10 ARTISTS TO CATCH LIVE THIS WEEK(END)
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10 ARTISTS TO CATCH LIVE THIS WEEK(END)

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HENRY KISSINGER

Instrumental Hip Hop 

Hip hop started with instrumentals, bringing together elements from all sorts of genres; disco to funk, soul to rock’n’roll. We’ve come to near-synonymously associate it with rap, but Perth’s Henry Kissinger reminds us of the expressive potential of a good instrumental hip hop jam.

 

 

Thursday March 10 – Jack Rabbit Slim’s – Peth, WA
FACEBOOK | SOUNDCLOUD

 

SPIKE FUCK

Croon Wave

Spike Fuck makes tearjerking folk ballads that sound straight out of a John Waters film. You can just picture him in an empty bar in the middle of a going-nowhere town, singing from the table top as Roy Orbison plays from the jukebox.

 

 

Thursday March 10 – John Curtin Hotel – Melbourne, VIC
FACEBOOK | SOUNDCLOUD

 

HAYLEY LYON

Folk

Hayley Lyon comes from Terrigal, NSW; locals refer to the place as Tezza. It’s a hilly, picturesque beach town. Though, it’s known to attract some pretty unsavoury characters. Lyon is an observer. She makes picturesque folk music that’s not without strains of darkness.

 

 

Thursday March 10 – Newtown Social Club – Sydney, NSW
FACEBOOK | SOUNDCLOUD

 

KOI CHILD

Jazz/Soul/Hip Hop

Koi Child’s video for ‘1-5-9’ recently premiered on Pitchfork. It surely helps that their album was produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, but the band wouldn’t have gained approval from the influential media outlet if it weren’t for their gift for penning jazzy hip hop brain swirlers.

 

 

Friday March 11 – Karova Lounge – Ballarat, VIC
FACEBOOK | WEBSITE

 

POOL BOY

New Wave

New wave that gives you an itch you can’t quite scratch – that’s what you get from Beth Commons’ recordings as Pool Boy. Commons knows where to find a captivating melody, but she ain’t serving the things up on a fruit filled platter. Rather she dresses them in insidious sounds and makes you long for an explicit revelation.

 

 

Friday March 11 – The Bird – Perth, WA
FACEBOOK | BANDCAMP | SOUNDCLOUD | UNEARTHED

 

REDSPENCER

Indie Pop

You don’t hear many jangly indie pop bands from the regional NSW suburb of Glen Innes. Not enough, anyway. But here’s Redspencer, three Glen Innes natives now based in Melbourne who make the kind of lackadaisical, watching the world go by indie pop that’s borne of isolation and having the space to let the imagination expand.

 

 

Friday March 11 – Rocket Bar – Adelaide, SA
FACEBOOK | SOUNDCLOUD

 

DIGER ROKWELL

Electro Psych

Diger Rokwell’s grooves come at you with a heck of a lot of soul. There’s a tinge of Dilla’s Donuts to his experimental hip hop productions. There’s also a brain-lifting psychedelic bent, which pulls you into a mysterious headspace.

 

 

Friday March 11 – Mojos – Perth, WA
FACEBOOK | BANDCAMP

 

QUINTESSENTIAL DOLL

Folktronica

In case you haven’t heard, the planet we live on is in some serious trouble. The temperature continues to rise, and it’s causing shit to go wrong – setting off raging fires, disastrous storms and causing glaciers to melt, for instance. Images of these environmental catastrophes are sublime to view. Somehow beautiful, in spite of the devastating reality. Quintessential Doll recently released the soaring folktronica single ‘Beautiful Violence’. It’s not a climate change awareness song, but the title reflects the state of the planet.

 

 

Saturday March 12 – Sol Bar – Maroochydoore, QLD
FACEBOOK | WEBSITE | SOUNDCLOUD

 

ANGE BOXALL

Country/Folk

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This saying seems applicable when it comes to country music. Mashups with hip hop, nu metal or EDM have proved fruitless. Ange Boxall shows us that country works best when hewing to the roots – offering an emotive portrayal of an individual story.

 

 

Saturday March 12 – Republic Bar – Hobart, TAS
FACEBOOK | WEBSITE | UNEARTHED

 

TWO STEPS ON THE WATER

Emotion Punk

The music of Two Steps on the Water doesn’t sound like it’s about to fall to pieces; rather, it’s founded on the condition of having already fallen to pieces. However, from this foundation, the band work their way towards a more total resolution, at times arriving at forceful defiance.

 

 

Monday March 14 – Northcote Social Club – Melbourne, VIC
FACEBOOK | BANDCAMP

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