News: Indie folk-rock darlings, The Paper Kites unveil the wistfully beautiful The Sweet Sound Of You
Winter of 2022 saw Australian indie folk-rock band, The Paper Kites take themselves away from the lights of the big city to begin the process for writing and recording a new album, their sixth. While working on the album, the band performed an unannounced month-long residency in the small Victorian town of Campbells Creek. Word …
News: Wollongong’s Leadfinger release ‘Find The Words’, a song of haunting indie goodness
Leadfinger are one of those bands that perhaps tend to slip under the radar outside of their usual confines along the central to southern coasts of New South Wales. They were formed in 2006 by Glasgow-born singer/guitarist Stewart ‘Leadfinger’ Cunningham, and have 6 albums to their name to date. The band consists of Stewart Cunningham: vocals, …
News: Australia’s soul kings, The Teskey Brothers, unveil plans for film-clip trilogy with the release of the first official video for the delectable ‘Oceans Of Emotions’
The Teskey Brothers (Sam and Josh) have teamed up with producer WAM Bleakley to present ‘Oceans of Emotions’, the first clip of a beautiful and moving trilogy. Lead singer, Josh said of this conceptual approach to the production: “We chatted to him about exploring ‘The Winding Way’ that people take to navigate through their lives. …
News: Dan Sultan tells us a ‘Story’ in song of a life lived in the shadows of transgenerational trauma
Australian Indigenous artist of the Arrernte/Gurindji people, and multi-ARIA Award winning singer songwriter, Dan Sultan, has released new song, Story, a tale of transgenerational trauma that affects so many indigenous lives, including his own. Sadly, Dan’s experience is one that bears an enormous resemblance to many throughout indigenous Australia. Transgenerational trauma (also known as intergenerational …
Premiere: Melbourne’s The Silversound break away from the pack as they unveil edgy, retro video clip for second single, ‘Wolf’.
We are very pleased to announce the brand new video clip for Melbourne supergroup, The Silversound. In a world full of continuing turmoil and uncertainty, The Silversound have revealed the full clip for Wolf, a song that was borne from extended periods of lockdown, and which phases its’ way in and out of your grey …
News: Xylouris White announce new album, The Forest In Me, for April release, and accompany it with first single, the jaunty Latin White.
The duo of Jim White (Dirty Three and regular Ed Kuepper collaborator) and Greek laouto player, Giorgos Xylouris, collaboratively known as Xylouris White have announced news of upcoming album, The Forest In Me. It is the duo’s sixth studio album, and seventh overall following the release of their self-released Live At Columbus Theatre 2013 in …
News: UK folk-punk legend, Frank Turner announces three regional Australian cities solo shows
Folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner has announced the exciting news that he has handpicked a few smaller cities to perform some special solo shows while he’s in the country for Bluesfest and The Counting Crows tour. The three that he has chosen are Darwin (Railway Club), Hobart (Altar) & Newcastle (Hamilton Station), cities that often miss out on more …
News: Aussie R&B stars, The Teskey Brothers unveil new track, ‘Oceans Of Emotions’ amidst news of upcoming album release date
Australia’s answer to Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett, the four-time ARIA award-winning and Grammy nominated Teskey Brothers, have today served up another delectable treat with the unveiling of album taster, Oceans Of Emotions, a new track which will feature on their upcoming album, The Winding Way. The Winding Way will be the band’s third studio …
News & Album Review: Civic release blistering sophomore album, Taken By Force
The really, really good news is that guitar-based, garage-punk rock is not dead, and Melbourne band, Civic are at the forefront of a movement which is showing that it is well-and-truly alive and kicking. ‘Taken By Force’, their follow up long-player to debut, ‘Future Forecast’, sees the band (Jim McCullough [vocals], Lewis Hodgson [guitar], Roland …
News: Melbourne super-group, The Silversound announce release date for ‘debut’ self-titled album, along with the release of cracking second single, ‘Wolf’.
Following on from their first serving, ‘Shaker‘ (read about it here), The Silversound have released exciting new track, ‘Wolf‘ on the back of news of the self-titled album being released on March 24th. ‘Wolf‘ is a muscular track full of attitude, which oozes fuzz-drenched, overdriven guitar goodness, and the slow underlying boogie allows the mood …