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Explore powerful stories at the intersection of history, culture, and music—from Aboriginal cricket pioneers and war heroes to legendary albums by Hendrix, Miles Davis, and Gurrumul. This blog dives deep into First Nations resilience, iconic protest music, and untold truths that shaped Australia and the world. Engaging, thoughtful, and unapologetically real—where powerful voices from the past meet today's social conversation.
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What made these legendary albums great? Read about the music behind the great albums by Black Artists. Hendrix, Gurrumul, James Brown, Yothu Yindi and more.
Music Spotlight | 'Gurrumul' — Dr G. Yunupingu (2008)
There are albums that entertain you. There are albums that impress you. And then, very rarely, there is an album that does something you can't quite explain — that reaches past your ears and lands somewhere deeper. 'Gurrumul' is that kind of album. Dr Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was a man of the Gumatj clan of northeast Arnhem Land. He was born blind, and yet as a child he taught himself guitar, keyboard, drums and didgeridoo — feeling his way through music the way others mig
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2 days ago2 min read
Music Spotlight | BRIGGS.
Some artists make music. Briggs makes history. And he's been doing it so consistently, so fearlessly, for so long, that it's easy to forget just how much ground this bloke has covered. Adam Briggs — born and raised in Shepparton, Victoria — is a proud Yorta Yorta man, and he wears that identity literally: the name of his people is tattooed on both forearms. "So every time I rock the mic," he's said, "people know that I am representing." That says everything about where he's c
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May 303 min read
Artist Spotlight: William Barton.
He grew up on a cattle station outside Mt Isa, picked up a didgeridoo at age seven, and somehow ended up performing at Westminster Abbey, Anzac Cove, and the Beijing Olympics. That's William Barton, and his story is something else entirely. For anyone who hasn't heard of him — you're about to want to fix that. William started learning the yidaki from his uncle, Arthur Peterson, an Elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga people. It wasn't a formal lesson. It was a handover
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May 233 min read
Artist Spotlight: Ziggy Ramo
An award-winning musician, writer and producer of Wik and Solomon Islander heritage, Ziggy Ramo has become one of the most fearless and important voices in contemporary Australian music. Through hip hop, soul, spoken word and razor-sharp storytelling, he’s built a body of work that confronts racism, identity, history and healing — without ever losing sight of humanity. What makes Ziggy stand out is his ability to balance power with vulnerability. One moment he’s delivering bl
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May 161 min read
Artist Spotlight: Alan Dargin.
He started at age five, with a hundred-year-old instrument and a grandfather's hands guiding his own. Born in Wee Waa, New South Wales in 1967, Dargin began learning the didgeridoo at age five from his grandfather, who passed down the instrument as a treasured family heirloom — cut from a variety of bloodwood tree that has since gone extinct. Those early lessons weren't just music lessons. They were a transmission of culture, story, and identity across generations. The didger
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May 92 min read
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May 41 min read
'The Loner' by Vic Simms.
Some albums are polished in studios. Others are forged under pressure — and 'The Loner' is about as raw and real as it gets. Recorded in just one hour inside Bathurst Gaol in 1973, with a mobile studio rolled in by RCA, this wasn’t meant to be a landmark moment in Australian music. It was supposed to be a public relations exercise for the prison system. Instead, it became something else entirely. Vic Simms — a Bidjigal man and inmate at the time — turned that brief window int
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May 22 min read
A Kamilaroi kid who changed the game.
From couch-surfing in Redfern to headlining Coachella — this is the story of a Kamilaroi kid who changed the game. Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard — better known to the world as The Kid LAROI. Born in Waterloo, New South Wales, and proudly Kamilaroi (Gamilaraay) through his mother's side, his name isn't just a stage name — "LAROI" is a direct tribute to the Kamilaroi people, the mob he comes from. And everything about his journey honours that heritage. From humble beginnings
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Apr 182 min read
Artist Spotlight: Wilma Reading.
It was 1959. A 17-year-old girl from Cairns named Wilma Reading had come to Brisbane for a softball tournament. On a night out with teammates, she heard jazz drifting from a nearby arcade and stepped inside. Someone handed her a microphone. The room went silent. Her powerful voice stunned seasoned jazz musicians on the spot — and by the end of the night, she had an invitation to join a swing band at the Ritz Ballroom. That spontaneous moment set in motion one of the most extr
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Apr 112 min read
Artist Spotlight: Budjerah
If you haven’t been paying attention to Budjerah yet, now’s the time. The platinum-selling, ARIA Award-winning artist — a Coodjinburra man from the Bundjalung nation — has quietly become one of the most compelling voices in Australian music. What hits you first is that voice. It’s rich, soulful, and carries an emotional weight well beyond his years. There’s a sincerity to the way Budjerah sings — no over-singing, no gimmicks — just pure feeling. Whether he’s leaning into stri
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Mar 281 min read
Artist Spotlight: Eric Avery.
Few artists in contemporary Australian music embody the power of cultural expression quite like Eric Avery. A Kabi Marrawuy Mumbulla man with connections to the Ngiyampaa, Yuin and Gumbaynggirr peoples of New South Wales, Avery is a violinist, vocalist, dancer and composer whose work moves fluidly between classical tradition and the deep cultural rhythms of Country. What makes Avery remarkable is not simply his technical mastery of the violin, but the way he reshapes the inst
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Mar 211 min read
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon: A proud Yorta Yorta woman, Soprano, Composer, and Educator.
Few figures in Australian music have reshaped the cultural landscape with as much vision and determination as Deborah Cheetham Fraillon. A proud Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer, and educator, Cheetham Fraillon has spent decades redefining what opera can mean in Australia — expanding the art form to include First Nations languages, stories, and performers who had long been excluded from its stage. Her journey into music is inseparable from her personal history. Removed fr
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Mar 142 min read
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Graceland [1986]
When Paul Simon released Graceland, he didn’t just reinvent his own career — he altered the direction of global pop. Arriving in 1986, at a time when Simon’s commercial momentum had cooled, Graceland felt audacious: a deeply American songwriter immersing himself in South African township music during the height of apartheid. The result was an album that was musically radiant, politically complicated, and ultimately transformative. From the opening strains of “The Boy in the B
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Mar 72 min read
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'Under The Mango Tree' [2006] The Pigram Brothers.
With 'Under The Mango Tree' [2006], the The Pigram Brothers invite listeners into a world shaped by red dirt, tidal rhythms, family harmony, and an unshakeable sense of place. This is an album that doesn’t announce itself loudly — it welcomes you in, sits you down, and lets the stories unfold at their own pace. Like so much of the Pigram Brothers’ work, its power lies in warmth, generosity, and deep cultural grounding. Recorded in the Kimberley and steeped in the easy sway of
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Feb 282 min read
Today is International Mother Language Day and what better way to celebrate and promote linguistic and cultural diversity...
Known affectionately as the “Queen of the Bandrarl Ngadu (Fitzroy River) Delta,” Kankawa Nagarra stands as one of the most spiritually resonant voices in Australian music. A Walmatjarri, Gooniyandi and Bunuba Elder from the Kimberley, Nagarra is not an artist shaped by industry ambition or commercial expectation. She is, first and foremost, a custodian of culture — a singer whose music carries Country, memory, and lived experience with rare authority. Kankawa Nagarra’s life s
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Feb 212 min read
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Barry White, 'Can't Get Enough' [1974]. Create the perfect mood for Valentine’s Day.
There are Valentine’s Day records, and then there is Can’t Get Enough . When Barry White released this album in 1974, he wasn’t simply adding another collection of love songs to the marketplace — he was perfecting a mood. Lush, unapologetically romantic, and steeped in orchestral soul, Can’t Get Enough remains one of the most potent soundtracks to seduction ever committed to vinyl. From the opening bars of “Mellow Mood (Part I)” , the tone is set: strings sweep in like silk
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Feb 142 min read
Live at the Rainbow, 4th June 1977. Bob Marley and the Wailers.
There are live albums that document a moment, and then there are those that define one. Live at the Rainbow, recorded at London’s Rainbow Theatre on 4 June 1977, belongs firmly in the latter category. More than a concert film or souvenir recording, it captures Bob Marley and the Wailers at a crucial intersection — between exile and home, militancy and mercy, rising global fame and unwavering spiritual purpose. In honouring Marley’s legacy following the anniversary of his birt
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Feb 72 min read
On This Day, 6th of February 1945: Bob Marley was born.
On the 6th of February, the world pauses — whether it realises it or not — to acknowledge the birth of a man whose music reshaped not just a genre, but a global consciousness. Bob Marley was born in 1945 in the small village of Nine Mile, Jamaica. What followed was not merely a musical career, but a cultural movement that continues to reverberate through politics, spirituality, and popular music more than four decades after his passing. Marley did something extraordinarily ra
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Feb 62 min read
Cause ’n Affect - Radical Son
Radical Son’s debut album Cause ’n Affect arrived with the weight of lived experience and the clarity of purpose that only comes from telling your own truth. This was not a record chasing trends or courting easy approval. It’s a raw, unflinching body of work that positions David Leha — from the Kamilaroi nation of Australia and the South Pacific nation of Tonga — as one of the most compelling voices in Australian hip-hop and soul. From the outset, Cause ’n Affect announces it
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Jan 312 min read
'Nyaaringu' - Miiesha
When Miiesha released Nyaaringu, it didn’t arrive as a tentative first step — it landed like a statement of intent. This was not a debut made for background listening. It was a record that demanded presence, asked for empathy, and rewarded both with extraordinary emotional depth. In a contemporary landscape crowded with polish and posturing, Nyaaringu stands apart as a work of rare honesty and quiet power. Miiesha’s voice is the album’s guiding force — warm, soulful, and ungu
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Jan 242 min read
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