Feature Sounds

by Sun Kil Moon Sun Kil Moon’s (Mark Kozelek) latest album Benji is one you really want to listen to – it’s not the kind of album you have on in the background. It’s beautiful,...

by Perch Creek Family Jugband Although the Perch Creek Family Jugband originated on the North Coast area of NSW (in funnily enough, Perch Creek) they've been on the Melbourne music scene for several years now...

by Sietta Sietta’s latest album ‘The Invisible River’ is one of the best albums I’ve heard this year. It contains everything you want in an album of this kind – tightly written songs combined with...

by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard The word prolific doesn't even come close to describing the output of local group King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Since appearing on the scene in about 2011,...

by Tinariwen Listening to Tinariwen’s latest album Emmaar makes you feel like you’re steadily battling an unforgiving Malian desert on camel back – in a good way of course! Emmaar is a superb connection of...

by Various Artists WOMADelaide has been going since 1992 and in that time has hosted a wide range of artists including Gil Scott-Heron, Miriam Makeba and The Dirty Three. The lineup for the 2014 festival...

by Charles Jenkins and The Zhivagos This is an album that you just can’t stop listening to because each track leaves you wanting more. I guess this isn’t a huge surprise given Charles Jenkins’ experience...

by Harmony The masters of melodic darkness are back! Harmony have been around the local music scene for a while, playing at several festivals and gigging heaps around the traps but it’s always good to...

by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings This past spring, Daptone Records had just announced the August release of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings’ Give the People What They Want when Sharon Jones was diagnosed with...

by Peak Twins Peak Twins are Joel Carey and Liam Kenny. Their engineer and producer is Jack Farley and their regular backing group is Chad McLachlan, James Mannix and Ben Quici. Their song writing is...

by John Murry The Graceless Age was in MOJO's top 10 of 2013, American Songwriter's top 5 of 2013 and UNCUT included it in the Top 50 Singer/Sonwriters Albums OF ALL TIME! This week's Top 10:

by Brian Jonestown Massacre After their incredibly successful tour of 2012, The Brian Jonestown Massacre are returning to Australia to re-engage and amaze their Australian fans once again. The kings of mind-expanding, hypnotic psych rock,...

by Mick Thomas Christmas Day at Spencer Street Finally Mick Thomas releases an actual Christmas album. After a career of playing full fledged national tours pretty much every Christmas, Mick and long time cohort Mark...

by Lizzo LIZZOBANGERS is the culmination of that four-way collaboration, an album that manages to capture all of the varied musical influences of Lizzo’s upbringing and combine them with the forward-thinking experimental production style of...

by Brenda Holloway We provided an appetiser to the career of Brenda Holloway with “The Early Years - Rare Recordings 1962-1963”, issued on CDCHD 1241 in 2009. Now we serve up the main course with...

by Julien Wilson Trio On Australia Day this year, Julien Wilson went in to the studio with three of his all time favourite musicians to record a jazz ballads session. The intention was to record...