Australia’s first Indigenous music chart is here. The weekly chart of the most heard Indigenous songs across Australian radio has been launched by the organisers of the National Indigenous Music Awards, Radio Monitor and music […]
The music world is mourning the death of the lead guitarist of Indigenous punk rock band, The Lonely Boys. The musician, whose family have asked that his name and image not be used for cultural […]
Torres Strait Island singer-songwriter Chris Tamwoy has been invited to perform at the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games in Sydney. The Games started at Olympic Park on Saturday, pitting ex-service men and women against […]
With four ARIAs, 36 Golden Guitar awards and 31 number one hits, it’s difficult to think country music legend Troy Cassar-Daley could leave a bigger legacy than his music. But the man himself, who turns […]
As a child, Len Connolly entertained his classmates at the Brungle mission school in the foothills of New South Wales’s Snowy Mountains with performances of Elvis Presley’s Teddy Bear. Nowadays Connolly — the only Indigenous […]
He was recently named Artist of the Year at this year’s National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMA) — and music legend Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu continues to break records over a year after his death. His documentary […]
Country music legend Roger Knox — known as the Black Elvis and the Koori King of Country — is set to be inducted into the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMA) Hall of Fame. NIMA organisers […]
When Alice Springs Indigenous hip hop duo Karnage N Darknis and Melbourne rock band Chocolate Starfish got together in the Red Centre to record a new version of the latter’s 90s hit Mountain, they turned […]
The late Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is posthumously leading the field of finalists at this year’s Indigenous music night of nights almost a year after his death. A list of finalists in the 2018 National Indigenous […]
Up-and-coming country music singer-songwriter Angus Gill was in Year 11 at school when the plight of the Stolen Generation moved him so greatly that he felt the urge to write a song about it. The-then […]
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES 2018
