Out goes the call, echoing across the Pilbara, the iconic Karijini Experience is searching for performers for its seventh-year celebration. Returning in 2020, the festival celebrates the vibrant, warm and rich culture that lives within […]
Returning to the spotlight, Philly breaks out a sweet melody to pay homage to the beauty and power that lives in black matriarchs. Brown Skin, featuring young Cairns talent Waari, is a message from the […]
From small beginnings driving the quiet, unmarked roads of Delungra NSW to serenading a sea of glittered movers and shakers at the iconic Byron Bay festival, Splendour in the Grass, Thelma Plum is a woman […]
Aboriginal children from the community of Barunga in the Northern Territory have created a catchy new music video called ‘Boom Boom’ to raise awareness for rheumatic heart disease (RHD). RHD is a life-threatening disease caused […]
The spirit of the Torres Strait takes a front seat in Busby Marou’s upcoming album, The Great Divide. After a decade away, Jeremy Marou (along with Tom Busby) returned home to Murray Island in the […]
Tribal hip-hop duo the Merindas are ticking off their bucket list playing the Djilpin Arts’ festival Djarmalak: Concerts on Country in Beswick, NT in late June, alongside a sisterhood of First Nations female artists. The […]
Dallas Woods—the Melbourne-based rapper, MC and personality—said when he comes home to Wyndham, in the East Kimberley, it’s really something special. “It’s always medicine, it puts everything back in perspective—fills that tank,” said Dallas. His […]
SPONSORED: Deborah Cheetham and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Deborah Cheetham AO, composer and acclaimed Yorta Yorta soprano has written Australia’s first requiem based on the Resistant Wars in South Western Victoria between 1840-1863. This June, Deborah, […]
Indigenous composer Dr Christopher Sainsbury has created a First People’s Composers program called Ngarra-Burria (meaning to listen, to sing, in the Dharug language) to combat the historical appropriation of Indigenous music. In his Platform Paper […]
Breaking down barriers with uncensored, authentic honesty, Birdz has just dropped his new EP Place of Dreams via Bad Apples Music. Released less than a week ago, the EP has attracted plenty of hype, particularly the […]
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