Get ready, Sunshine Coast, for a new wave of funk/rock has sprung up and will be blasting off at Solbar’s front bar on Friday night.
Meet The Fins - a four piece rock and funk band, made up of Mitchell Burt, Joe McMaster, Keegan Roche and Henry Gachette. The Sunshine Coast/Brisbane quarter have been busy sneakily building up a rep, and are now ready to share the goods.
Read MoreProviding the most diverse show on the planet, Fish Out of Water continues to keep people guessing and more importantly, keep people dancing. The rock takes you back to a day where musicians did really rock and the hip-hop is a conscious flow over a rhythmic hip dropping beat. The reggae has a heavy ska influence but can also be a “one drop” smoke anthem. And the funk? Well the funk is the best part about F.O.W. Both cousins play a mean slap bass.
They have been coming to Australia since 2011 and this will mark their 5th Aussie tour starting in April 2019. Local drummer/percussionist, Sean Keenan (from roots gurus, Bearfoot) will be fulfilling drumming duties for F.O.W. on this tour, bringing his own unique funky flavour to the table. With over thirty shows to play in two months time, the Fish will be busy down under, including a weekend in WA.
Catch FOW locally at the Yandina Hotel on April 5 from 8.30pm for a free show.
Read MoreSunshine Coast indie/folk artist, Jesse Taylor is again bringing the full coastal vibes with his brand new single, ‘Naeco’; a track that’s about doing what you really want in life, and not being trapped in today’s societal trap.
The new single brings the full summer vibes, helping to keep the message positive, and was recorded at friend of Jesse’s, Jared Adlam’s studio on the Gold Coast, along with Tom Dodd (who previously recorded Jesse’s ‘Coastline’ EP).
Read MoreIt’s a week for Coast trios to release new material, and to cap it all off, the power trio of Judah Winnett, Jayke Barnes, and Ayla Scanlan, also known as Forrest Run, have followed up on their debut ‘All We Needed’ with a slightly moodier track in ‘Let Me Fall’.
Read MoreFollowing the release of the latest track, ‘Unabated’ at the end of February, Sunshine Coast alt-rock trio Muules have taken the theme of against-all-odds relationships, and given it a post-apocalyptic twist for the accompanying film clip.
Adding a touch of B-grade horror-style theatrics, the film clip sees the young female protagonist (played by bassist Rhys’ 10 year-old daughter, Olivia) journey a bleak landscape on the search for her missing teddy bear, held captive by feral toys.
Read MoreSunshine Coast based Electronic Pop outfit Beckon Fire have released their new single and music video ‘Get Me Out Alive’.
‘Get Me Out Alive’ is the follow-up to recently released single ‘Lonely’. Both tracks are taken from their forthcoming EP release ‘Truth Of Our Youth’ (out 29th March 2019.)
Read MoreIt's been a steady rise for Sunshine Coast's Fragile Animals to date. With a swiftly swelling following and national radio play for recent singles 'Come Down' and 'Landing', the dream-rock trio are proud to announce release details of their forthcoming second EP - Only Shallow / Only More - for Friday, March 29 as well as the video for 'Come Down' and some new live dates to boot.
Read MoreAnother favourite musical institution on the Sunshine Coast continues to bring the roots/reggae/rock (and funk) goods on Sundays.
Yandina’s The Shared have been cooking up musical Sunday feasts for the last few years, and there’s a solid underground following for these events, which are light on the attitude, and heavy on the good vibes.
Read MoreBorn of the snow season in Victoria, jamming and snowboarding together, Sun Salute are an international collective of musicians that draw inspiration from nature, travel and community. Their philosophy is both simple and infinitely complex: to use the power of music for healing and change.
Read MoreAn unassuming scruffy bunch with a penchant for dogs, chooks, the beach and pizza; don’t be fooled by their chilled demeanour; once they hit that stage; these girls play hard. A fierce femme-fatale foursome with a knack for picking the shittest camper van to tour in; The Tommyhawks are a loveable rogue of a band who will intoxicate your every sense and leave you wondering whaaaat?!
Read MorePut Saturday 2 March in your diaries as the 'Rudies' (The Sunny Coast Rude Boys) are returning to The Imperial Hotel Eumundi to raise the roof!
The Sunny Coast Rude Boys are an eight piece soundwave playing uplifting ska and reggae, and drawing on musical influences that have shaped this genre from the Jamaican movement through to UK Two Tone.
Read MoreWhile the biggest music vote in Australia has been and gone, another remains which focuses on the more alternative and heavier acts.
With thanks to digital radio station, The Faction, the nominations for this year’s Hardest 100 have been up and running for a few weeks, with a week to go before voting closes.
And the Sunshine Coast has a couple of acts up for nomination, with Aussie metal legends, Dead Kelly, and alt-rock trio, Muules both with entries in this year’s countdown.
Read MoreAfter a massive 2018, which has already seen Aussie hiphop royalty Butterfingers release new music, head out on tour and play a string of killer showcases at BIGSOUND, the legendary group have today announced the 15 Years of Fatboys Australian tour. The epic run kicks off on March 1, 2019 at The Villa in Noosa, before moving through to the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Wollongong, Newcastle, Sydney, Adelaide, Frankston, Geelong, Belgrave, Dunsborough, Perth, Hillarys, Melbourne, Hobart, Townsville, Airlie Beach, Toowoomba, Ipswich, and wrapping up at The Northern in Byron Bay on April 26, supported nationally by Melbourne MC, Fresh Violet.
Read MoreSunshine Coast based Electronic Pop band Beckon Fire have just released their new single and music video ‘Lonely’.
The single is taken from their forthcoming EP release ‘Truth Of Our Youth’ (releasing in March 2019.) The band will be celebrating with a launch show at Tomcat in Brisbane on Friday 5th April.
Read MoreWith the dust barely settled on their last acclaimed Australian jaunt, Caravãna Sun are gearing up to do it all again, this time bringing the wildly talented LaBrassBanda out to Australian shores to join the party. The highly anticipated co-headline tour will see this dynamic bill make their way up and down the East Coast over ten blistering shows on the ‘Horn Haus Party Tour’, giving audiences a chance to get up close and personal with some of the best brass band music out of Bavaria, as well as receiving a dose of that intense Caravãna Sun magic direct from the source.
Read MoreThe eagerly anticipated full-length album CARNIVAL OF FOOLS from Brisbane dirty-soul act BLUES ARCADIA is a record that almost didn’t get made. Personal struggles and a band implosion shortly after they began the process of following up their award-winning self-titled debut release of 2016 saw them scrapping the results of their initial recording sessions and figuring out where to start again.
Read MoreKicking off 2019 with some excellent laid-back summery feels, Margaret River's Duncan Saige is pleased to announce his new single Thoughts of You Without Me. A universal love song about the transition of going through a break-up, the track is a first taste of Duncan's new EP due out this year.
Catch Duncan Saige, with Luke Fox at Solbar on February 10th, or at The Shared on February 9th.
Read MoreFestival favourites and blues rock powerhouse The Mason Rack Band will take to the stage in The Bunker at The Imperial Hotel Eumundi on Saturday 9 February. This is not a show to miss!
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