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Next week, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF) was scheduled to present their twenty-third festival featuring more than 500 Australian and international artists in over 25 venues across Melbourne. Instead (due to COVID-19 circumstances), MIJF has […]

By David Laing.  “WE LIKE TO KEEP IT SIMPLE, BUT WE LONG TO TAKE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE” Melbourne garage-folk-pop group the Girlatones have just released their second album. The Girlatones are a newish Melbourne combo who’ve just released their second […]

‘A Face In A Long Line’ is the opening track, first single and video clip to be released from Melbourne alt-country songwriter Mitch Dean’s debut solo album Holding Back The Levee, set for release on June […]

Alice Spring’s Colin Lillie has been on the road winning over new fans since since his award winning debut Glass Homes in 2016 and he has had a whirlwind 2020, already playing Woodford, flying to the US for Folk […]

Brisbane’s multi-award-winning folk sovereigns MZAZA release their new high energy European inspired single ‘Stardust’ on Friday May 22. Already delighting theatre and dancefloor audiences alike, the grand energic multi-layered original composition ‘Stardust’ captures the elation […]

After seven years, Canada’s Terra Grimard returns with her third full-length album, The Water Album. Delivering dreamy vocals over lush production, Terra creates an alluring atmosphere with the release of her new single ‘Islands.’ Terra explains, “Islands is about feeling isolated […]

Phil May, frontman of the Pretty Things, peers of the Rolling Stones and The Who and said to be the first rock group to release a concept album, died in hospital on Friday May 15 […]

Launch performance: The Saltwater Music Festival  – Online 7.00-8.00pm, Sunday 24th May. Rock collective, Dirty Rascal have released their 4th single ‘Rolling Thunder‘ from You Be The King.  Filmed in isolation, each member filming themselves and then masterfully edited by John Fleming. […]

By Jeff Jenkins. In 1974, Johnny O’Keefe said, “Elvis didn’t have any impact on me at all. I liked him, I was a fan, but he didn’t influence me. “My big influence was Little Richard.” […]

He might have had the stage name Little Richard but Richard Penniman was a giant as well as a pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll who also coined the immortal lyric: “a-wop-bop- a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom.” Richard died in […]