| Rainman - The Buzz (Feat. Pear) Hip Hop, Pop | 18/05/2012 |
Mention Rainman amongst initiated and the respect attributed to him is palatable. Recognised as Queensland’s finest, his list of collaborations and guest appearances is beyond compare.
'The Buzz' flips from the intense moments at the start of a relationship to a time in the future when it's all over.
It’s an album full of humor, emotions and reflections. The kind of hip hop that people who don’t listen to hip hop can still get into.
It’s an album full of humor, emotions and reflections. The kind of hip hop that people who don’t listen to hip hop can still get into.
| Voltaire Twins - Young Adult Pop, Dance, Electronic | 18/05/2012 |
With their dancey beats and fun melodies, Voltaire Twins manages to stand apart from the rest of the indie-electronic music crowd.
An ode to youth, Young Adult is a celebration of naivety, and adolescent zeal. The lyrics tell a loose narrative of teenage callowness and overconfidence. Musically it is a bombastic pop song, drenched in echo and layered with brassy synth’s. Within seconds of it being uploaded, the blogosphere loved it.
| Dallas Frasca - One Man Woman Rock, Blues, Roots, Pop | 04/05/2012 |
Dallas Frasca is a hard working independent juggernaut who, with her band and this yet to be released album, is carving her own path, both in Australia and internationally.
With no click tracks for that true honest rock sound, all the guitars, drums and vocals were live takes and most songs were captured in their first or second takes. The entire record features no bass; just Dallas and Jeff duelling gargantuan slabs of riffs on 2 Les Paul’s.
| Flap! - The Boogieman Pop, Roots, Jazz, Folk | 04/05/2012 |
A fiery yet charming ensemble featuring brass, guts, and words, Flap! have been described as music that is both old and new, English folk, gypsy brass and Trinidadian calypso influences.
Musically corner-stoned by Eamon McNelis’ pivotal trumpet, Jess Guille’s dulcet vocals, slinky upright bass and watertight drums, "The Boogieman” sets up a riot of colour and rhythm right from onset. A song that is a raucous, sweet, frivolous, frenetic and deliciously irrepressible affair.
| Only the Sea Slugs - The Stolen Name Rock, Pop, Psychedelic, Garage | 03/05/2012 |
2011 was a big year for Only The Sea Slugs. Besides the release of “Street Music”, there was two singles lifted from the mini album and two national tours
‘Stolen Name’ once again shows a band with their own bend, roughing up the already mottled surface of dark rock pop psychedelia. A moody Mexican tinged, tribal number about war, love & injustice. Guitar rock over hip hop beats, swooning keys, shadowy harmonies. Get lit.”
| The Ray Mann Three - Bleeding Pop, Soul, Chill, Roots | 03/05/2012 |
Ray Mann, from soul act The Ray Mann Three, has begun work on his interactive online concept, The Sketches Project: a new song/ video every month, from demo to finito.
'Sketches' vol. 2 sees Ray Mann expand the sound of The Ray Mann Three beyond languid, stripped-back soul, and into more upbeat territory. The opening track, Bleeding, combines stomp-rock, disco vocals, handclaps and sparse guitar stabs in a song about quitting someone who's bad for you.
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| Rainman - Darlin ( feat Calski) Hip Hop, Hip Hop, Pop, Rap | 30/03/2012 |
The Herd’s Urthboy said it well: “destined to become a positive and listenable force… with laidback but self-assured flows and gift for hooks and phrases. One of Brisbane’s bestkept secrets”.
“Darlin’ is a love song. An ode to lady hip hop, a soul drenched Australian take on Common’s ‘I Used to Love H.E.R’ classic - with a twist.
ON TOUR:
MAR/APR
ACT/VIC/QLD/NSW
ON TOUR:
MAR/APR
ACT/VIC/QLD/NSW
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| Graveyard Train - I'm Gone Blues/Roots, Alternative Country, Folk, Pop | 30/03/2012 |
Graveyard Train are a six piece collective from Melbourne Australia - six men to sing in baritone, like men, about Werewolves, Vampires, Ghosts over frenetic foot stomping country music.
Once described as “horror country drunken bearded stompy chain smashy madness ... tales of redemption crooned through melodies plucked directly from the afterlife”, Graveyard Train use drums, upright bass and guitars around swirling mix of instruments such as washboard, banjo, harmonica, whiskey and blood and their infamous chain and hammer.
ON TOUR:
MAY/JUNE
SA/VIC/NSW/QLD
ON TOUR:
MAY/JUNE
SA/VIC/NSW/QLD
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| The Floors - You Got to Move Blues/Roots, Rock, Blues, Roots | 24/02/2012 |
Sincere and effectively simple; The Floors’ raw and primitive live sound summons a similarly raw and primitive reaction... people dance. They sing along.
In the studio The Floors are a live band. They perform their songs together in a room, captured by a few German microphones and a friend with good ears. The life of the recording is the performance... You Got to Move!
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| Bobby Alu - Love You More Pop, Acoustic, Roots, World | 24/02/2012 |
Bobby Alu is the new sound of Australian Roots music. bobby and his ukele have already graced Byron Bay Bluesfest stages as well as east coast tours. Hot Hot hot!
Pacific grooves, Afro rhythms, smooth harmony and good vibes, Bobby Alu is a therapeutic dose of reggae rhythms and roots with a distinctive Pacific influence, world beats, ukulele, log drumming and awe-inspiring percussion solos.
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| Dallas Frasca - All My Love Blues/Roots, Rock, Blues, Pop | 16/02/2012 |
Dallas Frasca the hard working independent juggernaut who, with her band a is carving her own path, both here in Australia and internationally.
Announces New Single All My Love & Accompanying National Launch Dates
All My Love is the first track to be lifted from Dallas Frasca’s forthcoming 2nd album “Sound Painter”. Recorded in New York with Australian producer Andy Baldwin (Bjork, Chrissie Amphlett, Living End, Kram, Cat Empire) at RolaPola Studio’s, Brooklyn
ON TOUR:
FEB/MAR/APR
ACT/NSW/SA/VIC/QLD
All My Love is the first track to be lifted from Dallas Frasca’s forthcoming 2nd album “Sound Painter”. Recorded in New York with Australian producer Andy Baldwin (Bjork, Chrissie Amphlett, Living End, Kram, Cat Empire) at RolaPola Studio’s, Brooklyn
ON TOUR:
FEB/MAR/APR
ACT/NSW/SA/VIC/QLD
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| Dubmarine - Unconditional Reggae/Dub, Dub, Reggae, Roots | 08/12/2011 |
Take cover! High Energy, bass heavy electro dub vessel Dubmarine are taking the wraps off their brand new single Unconditional.
Produced by Brisbane’s own Aria award winning performer and producer Paulie Bromley ( George, The Beautiful Girls, Bobby Alu, Kooii) at the Tanuki Lounge, the band have captured the live feel of Dubmarine they have become renown for.
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| The Ray Mann Three - Who's Loving You Funk/Soul, Pop, Retro, RnB | 08/12/2011 |
In September 2011, Australian soul singer/songwriter Ray Mann relocated to Berlin and began recording and releasing his new album Sketches, online, one track at a time.
Who’s Loving You, a rowdy garage-soul protest song for the broken-hearted.
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Other tracks by The Ray Mann Three: Babylon - Showya
| Flap! - Rock in Space Blues/Roots, Acoustic, Folk, Jazz | 25/11/2011 |
Flap! A fiery yet charming ensemble featuring brass, guts, words and skins, Flap! formed during an informal jam at Port Fairy Folk Festival and have become festival favorites country wide.
Flap! are proud to announce the release of their new single ‘Rock in Space’ and its accompanying east coast launch dates. A tale of war, peace, love and astrophysics, ‘Rock in Space’ is the first taste of the Melbournians long awaited yet to be titled second album, due 2012 .
| Impossible Odds - Talk About It Hip Hop, Australian Indigenous, Soul, Breaks | 26/10/2011 |
Brisbane based hiphop outfit Impossible Odds announce debut Album “Against All Odds” + National Tour.
“Against All Odds” covers a lot of ground. From battle raps to faith, facebook to musicality and of course Indigenous identity, as seen through the eyes of somebody who gives a damn about all of it.
Other tracks by Impossible Odds: Identity - Beautiful World feat Rainman & Omar Musa
| Crooked Saint - Cast Of Yesterday Blues/Roots, Pop, Acoustic, News | 26/10/2011 |
Barely six months since the release of his debut EP Every Angry Inch, Crooked Saint is heading straight into summer with the release of his second record Sweating Bullets.
From the 12 bar storm of opener ‘Lazy Bones’ through the acoustic elegy of ‘Cast of Yesterday’, the bombastic oomph of the title track Sweating Bullets picks up perfectly where Every Angry Inch left off.
Other tracks by Crooked Saint: Man in Waiting
| Voltaire Twins - Romulus Pop, Electronic, Rock, Dance | 26/10/2011 |
Perth based indie electric disco outfit Voltaire Twins have just announced the launch of their ‘Romulus’ EP, which is in stores now!
Voltaire Twins is singer/synth-players Jaymes and Tegan Voltaire, synth/samples-player and percussionist Jack Doepel and drummer Matt Gio. Their bombastic onstage sound and energy has seen them support everyone from Maximo Park and Art vs Science to Midnight Juggernauts.
| Voltaire twins - Animalia ( Radio Edit) Pop, Electronic | 14/09/2011 |
Voltaire twins Launch New Single Animalia & Accompanying Music video:- www.voltairetwins.com
Indie electric disco outfit Voltaire Twins have just announced the release of their new single Animalia and its accompanying film clip. Directed by Ben Young, the clip for Animalia tells a dark, twisted tale of a taxidermist's latest acquisition - a pair of feathered twins, check it out here: www.voltairetwins.com
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| Impossible Odds - Everything Indigenous, Hip Hop, Roots | 02/08/2011 |
Impossible Odds New Single ‘Everything’ Based around the core of front-man MC Rival (aka Fred Leone) and DJ Returnagain, Impossible Odds are an Indigenous Hip Hop/Soul group from Brisbane.
Impossible Odds New Single ‘Everything’
Based around the core of front-man MC Rival (aka Fred Leone) and DJ Returnagain, Impossible
Odds are an Indigenous Hip Hop/Soul group from Brisbane.
Based around the core of front-man MC Rival (aka Fred Leone) and DJ Returnagain, Impossible
Odds are an Indigenous Hip Hop/Soul group from Brisbane.
| Timothy Nelson & the Infidels - Speak the Truth in Love Folk, Roots, Acoustic, Classical | 15/07/2011 |
In-stores now, Perth based 5 piece Timothy Nelson & The Infidels have announced the release of their long awaited debut album “I Know This Now”.
“I Know This Now” was recorded with engineer James Newhouse in various studios around Perth over the course of the last 2 years. Blending the jangly, guitar heavy folk rock reminiscent of Big Star and Wilco. Fittingly, the album was mastered at none other than Abbey Road Studios in London.
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Other tracks by Timothy Nelson & the Infidels: Run for Cover
