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Introducing Brisbane Emo Rock Duo Upsetter With The Devastating 'Deserve'

band and set the vibe for the rest of this first record. The music came first in a big way, and once I felt out of the direction of where ... work with? EMILY: We recorded with our good mate and 3 x Aria Award-winning producer Cody McWaters for this first EP. He had a bit of a hot year

Features / Music

The 10 Best Tunes of the Week | 2023 Week 27

October 20 via Ninja Tune. GAIKA - PIÑATA Embedded Content English multidisciplinarian and musical chameleon GAIKA teases his sophomore album with an engrossing & atmospheric cut experimental electronic pop. GAIKA ... coming runner up in the grand prize at the WAM Song of the Year Awards, Boorloo-based band deliver their new single of emotional & epic indie sounds

Features / Music

William Barton To Celebrate Archie Roach At ‘One Song’ Concerts With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

honoured with the Australian Human Rights And Equal Opportunity Commission’s first Human Rights Award for songwriting. These kinds of historic accolades were not rare for Uncle Archie ... also run on Thursday July 6 – has been orchestrally conducted by Jaime Martín , with music direction from Paul Grabowsky AO and stage direction from Rachael Maza AM (artistic director

Industry / Feature

Whispers & Shouts: Your Daily Music Industry Wrap For July

previously Marketing Director of the Queensland Music Festival . The Gold Coast Music Network have announced the finalists for this year’s Gold Coast Music Awards , going down at Home ... here . * Brisbane's Music Industry College founder Brett Wood has started a Kickstarter for a new photography book. * Music Victoria Awards are now open

Splendour In The Grass

Splendour In The Grass Reveals Lewis Capaldi's Replacement Act, Shares Set Times

gonna go get help.” Earlier this year, Thelma Plum won big at the Queensland Music Awards , taking home the title of Song of the Year and Pop Song

Industry / News

Jaguar Jonze, Kaiit & More Score PPCA & Australia Council Recording Grants

Australian artists have been awarded a career-changing $15,000 grant each as part of The Phonographic Performance Company of Australia ( PPCA ) and the Australia Council for the Arts partnership ... international release of the complete works for solo piano and chamber music (1991-2023) of Linda Kouvaras , Queensland’s Alf The Great ( Eden Sher ), who will record a six-track

Features / Music

Premiere: Paulina - Maybe We're Running

Following up her win at the 2022 Queensland Music Awards for the Youth Award, 18-year-old German-born, Meanjin/Brisbane-based singer-songwriter Paulina has readied her emotional & engrossing

Features / Interviews

Clea

Clea Sighs A Breath Of Fresh Air On ‘Idle Light’: ‘I Had A Much Stronger Idea’

dotted with some amusing moments. Winning Song Of The Year at the the Queensland Music Awards in 2019, for the single Dreaming , literally paved the way for Clea, with ... heard for the burgeoning Brisbane artist she was. She also put her striking musical and visual touches on everything to do with the album. This flurry of activity seemed

Industry / Feature

Photo of Brisbane Live concert

More Concert Stadiums Mean More International Tours… And A Multi-Million Dollar Windfall

arena is designed to be the state’s entertainment mecca, for “generations of Queenslanders”, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said. The project comes with big numbers: It could attract ... post-COVID demand for Suncorp Stadium dates by some of the world’s biggest music acts. “These are high-quality events that will support the sustained recovery of our visitor

Features / Interviews

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20 Years Into Their Career, The Amity Affliction Write ‘Lyrics For People Who Don't Know How To Express How They're Feeling’

vocals chant on Show Me Your God , one of the most emotionally devastating and musically heavy songs The Amity Affliction have ever released. It’s also the first track ... vocalist Ahren Stringer providing numerous singalong choruses. Since forming in 2003, the Gympie, Queensland quartet of Stringer, Birch, Dan Brown (guitar) and Joe Longobardi (drums) have scored four ARIA

Brisbane Prog Metallers Citadel Drop Massive New Single 'Nightmare Frontier'

Festival heat. Their debut album Decompose also saw Citadel become finalists in the Queensland Music Awards for their single Malignant taken from the album. Nightmare Frontier finds Citadel stepping

Your Ultimate Guide To Tropic Fiesta's Free Weekend Of Live Music

Townsville festival Tropic Fiesta recently unveiled a killer music program spanning across three weekends, 18 venues and over 50 performances

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