Feature Sounds

by Aoife O'Donovan While vocalist Aoife O'Donovan has spent years performing, touring and songwriting seriously with progressive Boston string band, Crooked Still, Fossils is Aoife's debut album. And despite the big Irish name and having...

by Cosmic Psychos The Cosmic Psychos need no introduction to PBS listeners. One of Australia’s longest running and most influential punk rock bands, the Psychos have been heard on 106.7 almost since they first began...

by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes Quite a name and quite a band! After releasing two albums of happy psych gospel blessed out music, they’re back with their third album. It has to be...

by Topology Brisbane quintet Topology have been creating uncompromising and engaging music for around 16 years. The classical combination of strings, piano, saxophone and bass can be said to be anything but "classical combo". Their...

by Pikelet Synth-pop is like a ray of musical sunshine into an otherwise dull and grey day, and Melbourne’s Pikelet certainly deliver on the dreaminess with her new album Calluses. It’s not all meadows and...

by Buddy Guy Buddy Guy is the very essence of the blues. In a career that has been going strong for decades, he has proven to be so reliably excellent that really any blues lover...

by Major Chord In March of this year, a single arrived at PBS, in a clear plastic cover, it had one track on it and the label just said ‘Major Chord, Transition’. The track started...

by Ngaiire This week's Top 10:

by Sugai Ken ToKiShiNe’ is an album best listened to in headphones, preferably on a sunny winter’s day in some kind of garden. It is a highly immersive blend of electro, field recordings and traditional...

by Various I think that regular listeners will be aware of my love for compilations (Note from Maddy: Especially Retrospective ones!!) and this latest one from Festival Records is an absolute beauty! It’s having a...

by Zillanova On their latest seven inch single Brunswick based recording label Hope Street have assembled a team of funk musicians with exceptional pedigree. Bob Knob, one of the label’s founders and a brilliant producer...

by Chris Russell's Chicken Walk Dirty, raw, it’s all there. On Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk’s second album, it may sound pretty similar to the first but that doesn’t make it any less awesome! One of...

by Rusty Pinto Way Out Here is the new long player from Press Tone recording star Rusty Pinto. The record finds Rusty and his group firing on all cylinders with Rusty’s signature voice accompanied nicely...

by Pokey LaFarge Pokey LaFarge and his band blend old time sounds of early jazz, country blues and western swing into an original sound. They hark back to the post war days of well dressed...

by Cash Savage & The Last Drinks Cash Savage & The Last Drinks’ new album The Hypnotiser is big. It’s really big. It packs a punch, and not like a drunken smack in the face...

by Horrorshow At first glance the title of the new album by Sydney duo Horrorshow seems to smack of hubris but in fact it is about internal struggle, the mastery of oneself and striving to...