JACOB COLLIER AUSTRALIAN ‘DJESSE’ TOUR INTERVIEW. TODAY ADDS 2ND MELB, SYD & NZ SHOWS TO TOUR Jacob Collier is the quintessential modern day Musician. The London-based artist first came to our attention in 2012 with his viral Youtube clip, in which he performed Stevie Wonder’s Don’t You Worry About A…

Australian seminal psych-guitar masters, The Church have announced a national headline tour of Australia – their first in four years, playing shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Margaret River this September. Australian Musician editor Greg Phillips caught up with The Church main man Steve Kilbey to discuss the ‘The Slings And Arrows Of Outrageous Fortune’ tour, songwriting methods,…

Cam Butler first came to our attention as guitarist and main songwriter in legendary Melbourne instrumental trio Silver Ray. Since that group disbanded, Cam has released numerous solo albums as well as collaborations with Mark Dawson (The Coralinas) and more recently Ron S. Peno and The Superstitions. Now Kasumuen Records…

On her debut EP Get Up And Go, Melbourne-based musician Kat Greta delivers rays of funky grooves, retro keyboard sounds and big, driving drums, all of which equate to a damn good time. The twist to it all is the unusual band dynamic … Kat Greta, composer and driving force…

For the last 8 years Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist Hannah Crofts has performed as one quarter of Australian folk act All Our Exes Live In Texas. With the pandemic forcing the band off the road, all four members set about exploring their own individual musical projects. For Hannah, that became her alter…

Welcome to the first episode of our new interview series called PAIRS, in which we get together not one but two high profile artists for a chat. In episode one, Australian Musician editor Greg Phillips shoots the breeze with acclaimed guitarist, composer Joe Satriani and singer, songwriter and also fabulous…

After an epic and storied career of over four decades, resulting in the selling of more than 100 million albums worldwide, rock n roll legends, KISS announced back in 2018 that they would be embarking on their final tour ever, appropriately named END OF THE ROAD … but then came…

Phil Jamieson – frontman/singer/songwriter/guitarist for Grinspoon – has released his first ever solo album Somebody Else. The release of Somebody Else comes on the back of a performance with Grinspoon at Splendour in The Grass and follows the first few nights of Phil’s Somebody Else national tour. The album includes co-production…

Melbourne-based musician Jason Vorherr started out playing in cover bands as a bass guitarist and then as a solo act in the late 1980s. His break as a sought-after backing musician came when Graeham Goble asked him to join the original members of Little River Band … Birtles, Shorrock, Goble…

Singer, songwriter and co-founder of legendary band America, Gerry Beckley knows a thing or two about writing a song. Along with his partner in rhyme Dewey Bunnell, America has sold over 100 million albums worldwide and presented us with countless classic singles such as Horse With No Name, Ventura Highway,…