Thelma Plum
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Ausmusic Month is here, and with it comes the nominees for the 15th annual J Awards. A chance to celebrate the creative efforts of our homegrown acts, there’s some strong showings in all categories this year. For instance, this year’s Album of the Year shortlist includes Thelma Plum‘s excellent debut album Better In Blak, Stella Donnelly‘s […]
It’s nearly that time of year, folks. The nominees in all categories have been announced for this year’s 2019 ARIA Awards have been announced. The winners will be revealed at the Awards Ceremony, which takes place at The Star Even Centre in Sydney on Wednesday, 27th November – broadcast on the Nine Network and hosted […]
‘Valerie’ by English rock band, The Zutons was already a tune. Then Mark Ronson and Amy Whinehouse had a go with it and made it even more of a tune. Now, would you believe, a stellar Australian lineup made up of Amy Shark, Thelma Plum, and The Teskey Brothers has done it again? Yup, on […]
Earlier this month it was announced that live music show The Set will be returning to ABC later this year, and today they’ve announced the lineup of talent that you’ll be seeing on your TV screens throughout August and September 2019. The list of artists performing live in front of an audience on the program […]
Melbourne has a new festival coming to the Arts Centre Melbourne this August. White Night Reimagined will finish with a free all-ages event, presented by leading Victorian youth music organisation The Push. It’s set to feature an artist lineup including Ball Park Music, Thelma Plum, and Tyne James Organ. PB = PB || {}; gptAds […]
Thelma Plum has arrived as Australia’s next iconic singer, songwriter and storyteller with her long-anticipated debut album, Better In Blak – relating her experiences as a young Gamilaraay woman negotiating love, life, identity and the intergenerational trauma of colonialism and racism. She’s described it as “cathartic in a weird way”. Indeed, Better In Blak is […]
The National Indigenous Music Awards have revealed their 2019 nominees with 20 artists nominated across six categories. Taking place in Darwin’s Ampitheatre, the National Indigenous Music Awards will be held on Saturday, 10th August this year. Some super special guests will be performing on the night too: Archie Roach, Jessica Mauboy, and Dan Sultan along […]
Thelma Plum took centre stage on triple j this week for a really special NAIDOC Week Like a Version. Plum took on Khalid’s ‘Young Dumb & Broke’ and worked a snippet of Lil Nas X‘s ‘Old Town Road’ into it and what a treat. She also performed ‘Better In Blak’ off of her brand new, […]
Thelma Plum has announced her debut album Better In Blak, premiering a new music video for its title track. Powerful and catchy in equal measure, ‘Better In Blak’ details Plum’s experience of harassment and dismissal as an Indigenous woman in Australia, and Plum’s refusal to let her identity be erased. “Fuck that / I look better […]
