Tash Sultana, the gender fluid multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, producer and engineer, has been dubbed one of the hardest working music exports in Australia. Tash began playing the guitar from the age of 3 after being gifted the instrument from their late grandfather. From there Tash began to pick up other instruments such as piano/keyboard/synth, bass, drums/percussion, beatmaking/ sampling, beatboxing, trumpet, saxophone, flute, mandolin, oud, harmonica, lap steel, panpipes and arranged it into loop style performances along with percussive and finger tapping style guitar playing coinciding with a vocal range stretching 5 octaves.

By the age of 13 Tash was playing at open mic nights up to 6 times a week across Victoria. Tash’s refusal to conform to normal society pushed the young artist onto the streets of Melbourne to busk, where they harnessed crowd stopping performances on Melbourne’s famous ‘Bourke Street’. From there, a viral bedroom recording of ‘Jungle’ in 2016 skyrocketed the artist off the street and in front of the world. Since then Tash has broken attendance records on non-stop across sold out global arena tours, their accolades rush in faster than there is time to count them. In 2019 alone, Tash sold over half a million tickets across the globe.

In 2020, Australia was introduced to the spectacular voice of Budjerah: a new, homegrown kind of R&B star. Possessing song writing ingenuity and old-soul wisdom, it quickly became clear that, for a lot of us, Budjerah was the kind of figure we’d been missing. “When will the moment come? I’m tired of wasting time,” the then-18-year-old Coodjinburra musician sang in the opening strains of his debut single, “Missing You”. He might as well have been talking about his own career: from his earliest releases, Budjerah clearly had spades of talent and a hunger to show just how much he could accomplish.
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Now 20, and with a debut EP under his belt as well as an ARIA Breakthrough Artist award from 5x nominations, and off the back of a world tour including Vance Joy support slots in Europe and North America, previous support slots with Thelma Plum, The Avalanches, and Lime Cordiale, a collaboration with PNAU — Budjerah is ready to charge forward, armed with a new set of songs that show off his range, and heart-wrenching voice.
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On “What Should I Do?” Budjerah unites with producer Konstantin Kersting on a track that finds powerful tension in its clash of electro-R&B production and emotive lyricism.

‘What Should I Do?’ is one of six tracks on Conversations, Budjerah’s second EP, which sees Budjerah emerging a clear-eyed young songwriter who’s at turns heartbreaking and heartbroken, lovelorn and headstrong, singing about changing friendships and relationships with the vigour of youth and limpid depth that belies his age.
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Reuniting with longtime producers Matt Corby and Chris Collins, as well as new collaborators MAY-A and Konstantin Kersting, the EP — which features previously released singles “Talk”, with MAY-A, and “Wash My Sorrows Away” — reveals a darker, sleeker sound for Budjerah, reflective of the changes that have occurred in his life.
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Since the release of Conversations, the musical visionary has commenced his global assault, most notably featuring on a remix of Ed Sheeran’s hit single “2Step” in May.   Budjerah also performed to rapturous audiences in England, North America, alongside a global run as special guest for Vance Joy; and a set at The Great Escape in May and June.
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Now back on home soil, Budjerah will release the anthemic “Ready For The Sky,” a potent combination of smoldering soul, R&B stylings and deep grooves. The new single showcases Budjerah’s smooth and agile vocals – and an evolution of his sound.  Next Budjerah will take the stage at Splendour in The Grass, A More Perfect Union – a festival curated by Gang of Youths, Jungle Festival and as special guest for Vance Joy on the Australian leg of his world tour.

For years now twin brothers Jack and Patrick Pierce’s high energy duo Pierce Brothers has been a staple of the Australian indie-folk/ blues & roots scene, captivating festival goers and headlining sold out venues the world over. Exploding onto the world stage in 2014, the brothers started their journey as buskers on Bourke street (alongside other incredible busking acts Tash Sultana and Tones and I), and soon became a must-see act selling out 3 Corner Hotels with the release of their breakout EP The Night Tree in 2014.

Shortly after, on the back of the success of The Night Tree, the pair played their first European set at Lowlands Festival in 2014. Soon the Melbourne duo began a steady journey building audiences and selling out shows all over the world, supporting artists the likes of The Cat Empire, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Tones and I, and Tash Sultana just to name a few.

Having established themselves as an integral part of the music scene in Australia and abroad, the brothers have toured relentlessly – honing their craft and gaining fans across the globe as they go. The band’s music has grown with them over the years and has seen them release a top 15 ARIA debut album (Atlas Shoulders, coming in at #13) and two Top 10 ARIA EPs (The Records Were Ours and Into The Dirt), and have received over 30 million global streams.

The pair recently lived out their dream of headlining a maxed-out Forum Theatre in their hometown of Melbourne, before taking on a massive world tour, headlining venues all over the globe, playing arenas supporting Tash Sultana, as well as massive AAA festivals in North America, Europe, and Australia.

During the 2020 lockdown the boys retreated into the studio for 6 weeks and created their most ambitious record yet, completing their as yet untitled sophomore album entirely self-funded and releasing 100% independently early 2021.

Off the back of the success of their SOLD OUT regional Victorian tour, Australian indie-folk stars Pierce Brothers have just announced a complete run of Australian dates in what will be their biggest tour across the country since 2019!  Extending their already epic lap of the map, the two rocking brothers will be hitting up QLD, NSW, ACT, Western Australia, and finally back to South Australia (after a tour with Rodruigez in 2018 was indefinitely postponed).  Having released their sophomore album INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN to much critical acclaim, (including featuring as Rolling Stone’s Album of the Week) the duo will be hitting up many regional venues, some for the first time, in a run that takes them right up to the middle of the year.

“With international touring suspended for the foreseeable future, we wanted to further explore regional centres of Australia,” explains lead guitarist and vocalist Pat Pierce, “visiting places that we’ve never played before like Dunsburough and Bundaberg, and getting back to places we haven’t been to in ages, like Geraldton and Sunshine Coast!”

Due to state border closures and the risk of postponing shows, the brothers held off announcing this extended run for as long as they could, so that they could head into the tour with the most reliable assurance that the shows could go ahead.

With a new setlist featuring brand new singles from the INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN It’s Alright, Brother, and One, as well as many fan favourites, this tour is sure to sell out fast (if their first run of shows is anything to go by).

Singer, songwriter, and platinum-award winning producer Garrett Kato delivers his most sonically striking style of indie-folk yet on new album Small Town Rituals.

Since the release of “Take It Slowly,” sophomore album hemispheres, and 2021 EP Kumamoto, the Canada-born, Australia-based artist has amassed over 92 million world wide streams and performed sold-out shows alongside Damien Rice and Ziggy Alberts. Australian taste maker triple j dubbed him as the “producer and musician behind some of the most prominent sounds coming out of Byron Bay’s booming buskers scene,” and rightly so. Garrett has worked with a string of iconic Aussie artists including Julia Stone, Ziggy Alberts, Tones and I, Riley Pearce and more.

Small Town Rituals sees Garrett harnessing an organic approach to the writing process, allowing his emotions to come to the forefront to deliver his most vulnerable piece of work to date. The 9 tracks explore various subconscious narratives that provided Garrett “a chance to look forward and back upon my life and gain new perspectives on things.” There’s an overarching theme “overcoming” throughout, inspired by the uncertainty surrounding Garrett’s life at the time it was recorded.

Written and self-produced at his home studio, most of the album was mixed on hardware, giving the songs a more immediate and intimate feel. “The distinct tone of a vintage LA2A compressor is littered throughout the record, giving it a real warmth and detail that I previously dreamed about.”

There’s an ease to the music Riley Pearce makes. That’s testament to how effortlessly he became a songwriter. Watching his Dad in cover bands inspired him to pick up the guitar. By 17, he was busking at local farmer’s markets—playing covers but sneaking in a few original folky compositions about what he saw around him or the relationships he had formed.

Not surprisingly, nature occupies a sizeable piece of the artist’s musical DNA. For his latest recordings (Nettwerk Records), Riley rented a house on the southwest coast of Australia. “I wanted to let the sounds of the house and the environment filter in,” explains Riley. If you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of floorboards, the house’s gravel driveway, mallets thumped on a couch, the metronomic tapping of a friend’s collar bone, the crackling of a fire and more. Part empathetic meditation, Riley’s music possesses a depth of experience delivered through wafting melodies, thoughtfully blended found sounds and quietly introspective lyrics.

Honey vocals, dreamy synth and vibrant guitar riffs are fast becoming the signature of indie four-piece Death by Denim. Formed in Perth in 2016, the band is made up of close friends, Palle Mazzulla, Nikolas Ilidias, George Gunson and Hamish Macarthur.

Breakout single ‘Wiggy’ made waves in 2019; a sensory escapade that saw the band hit number 3 on the triple j most played charts and ink a global management deal with Lemon Tree Music. Three national tours and a heap of sold out shows later, the band returned to WA to record their debut album, ‘Sleepless and Sunkissed’.

Riding high off the huge success of Sleepless and Sunkissed, which saw the band soar to new heights with over 3 million streams on Spotify, high rotation at triple j, a sold-out national tour, an international deal with Paradigm Talent Agency and showcases at BIGSOUND 50 and SXSW, the band wanted to keep the momentum going and headed straight into the studio to record a new album-‘Moonbow’.

‘Moonbow’ is a dynamic leap from their first album, it is packed full of rich melody and lyrics that push and pull. There’s a lot more class and precision with every moment. Asonically transformative journey: it grabs your hand and weaves you through the woozy, guitar-laced echoes, introducing you to a hyper colour world of introspective commentary and self-reflection. Moonbow is available now via the band’s new record label ADA/Warner.

 In the Northern NSW town of Lismore, the “purple house” was a local landmark in the nineties. It’s here where Georgia Mae grew up surrounded by colour – a green kitchen, blue bedroom and yellow living room. It’s also here where Mae shaped her eclectic taste in music listening to Pink Floyd, Crowded House and Kate Bush, where she started taking piano lessons and where she learnt the art of storytelling from her writer mother. 

“In a way, the purple house shaped me as a person; it taught me to not be afraid of being colourful or standing out,” says Mae. 

At age four, Mae wrote her very first song sitting at the piano in the purple house. The song was called ‘Love Tree’ and Mae still remembers the chords and lyrics: 

When I look into your eyes 

I see the colour of the sky 

And sometimes I see you and me 

Together in a Love Tree 

Since her early days as a lyrical prodigy in Lismore, music has taken Mae to Brisbane where she studied at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and was nominated for the state’s ‘Most Promising Female Songwriter’ and ‘Best Female Pop Artist’ at the Queensland Music Awards in 2016. 

It’s also taken her overseas; to Los Angeles where she landed a role as a writer and recording artist on television shows including Keeping Up With The Kardashians, to San Francisco where she worked in sound design at the illustrious Skywalker Sound and Warner Bros. Studios, and to the Arizona desert where the rumblings of her debut EP first stirred. 

While on a road trip back to California from New Mexico at the end of 2018, Mae flipped her car on a remote highway and rolled it six times. Covered in blood, with a concussion and a broken back, Mae escaped from the wreck and made it back to the highway where an ambulance took her to hospital. Her physical recovery took six months, but the mental journey is ongoing. 

“That moment was rock bottom. I had already been going through a rough time with a traumatic relationship, and then I had the car accident. It sounds like a cliché, but the accident really put things in perspective. There’s something about a near death experience that gives you a new lease on life. I knew I was lucky to be alive and I wanted to fulfil my purpose: which has always been music,” explains Mae, who returned to Australia in May 2020 to do just that. 

It was music that took Mae overseas and music that brought her back to Brisbane, where she’s spent the last year working her EP, Gigi and the Dragonfly. Nodding to her nickname and her favourite animal, the EP is a chapter in Mae’s life, a moment in time, the story so far. 

“Legend has it that dragonflies are a symbol of change, transformation, self-realisation and wisdom. They teach us how to live life and keep faith even amidst difficulties, and they help us to identify illusion and deceit, which is something I’ve struggled with in my relationships,” says Mae. “Also, there’s something about the word ‘dragon’ that sounds mystical and surreal, which is a great foundation for storytelling.” 

At her core, Mae is a storyteller. And with this EP, she is telling her own story. It’s a story about acknowledging trauma, understanding it and healing from it. For Mae, that story is best symbolised by blue flowers, the melancholy of the colour blue and the beauty of nature’s blooms. 

“There are always going to be good and bad things in life, and we shouldn’t shy away from either of them. We can’t stop the rain, so let’s dance in it,” says Mae of the meaning behind the last track on her EP, appropriately named Blue Flowers. 

The first single on the EP, Gentle, could be mistaken for a pop hit about young love, but it’s actually an ode to Mother Earth and a rally cry for action on the Climate Crisis. The track starts on Mae’s “parent’s porch back home” thinking about what it would have been like 10,000 years ago when the sky was clearer, the reef was alive, and the bush wasn’t burnt. 

It’s fitting that the first single on Mae’s debut EP is inspired by nature, much like the first song she ever wrote: Love Tree. 

When Mae thinks about the four-year-old sitting at the piano in the purple house, she has only one message for her younger self. “Trust yourself. Even when things go horribly wrong, know that the hard times are part of the journey,” she says. “Oh, and don’t be afraid to be colourful – like the purple house.” 

Nomadic singer songwriter, Little Green, delivers her new single ‘iridescent ghosts’, a spell binding cautionary tale of how fragile our existence on earth is.

Growing up in the Blue Mountains, Little Green developed a sense of story telling and musicality inspired by the nature around her. Self-taught on flute, sax, guitar, piano, bass, and voice, she has used her talents to create a charmingly childlike musical world.

‘iridescent ghosts‘ is the follow up single to her 2021 releases ‘The Night’ EP, ‘dreambird’ EP, lo-fi collaboration ‘feather light’ and the book soundtrack to Lisa Leong’s ‘This Working Life’.

Little Green explains; “I was having a bit of a lockdown-inspired existential crisis when I wrote ‘iridescent ghosts’ thinking about the idea of oblivion. The thought is scary at first, but then knowing everything will end one day became pretty liberating. I hope people feel free when they hear this song.”

Recorded with Byron Bay Artist and Producer Garrett Kato in his home studio, Little Green and Garrett nurtured ‘iridescent ghosts’ to life. “I was determined to put flute in the song, but it wasn’t working. Then Garrett suggested playing a similar part but on the saxophone. I love it because I think if ghosts could talk, they would sound like haunting saxophones.”

Little Green is also making a name for herself on the live stage. Having supported Charlie Collins, Budjerah, John Floreani and Wafia, 2022 is set to be a breakout year for this songwriter on the rise.

16-year-old Mitch Santiago is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist from Perth, Australia.
Described by triple j as a “Perth prodigy making extremely good indie rock”, Mitch Santiago celebrates the release of his two latest singles ‘Out For You’ and most recent track ‘How I See You’ with his first national headline tour in July.

‘Out For You’, is described by triple j as a “massive new track that sees Mitch Santiago sharpen his vast psych sound with a bitta indie rock flair. If you’re into Spacey Jane, that’s the vibe”. It was added to full rotation and also saw Mitch Santiago recognised as an Unearthed Feature artist of the week. The song also had great support across all DSPs.

The release of ‘Out For You’ followed Mitch’s first single, Falling, which has accumulated over 1.5 million global streams.

Mitch has busked and gigged through hundreds of performances to emerge as a seasoned live performer. This passion for live music has enabled him to shape his massive one-person live show and signature sound and also plays a crucial role in refining his original music “to a place where I am super happy with it”.

Attendees of one of Mitch’s shows can expect to be blown away by the high-energy union of catchy song-writing, powerful vocals and a soaring soundscape of multiple live-looped instrumental and drum tracks and effects fusing into a sonic wall that will leave them breathless.

Hailing from Sydney, Roy Bing is an artist/producer with a flare for melody and story. His breakout viral single ‘Rabs’ ft. Ray ‘Rabs’ Warren, a tribute to ‘The Voice’ of rugby league, climbed to #5 on the Spotify Viral Chart, #9 on Shazam and received feature coverage on TikTok, MTV, Sportsbet, triple j, triple j unearthed, Sydney Morning Herald, 2GB, Channel 9 and more.

Roy Bing’s latest single ‘Signals Crossed’ feat. Alter Boy, BOI, ANGE deals with the notion of loving and losing, and figuring out where you stand. The collaboration was birthed during lockdown and was recorded entirely remotely.

As a songwriter/producer, Roy Bing has recently been in the studio with a number of local and international artists including; MAY-A, Tyron Hapi, Eleura, Olive Amun, Nicole Millar, Carla Wehbe, BOI, ChillPill and Rei Brown.

Roy Bing’s musical journey began as a kid on an old second-hand piano, figuring out how to play his favourite songs by ear, which led him to studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he honed his craft. Now, reminiscent of the genre-hopping Mark Ronson, Benny Blanco and Kenny Beats, Roy Bing transcends the boundaries of electronic, dance, pop and hip-hop music.

Jan Skubiszewski is a multi-award-winning composer, producer, songwriter and sound engineerfrom Melbourne, Australia. He is also a professional multi-instrumentalist.

Jan is defined by his unique ability to transform a promising conceptinto a hit song or record–a feathe has achieved repeatedly, across genres and generations.

Jan has had runaway successes in genres ranging from hip hop to roots and rock n roll, and has produced ARIA-award winning records with Australian icons such as John Butler. His work as a record producer and composer for film and television has won critical acclaim and a raft of awards and nominations at ARIA, APRA, AIR, Film Critics Circle of Australia, Screen Music Awards, NationalIndigenous Music Awards and many more, as well as production credits on several gold and platinum records.

Jan is an advocate of Indigenous Australian music, and has worked with numerous celebrated First Nations artists such as Archie Roach, A.B. Original, Yothu Yindi’s founding members, Deadly Award winning Djolpa McKenzie, Dan Sultan and Music Victoria Award-winning Benny Walker, and has composed music for Indigenous TV shows and films including Little J and Big Cuzand Bran Nue Dae