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Pikelet

Pikelet is a band from Melbourne, initially just the name for solo artist Evelyn Morris (Baseball, True Radical Miracle), who begun playing music in indie and hardcore bands as a drummer and vocalist. After leaving these bands, she started overlapping acoustic guitar, piano accordion, voice and alternative percussion techniques with a looping pedal, and created a handmade demo CD, 'Chair + Lamp', unofficially released in mid-2006, followed by another self-released EP, entitled...

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Ball Park Music

Ball Park Music is an Australian six-piece indie rock/pop band from Brisbane. Formed in 2006, the band consists of frontman Sam Cromack (guitar/vocals), Jennifer Boyce (bass, backing vocals), Paul Furness (keys, trombone), Brock Smith (guitar) and twins Dean Hanson (guitar, bass, backing vocals) and Daniel Hanson (drums,backing vocals). They independently recorded and produced their debut EP Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Ourselves To Sleep at university and gave it a "soft release" in April 2009.

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Crowded House

Crowded House is a rock group formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn. The band were originally active from 1986 to 1996 before deciding to split up. In 2007, the band reunited to record and tour again. Neil Finn and Paul Hester decided to form a new band during the Split Enz farewell tour 'Enz with a Bang'. Nick Seymour approached Finn during the after party for the Melbourne show and asked if he could try out for this new band.

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Big Heavy Stuff

Big Heavy Stuff is a Sydney-based Australian band with a unique style, blending edgy guitars and a pounding rhythm section with songwriter Greg Atkinson's exceptional sense of melody. Their harder edge, evident on their breakthrough "Maximum Sincere" album of 1997, has mellowed somewhat on more recent releases, without detracting from their trademark emotional intensity. They are known for recent works including their latest albums "Size of the Ocean" and "Dear Friends and Enemies", the latter of which was written at a time of political contemplation in Australia...

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Winterside

Vocals: Damon Hills
Guitar: Elliott Shaw
Guitar: Leo Rees-Murphy
Bass: James Kable
Drums: Alex Kay Founded in May 2010, Winterside is a metalcore band from Brisbane, Australia. Heavily influenced by The Red Shore, Parkway Drive and I Killed the Prom Queen, they are bringing a new sound to an overcrowded scene. They have released two demo CD's in 2010 and plan to have an EP released by early 2012.

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gentleforce

Gentleforce is the music and art moniker of Eli Murray. Within sonic realms Eli is interested in the fusion of repetition, minimalism and organic sounds to create a world of warm electronic soundscapes and pulsing rhythms. Combining a laptop with various instruments, he attempts to build sounds that the listener can lose themselves within. Gentleforce’s forthcoming release - the next instalment in Feral Media’s POWWOW series – is out now through local record stores as well as the "band camp" site: http://feralmedia.bandcamp.com/album/powwow-nine-sacred-spaces-by-gentle...

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