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Strange Tenants

Over 20 years on, as their legendary status has grown, most people are aware that Strange Tenants were the pre-eminent Australian SKA band of the 1980s. What is often overlooked today, however, is that at their peak, they were one of the most popular and successful live bands of any style. In the early 1980s, hundreds, sometimes thousands of fans - referred to by the music press as "the Tenants' army" - swarmed to their gigs up and down the east coast of Australia. Strange Tenants also did national tours with international acts such as U2, Style Council and UB40.

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ska
melbourne
80s
Australian
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True Live

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia based True Live formed in 2003. They're a unique ensemble that cross boundaries of genre and style while engaging audiences with songs of passion and meaning. With performances and recordings of musical and lyrical depth and a line-up consisting of a three-piece string section (cello, violin, double bass), percussion, keyboards and vocals, the group create a contemporary, organic sound that could only be described as monstrous.

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Australian
Hip-Hop
melbourne
aussie hip-hop
orchestral hip hop
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Graveyard Train

Graveyard Train's official bio, located at http://spookyrecords.com/Graveyard%20TrainPressInfo.html: In retrospect it's obvious that horror and country music go together like peas and carrots - it just took Graveyard Train to show us. Utilising old timey instruments (banjos, dobros, washboard) with the unorthodox percussion of hammer & chain, all underneath a six part baritone 'wall of men' vocal delivery, Graveyard Train have created a unique sound and an equally unique way to deliver it.

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melbourne
country horror
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Ennïs Tóla

Raising eyebrows from music luminaries the world over, Melbourne’s own Ennïs Tóla blends edgy and raw guitar-driven riffs with uniquely distinctive sounds such as Japanese koto and woodwind. Forging a unique sound that demands attention, Ennïs Tóla is made up of members from The Grand Silent System and Rincon, with individual players having worked with the likes of Kate Ceberano, Lior, Stockhausen, and members from the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra.

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DJ Bonez

Regarded as one of Australia's No.#1 Live Turntable assassins. DJ Bonez has been in the forefront of Australian DJ'ing culture as a performer, releasing Australia's first series of Mix tape / CD's and also catering to DJ's world wide with break beats and scratch records including producing his own albums which feature MC's both locally and international for artist such as: Funkoars, Blade, Motion Man, Grand Agent, Lotek, Omni, MC Mell'O', Muph & Plutonic, Sandpeople, Speaque Eazie, Pegz, Low Budget, Rainman, Tommy I'llfigga, Mystik Journeyman and much more...

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Hip-Hop
rap
melbourne
jjj
aussie hip-hop
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Buried Horses

DEBUT ALBUM 'TEMPEST' AVAILABLE HERE...
http://www.spookyrecords.com/index.html Buried Horses deliver a dark and foreboding sonic vision that captures the rugged beauty of our violent landscape. Described as ‘a combination of Dirty Three (subtract screeching violin, add ravenous vocals) and early Drones,’ Buried Horses proudly draw on the strong tradition of great Australian music. Buried Horses have recently signed to Melbourne’s heart of darkness, Spooky Records.

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Country
Post punk
melbourne
australia
nick cave
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Dixon Cider

Dixon Cider are a 4 piece Trashy CreepPunk band from Melbourne, Australia. They have been around since late 2009. Influenced by The Cramps, Anti-Nowhere League, and TISM. Their lyrical content gwenerally is about hookers, spew, anal, and other grossness.

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Rock
punk
melbourne
victoria
gross
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The Spoils

A band from Melbourne, Australia, playing a rock/gypsy/circus/caberet style (with lashings of folk/country) that might be likened to Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen crossed with Nick Cave, sprinkled with a bit of Paul Kelly and Marlene Dietrich.

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Rock
Australian
cabaret
melbourne
under 2000 listeners
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Tobias Cummings

Tobias Cummings is from Melbourne, Australia. In 2004 he was signed to Bruce Milne's record label In-Fidelity (Dan Kelly, The Drones, Sophie Koh) and released a six track EP, You Incomplete Me, to great hurrahs! Shortly after then he got together with some other people and they were collectively know as Tobias Cummings & The Long Way Home. Their debut album Join the Dots was released in late 2006 to more hurrahs! both in Australia and internationally. The album was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize.

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melbourne
in-fidelity
infidelity records
australian music prize
eg awards
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Weddings Parties Anything

Weddings Parties Anything, often known as WPA and Weddoes, is an Australian folk rock band formed by Mick Thomas in Melbourne in 1985 and continuing until 1998. Their name came from a Clash song ("Revolution Rock") and musicologist Billy Pinnell described their first album as the best Australian rock debut since Skyhooks' Living in the '70s. WPA initially gained a reputation as a hot new band through their constant touring in their early days, however they never really became a commercial success.

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Rock
Australian
folk
Aussie
melbourne
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