Gaynor Crawford Presents has announced that Ben Sollee returns to wow Australian audiences in January 2013, this time as a duo with the hyper-versatile percussionist Jordon Ellis.
“Cellist Ben Sollee is like Andrew Bird with a little more soul, or Arthur Russell with a bit more bounce.” Lost At E Minor
“Fusing unique instrumentation with a soulful and sometimes playful voice, Ben Sollee defies convention.” World Cafe Live
When you think of the cello, you normally don’t think of it as a foot-tapping kind of instrument. But for the past decade, Kentucky cellist Ben Sollee has been changing minds all over the world with his brand of soulful, indie-tinged folk, with his voice and said stringed implement up front.
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The final heat to find Australia’s best Latin band took place in Sydney and the motors are well and truly running now. Each week the competition has grown harder and the musicians better and better. Sydney’s Australian Latin bands did not disappoint. Two weeks ago in Brisbane everything started to wake up, last week in Melbourne the movement got more intense, this week in Sydney the anticipation for the grand finale has brought the entire Australian Latin scene one week away from an all mighty climax.
Destroy All Lines and Blue Murder announce a rare and heavily anticipated tour from recently reformed Swedish death metal legends At The Gates this October/November.
“Was It Worth It” is the first single from WA Soul singer Mama Kin’s forthcoming album, The Magician’s Daughter and highlights her ability to consistently write good songs. The combination of rhythmic drums, floating *almost haunting* backing vocals and Mama Kin’s smooth soulful voice delivering reflective lyrics make this song almost hypnotic. 
So let’s set the scene of the Sydney leg of the Whiplash Festival “IV”: It’s been a 35-degree day of hot winds and sweaty butt cracks, but there’s been nowhere quite as hot as the insides of the iconic Sandringham Hotel in Newtown. Sadly, the heat is not all related to the scorching Aussie metal found within. This old venue is a steaming hot, sweaty, stinking series of boxes with stages and you feel the oppression from the moment you walk through the front doors. If the venue has air-con, you wouldn’t know it.
Brisbane singer-songwriter 
After announcing themselves to a new legion of fans with their sophomore effort, ‘Riot’, 
Introducing 
In a pairing of innovative musical minds, Brisbane’s