For many of us, Australia Day is nothing more than a bonus– a cheeky sequel to the Christmas and New Year’s festivities that allows us to squeeze one more party into the height of our summer.

I don’t know why some good records that come out are talked about more than others, but there is usually some media heat around “Americana” releases that far outweighs their sales potential.

Once upon a time the album below sort of invented the bootleg.

 

It’s not everyday of the week that you get Australian music royalty giving you a party playlist BUT today is not just any day of the week…

via The Music

Last time he returned to the States from Australia, John Murry was so jetlagged that he fell asleep in his food. “My wife accused me of using heroin again,” he tells The Music’s Samson McDougall.

It was only yesterday we were getting excited by the Danny Brown guest spot on the latest Rustie single, and now news of a collaboration with The Avalanches has surfaced after DB chatted to triple j whilst in town for Splendour In The Grass.

 

Coin Banks is from Perth. He raps pretty well. This one is Hatches.

 

When the super charming Ms Gabrielle Aplin was on tour last time in Australia, we decided to take her record shopping at Sydney’s very own Mojo Records. All we asked her for in exchange was a chat about the records that have helped influence her into becoming one of the UK’s exciting singer songwriters.

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.” - Hunter S. Thompson