Feature Sounds

by Tiny Ruins This week's Top 10: TINY RUINS Brightly Painted One UPSET She's Gone JORDIE LANE Live At The Wheaty VLADISLAV DELAY VS. TEETH Ripatti 04 WAGONS Acid Rain & Sugar Cane HUE BLANES...

by Graveyard Train Graveyard Train's latest album is a clear sign that they are developing as songwriters and is absolutely one of my favourite releases of the year so far. Unlike Graveyard Train's previous albums,...

by Mick Harvey Mick Harvey recorded his interpretations of Serge Gainsbourg tracks across two albums, Intoxicated Man and Pink Elephants, in 1995 and 1997 respectively. They have both been packaged together and re-issued through Mute...

by Lindi Ortega Although in some ways it seems that Lindi Ortega has come out of nowhere to Australian audiences, the Canadian country singer/songwriter has been releasing material in her native country since 2001! With...

by Liz Green If you want to be transported back to a time when vaudeville, music halls, jazz and folkloric music ruled the scene then Liz Green’s latest album Haul Away is a must have!...

by Seun Kuti A Long Way To The Beginning is the third album by Seun Kuti & Egypt 80. Seun, son of Afrobeat legend Fela, took over the band after his father’s death in 1997...

by FOUR HOURS SLEEP The word supergroup is used a lot but in the case of Four Hours Sleep, it is more than justified! When you've got the likes of Stephen Cummings, Angie Hart and...

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...