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Listen back to Junkyard with Michael Mulholland for a live set from Hugo Race Fatalists.

Read on for few of our picks from this year’s festival!

Every year, Melbourne’s thriving music community comes together to celebrate songwriting and music in all its forms at the Darebin Music Feast.

Entries are now open for the 2013 MBAS Blues Challenge!

by Gregory Porter Jazz singer Gregory Porter has precious few prominent male contemporaries to be compared to stylistically. His rich, unadorned and thoroughly heartfelt sounds are so inviting you might as well not bother likening...

by Cherrywood After playing all over the country for the past couple of years, these likeable larrikins have released their debut full length LP/CD. Recorded live to tape in a farmhouse near Trentham, Book of...

by Marc Hannaford Liminal is a new collection of works for solo piano, with occasional electronics from Melbourne’s Marc Hannaford. In recent years Hannaford has established himself as one of Australia’s most progressive and, at...

by Pat Capocci Combo Rockabilly has a strong affinity with Australian rock & roll with many bands finding success here and in Europe. This is not to say that rockabilly here is a clone of...

by The Step Kids Troubador is the sophomore album from the Connecticut trio The Stepkids, and by the sounds of things, they've been listening to all the right people. Having toured recently with Kimbra, Meyer...

Listen back to The Breakdown with DJ Manchild for a live set from The Do Yo Thangs.

BIGSOUND’s Live program takes over Fortitude Valley over 2 nights & 12 stages with performances from some of the world’s most exciting new acts.

by Vic Simms Recorded live in Bathurst jail in 1973, Vic Simms' album The Loner has just been reissued by Sandman Records, making this astonishing album available once more. There is so much significance to...

by Kerbside Collection Rare groove from the subtropics! Meet Kerbside Collection: a soul jazz quartet from the inner suburbs of Brisbane. Their debut offering ‘Mind the Curb’ is a collection of west coast cool, soul...

by The Seven Ups Eight Revolutions is the debut release from Melbourne Afro-funk 8-piece, The Seven Ups. The single is a three track album which highlights the group’s versatility and various musical stylings through this...

by The Paper Kites States is a beautiful, warm, lush, dreamy and melancholic album from Melbourne band The Paper Kites. The indie folk band formed in 2009 and consists of Sam Bentley , Christina Lacy...

by Taberah Finally Tassie band Taberah release their much anticipated second album Necromancer this month. Released through Dust on the Tracks, Necromancer is the follow up to their 2011 The Light Of Which I Dream...

Exit winter with a bang and get on down to Soul-A-Go-Go on September 7th!

The 2013 election is just around the corner and now is the time to tell politicians about the importance of PBS and other community broadcasters.

It’s soul music, baby, but not as we know it.

Hands are clappin’ and toes are tappin’!