COUNTER CULTURE
Some Ins for the year ahead
Jeb Taylor
This week for the column I continue to look ahead for 2025, with some ins for the year incuding print magazine, compilations, the Go-Betweens box set and Magdalena Bay.
A Look ahead at 2025
Jeb Taylor
Happy new year! My final post was a recap of 2024, so I thought with this one I’d look ahead at 2025!
Cover - Erin Rollestone's model of the Music Farmers building!
2024 Wrapped
Jeb Taylor
Wrapping up a year in music with favourite albums, songs and a recap of music I worked with.
Twenty years of the shop, New music from Steve Bourk, Bulli High mentoring recordings & Spinning Around this Saturday
Jeb Taylor
Kankawa Nagarra wins the AMP, Cool Jumper release a new single and The New Christs live in Wollongong
Jeb Taylor
On Wednesday I was in Sydney as part of the judging panel for the Australian Music Prize, once again it was another tough year to pick a winner from the shortlist and taking it out this year was West Australian artist Kankawa Nagarra. It is an amazing album that not many people probably know about from the elder who was part of the stolen generation. Recorded on country in Northern Western Australia by Darren Hanlon, it is one of the most raw and authentic Australian records you’ll hear. To draw a comparison, it has the rawness of some of the...