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Joe Rivers

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"I'm Feeling Ready" Charlotte Day Wilson Is Approaching Her Studio Graduation

"I'm Feeling Ready" Charlotte Day Wilson Is Approaching Her Studio Graduation

Clash — "I'm actually a prolific person. I write a lot of music." That might sound like an unusual statement for someone who has released three EPs and a handful of singles in the best part of nine years, but with her debut full-length album now in the can, Charlotte Day Wilson is in a confident mood.
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How to Spend a Cosy Autumn Weekend in the Bathurst Region

How to Spend a Cosy Autumn Weekend in the Bathurst Region

Concrete Playground — in partnership with If golden leaves and blustery weather make you want a weekend away in the countryside, then pack a bag, jump in the car and make a beeline for Bathurst. Sure, it may be known to many Australians for its car races at Mount Panorama, but there's a whole lot more to this town than endurance motorsports.
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Five Sydney Record Store Owners Give Us Their Classic Album Picks

Five Sydney Record Store Owners Give Us Their Classic Album Picks

Concrete Playground — in partnership with How do you define a classic album? Is it sales figures, popularity over time, how influential it is, or something completely indefinable? We've all got our personal favourites, but with countless great LPs throughout the history of music, at some point you need to ask the experts.
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Notes on a Conditional Form

Notes on a Conditional Form

No Ripcord — Music Reviews (Dirty Hit / Polydor) The fact that a band can play their own instruments, write their own songs, win critical acclaim, and still be a beloved pop group seems to be a curiously 20th Century phenomenon.
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Tammi Terrell: 50 years on

Tammi Terrell: 50 years on

No Ripcord — Music Features There's little the music press likes more than a dead rock star to mythologise. Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse is the mantra. However, the death itself has to fit the narrative; drugs, suicide or tragic accident all work fine, but if it's the kind of untimely disease that could affect us mere mortals, that just won't do at all, will it?
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FKA Twigs' show was mesmerising... if you were tall enough to see the action

FKA Twigs' show was mesmerising... if you were tall enough to see the action

Time Out Sydney — She was one of the biggest drawcards for this year's Vivid festival despite having released only one, moderately successful full-length album, but then again most artists aren't Tahliah Barnett, better known as FKA Twigs.
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Bored of Your Music Selection? Here are 11 Newish Artists to Add To Your WFH or Office Playlists

Bored of Your Music Selection? Here are 11 Newish Artists to Add To Your WFH or Office Playlists

broadsheet.com.au — If you've spent any extended time at home recently, you may have grown weary of what's on your playlists. To help guide your algorithms in another direction, we've selected 11 Australian and overseas bands, singer-songwriters and all-round musical polymaths that we think are worth adding to your personal jukebox.
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