Hannah Gillespie was born and raised in Majors Creek, on Yuin Country, in the Southern Tablelands of NSW.

Music was an everyday occurrence in the Gillespie household, with never a tune too far from the kitchen table - the folk music tradition has always been a part of Hannah’s life.

It was only a matter of time before she picked up a guitar and started to write.

Hannah undertook formal studies in performance and composition and went on to play widely with a diverse array of fellow musicians.

Hannah’s debut solo album “Growing up Stupid” was released in 2009.

It encompassed a vast array of musical influences in a collection of beautifully crafted songs, brought to life by some of the region’s finest players, including bass player Matt Nightingale – a musical partnership that still continues today.

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Niksta, aka Nicole Keipert, is a dedicated, talented & professional musician.

Her sound is traditional, appealing to a wide audience with her acoustically based soulful resonance.

She has been said to sound like Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow.

Niksta has released eight albums in a variety of genres, and now has released a brand-new album “Living Proof”.

Niksta was nominated in 2016 Australian Independent Music Awards in the category of Roots and Blues with her song “Stomp”.

At the Tamworth Country music festival in 2017 she won the National talent quest for best female senior vocals in the Capital Country Music Association awards.

She was a 2017 finalist in the Brand New Star for 94.1fm radio.

2018 Niksta won the blues exposure competition with her song called “Bound for Glory!”
as well as going to Nashville USA in September to perform at the Americana Music Festival and record her 6th album “Smoke and Mirrors.”

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Greg Lyon grew up in Melbourne Australia.

He studied piano and guitar and played in bands in the thriving 1960’s music scene while at high school and university.

The years 1969-1974 were spent working in Asia and Europe .

In 1974 he moved back to Sydney Australia, where he quickly became one of the first-call session/studio bassists, recording and performing with artists such as Renee Geyer, Glenn Shorrock, Brian Cadd, Doug Parkinson, Doug Ashdown and many others.

During this time he helped form the award-winning jazz-fusion band CROSSFIRE with Jim Kelly and Michael Kenny.

From out of the 2021 lockdown blues comes this uplifting album - a blending of soul, country, jazz and R'n'B, featuring some of Australia's finest musicians.

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Anousha Victoire is an introspective singer-songwriter, stitching together folk/world influenced melodies with bell-over-water clarity of vocal tone,

Her trademark fingerpicking folk guitar style and haunting vocal melodies are complemented by soaring, emotive strings and vocal harmonies, blending into folk storytelling songs that could be timeless classics,

After a surprise win of an ABC Music Award for Folk for one of the first songs she wrote in the early 2000s, she went on to build a loyal local following, while the early songs gained indie and ABC radio airplay,

Her performance credits include the National Folk Festival, St Albans Folk Festival, Planet Dungog, Woodford’s Women Out Front showcase, and tours of the east coast of Australia, particularly at home in intimate concerts and folk clubs.

Her latest track, Mole Creek, is a song to sing along to when taking a road trip.

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Isuela Hinango has been in the music industry for over 10 years in various bands, touring nationally and collecting an array of awards and radio play, as a singer/songwriter.

Now she is releasing her solo project alongside an incredible band with festivals and shows booked into the new year.

Her band is made up of Stella Anning (Guitar), Ollie Rolfe (Keys) Craig Strain (Bass) Andrew Houston (Sax), Sunny Reyne (Backing Vocals) and Anthony Murray (Drummer/Engineer and producer) and because they are all-friends Justin Yap, Declan Stuart and Ollie Rolfe sat in on an improvised chorus to bring in that Louisiana call and response vibe.

From this session, Isuela has released “Bye Bye Baby”, along with three other tracks due to be released on an EP later this year.

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Liz Stringer is bringing to an end her work on her “First Time Really Feeling” with her “First Time ... For The Last Time” solo tour.

The album gained her first entry into the ARIA Top 20 and an AIR Award for Best Blues & Roots album in 2021, and Liz spent most of 2022 with Midnight Oil, working as their backing vocalist and support act in Australia and around the world on their Resist tour.

In March, Liz was 2023 Artist of the Year at the iconic Port Fairy Folk Festival, where she performed two triumphant sets with her band.

The tour will bring an end to the long cycle of work that began with the recording of First Time Really Feeling in Canada in 2018.

It's a case of unfinished business, as the tour will finally reach the places that Liz couldn't get to following the album's release, thanks to various lockdowns.

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David Leha, who performs as Radical Son, has shared his soul-shaking new single, Elder, offering a deeply powerful statement of devotion to country, his Kamilaroi and Tongan cultures and his iron-willed intention to endure, that sets neck hairs on end.

Radical Son is part of the long story. “I wish to be an elder, an old man on this land,” he sings in a voice so immense it seems to emanate from the rock beneath his feet.

Elder is the first taste of Biliyambil (The Learning), the highly anticipated second album by Radical Son which will also feature David Bridie, Emma Donovan and Jida Gulpilil, set for release on David Bridie’s Wantok label in September.

Elder is the keynote to the album’s themes of hard-won survival, belonging, and acquiring wisdom from life experience. It’s a song sung from mountaintops, loaded with a storied past and fully facing the future.

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Paris Paloma grew up in Derbyshire in the UK.

She attended an all-girls boarding school, where she initially studied art and creative writing before music took over as her primary focus.

The performing experience she gained singing at large events for classmates served her well, as did her years of creative writing.

By 2020, Paloma was actively pursuing a music career and began recording her songs, which were built around a loose folk framework but incorporated everything from Greek mythology and art history to feminism.

Early singles like "Narcissus" and "Cradle" incorporated gentle acoustic guitar and rich sonic backdrops, framing Paloma's spellbinding vocals.
In 2023 her single "Labour," a mercurial folk-pop anthem, received a swell of viral success soon turned the song into a legitimate hit on the U.K. singles chart.

Now she has released the single "Yeti," a collaboration with American artist Old Sea Brigade which takes listeners on an emotive journey through the complexities of human connection.

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Melbourne-based Yorta Yorta artist Scott Darlow has announced his new record, Deadly Heart, which is set for release in October.

The album is Scott Darlow’s latest effort at spreading an ever-important message of passionate activism and advocacy work.

The new single Deadly Heart explores the Nation’s ability to really walk as one with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The title track is a duet with The Jezabels’ Hayley Mary.

The duet asks tough questions around how one can elicit change to work towards a stronger and united future while remembering an important past.

Darlow grew up abroad as his father travelled for work, but this unconventional childhood gave him an insight into always being the outsider.

This unique perspective has fed into his music which often explores the complexities of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations.

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The Stems came roaring out of Perth in the mid Eighties with a sound and style that definitively captured the spirit and enthusiasm of sixties garage music!

Though at the core of it all, The Stems wrote some awesome songs, made great records and put on exciting live shows.

The Stems are Richard Lane - keyboards, guitar and vocals: Dom Mariani - guitar and lead vocals: Julian Matthews – bass: Gary Chambers - drums

They debuted in 1985 with their single She’s a Monster/ Make You Mine and rode the top of the Australian Independent charts from 1985-1987 with each subsequent release.

Mushroom Soup - The Citadel Years has been remastered and repackaged and brings together the band's break-through singles, their debut EP Love Will Grow and a selection of demos and outtakes.

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Queensland singer/songwriter Mitch King has released his new independent single, Big Bright Moon.

Mitch combines electric and acoustic guitars, harmonica, kick and snare drums plus tambourine.

He is highly regarded for his evocative, raw and dynamic live performances.

His distinctive Southern blues and Australian roots and folk music is a sweet mixture of inventive, electrified and acoustic music.

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The Beatnik Preachers are Anthony “ToK” Norris: Trumpet and Spoken Word, Rob Burke: Sax, Nick Haywood: Double Bass, James “Miles” Legg: Drums and Joel Louis: Piano

ToK is a 45-year contributor to Australia’s original music scene, active in the reggae and jazz genres.

He is also a mix and mastering engineer with a list of releases by other artists that also have received awards.

Now he leads a new quintet that culminates all of his career experience.

He chose the trumpet, spoken word and jazz as the means by which to shape it.

Here we have a quintet of superlative musicians creating an uplifting and driving groove that lifts the heart whilst engaging the mind with poetry that challenges and questions the human condition.

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Daniel Aaron has released his self-titled debut album.

On the album, Daniel delves into themes of love, loss, self reconciliation and the pursuit of authenticity amid the chaos of the mind.

The album is laced with a connection to the Australian landscape and a deep appreciation for indigenous cultural ways of being.

Some of the album was developed with significant input from Wathuarong Traditional Owner and lore man, Buzz Edwards.

Daniel played many instruments throughout the album, including his Yidaki.

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News that a long-lost five-track release by Sydney band The Most was making its way onto streaming platforms has made the ears of veterans of Australia’s 1980s underground scene prick up.

The Most were among many terrific acts in a crowded inner-city Sydney scene, and a band that spawned future members of the Lime Spiders and The Cruel Sea.

The EP was originally issued as a cassette in November 1982 in very limited quantities by fanzine “48 Crash”, and is now available online as the EP “Another Day”.

At that time, the band was made up of Phillip Thornton Vocals, Ged Corben Lead Guitar, Greg Owen Guitar, Tony Bambach Bass/Vocals/Piano, Richard Lawson Drums/Vocals.

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2023 marks the 40th Anniversary of Goanna’s 1983 song, ‘Let The Franklin Flow’ and the High Court Decision, on July 1st 1983, that prevented the damming of the Franklin River.

In 2021 Goanna’s lead singer accompanied protestors to blockade the road in the Tarkine that leads to the proposed mine tailings dam site.

Two years later, the protesters are still fighting for nature and for common sense.
GOANNA has now released their first new song in 25 years.

The new single is called ‘takayna’, which is the palawa word for the Tarkine rainforest in North West Tasmania.

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Wayne Gillespie & Famous Blue Raincoat have released their track Methadone

Their name should have already alerted you to the fact that this is a band that knows its music history – and who wouldn’t want to name themselves after a song by Leonard Cohen?

The fact that the core members have a little history themselves should also alert you to expect quality in the CD that accompanies this press release – and why not?

Singer/songwriter Wayne Gillespie has been making quality music in New Zealand & Australia since releasing his debut album Wayward Son in 1984.

Back in ’95, Wayne and Rob were playing together in a three-piece called Passionfish, releasing an EP, Love Comes Down and promoting Gillespie’s third album Living in Exile.

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M.E. Baird is a remarkable and somewhat mysterious talent, not only is he a skilled singer, songwriter, and musician. Over a three-decade-long creative career, he has written and recorded five critically acclaimed solo albums, and numerous other recordings. He decided to share these raw sketches of possible songs with a close friend, producer, musician and creative mad dog, Jamie Trevaskis, to ascertain if there was value in working them up.
Upon hearing the sketches, Jamie proposed that they were worth exploring and recording.
Tracking was done live with virtually no retakes. Baird's voice developed renewed vigour and weightiness in tracks such as 'Spinning Man'. After day one of recording, it became clear to Jamie and M.E. Baird that they were creating something unique.

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One of Australia’s finest songmen, Neil Murray, released a new album, The Telling, in April. The Telling contains some of his strongest songs ever. The songs mainly concern themselves with country, and care for country. “The Murrumbidgee” is an affirmation of perseverance and hope - despite environmental setbacks. The Telling sees instrumental contributions from Bill Heckenberg,(drums) Craig Kelly, (bass) Stephen “Stretch” Teakle (keys, accordian, clavietta), Damien Neil (mandolin, guitar), Jack Howard (trumpet), Shane Reilly (pedal steel) with vocal harmonies from Grace Robinson & Damien Neil.

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David Garnham & the Reasons to live look like truckers but sing like angels. Despite coming from the tropical North of Australia, these fellas are as dry as desert boots, pinning dirty folk with unapologetic sentiment. They have teamed up with Billy Black for their coming concept album, "Stuart Highway part 1" They’ve released a teaser track from the album, "If I Never Never." The track is a co-write between Garnham and Jeff McLaughlin, the mayor of Tennant Creek. My review is below.

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Kutcha Edwards has released a new single titled "Mother Tongue." The single includes Emily Wurramara on backing vocals. "Mother Tongue" is a universal song. It talks not only about Aboriginal languages but languages from all round the globe. Here's my review of this new song.

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