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Thursday October 14, 2021 After leaving a long corporate career and beginning formal music studies, Ben Walker decided on a career change—and so far, so good. The Australian singer-songwriter has now released Castles, the first taste of his debut EP Time to Go. The new track follows the success of three singles released in 2020, Playing Alone, Money in the Jar and Smiles….
Monday October 4, 2021 The new release for 17-year-old music artist TIA is yet another mature pop song with an array of decent hooks and an identifiable lyric. TIA has been called ‘a Melbourne powerhouse with her mind-blowing vocal chops, with comparisons to pop icons like Bishop Briggs and Dua Lipa,’ by Triple J Unearthed….
Monday October 4, 2021 Earlier in 2021, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter and producer Echolily released two singles, Under the Clocks (Stay)and Higher, which generated some healthy streaming stats and, as a result, no doubt, established an equally promising follower base. With over 30k Spotify followers and over 100k streams, and a decent list of previous radio ads, including SBS…
Monday October 4, 2021 Australian singer-songwriter Julie Haigh has been touring and doing gigs for quite some time now, performing professionally as a solo guitarist/vocalist in local venues, then as lead vocalist/guitarist of various high-profile duos, trios and pop cover bands in Melbourne and interstate. But it’s only recently that she has stepped out on…
Wednesday September 22, 2021 IamSnap, born Shannon Obrien in Brisbane, Australia, is quite the all-rounder: a songwriter, rapper, actor, and producer who’s been in the industry for twenty years but only recently started surfacing—when he became the only Australian Independent Rap artist to chart to Billboard multiple times in 2021 and top 10 iTunes in…
In 2019, Sydney-based singer-songwriter Johnny released his debut single Shake It, in conjunction with X-Ray Records (a sub-label of international rock label Golden Robot Records). The song received generous airplay across Australia, Europe, and the USA, introducing Johnny to a potentially huge audience. After a short hiatus, Johnny rediscovered his love for creating music and began…
Tuesday September 21, 2021 Katie is the latest single from country-pop music artist Jonny Reid, originally from Portaferry on the North-East coast of Ireland. Reid has lived in West Australia for almost seven years, making a name for himself on the local music scene. With the release of his debut album, Another Life, Australian audiences experienced first-hand…
Tuesday September 21, 2021 Swifty Goes To The Shop is about as unassuming a song title as you’re going to come across, mainly because the track is a hard rock record and also because it comes from a band whose creative preoccupations are informed by the less examined aspects of society, which in turn give them…
Monday September 13th, 2021 Young Gold Coast-based music artist India Dupriez has just released Pray, her sixth single. India discovered music when she was twelve after getting a small cameo in a local theatre production. As India has said, ‘I’ve fallen in love with music ever since.’ In a relatively short time, the singer-songwriter has gone…
Monday September 13, 2021 Melbourne based singer-songwriter BeNice (Be Nice) has just released a self-empowerment song that eschews some of the more commonplace bombast such songs usually display, going for more of a diplomatic approach. BeNice draws upon a torrent of mixed emotions from the ashes of a relationship breakdown and transposes them into a…