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PHOTO: Pierre Baroni (Soulgroove ’66), Kurt Eckardt (Homebrew), Lyndelle Wilkinson (The Afterglow)
Jordan Oakley (Underground Love), Emma Peel (Switched On), Elle Young (Headhunters)
Kix (Afro Turn Up), Saúl Zavarce (Fiesta Jazz)
PBS Radio Festival 2020: You Can’t Stop The Music
Monday May 18 – Sunday May 31
#PBSRadioFestival #YouCantStopTheMusic
A pandemic can close our venues, ban our gigs and end our gatherings, but You Can’t Stop The Music!
Melbourne’s beloved radio station PBS 106.7FM is dusting off the dancing shoes for its annual Radio Festival from Monday 18 May to Sunday 31 May. This year’s festival refuses to let a little isolation get in the way of the biggest on air fundraiser party the FM bandwidth can handle. PBS is inviting listeners to put their money where their ears are and join or renew this May to keep the tunes rolling for another nonstop boogie around the sun.
Sadly, for the first time in Radio Festival history, PBS will not have a phone room full of passionate volunteers taking calls. Instead, the station will be asking people to join up online wherever possible at pbsfm.org.au. The good news is there’ll be no need to beat the peak on the phone lines, no scrambling for your credit card details on the run or lowering your voice on the tram. So notify the group chat and gather your loose change, because it’s never been more important to get behind your local community radio station and help keep the music alive.
“PBS has worked relentlessly to be there for our community during the COVID crisis and now we’re hoping people will be there for us, so we can make sure the music never stops. We know that a large number of our listeners are really doing it tough so we realise this is a big ask. But we also know that PBS listeners are beyond passionate in their love for music and what PBS stands for and will do what they can to help out in these extreme times.” – Adrian Basso, PBS General Manager
As always, there’ll be an absolute spread of prizes up for grabs for all the groovers and shakers who join or renew their PBS membership during this year’s Radio Festival and although the virtual celebrations don’t officially start until the 18th of May, all members who join up from Friday 1 May will go into the draw. Along with a plethora of daily prizes including merch packs, food and drink hampers, tickets, vouchers and more, the 2020 major prizes up for grabs are:
– A Primavera 125 i-GET Vespa in classic white with tan saddle trim valued at $6,990* ride away, courtesy of Peter Stevens Motorcycles
– A Clingan Guitar Tone handmade ‘Goldfinger’ electric guitar with SKB road case
– A Gett by Funk turntable with F7 tonearm and AT cartridge courtesy of Audiophile
– A Giro F2 bike with Ortleib accessories from My Ride Collingwood
– An entire year’s worth of PBS feature albums
– Plus exclusive prizes up for grabs for all performer, business, pet and junior memberships, as well as any new or returning Friends for a Decade and Friends for Life
All new and renewing members who join up during this year’s festivities will receive the coveted Sounds of Studio 5 Live digital album featuring exclusive live recordings from the likes of Surprise Chef, Pinch Points, On Diamond, Coda Chroma, Clowns, Dyson Stringer Cloher, Deline Briscoe, Karate Boogaloo, Ghost Note and many more. Plus, get ready to slide into your next zoom meeting in the latest PBS Radio Festival T-shirt designed by local artist Jase Harper. Simply join up as a passionate member or above and be the envy of all your half-dressed mates this iso.
“It’s no accident that Melbourne is the music capital of Australia and one of the world’s greatest music cities. I believe the main reason for this is the wonderful community radio we have in Melbourne – incredible stations such as PBS.” – Ian “Molly” Meldrum
“P.S. I never knew that PBS stood for Progressive Broadcasting Service – I thought it stood for Pretty Bloody Special. Melbourne is very lucky to have it.”
So get ready to blast the boundless energy and everlasting community spirit of PBS direct to your headphones, car speakers, kitchen benches and essential worksites this Radio Festival, and continue to enjoy the best emerging, independent, specialist and underrepresented music all year round. PBS – can’t stop, won’t stop!
PBS Radio Festival 2020: You Can’t Stop The Music
May 18 – May 31 2020
More details and to sign up here
If you are having trouble renewing online, you can email info@pbsfm.org.au or try calling (03) 8415 1067 between 10am-6pm Monday to Friday and PBS will do their best to answer your call
Like PBS 106.7fm on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
#PBSRadioFestival #WorkYourMagic
Thank you for supporting PBS.
Parallells duo launch their A Day In series with a fantastic first film from Essaouira in Morocco, during Moga Festival
A DAY IN ESSAOUIRA
WATCH THE FULL EPIZODE HERE – https://vimeo.com/412308564
The Parallells duo are proud to launch their A Day In series with a fantastic first film from Essaouira in Morocco, during Moga Festival. The film features a new and exclusive track “A Day In Essaouira” which will be available for purchase on Bandcamp and profits will go to the Associations Yerma Gnaoua and Issaouas in order to help Moroccan traditional musicians and their families to overcome the CV19 crisis.
Julien and Thomas de Bie, former students of the Academy of Music, grew up influenced by jazz and classical music and are now underground electronic stalwarts who are based in Amsterdam. They perform at major festivals such around the globe, manage Klassified Records and the Klassified Music Festival and have just opened “The House of Klassified” in Amsterdam; a creative hub for their artists combining: studios, recording facilities, an art gallery and co-working spaces.
With this ambitious new project, Parallells have taken their musical venture even further by discovering different cultures, tribes and their specific sounds. This episode is the first one of the video series “A Day In” where Parallells translate, through field recordings, a specific culture, city or country. It is said that “Music is the universal language” and Parallells aims to show how it connects people as well as showing the world’s beauty and use music as a force for change. This video was filmed by friend Arnaud Moro who does a remarkable job of capturing the process through his lens.
This last October, Parallells, Maalem Omar Hayat and his crotales players performed a unique show combining Gnawa music infused with electronic music. It came about as an initiative from Moga Festival called Moga Creation. Creating bridges between tradition and modernity, perpetuating the heritage of Essaouira, a city of mixed cultures, highlighting local creativity and hospitality, this project is what Moga Creation aims for.
Parallells rehearsed in the middle of Essaouira’s Medina, in a sacred place where the synergies were shivering when electronic music met traditional Gnawa’s rhythm and culture. After 3 days together, they played this memorable live at Moga Festival, a performance forever engraved in many people’s hearts.
Gnawa culture is a centuries-old Moroccan practice rooted in African rituals, Sufi traditions and music played with the guenbri, a type of lute with three strings, and steel castanets called krakebs or crotales. Gnawa refers to a “set of musical productions, fraternal practices and therapeutic rituals where the secular mixes with the sacred”
Essaouira is an exceptional example of a late-18th-century fortified town, built according to the principles of contemporary European military architecture in a North African context. Since its foundation, it has been a major international trading seaport, linking Morocco and its Saharan hinterland with Europe and the rest of the world.
Maalam Omar Hayat is delighted with this collaboration with Julien and Thomas, because it perfectly reflects the cultural exchange between Gnaoua music and electronic music. It was a truly unique experience with, as a highlight, this superb live performed at Moga festival, which perfectly symbolizes this alliance. “Moga création”. It is the DNA of Moga festival and a great opportunity to represent these different worlds in the hope of future collaboration, because it was really magic.
This is a fantastic way to launch this new video series which will breakdown borders between music, culture and people all over the world. Watch out for the second episode which finds the pair immersing themselves in the Huichol culture in the Mexican mountains later this year.
![Photo credit: The Sauce / Kane Lehanneur Australia’s funkiest musical export Ocean Alley are thrilled to announce their highly anticipated third album Lonely Diamond, out independently June 19 with distribution via UNIFIED Music Group. The news follows the premiere of their latest single from the record, ‘Hot Chicken’, on triple j last night, and comes off the back of the recent postponement of their Australian tour until 2021. Album pre-orders go live 9am AEST Wednesday 29 April from here. Watch ‘Hot Chicken’ via YouTube here. Grappling with spiralling out of control, ‘Hot Chicken’ encapsulates the seduction and suffering that comes from wrestling with the devil on one’s shoulder. Accentuated by the dangerous edge to vocalist Baden Donegal’s voice, ‘I’ll be the razor if you want to play’, the taunting driving guitars intensify the feeling to fight. Threaded with echoes of an Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Western score, the song’s expansive soundscape grows and conquers, transporting the listener to the middle of a dusty stand-off in a state of isolation and emptiness. Drawing from the nostalgia of music eras past, Lonely Diamond combines 70s guitar rock, country and western, old school funk and synth-heavy new wave to create a deeply contemplative and atmospheric odyssey reminiscent of music legends including Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits and Pink Floyd. From its sprawling opening notes, the record feels like a seamless progression following their last album, 2018’s Chiaroscuro, with exploration and escapism forming two central themes that unfold and transform across the 12 tracks. Guitarist Mitch Galbraith explains, “It’s pushing forward into the unknown… taking a journey to a different place or a different time that seems familiar or that you’ve been before and all the emotions and feels that come with that.” There’s an ingrained familiarity with this record from the first listen – all the elements that define Ocean Alley’s sound are there, but more intricately arranged; new instruments are introduced, the production is pushed to new limits and the band has created complete synergy between each track. Album opener ‘Dahlia’ mystically sets the scene with an intergalactic introduction, while the introspective title-track ‘Lonely Diamond’ engulfs the listener in a wave of melancholy before finding purpose with warmth and tenderness. Hopefulness is intrinsically linked with these anxieties, feelings and experiences explored, and the bright and dreamy ‘Up In There’ creates an uplifting sense of reassurance that everything will be okay, with its soaring harmonies, swirling guitars and ethereal keys. Produced by long-time collaborator Callum Howell at the idyllic Grove Studios (built by INXS’ Garry Gary Beers), Lonely Diamond follows the success of Ocean Alley’s acclaimed second full-length LP Chiaroscuro. With its infectious blend of psychedelic surf-rock, the record propelled the band into national prominence and saw them sell 25,000 tickets over 15 sold out shows that year in Australia alone – culminating with their ARIA nominated, double platinum-selling single ‘Confidence’ taking out #1 in triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2018. Their breakthrough year was backed-up with 30 sold out shows around the world in 2019, plus major festival appearances at Reading & Leeds Festival (UK), Splendour In The Grass (AUS), Sziget (HU), BottleRock (US) and more, with the band amassing more than 250 million streams to date. OCEAN ALLEY – LONELY DIAMOND [LP] Out independently June 19 with distribution via UNIFIED Music Group Pre-order from 9am AEST 29 April here Lonely Diamond track list: 1. Dahlia 2. Tombstone 3. Way Down 4. Infinity 5. Up In There 6. All Worn Out 7. Stained Glass 8. Lonely Diamond 9. Wet Dreams 10. Hot Chicken 11. Puesta de Sol 12. Luna OCEAN ALLEY AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2021 with Psychedelic Porn Crumpets & Dulcie Tickets on sale now from oceanalley.com.au Saturday 6 February - Hordern Pavilion, Sydney SOLD OUT Sunday 7 February – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Friday 12 February – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane SOLD OUT Saturday 13 February – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane Friday 5 March – Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth Friday 12 March – Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide Wednesday 24 March – Melbourne Arena, Melbourne Presented by triple j, Lonely Lands Agency & UNIFIED Music Group Follow Ocean Alley: oceanalley.com.au facebook.com/oceanalleyband twitter.com/oceanalleyau @oceanalleyband](https://controls.islaoceana.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OCEAN-ALLEY-ANNOUNCE-THEIR-HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED.jpg "OCEAN ALLEY ANNOUNCE THEIR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED")
Photo credit: The Sauce / Kane Lehanneur
Australia’s funkiest musical export Ocean Alley are thrilled to announce their highly anticipated third album Lonely Diamond, out independently June 19 with distribution via UNIFIED Music Group. The news follows the premiere of their latest single from the record, ‘Hot Chicken’, on triple j last night, and comes off the back of the recent postponement of their Australian tour until 2021.
Album pre-orders go live 9am AEST Wednesday 29 April from here. Watch ‘Hot Chicken’ via YouTube here.
Grappling with spiralling out of control, ‘Hot Chicken’ encapsulates the seduction and suffering that comes from wrestling with the devil on one’s shoulder. Accentuated by the dangerous edge to vocalist Baden Donegal’s voice, ‘I’ll be the razor if you want to play’, the taunting driving guitars intensify the feeling to fight. Threaded with echoes of an Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Western score, the song’s expansive soundscape grows and conquers, transporting the listener to the middle of a dusty stand-off in a state of isolation and emptiness.
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Australian band The Buckleys will close off their World Virtual Tour presented by Live Nation on Thursday 30 April with the goal to reach an audience of over 1M from across the globe as they conclude their run with a performance for their home country Australia & New Zealand at 6pm AEST / 8pm NZST.
Sarah, Lachlan and Molly Buckley are encouraging the Australian media and their fans to rally behind them and tune in for their final show on Thursday night.
“Please help us hit a million for our very first global virtual tour! We really hope our home country gets behind us,” Says, Sarah Buckley.
The Buckleys are a three-piece band of siblings (Sarah 20, Lachlan 18 and Molly 17 years of age), The Buckleys worked since they were young children towards their dream of a record deal, the release of their first album and tour and had scheduled the release of their single “Money” in March and their first international tour was due to kick off in April but global lockdown has seen them get creative.
The Buckleys World Virtual Tour came to fruition after lifelong friends CM Murphy and Arthur Fogel, along with Linda Kury and Devon Buchanan commenced urgent discussions on how to tour The Buckleys whilst the world was on lockdown. Mr Fogel’s right hand person, Tiffany Hilliard came up with the concept to tour the world virtually by countries and regions.
Last month, the band embarked on their first-ever virtual tour of North America, and by the end of the run, they will have played 18 shows across Europe, Asia, South America, New Zealand, and Australia – all from the comfort of their living room.
“I don’t think Australians have actually caught on to the fact that their own artist has been out there making music streaming records. Personally, I am stunned by the results so far. If the Australian people and our New Zealand cousins catch a seriously great live show, we will break a million engagements on their first World Virtual Tour. I am so proud of The Buckleys family, they carry the same mandate my showbiz mother and father gave me, the show must go on!” Says CM Murphy, Petrol Records Founder & Chairman.
Catch the final live show from The Buckleys on their World Virtual Tour:
THURSDAY April 30 @ 6pm AEST / 8pm NZST
Australia & New Zealand – https://www.facebook.com/LiveNationOzNz/
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Carl Cox’s leading Awesome Soundwave label in partnership with Beatport is bringing together some of the best live acts in the game for a special online festival on April 25th. It will be streamed live via Beatport’s social pages and various other prominent online channels, with the boss himself appearing alongside label co-founder Christopher Coe and a host of other carefully chosen performers including Marc Romboy, Saytek, The Oolluu and Honeysmack and more.
Awesome Soundwave is a live electronic label with a big reputation for releasing music from the cutting edge. It is exclusively for artists who play and perform it live and recent times have given rise to standout albums and EPs from a host of the artists lining up for this special online broadcast.
The artists will all be playing from their own lockdown locations around the world, with Carl Cox and Christopher Coe playing an hour each from Carl’s studio in Australia and Hannes Bieger – whose recent new single with Ursula Rucker made a big impact thanks to its environmental message – playing an hour from his studio in Germany.
Elsewhere, The Oolluu, a two piece live act crossing over electronic fusion with live drums and amazing dynamics. They’ll be joined by the always on-point and legendary Marc Romboy, fellow live wizard Saytek and the likes of rising Irish live act Nancy and Australia natIve Honeysmack and you have an unmissable online party that will take you away from your lockdown woes for a few essential hours. This is a fantastic showcase of the Awesome Soundwave live sound that will keep us dancing and coming together through these difficult times.
Awesome Soundwave stand in solidarity with their artists and, as such, have set up a donation platform whereby 50% goes to the artists performing and 50% goes to a grass roots aid organisation.
Label Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/
Donate here (50% to Awesome Soundwave artists and 50% to Crisis Kitchen Bali
PACHA IBIZA PRESENTS ‘HOUSE PARTY’
AN INTERACTIVE CLUBBING EXPERIENCE BRINGING THE ULTIMATE FEEL OF PACHA DIRECTLY INTO YOUR HOME
FEATURING
CLAPTONE, FELIX DA HOUSECAT, PETE TONG
AND MORE
PACHA IBIZA – HOUSE PARTY
APRIL 25th @ 6PM CET
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“New York funk-soul duo Lion Babe ignite a funky, psychedelic dance party…” – ROLLING STONE
“Jillian Hervey’s strong, soulful vocals shine through, accompanied by the production influence of Lucas Goodman, who plays with genre intersection without falling too deep into the experimental world of alternative R&B. Lion Babe created a feel-good record that is certain to make the listener move.” – ASSOCIATED PRESS
Untitled Group and Oxford Art Factory present Lion Babe’s virtual tour “Around The World, At Home”. The New York based duo who were recently in Australia for New Year’s Eve performing at Beyond The Valley, Wildlands and Origin Fields festivals, will be performing a series of live performances from their studio, with their Australian leg being streamed live from Oxford Art Factory’s Instagram page (@theoxfordartfactory) on May 4th at 7pm AEST.
“Excited to announce our Virtual Tour along with exclusive merch! We started this year in Australia and although we are coming back in different circumstances, we’re thrilled to reconnect and play a show,” explains Lion Babe.
The virtual run is set to include a sneak peek at new music, as well as a virtual meet- and-greet hosted on the same, respective channels one week prior to each performance and will feature an opening performance by Danish, Grammy-nominated artist Kwamie Liv.
The Australian meet and greet will take place at Oxford Art Factory’s instagram page on April 27 at 7pm AEST.
After turning heads with their debut single ‘Treat Me Like Fire’, the duo have gone on to collaborate with the likes of Disclosure, Pharrell and Childish Gambino. The New York duo of Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman released their debut LP ‘Begin’ in 2016. Their latest album ‘Cosmic Wind’ released in 2019, offered stand out singles ‘Western World’ which featured hip-hop legend Raekwon, and the disco-infused bop “The Wave” featuring Leikeli47.
For more information, go to lionbabe.com.
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Brisbane indie legends The Jensens take over Up In The Airlock’s ‘The Quarantine Sessons’ tonight with the first half of their session premiering on YouTube at 7.30pm. The opportunity to donate to the band and crew is available via the
Up In The Airlock is a new initiative from Ian Haug (Powderfinger, the church) Airlock Studios and Method To My Madness (MTMM) to showcase great Australian acts in a format that captures the intimacy, personality and technicalities often missed at a live show. Originally planned for later in the year, the project was brought forward in light of the devastating effect COVID-19 has had on the Australian music community and also acts as a fundraiser for the artists and crew with proceeds collected via the Up In the Airlock website. The first episode of the series, launched last week, showcased ELKO FIELDS, another local favourite.
Speaking about The Jensens session, Ian said: “this week we’ve got a special one for everyone to see. [The Jensens were] our ‘guinea pigs’ for the pilot project. They came in, played like demons and blew our minds.” The band played a long set so the team are planning to release it in two parts with the second installment coming next week. The Jensens said it was a huge privilege to be the first band to record a live set for Up In The Airlock. “Airlock (Studios) is easily one of our favourite studios in Brisbane: from the scenic drive up there, to the treasure chest of vintage gear and the elegant recording rooms, you get the sense you’re in a space that’s world-class.”
Up In The Airlock takes a page from the books of other successful live sessions such as NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts & Live on KEXP and features the premium production value that the recording studio is known for. In terms of personnel, aside from Ian Haug serving as the host, a world-class team of Australian music professionals are behind the series: it’s produced and directed by Natalie Sim and Alex Flamsteed (METHOD TO MY MADNESS ENTERTAINMENT), recorded & mixed by Steve Kempich (AIRLOCK STUDIOS) with artwork by Brayden Doig (ODDBALL DESIGN) and promo by GYROstream.
Don’t miss the exciting next episode of this great new series supporting Australian music. Subscribe to the Up In The Airlock YouTube channel and sign up to the mailing list on the official website.
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WHO: Anyone experiencing hardship can apply for a Grant. Artists are current, past, and future Groove Cruise Family coming together to support a transparent and legit cause with 100% of every dollar donated going to support those affected.
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WHAT: The Whet Foundation COVID-19 Relief Fund Groove Cruise Virtual Sail Aways live stream charity event will feature artists from all over the world, performing from locations such as London, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and more; plus live visuals will be added to simulate a real in-person show. The Whet Foundation is a 501c3 that was started 8 years ago and all donations are tax deductible.
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WHEN: April 17-19 for approximately 7 hours per day.
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WHY: What’s important during this time is supporting people who need help and keeping the positive vibes high to get through this together.
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HOW: Our tech team has been online streaming collectively for over 20 years and will be having all streams from artist homes going into their mega-center in Florida with added live visuals and then out to the world across all Groove Cruise, artist and media channels.
For the latest Whet Foundation COVID-19 Relief Fund updates, sign up on the Groove Cruise website, and follow the event on Twitch, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
About the Whet Foundation
The Whet Foundation is a Florida based 501c3 organization that offers grass roots disaster relief for those experiencing hardships and creates exciting experiences for underprivileged children in South Florida, the Caribbean and Mexico. Through our Community Captains and Destination Donation programs, we strive to excite the lives of those less fortunate in a fun and engaging way while positively affecting an entire generation.
Delivered Live kicks in to gear for episode 3 this week, with a lineup to keep you entertained and enlightened while at home during lock down. As always, episodes are free to watch, but tickets are available for purchase and funds will be going back into the pockets of the artists performing on the show, as well as to their nominated venue and crew member of choice, helping to replace some of the live income they have lost.
This week features soulful singer songwriter Didirri, live favourites Kingswood, and much loved Melbourne music icon Mick Thomas, joining our host, Henry Wagons on our custom-made, socially-distanced studio. Rounding out the line up will be comedians Josh Earl and Sami Shah who will provide the laughs to help get us all through this tough time.
For this week’s event the recipients of those funds are as follows:
Mick Thomas nominates – Merri Creek Taven and Stuart ‘Morro’ Morris
Didirri nominates – The Dart & Marlin (Warnambool) and Stive Collins
Kingswood nominates – The Tote and Tom Moore
Mick Thomas
Kingswood
Didirri
Josh Earl
Sami Shah
– Hosted by Henry Wagons
Producers The Handshake Agency thanks its sponsors for getting on board this first event – Victorian Government, The Music, Oztix, Small Time Group, Harry The Hirer.