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Fanny Lumsden Lives Her Country Life On The Road With A Family of Thrillseekers, A Guitar and a Fistful of Awards

The crushing experience of cancelled tours was ameliorated by sweeping up an array of industry awards, including ARIA Country Album of the Year for her third album Fallow...

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Ryan James Brewer Crafts Liberating Debut LP Tender

Raised in a rural country town in Australia, Brewer admits it was difficult growing up queer in a conservative area. Brewer developed depression and anxiety at an early age that he is still...

Cillea Houghton

Lenka Critiques Extreme Greed with Kitschy Video for Latest Single "Ivory Tower"

While the pandemic derailed tours and scrapped recording plans for many musicians, there's one performer that actually found a freeing feeling in the midst of this past year - Australian pop wonder Lenka Kripac, better known mononymously as the purveyor of hits like "The Show" and "Everything at...

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Teenage Joans Resist Sweetness on Bristling Pop-Punk Debut Taste of Me

Joan of Arc? Joan As Police Woman? Joan Jett? Any of these Joans, and all of them, have the unrepentant, independent spirit that sustains the indie-punk vibe of Teenage Joans. Adelaide duo Tahlia Borg, 18, and Cahli Blakers, 20, have been making ‘90s-style garage punk-pop under the moniker since...

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Holiday Sidewinder Explores Weird Pop with Eccentric Collaborators on Sophomore LP Face of God

If the business is weird, transcendental, adventurous dance music, all the better. For her second album, Face Of God, she collaborated with dance music...

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Tana Douglas Relives Her Life as Australia's First Female Roadie in LOUD Memoir

Tana Douglas, a teenager whose childhood was troubled by a spiteful...

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Deadly Hearts Showcases Indigenous Artists Performing Iconic Australian Songs

Mitch Tambo covers Vanessa Amorosi on the latest compilation from Deadly Hearts. What is Australian music? Does it have a signature sound? Ask anyone from Arnhem Land to Arakoola, Melbourne to Mungo, and you'll get a different response. What can't be denied is that the original owners of Australian...

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Odette Announces Sophomore LP HERALD with Premiere of "Dwell" Video

Credit: Kitty Callaghan Australian R and B artist Odette has a sound that's as unique as her background. The 23-year-old, born to a South African mother and a British father who introduced her to punk rock, is simultaneously poppy and experimental, gentle and confrontational, catchy and political....

Annie White

Merci, Mercy Embraces Dysfunction Habits on Debut EP 'No Thank You, No Thanks'

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JUMAN Expands Compassionate View on Latest EP Tear Time

The Melbourne raised singer-songwriter-producer, who is of Palestinian-Turkish-Jordanian background, had battled a sensitive immune system since childhood...

Chaka V. Grier

Bel Marries Avant-Pop and Activism with First Installment of her TRILOGY EP

I first met Bel perched up at the bar of Max Fish on the Lower East Side during the last existing Fashion Week before COVID hit. Clad head to toe in vintage designer clothing, she exuded a unique warmth, juxtaposed with a cerebral demeanor - the encounter was refreshing during a season that can too...

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PLAYING MELBOURNEAlice Ivy Takes Collabs to New Heights on Sophomore LP Don't Sleep

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