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By Sofia Silvestrini Dalton Park Wollongong 17/18 April April 20, 2021 Around 14,000 super keen punters rolled into Yours and Owls Festival’s new home, Dalton Park, for NSW’s first major music festie since the start of the pandemic. Keeping things COVID-safe meant this event was going to be a bit different from previous years. Main…
Review by ALEC SMART 19/04/2021 The Chats, supported by Teenage Joans, performed at the University of Wollongong Unibar during their twice-rescheduled ACDC CD Tour, which sees them play 15 shows in limited-capacity venues to promote their most recent song ACDC CD. The song, a tribute to one of their primary influences, Oz rock veterans AC/DC,…
Saturday 4th April, 2021 Rusty Gear has generated over 900,000 Spotify streams, with the country music artist enjoying quite a few success stories, including, Tequila Won’t Solve Your Problems, Won’t Forget (#1 on Europe’s Hotdisc Top 40) and Wondering Why(# 51 on Billboard’s Country Breakout Chart in the US). Out And Runnin is the latest single from the American country singer-songwriter….
Saturday 3rd April, 2021 International electronic music production team Platinum Parade is back with a new single, Another World. The latest release follows Dig Me, an unapologetic dance slash bubble gum techno record aimed straight for the tween market. Another World is much in the same vein as Dig Me, sunny, bright and synthy, yet the lyric aims at exploring…
Saturday 3rd April, 2021 The new single for Idi (Ras) Banamungu, the West Australian based vocalist, songwriter, percussionist, and music therapist, is Revelation of Oneness, the follow-up singles Smiling Face of Australia and My Sunshine. The new track is once again an evocative combination of roots music, blues and Afrobeat. The music artist’s new track utilises various converging sound choices that…
With a long list of sell-out headline shows to his credit, Sydney based Australian hip-hop music artist Rates has also appeared on stages in several festivals and tours across Australia, including Big Day Out, Breath of Life Festival, Heatwave, Tech N9ne, Task Force, and many more. Rates also has two #1 Australian hip-hop albums under…
Thursday March 25th, 2021 Born in Malaysia and now Melbourne based, music artist Echolily, aka Michelle Chong, is not only an emerging Australian indie musician creating idiosyncratic, adventurous ambient pop but has been one of the essential frontline workers throughout the pandemic, serving as a doctor and consultant anaesthetist. Echolily has just released her debut…
Wednesday March 24, 2021 Sydney based contemporary folk-rock act Josh Orange has just released Midnight Lights, the fourth album for the band. The new release features the band’s three AMRAP number #1 successes, I Will Follow You,When Tomorrow Comes and Midnight Lights. Entering the iTunes top 200 Australian singer-songwriter charts upon release, the new album was also Album of…
Review by ALEC SMART 22/03/2021 Womadelaide 2021 music festival took place in Adelaide over the South Australian long weekend of 5-8 March with a significantly reduced format in its 29th year, due to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19 restrictions also prevented international artists from appearing, so the entire festival was downsized to a ‘Womad-lite’…
Friday 12th March, 2021 ‘If it were the last night of the world… how would you chooseto spend it?’ Now there’s a loaded question. There’s no doubt been some Hollywood drama that utilises this epochal theme to tear-inducing effect. But here, the concept is explored, harnessing all the streamlined salience of contemporary pop. The idea…