What a week to kick off following the ARIA's last week with South West Sydney's Chillinit's latest release, Family Ties. From Hurstville, let's get into the new record from rising Sydney star.
I remember our first family CD player from Singapore, I got Roxette's, Joyride. Now the album has celebrated its 30th Anniversary, with a super deluxe edition.
A couple of local new EP's this week. Let's get into it.
Rainbow Chan – Stanley
Hayley Mary – Fall In Love
Nooky – Lyrebird Park
Not as many new singles this week. However we do see the return of Bloc Party along with a Twenty Year Flashback version of a killer Paul Mac dance anthem!
AYLA – Ride Along
Bloc Party – Traps
Budjerah – Wash My Sorrows Away
Eliza & The Delusionals – Nothing Yet
Lime Cordiale x Idris Elba – What’s Not To Like
Paul Mac feat. Peta Morris – Just The Thing (Twenty Year Flashback)
It's the finale for the Sunday Spotlight (for now). So following a huge week of the ARIA Awards this week. Music is on the comeback. Live music along with huge albums 7 artists have shared with us this year.
It's sad to say so long to the Sunday Spotlight however it's almost summer (who would believe that if you live in Sydney) so the Summer Music Lists are on their way back. Also 2022 is just around the corner!
So to the seven big nominations for the Album of the Year Nomination for 2021.
Amy Shark, where do I begin. It's been a huge year for Shark. That massive duet with Keith Urban, a song on her second record, Cry Forever named Amy Shark along with millions of streams and views online.
Olivia Rodrigo released her debut album earlier this year. It was a certified hit. With multiple singles, good 4 u, drivers license, traitor, deja vu and more. This debut album was one for the record books.
We finally got a debut record from Tones and I. Songs like Fly Away and Cloudy Day have been monster smash hits in 2021. Fly Away was also used on that highly emotional Qantas ad.
Billie Eilish follows Amy Shark, returning with a HUGE second record. Happier than Ever didn't pack as big a punch as her debut (a former album of the year) When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? but her fans still lapped it up.
A few versions later the Kid Laroi's Fuck Love 3: Over You has featured some (if not the biggest song of 2021) biggest songs of 2021. Stay with Justin Bieber has been a wild ride. Without You and So Done were also massive in 2020/2021.
Doja Cat's Planet Her is such a bold release. I'm so in love with this record. From the opener Woman to hits like Need to Know, You Right, Kiss Me More and Ain't Shit. This album was a monster release from the queen herself, Doja Cat.
Lil Nas X marks the seventh (possibly finale) Album of the Year Nomination for 2021. This album (like Tones and I) was the highly anticipated debut record, from the Old Town Road guy. This album full of hype, energy and love is incredible. I am such a fan. You hear the songs on Triple J or commercial radio. Montero is an epic release.
So which album will score the Album of the Year for 2021. Find out next month. For now let's celebrate these records with some choice cuts. Until tomorrow. Keep Calm.
20 - Years & Years & Galantis - Sweet Talker 19 - Denzel Curry, Gizzle & Bren Joy - Dynasties and Dystopia 18 - Budjerah - Higher 17 - Budjerah - Talk {Feat. MAYA} 16 - RÜFÜS DU SOL - On My Knees 15 - Jessica Mauboy - Glow 14 - Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever 13 - The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 12 - Riton & Nightcrawlers - Friday {Feat. Mufasa & Hypeman} 11 - Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - INDUSTRY BABY 10 - The Weeknd - Take My Breath 9 - Shouse & David Guetta - Love Tonight (David Guetta Remix) 8 - Glass Animals - Heat Waves 7 - Tones And I - Cloudy Day 6 - Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u 5 - Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd - Moth to a Flame 4 - Vance Joy - Missing Piece 3 - Lil Nas X - THATS WHAT I WANT 2 - Post Malone & The Weeknd - One Right Now 1 - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - Stay
An absolutely huge week for new releases last week. Adele was your Sunday Spotlight, where you can stream, 30 along with take in one of the final Sunday Spotlights.
Birdz scored the Triple J album of the week this week with LEGACY. It has a load of features on it, including Ms Missy Higgins.
Ladyhawke is back with Time Flies. A tour is upcoming for the NZ indie legend too. Hopefully in coming weeks, this will be a feature record.
Kanye West has only just released, Donda. So it's surprising there is already a Deluxe Edition featuring Andre 3000 on a cut out now.
Tiny Little Houses dropped their second record, Misericorde last Friday too. The Smartest Guy in the room has some seriously funny lyrics.
Two new EP's this week. One local along with the very quirky, K.Flay.
K.Flay – Outside Voices
Miiesha – Smoke
A huge week for new singles this week, Dom Dolla, Ocean Alley, Allday along with Memphis LK. Check them out below.
Alex The Astronaut – Growing Up
Allday – Eyes On The Prize
Arca feat. Planningtorock – Queer
Beddy Rays – On My Own
Beirut – So Slowly
Dom Dolla feat. Mansionair – Strangers
Electric Fields – Gold Energy
Gordi – Grass Is Blue
GRAACE – Half Awake
Annie Hamilton – Electric Night
JOY. – Out Of Love
Georgia Mae – Emma
Memphis LK – tricky
Tom Morello feat. Barns Courtney – Human
Tom Morello feat. Ben Harper – Raising Hell
NIKI – Split
Ocean Alley – Touch Back Down
Milan Ring feat. Blessed – Sydney Hue
The Rubens – Waste A Day
Triple One – Come Over
Timmy Trumpet x Blinkie feat. Bright Sparks – Friday
Young Franco & Tkay Maidza feat. Nerve – Real Nice (H.C.T.F.)
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins or simply known to millions of adoring fans as Adele. Giving us album her fourth album, 30 on Friday. This follows three huge records. Back in 2015 I featured Adele in this very Sunday segement.
With sales of over 120 million records (and growing by the minute!), her debut album, 19, was released in 2008, spawning the UK top-five singles Chasing Pavements & Make You Feel My Love.
19 was certified 8× platinum in the UK and triple platinum in the US.
Adele released her second studio album, 21, in 2011. It became the world's best-selling album of the 21st century, with sales of over 31 million copies. It was certified 17× platinum in the UK & Diamond in the US.
Adele was the first female artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three simultaneous top-ten singles as a lead artist, with Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You & Set Fire to the Rain, all of which also topped the chart.
The album received a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and the Brit Award for British Album of the Year.
In 2012, Adele released Skyfall, a soundtrack single for the James Bond film of the same name, which won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Adele's third studio album, 25, was released in 2015 and became the year's best-selling album and broke first-week sales records in the UK and US. 25 was her second album to be certified Diamond in the US and earned her five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year.
Hello became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release.
Adele's accolades include fifteen Grammy Awards and nine Brit Awards. In 2011, 2012, and 2016, Billboard named her Artist of the Year.
Her third tour saw her break attendance records globally, including in the UK, Australia, and the US, and her album 21 has been listed in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2020).
Adele is the second last Sunday Spotlight (for now) as we prepare to welcome the Summer Music Lists again really soon. You wouldn't think it on a wet spring Sunday afternoon summer was just around the corner.
See you next week for a farewell (of sorts) to the Sunday Spotlight.
Kylie Ann Minogue also known mononymously as Kylie has recently given us the Disco: Guest List Edition. Featuring my personal favourites like Years & Years, Jessie Ware, Dua Lipa and more. The re-release also features a number of tasty remixes. Including a remix by the extremely amazing Purple Disco Machine.
Kylie is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 70 million records worldwide. Whilst taking home 17 ARIA Music Awards. Speaking of the ARIA's are just around the corner.
Getting her start in Neighbours, Minoque gained prominence as a recording artist in the late 1980s.
In the 1990s, she had amassed several top ten singles in the UK and Australia, including I Should Be So Lucky, The Loco-Motion, Hand on Your Heart & Better the Devil You Know.
Taking more creative control over her music, Minogue signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993 and released Kylie Minogue (1994) and Impossible Princess (1997), both of which received positive reviews.
Kylie headed back to the with 2000's Light Years record. Giving us number-one hits Spinning Around & On a Night Like This.
Fever in 2001, was an international breakthrough for Minogue, becoming her best-selling album to date. Love at First Sight & In Your Eyes & Can't Get You Out of My Head packed the album with dance floor friendly hits. Can't Get You Out of My Head became one of the most successful singles of the 2000s, selling over five million units.
When Disco first dropped last year, Kylie became the first female artist to have a chart-topping album in the UK for five consecutive decades.
Minogue is also a film star, appearing in The Delinquents (1989), Street Fighter (1994), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Jack & Diane, Holy Motors (2012) and San Andreas (2015).
Minogue is an absolute legend, hence ahead of a special Adele Sunday Spotlight tomorrow, it's a special Saturday Spotlight edition. Kylie has had hit after hit over the years. Below is her latest version of Disco to stream along with some massive hits from yesterday.
See you again tomorrow to drive dip into Adele's 30, along with her past massive records. See you then!
20 - The Rubens - Waste a Day 19 - The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 18 - Dom Dolla - Strangers {Feat. Mansionair} 17 - Electric Fields - Gold Energy 16 - bbno$ - edamame {Feat Rich Brian} 15 - Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - INDUSTRY BABY 14 - The Butterfly Effect - So Tired 13 - Riton & Nightcrawlers - Friday {Feat. Mufasa & Hypeman} 12 - RÜFÜS DU SOL - On My Knees 11 - Shouse & David Guetta - Love Tonight (David Guetta Remix) 10 - The Weeknd - Take My Breath 9 - Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u 8 - The Amity Affliction - Give Up the Ghost 7 - Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd - Moth to a Flame 6 - Tones And I - Cloudy Day 5 - Glass Animals - Heat Waves 4 - Lil Nas X - THATS WHAT I WANT 3 - Vance Joy - Missing Piece 2 - Post Malone & The Weeknd - One Right Now 1 - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - Stay
Courtney Melba Barnett, recently celebrated her birthday back on 3 November. Born in 1987, Barnett like me is a 80's child.
In 2017 (around this same time) I featured Barnett following a release of a spilt album with Kurt Vile. Four years later, a pandemic, Trump, a lot has changed. It's also the third last weekly Sunday Spotlight.
So let's dig into an Australian legend, Courtney Barnett. Later this month Barnett is embarking on a massive North American tour (dates here) with Shamir, fellow local Julia Jacklin along with others. Oh Australia remember live music?
Known for her deadpan singing style and witty, rambling lyrics, Courtney attracted attention with the release of her debut EP I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris in 2012. International interest came with the release of her EP The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas in 2013.
Barnett's debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit was released in 2015 to widespread acclaim.
At the 2015 ARIA Music Awards, she won four awards from eight nominations. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards and International Female Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit Awards.
Barnett released Lotta Sea Lice, a collaborative album with Kurt Vile, in 2017.
Courtney released her second album Tell Me How You Really Feel to further acclaim in 2018.
So with the third studio album Things Take Time, Take Time I truly believe we need to celebrate this national treasure. The Sunday Spotlight has championed loads of local legends. Courtney really does deserve a second stab at this feature.
Fun Facts about Courtney:
1. Her middle name comes from opera singer Nellie Melba.
2. Her mother was a ballerina.
3. When she was 16, her family moved to Hobart. She attended St Michael's Collegiate School and the Tasmanian School of Art.
4. While pursuing a music career, she worked as a pizza delivery driver.
Let's go to Melbourne first off, with Banoffee's latest nine track record, Tear Tracks.
Courtney Barnett is getting the Sunday Spotlight treatment this week. Her third studio album, just dropped Things Take Time, Take Time. Come back tomorrow for a full length feature.
Claptone get our asses back on the dance floor with Closer!
Flight Facilities are next week's feature stars. Forever is the long awaited second album from the duo.
Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic team up to give us, An Evening With Silk Sonic.
Kylie Minogue is back with the Disco Guest List Edition. With new tracks, some big guests, it's Kylie fever all over again!
Taylor Swift is redelivering her record, Red (Taylor’s Version). It's reissue heaven this week.
A few outstanding EP's too this week. What a BIG week of new music!
Holly Humberstone – The Walls Are Way Too Thin
Logic1000 – In The Sweetness Of You
flowerkid – Everyone Has A Breaking Point
Placebo and Korn are back this week. Hello the 90's! Also just in time for the NIMA's Jessica Mauboy is back! Also Confidence Man have a killer new bop!
Gang Of Youths – tend the garden
Bakers Eddy – My Baby’s Like Cigarettes
Bonobo feat. O’Flynn – Otomo
Broods – Heartbreak
Camp Cope – Blue
Chillinit feat. Izzie Gibbs – Cashed Out Stoner
Confidence Man – Holiday
Death By Denim – Feels Like Fiction
Darren Hanlon – Lapsed Catholic
I Know Leopard – Good As What You Give
Korn – Start The Healing
Isabella Manfredi – One Hit Wonder
Jessica Mauboy – Glow
Kate Miller-Heidke – I Am My Own Panther Now
Ocean Grove – CALI SUN
Oh Boy feat. Ninajirachi & Lonelyspeck – aNgEL taTTOo
20 - Juice WRLD - Already Dead 19 - Chillinit - Cashed Out Stoner {Feat. Izzie Gibbs} 18 - Briggs - Shadows {Feat. Troy Cassar-Daley} 17 - Northlane - Echo Chamber 16 - RÜFÜS DU SOL - On My Knees 15 - bbno$ - edamame {Feat Rich Brian} 14 - Riton & Nightcrawlers - Friday {Feat. Mufasa & Hypeman} 13 - Tones And I - Cloudy Day 12 - Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - INDUSTRY BABY 11 - The Weeknd - Take My Breath 10 - Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u 9 - G Flip - Scream {Feat. UPSAHL} 8 - Shouse & David Guetta - Love Tonight (David Guetta Remix) 7 - The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 6 - Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd - Moth to a Flame 5 - Glass Animals - Heat Waves 4 - Lil Nas X - THATS WHAT I WANT 3 - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - Stay 2 - Post Malone & The Weeknd - One Right Now 1 - Vance Joy - Missing Piece
Radiohead formed back in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. Consisting of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien & Philip Selway.
The group have worked with producer Nigel Godrich and cover artist Stanley Donwood since 1994.
Radiohead released their debut single, Creep, in 1992. It became a worldwide hit after the release of their debut album, Pablo Honey in 1993.
Their second album, The Bends landing in1995, followed by their third album, OK Computer in 1997.
Kid A and Amnesiac followed in 2000 & 2001 respectively.
Kid A Mnesia the reissue of the albums Kid A and Amnesiac landed on Friday. The edition also includes a third disc, Kid Amnesiae, comprising previously unreleased material from the recording sessions, and a cassette of selected B-sides.
Previously unreleased tracks If You Say the Word & Follow Me Around were released as singles. Both had accompanying music videos.
Hail to the Thief back in 2003, was the groups final album for EMI.
Radiohead self-released their seventh album, In Rainbows came in 2007.
Their eighth album, The King of Limbs released in 2011, followed by A Moon Shaped Pool in 2016.
Radiohead's awards include six Grammy Awards and four Ivor Novello Awards. The group have achieved seven top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart: Creep (1992), Street Spirit (Fade Out) (1996), Paranoid Android (1997), Karma Police (1997), No Surprises (1998), Pyramid Song (2001) and There There (2003).
Five Radiohead albums have been included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time lists, and the band are the most nominated act in Mercury Prize history, with five nominations. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
So let's rediscover their Kid A and Amnesiac albums below. I have also included some other Radiohead classics below for your Sunday.
Lets kick of with ABBA, yes ABBA! They have given fans, Voyage, their first new album in decades!
A short and sweet new release landed yesterday from Aminé. TWOPOINTFIVE is streaming right now.
Milky Chance gave us a fun mix tape, titled Trip Tape yesterday. The mixtape features the super catchy Colorado.
Parcels will deliver next weeks super smooth feature album, Day/Night. Return next week for features on the groups second album.
Radiohead will be your Sunday Spotlight artists tomorrow. Yesterday Kid A Mnesia landed. I will unpack that along with the career of one of your favourite indie groups.
Diana Ross gives us Thank You, her first album since 2006!
Sia has re-released her Everyday Is Christmas (Snowman Deluxe Edition). Yep Christmas is just around the corner. The shopping centres won't let you forget it.
Summer Walker is back. Following her 2019 debut, Still Over It streams now.
A big week of new EP's this week! Check them out below.
CHAII – Pineapple Pizza
Kobie Dee – Gratitude Over Pity
Juno Mamba – Infinity
Teenage Dads – Club Echo
Kito – Blossom
Another big week of singles. Up first Art vs Science are back! Plus loads of new local tunes from Dune Rats, Hayden James, Flight Facilities and more! Check all this week's key new singles out below.
20 - Ziggy Alberts - I BELIEVE 19 - Foals - Wake Me Up 18 - Riton & Nightcrawlers - Friday {Feat. Mufasa & Hypeman} 17 - Charli XCX - New Shapes {Feat. Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek} 16 - RÜFÜS DU SOL - On My Knees 15 - The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 14 - Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u 13 - Macklemore - Next Year {Feat. Windser} 12 - Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - INDUSTRY BABY 11 - Post Malone & The Weeknd - One Right Now 10 - Tiësto & Ty Dolla $ign - The Business, Pt. II 9 - The Weeknd - Take My Breath 8 - Glass Animals - Heat Waves 7 - Shouse & David Guetta - Love Tonight (David Guetta Remix) 6 - Peach PRC - Heavy 5 - Lil Nas X - THATS WHAT I WANT 4 - Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd - Moth to a Flame 3 - Tones And I - Cloudy Day 2 - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - Stay 1 - Vance Joy - Missing Piece
First up it's the fifth last Sunday Spotlight act, Tori Amos with her 16th record, Ocean To Ocean.
Richard Ashcroft goes Acoustic Hymns Vol.1.
Bootleg Rascals deliver the perfect record for summer, Sloppy Seconds.
You are already getting to meet this week's feature star, Maya Jane Coles with her fifth record, it's Night Creature. It's a fun, dance record! Even Julia Stone pops up on one tune!
Ed Sheeran clearly loves maths, his latest album is =. It follows multiple other maths symbol named records.
Tim Shiel may be an announced on Double J. He has had time however to create a new record too. Distractions One is streaming now.
Wave Racer has finally dropped his debut album, To Stop From Falling Off The Earth. It's a slight departure from his earlier work. However it sounds fairly interesting from what I have listened into.
Two new EP's this week, let's kick things off with the return of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – The Distance
Azure Ryder – Ladder To The Moon
Big week of singles again this week. With BENEE, MEDUZA and Kylie Minogue hooks up with Jessie Ware.
Aminé – Charmander
Ball Park Music – Sunscreen
BENEE – Doesn’t Matter
Bombs Away – Jump On It (My Pony)
Crooked Colours feat. Masked Wolf & Jasiah – Light Year
