Drawing inspiration from the present day Bic Runga and Gillian Welch to the past in Hank Williams, Lucy Wilson frolics between folk, pop and poetic storytelling with a seemingly casual ease.
The experience of studying An Advanced Diploma Of Jazz to guesting on The Smith Street Band’s 2011 debut album reverberates through her music, with a delivery, and subsequent audience, as broad as her influences. Along with securing a slew of international supports including Iowa blues singer William Elliot Whitmore, former Avail frontman Tim Barry, New Jersey troubadour PJ Bond and bluegrass punk Austin Lucas, Lucy has graced the pub festival circuit with performances at The Poison City Weekender in her hometown of Melbourne, Blood Sweat & Beers in Sydney and All Tomorrow’s Shoeys in Tasmania.
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The Frontier Touring Company has confirmed the return of American rockers Fall Out Boy to Australia this October, this time bringing Melbourne’s own British India along for the ride.
Perth’s metallers of the progressive kind, Voyager are bringing their much anticipated live show to Brisbane in support of their heralded new album. The Meaning Of I. They came with Children of Bodom, they came with Alestorm and now they are coming for you.
The inaugural BIGSOUND Music+Design today adds a slew of speakers, led by none other than Nick Cave. An icon of modern culture, Cave has been performing for more than thirty years as the singer of The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. He is an acclaimed film score composer, scriptwriter, novelist and occasional actor. 
Hailing from Sydney, THE STRIDES have become a new force for urban roots music. Fronted by Reggae Master Ras Roni from Barbados via London, and Fijian MC LTL G-Zeus, The Strides have delivered their classic sound to crowds across the country, delivering a musical experience that is as powerfully explosive as it is authentic.
Returning for its 8th year in 2013, Island Vibe Festival retains its reputation as the finest reggae, soul and dub event in not just Australia, but the entire South Pacific, and this year, it does so with some very exciting programming considerations.
Seminal Aussie fuzz rock giants Tumbleweed are back with their eagerly awaited new album Sounds From The Other Side – set for release via Shock Records on Friday September 27, 2013.
Q&A with Elliot Schoemaker of Brisbane rock/blues/garage band, London Bureau.
A year removed from the spotlight has resulted in light years’ worth of maturity for Amy, Hannah, Sarah and Holly – collectively known as Stonefield – as they take the next step in their already impressive career trajectory, having emerged from recording their debut album with a soaring new single and fresh run of national tour dates in tow.
Sydney’s CHICKS WHO LOVE GUNS unleash their hotly anticipated forthcoming single, the next chapter in scene-slaying saga, Pencil Neck. The track is electrifyingly energetic, setting the stage and firing shots to herald a heroic return, a new level of maturity, with all the old colour and depravity, with a music video to match.