duggup

Me and the Grownups (what a great name) fired up in late 2006. A year and bit later in February 2008they released their first album, “Battling the Mountains, the Sky and the Sea”.
Anita has her roots in singer-songwriting and traditional folk,Adrian is a jazz guitarist and Jonathan Dreyfus was once a classical violinist and […]

king tebbutt & whistler are an indie pop group from Melbourne. I stumbled over them while looking at who was playing at Manchester Lane (a Melbourne Jazz venue). There are only two tracks currently available at http://www.myspace.com/kingtebbuttandwhistler but the track “TV Screens ” is an absolute winner
I love the way they get the vocal […]

I still don’t have my head around this whole “post-rock” thing yet… it all sounds like rock to me but I have been reliably informed that 16 Millimetre fit the bill. Well as I said it all sounds like rock to me.  Here we have a band that are making really intelligent music that gets […]

Damn I’m going to have to invest even more time on this gig because the number of musicians and acts to be duggup just keeps on expanding.

Dan Sultan is another one I’d missed. He is a 23 year old indigenous singer and songwriter, but in reality he is only half the act, because he collaborates […]

Today’s artist will strike some of my friends as an odd one… it’s no surprise that I am not what you would call a “fan” of country. Indeed the sound of a steel guitar usually (but not always sends me running. And then there is Sara Storer, the latest in a select group of […]

Welcome to another Monday morning. Today I thought I’d start the week off on a gentle note and for those of us for whom mornings are a chore - settle down with a cup of coffee and tap you feet to the enchanting music that is brought to you by Earthly Delights.
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Pete Murray has a new album out. It’s called “Summer at Eureka” and listening to it for the last couple of days has convinced me that it is his best work to date. This album is a keeper.
By the time Brisbane born Pete Murray released his independent 2002 debut album “The Game” he was developing […]