POSTS — Music Love

The impressive engineer and producer Michelle Barry has created an exciting new initiative to increase the number of women in the recording studio. Read all about Noisy Girls here.

With over twenty years experience under her belt, and sick of being the only woman in the room, Michelle Barry is spearheading an organisation that invites women to be a key part of the sounds we hear.

WOMEN, FEATURED WOMENJulie KerrApril 4, 2018Michelle Barry, Audio, Engineering, Engineer, Producer, Production, AFTRS, SAE

Meet Eliott whose voice will have you experiencing every emotional thing. Her new song Over and Over is your perfect melancholy Easter weekend feeler

Music Love had a wee get-to-know-you chat with Eliott - a singer/songwriter in the truest sense, which simply means her music is really, really good.

NEWS & FEATURES, WOMENJulie KerrMarch 29, 2018Eliott, Singer/songwriter, Julia Jacklin, Missy Higgins, Introducing

Your new favourite artist Lxandra goes deep and wide with her bold voice in this brilliant new single Dig Deep. Watch the video here.

Hold up, here's a new pop star to get your ears across.

FEATURED WOMEN, NEWS & FEATURESJulie KerrMarch 27, 2018Lxandra, Finland, Pop, Dig Deep

Georgia June are a band on the rise, delivering messages that are resonating with their peers - in real time, not in retrospect

It is Georgia June's ability to deliver complex feelings and themes in real time as opposed to in retrospect - along with how tight and cool the band are - that have made for a rapid musical rise.

Vera Blue's new music video for Lady Powers is a visual feast filled with complex imagery (and an epic plastic Burberry trench coat). A must watch.

Phew, Vera Blue, that is a lot of power, lady.

FEATURED WOMEN, NEWS & FEATURESJulie KerrMarch 23, 2018Lady powers, Vera Blue, Music Video

Introducing multi-instrumentalist and talented lyricist Lola Scott. Her brand new single Hush is your Friday fire.

A multi-instrumentalist and talented lyricist, Lola Scott is a gifted artist with a fresh sound.

FEATURED WOMEN, NEWS & FEATURES, WOMENJulie KerrMarch 23, 2018NSW, Southern highlands, Lola Scott, Introducing

Are you an artist from Australia or New Zealand in the UK or US? Check out APRA's new workspaces just for you

Australian and Kiwi songwriters who are roaming the globe can now find a piece of home and much needed support for their musical endeavours.

NEWS & FEATURESJulie KerrMarch 21, 2018APRA AMCOS, Dean Ormston, LA, Nashville, London

Australian operatic superstar Nicole Car and Principal Violinist Satu Vänskä team up for a very special ACO concert series

Nicole Car, Satu Vänskä and the ACO will perform Mozart, Beethoven and Verdi’s operatic heroines from 8-24 April

NEWS & FEATURES, FEATURED WOMENJulie KerrMarch 21, 2018Satu Vänskä, Nicole Car, ACO, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Australian Opera

All of Kasey Chambers' dreams have come true with the announcement of a brand new album called Campfire (featuring Emmylou Harris)

The highly decorated and universally revered Kasey Chambers announced the upcoming release of her twelfth (!) studio album, Campfire, on Friday.

NEWS & FEATURES, FEATURED WOMENJulie KerrMarch 19, 2018Kasey Chambers, Emmylou Harris, Country, Country music

Angie McMahon is winning hearts, playing shows all over the place and introducing audiences to wonderful songs like Missing Me

McMahon has released her next song Missing Me. It’s another tune that has a great chorus and shows off her strong and moving voice.

Brisbane producer JOY to Demi Lovato: "I'm totally unsure as to how you even came across my music, but thank you so much for sharing it with the world."

It's a classic case of "keep on keeping on" that all artists face.

NEWS & FEATURES, FEATURED WOMENJulie KerrMarch 15, 2018JOY, BEATS1, Zane Lowe, Demi Lovato, pop

Despite their youth, Black Summer and Chloe Campbell excel in their new single Sadness

The production is beautifully crafted and arranged by Black Summer, as Chloe Campbell's voice cuts through the dark muted synths and epic beats.

FEATURED WOMEN, NEWS & FEATURESJulie KerrMarch 15, 2018Black Summer, Chloe Campbell, Bahamas, Nassau, Rhys Toms, Sadness

Kathryn Selby, Grace Clifford and Clancy Newman open Selby and Friends season by exploring Beethoven's chamber music repertoire with works selected by audience members

Selby & Friends, founded by Kathryn Selby AM, are kicking off their 2018 season with a special six concert tour celebrating chamber music masterpieces by Beethoven.

Natalie Prass: "I needed to make an album that was going to get me out of my funk."

And here we are today with the announcement that Natalie Prass will release her highly anticipated second full length album The Future and The Past on 1 June

Bluesfest boss: "It really does run on girl power." Music Love goes behind the scenes of one of Australia's most prominent festivals.

Bluesfest never set itself up to be a team - or have an artist roster, for that matter - that was deliberately trying to go about championing women.

International Women's Day: Georgia Nott releases The Venus Project, and says of the woman on her new album cover, "I don't want her to look like anybody. I want her to look like everybody."

International Women's Day marks the release of Georgia Nott's The Venus Project Vol 1. Every element is intended to embrace and celebrate women. Our interview with Georgia here.

FEATURED WOMEN, WOMENJulie KerrMarch 8, 2018Georgia Nott, Broods

Introducing the Australian Women in Music Awards led by an all star cast of iconic Aussie ladies

Some of the biggest names in the Australian music industry have united to create and support the very first Australian Women in Music Awards & Forum (AWMA) in Brisbane in October this year.

ICYMI: Five women among winners at the Music Producers Guild Awards including Catherine Marks who was named Producer of the Year

The prestigious event is the music industry's night of nights for people who work behind the scenes as engineers and producers and has historically rewarded many men.

Inside the brilliant mind of Tracey Thorn who tells the story of every woman on her new album Record

A self-professed collection of "nine feminist bangers", the album is the sum of the years of wanderings and wonderings of Thorn's brilliant mind along with her respective experience of being a woman - dancer, sister, lover, mother, music obsessive, and less poetic, voter.

FEATURED WOMEN, WOMENJulie KerrMarch 2, 2018Tracey Thorn, London, Lorde, Everything But The Girl

Country star Kacey Musgraves releases two dreamy, spacious, sparkly singles in the lead up to her next album Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves has become a fixture in America's country scene over the years and is a stellar songwriter whose hits each test the limits of what a country star and their songs are meant to be. Over and over again, Musgraves keeps acing that game.