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Since the release of The Mortal Coil in 2017, Sydney’s Polaris have been on a seemingly endless ascent towards the realm of heavy music stardom. A barnstorming debut, The Mortal Coil saw Polaris hit the top 10 of the ARIA charts and destroy stages worldwide, with their bombastic live show seeing Polaris more than hold […]
Mali’s Afro-pop stars Amadou & Mariam are among the most storied – and influential – musicians to emerge from West Africa. And, in 2020, they’re leading a global Afrobeats movement, impacting everyone from Jamie xx to Drake. Amadou Bagayoko (guitars/vocals) and Mariam Doumbia (vocals), who are both blind, met back in the mid-’70s at the […]
How do you discover new music? Here at Music Feeds, we’ve been trying to dream up a meaningful way to bring to your attention some of the incredibly talented artists who fill our inboxes with new music every day to the fans who’ll appreciate them most. Enter ‘For Fans Of’: a new snack-sized series serving […]
Many of us can link a certain album to pivotal moments in our lives. Whether it’s the first record you bought with your own money, the chord you first learnt to play on guitar, the song that soundtracked your first kiss, the album that got you those awkward and painful pubescent years or the one […]
This weekend, Grampians Music Festival brings an all-star lineup of homegrown talent that includes the likes of Julia Jacklin, Ecca Vandal, These New South Whales and DRMNGNOW to the picturesque Grampians Mountain Ranges for a truly dreamy two-day event. To help get you in the mood, Zoe from The Buoys, who are playing Grampians this […]
Icelandic songwriter Ásgeir will make his way back to Australia this May, the first time the silky-voiced singer has returned since his sold out recital hall tour back in 2018. Performing in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, the shows will see him deliver new cuts from latest album Bury the Moon, released earlier this month. To […]
A lot of festivals promise a similar thing – a “boutique” experience, a tight-knit community vibe – but it can be hard to find one that actually delivers. Rural Victorian festival Meadow, now in its seventh iteration, has steadily developed a devoted following over the past few years for its small, communal aesthetic and heart, […]
In just three short years, Alex The Astronaut has garnered an impressive reputation as one of Australia’s most endearing songwriters. She can flip between child-like wonder and razor sharp perception in an instant, all while delightfully plucking at her guitar. She has an affinity to give anthems to the ostracised – whether it be the […]
Paul Kelly was born in Adelaide in 1955, but musically reared in the bars and share houses of Melbourne and Sydney. He established himself in the early 1980s with the albums Talk and Manila, but the Paul Kelly we love – the musician who’s become a national treasure – didn’t emerge until he was in […]
Songwriter Rachel Caddy’s sparse yet driving electric folk is in the same ballpark as fellow Melburnian Gretta Ray – music that gingerly but honestly invites you into someone else’s world in a big way, if only briefly. On her latest single ‘Trams’, Caddy makes the minute the universal, ruminating on the uniquely human experience of […]
