Boy & Bear’s new album out
Written together as a full band and recorded live to tape with Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs), Boy & Bears third studio album Limit Of Love is has been released. Recorded in the inspirational surroundings of Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studio, Limit Of Love has already been met with great praise across the country. The first single released from the album, Walk the Wire, fuelled by a gritty guitar and synth...
Sheena Easton
Abstract Entertainment is proud to announce multiple Grammy Award winner Sheena Easton will be touring Australia later this year. She will be playing in venues across Australia in late November and early December. Sheena Easton is one of the most popular and loved 80s music icons. She gained world-side success for her song Morning Train, which catapulted her career world-wide with international hits including For Your Eyes Only the...
The Wainwright Sisters release debut album
The Wainwright Sisters will be releasing their anticipated new album Songs In The Dark on 13 November. Although they’re sisters, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche didn’t grow up together. Aside from genetics, their true bond was a musical one, both growing up in families steeped in songwriting. Both their mothers would sing them lullabies (Kate McGarrigle to Martha and Suzzy Roche to Lucy) – now, to honour that 30 years...
Live: walking the walk
By ANDREW DIXON “Entrepreneurial” isn’t a word you commonly associate with multi-platinum rock stars. Nor would you expect them to admit that, sometimes, building communities and creating jobs in the real world can be “much larger than band stuff.” Live’s new (ish – he reminded me it’s been almost four years since he signed up) frontman Chris Shinn has the presence of mind to acknowledge the way the world works outside the...
Hip to be country
By LACHLAN BRYAN As we emerge from the depths of winter, we fans of country-ish music will be pleased to find festival-season upon us. Just like the artists themselves, we’ll have to hop in our cars and jump a few planes to take in all the action, but there’s plenty going on – particularly in late September and early October. For over twenty years now, the north-western Victorian town of Mildura has played host to one of the most epic...