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Joan & The Giants
Tour Diary: On The Road With Joan & The Giants
huge dream come true for the four of us. This was our very first Australia wide support tour, after a few years of headlining small venues on the East Coast ... incredible team for making the tour run so smoothly. Special shoutout to Phil, our sound engineer on the road who gave us so much of his time and helped
Reviews / Live
Travis Scott
Live Review: Travis Scott @ Allianz Stadium, Sydney
contagion, uniting them in a cathartic celebration of sound.  “It feels so fucking good to be in Sydney, Australia tonight. Yo, if we do this tour, there ... fucking way we do not come down under to Australia,” Scott postulated to the audience. “I just wanna see the best of Sydney right now.”  Next, Scott jumps into
Features / Music
Kalani Artis
Kalani Artis On Musicians Making A Difference: ‘There's A Home Within Everything & Everyone’
operated as a form of safety, visibility and refuge for young people in Australia who are deprived of basic needs like shelter, security, education and employment. Starting as a voluntary ... dialled in on their focus of helping the youth through their donation-generating campaign Sounds Like Home .  “MMAD Day is about celebrating the work that the MMAD curators
Industry / News
APRA AMCOS Year In Review
APRA AMCOS Announces Record $740m Revenue Amidst Continuing Live Local Music Crisis
report, and namechecked positive programs such as SongMakers , SongHubs , and a partnership with Sounds Australia as high points, though called on the national goverment to take action to ensure
News / Music
Ollie Olsen
Australian Music Icon Ollie Olsen Passes Away, Aged 66
Hall of Fame for his impact and legacy on the Victorian music scene and Australia’s national reputation for music. Beginning his career in the late ‘70s, Olsen formed ... identity as he took on multiple roles within the industry: multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound designer. He collaborated with or was part of  Orchestra Of Skin And Bone
Features / Music
Swapmeet
Swapmeet: "It’s Easy To Feel Like A Secret In Adelaide"
group allowed us to have a shared sense of control over the band’s sound, aesthetic, and direction. Releasing music was also a major game changer. We ended up stumbling ... until the end of the week - celebrate all of the colourful music that South Australia has to offer and cast your votes
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Great Gable
'It Makes Me Appreciate Growing Up In Western Australia': Great Gable On Their Latest Album 'Small Fry'
album as “honest and nostalgic.” “It makes me appreciate growing up in Western Australia.” Small Fry is a distinctly WA affair, with the album’s production seeing the group recording ... says Whiteman of the process. “With the band and Dave Parkin’s [of Blackbird Sound Studios] help, we’ve managed to refine all of the songs and have an album
News / Music
Sugababes
Sugababes Announce 2025 Australian Tour
group Sugababes were already returning to Australia for Beyond The Valley festival , but today, Untitled Group have announced a string of sideshows for the trio. Sugababes begin their Australian appearances ... earlier this year, they released the single Situation (with A Little Sound ). Sugababes last toured Australia in February 2023 , returning down under for the first time in two decades. SUGABABES
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South Summit
South Summit Rework The Police's 'Roxanne' For Triple J Like A Version Debut
Roxanne. While Roxanne already lends itself to South Summit’s rich reggae sound, the band managed to make the track even more their own, adding that classic South Summit energy ... start of next year, in their biggest headline shows to date. Spanning Australia and New Zealand (Aotearoa), and finishing off with a hometown show in Perth, South Summit
Features / Interviews
Kim Wilde
When Kim Wilde’s Audience Get Excited About ‘Kids In America,’ ‘It's Hard Not To Get Excited With Them’
glam rock) trailblazer Marty Wilde ( née Smith), on the road. "I've been to Australia so many times – since I was a child," she reminisces. "I first came ... influences. But today, Nile Rodgers 's remix of the funk Dancing In The Dark sounds modish. "That was a wonderful thing to have him do that – what a legend
Reviews / Live
Herbie Hancock
Live Review: Herbie Hancock @ Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
know what it is to play with a band like that.” Hancock returns to Australia for the first time since 2019 with verve and vitality anyone would be lucky ... milk of human kindness and the zest and pulp of life?! An alien sound invaded Loueke’s guitar on the next track with an almost carnivalesque mood to this meandering
Industry / Feature
Crystal Robins, Grace Barbe, Hannah Cameron
Three Mentors From This Year's APRA AMCOS’ EQUALIZE Program Share Advice For Industry Newcomers
skills in a supportive, inclusive and open environment. Skill development sessions will include Live Sound (how to set up and mic equipment for the stage and use live mixing desks ... production with Ableton), and Songwriting (learning compositional tips and methods from some of Australia's most skilled songwriters). Each session will take place in small groups and be facilitated
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