Latest Entries

Album Artwork / Alt-Country / Country / New Music / Videos

VIDEO PREMIERE: Pete Cullen – Black Mountain

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Pete Cullen has gone and recorded two new albums for release at the same time. One Way In is Cullen in full rockabilly, rock n roll and rhythm & blues mode with his trio P.C. & The Biffs while No Way Out takes the foot off the accelerator and gathers together more of Cullens’ alt-country … Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Americana / Country / News / Tour

NEWS: Out On The Weekend sideshows announced

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

The Out On The Weekend Americana music festival is happening on October 14th at Seaworks, Williamstown in Melbourne. The good news for those who can’t make it down there is that the international acts will also be playing a bunch of headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney Brisbane, Hobart, Fremantle and Adelaide. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE October 13 … Continue reading →

Album Artwork / Album Reviews / Alt-Country / Americana / Country / Rock / Videos

ALBUM REVIEW: Shane Nicholson – Love And Blood

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Though Shane Nicholson is now firmly entrenched in Australian country music, with awards aplenty, he’s shown over his strong run of solo albums that he can still maintain a foot in the indie scene in which he forged his songwriting abilities. That positioning has enabled him to straddle alt-country and commercial country with equal aplomb. … Continue reading →

Album Artwork / Album Reviews / Alt-Country / Americana / Country / News / Southern Rock / Videos

ALBUM REVIEW: Chris Stapleton – From A Room: Volume 1

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Two years after the release of his bestselling, award winning solo debut, Traveller, Stapleton returns with an album that in some ways feels like a retreat from the large stages and mainstream acclaim he received. Shacking up in Nashville’s RCA Studio A with producer and guitarist Brent Cobb, Stapleton recorded two album’s worth of songs. … Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Folk / Photos

PHOTOS: Red-Eyed and Blue – Jo Meares + W.A.C.O

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Americana / New Music / Videos

NEW MUSIC: Marlon Williams – Vampire Again

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Marlon Williams is back with his first new release since his self-titled LP was released in 2015. Since then he’s been touring endlessly, supporting Springsteen and playing festivals all over the world. He returned to Lyttleton, NZ to record ‘Vampire Again’ with producer Ben Edwards before directing the quirky clip in cahoots with UK cinematographer Steve … Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Americana / Country / Honky Tonk / New Music / Videos

NEW MUSIC: Ben Mastwyk & The Millions – This Country

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Melbourne’s Ben Mastwyk has gathered a new band around him and recorded a new album (his 2nd) called Winning Streak. His band The Millions feature Ben Franz (The Waifs), Josh Duiker (Clifton Hillbillies), Michael Hubbard (The Bluebottles), Craig Kelly (Rich Davies). Also on vocals and honky-tonk piano is kiwi songstress Lisa Crawley. Here’s a live in-studio … Continue reading →

Americana / Blues / News / Soul / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Patrick Wilson – Nobody

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Here’s a new track from Melbourne’s Patrick Wilson and his band The Bare River Queens. It’s a big and brassy song, dripping with soul and a country and blues swing, topped off with some great vocal melodies. Wilson and band play Coburg’s Post Office Hotel to launch ’Nobody’ on Saturday 27 August. Continue reading →

Album Artwork / Album Reviews / Americana / Blues / Folk / Honky Tonk / Videos

ALBUM REVIEW: Pokey LaFarge – Manic Revelations

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Pokey LaFarge has always been tagged as an authentic revivalist, from his music to the way he dresses. He’s still cutting a fine sartorial look but on Manic Revelations he’s sounding more contemporary than ever. LaFarge skill is seamlessly melding the cornerstones of roots music – from country and blues to soul, New Orleans jazz … Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Americana / Blues / Country / News / Psychedelic / Red-Eyed and Blue / Soul

POST TO WIRE PRESENTS: Red-Eyed & Blue – Jo Meares Band and W.A.C.O

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

This weekend is the August instalment of Red-Eyed and Blue, the monthly session of live alt-country, folk and Americana music we curate at The Bearded Tit in Redfern, Sydney. Our last session saw a full house being serenaded by Sam Newton and gently rocked and rolled by The Singing Skies and this time round we … Continue reading →

Americana / Folk / Videos

VIDEO: Courtney Marie Andrews – Irene

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

On the back of her recent run of Australian shows with Joe Pug, Courtney Marie Andrews has released the new video clip for ‘Irene’, the standout track from her album Honest Life. Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Americana / Country / Folk / Photos

PHOTOS: David Garnham & The Reasons To Live + Leo Rondeau @ Marrickville Bowling Club, Sydney 23.07.17

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Continue reading →

Americana / Folk / Gig Reviews

LIVE REVIEW: Steve Gunn @ The Basement, Sydney

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Steve Gunn, Angie @ The Basement, Sydney 6th July, 2017 Hypnotic music can take many forms, it can be ambient and soothing, heavy and droning or purely fuelled by repetition. Steve Gunn sits right at the nexus of all of these and he took The Basement audience on a varied and dextrous musical journey. Up … Continue reading →

Album Artwork / Album Reviews / Folk / Stream / Videos

ALBUM REVIEW: All Our Exes Live In Texas – When We Fall

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

The Sydney quartet take a slick approach on their debut album which finds them blending folk harmonies with the retro-tinged indie pop of acts such as Jenny Lewis and Neko Case. Fleshing out their live sound with a fuller band one was a wise move. It gives the songs a greater depth and a lush … Continue reading →

Album Reviews / Folk / Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Taryn La Fauci – Cycling

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Sydney songwriter Taryn La Fauci takes a restrained and intimate approach on her debut album Cycling. She lays herself – her thoughts and emotions – bare on ten songs that have a folk feel in the acoustic instrumentation, paired with a classic singer/songwriter mood. Nothing threatens, with soft electric guitar shimmers, shuffling drums and a … Continue reading →