7 with Christmas With ABC Kids on the Independent Label Albums chart and The Vast Project Debut #14 with VAST, and Hazards of Swimming Naked debut #7 with Take Great Joy on the 100% Independent Albums chart. ... On the radio charts, Alana Wilkinson debuts... Read More...

'I felt like I was on another planet’ - Bernard Fanning ... In a ghost town, 1500 kilometres from Perth, some of Australia’s finest songwriters came together to collaborate, writing and recording songs that emerged from a unique collective experience in an ancient and wondrous landscape.   ... Bernard Fanning, Sally Seltmann, Paul Dempsey, Glenn... Read More...

This week in the charts Allday debuts #1 with Wonder Drug, Rojdar debuts #8 with Bad feat. Kyla Fava, and Rufus Du Sol debut #10 with Treat You Better on the Label Singles chart.Rojdar debut #5 with Bad on the 100% Independent Singles chart. ... Psycroptic debuts #1 with As the Kingdom Drowns on the 100% singles albums chart. ... Ziggy Alberts debuts #1 with Laps Around the Sun,... Read More...

Prefaced by her single of the same name, which was touted by triple j announcer Declan Byrne as a 'dizzying dreamy ride that i'm lining up for again and again no matter the queue' and accolade-accumulating lead single 'Wonder', San Mei offers her sophomore EP Heaven.The new EP is a clutch of four indie rock supernovas, characterized by San Mei's... Read More...

This week in the charts, Little Georgia debut #12 with All the While and Emu Music debut #20 with A Very, Very, Very Big God on the 100% Independent Albums charts. ... Hayden James debuts #2 with Better Together feat. Running Touch, Hermitude land at #6 with Stupid World and The Rubens debut #14 with God Forgot on the Independent Label Singles chart.Hayden James also debuts #2 on the... Read More...

Georgi Kay, the stage name of the UK-born Georgina Kingsley, has been playing in bands since her early teens, but it wasn’t until she lost (or won, depending on your perspective) a game of pick-up sticks meant to select her high school band’s new lead singer that she discovered that she could sing.In the time since, she’s won songwriting awards in Australia, acted in... Read More...

This week in the charts, Jon Stevens debuts #1 on both singles charts with Rain Down on Me. San Cisco debut #19 on the Label Singles chart with When I Dream and Methyl Ethel debut #20 with Scream Whole. ... Dustin Tebbutt debuts #18 with Chasing Gold on the Independent Label Albums chart. BLKLST debut #8 on the 100% Independent Albums chart with Hard to Swallow and Uni/Vs debuts #10... Read More...