Sunburnt Country Music

‘You’ve just got to love what you do and really believe in what you’re doing for yourself, and if you do that, that’s where your fulfilment comes from.’ Sydney-based, Orange-raised country-rock artist James Keith says that at a certain point in our latest interview, and it was clear that it wasn’t just words to him, es

Bianca Joulianou is an artist from Sydney who released her first single, ‘Fool’, in 2022. Since then she has been performing live, sharing stages with artists such as Dylan Wright and Shannon Noll. She has a new single, ‘Gambling Man’, which contains a story close to her life and heart. Joulianou began performing about

So here’s the truth about being an amateur music journo with a demanding full-time job: sometimes I just don’t have time to publish things when I should. With all the best will in the world, I don’t have time to make the assets, create the video file, create the audio file, write the accompanying text and do the clips,

When Gold Coast country-pop artist Chloe Styler released her debut single, ‘When Your Light Burns’, in 2018, I was so taken with it that I wrote a piece about it. That year Styler was a grand finalist in the 39th Annual Toyota Star Maker competition. She had already attended the Junior and Senior Academy of Country Mus

I’m fairly sure that Brisbane-based country-rock-blues artist Delilah Rose is incapable of being uninteresting. We have spoken before – around the time of the release of her album Moxie – and she was clearly passionate about not only making art but connecting with others who are doing the same. And, indeed, about creat

Savanah Solomon’s first musical foray was as the frontwoman for country-rock band Savanah and the Strays; the band released an album which saw them become finalists in the West Australian Country Music Awards. After four years Solomon went solo, releasing the EP Where the River Meets the Sea in 2023.  Solomon then took