One of the great new bands that I came across in 2024 was Brown Horse who hail from Norfolk in the UK. Their debut Reservoir immediately impressed and from the sound of ‘Corduroy Couch‘, the first taste of their new 2025 album All The Right Weaknesses (April 4th), they’re set to follow up the debut … Continue reading
Adelaide band Twine have released a great new single today called ‘Sleeping Dogs‘. It’s a track that sits at the nexus of ragged alt-country and noisier underground rock music. My initial thought was that their sound reminded me of the band Wednesday and then I read that their forthcoming album New Old Horse, out Friday, December … Continue reading
Sydney trio PJ Orr recently released ‘Guns n’ Money’, the first single from their forthcoming new album Wake Me When I’m Thirsty (Oct 25th) and now we’re very pleased to premiere the new single/video ‘Bread‘, which is out tomorrow (Sep 19th). There’s a brilliant rolling groove, filled out with jangly guitar chords as songwriter, guitarist … Continue reading
Ahead of the release tomorrow of Aotearoa/New Zealand songwriter Arthur Ahbez‘s new single ‘A Simple Medication‘, we’re very pleased to premiere the video clip that features Ahbez immersed in the NZ landscape under the Antipodean sun. The song is a brilliantly woozy slice of psych folk – wandering dreamily through space and time with woody … Continue reading
When it comes to the incorporation of ‘noir’ into country and folk music, the reigning king of capturing the essence of that sound in this part of the world is New Zealand artist Delaney Davidson. A prolific artist both in the recording studio and on stage, he recently released his album Out Of My Head … Continue reading
Sydney artist Lo Carmen has today announced that her new album Transatlantic Light, will be released on vinyl on Sept 13th and digital on Sept 20th. Self produced, recorded with her long time band The Great Beyond – Cec Condon on drums (Mess Hall), Ken Gormly on bass (Cruel Sea and Sam Worrad on guitar … Continue reading
Dashville Skyline, my favourite Australian music festival, returns for its tenth iteration in 2024 and today they’ve revealed the first batch of acts for the Wonnarua Country/Hunter Valley NSW cosmic country weekender in October (4th-6th). In terms of personal highlights, across a very impressive line-up, The new Hurray For Riff Raff album The Past Is … Continue reading
NSW (Dharrawal/Wollongong) alt-country miscreants MFV (it stands, or at least used to stand for Manson Family Values) have released an another gem of a single called ‘End Line‘ that follows recent release ‘Delecroix’ and their Buckshot Days EP – all highly recommended. There’s a sinister girl group backbeat that anchors the songs in sultry shadowy territory … Continue reading
NSW songwriter, singer and guitarist CJ Stranger has worked as a musician in musical theatre and played live with William Crighton and others but it’s his particular brand of cosmic Americana at the junction of psych rock, folk and country where he most impresses. CJ shares that rarefied air with the likes of The War … Continue reading
The acoustic guitar has been a mainstay of popular music through a myriad of genres over the last 150+ years. Through folk, country, blues, jazz and classical music it’s persisted and provided the soundtrack for generations of players, from the back porch to concert halls, juke joints to folk clubs. One particular strand that … Continue reading
I was super impressed with Jack Davies‘ solo set at Dashville Skyline a few months back and I’m loving this new single ‘Clothes Peg‘, out today. There’s a sensitive and baroque folk rock quality to the song, with jazz/art-pop leanings that create the dreamy loose knit, inquisitive and rambling feel to the song. Kinda like … Continue reading
Sunshine Coast songwriter Emma Bosworth and her band The Meeting Seasons are releasing her new EP Placement tomorrow (November 24, 2023) and I’m very pleased to be able to premiere the EP’s focus track ‘Spooko‘ on PTW today. ‘Spooko’ is all dreamy, drifting cosmic country. There’s the ethereal echo of Mazzy Star drifting down the … Continue reading
Wollongong NSW band MFV have been releasing a run of singles of late and the latest to drop is the activating sound of ‘Delacroix‘. The song starts on a rough and ready acoustic strum, the rest of the band gently entering the fray before the song truly swings into view, melodies pealing off onto each … Continue reading
Lo Carmen‘s creative CV runs deep – from author to actress, songwriter to singer and musician. She’s been a constant on the Sydney arts scene for decades now, constantly producing great work that always seems to possess a timeless quality. Carmen’s last album, Lovers Dreamers Fighters (2017), found her exploring more of a country influenced palette … Continue reading
Taken from Tré Burt‘s forthcoming new LP Traffic Fiction, out Oct 6th via John Prine’s Oh Boy Records, ‘Piece of Me‘ has me mildly obsessed and listening to this gem on repeat. The way his voice strains and rattles at the edges, the way he doubles the timing of the song title as it tumbles … Continue reading
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