Album of the Week - TOMMY RICHMAN- {Coyote}

ARIA 2024 Nominations | Predictions

Here are my picks/predictions/guesses in red and bold as below. The ARIA Awards will be held on Wednesday, 20 November, at the Hordern Pavilion, Gadigal land. They’ll be broadcast live from the Hordern Pavilion from 5 pm AEST on Wednesday, 20 November, on Stan.

A special presentation will also air on Channel Nine from 7:30 pm, with performances and other moments viewers may want to watch airing on the official ARIA YouTube channel.

Album of the Year

Amy Shark — Sunday Sadness (Sony Music)

Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again [AWAL Recordings]

Kylie Minogue — Tension [Mushroom Music/BMG]

Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN [Ourness/Believe]

Troye Sivan — Something To Give Each Other [EMI Music Australia]

Best Solo Artist

Amy Shark — Sunday Sadness (Sony Music)

Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again [AWAL Recordings]

Dom Dolla — Saving Up [Three Six Zero/Sony Music]

Emma Donovan — Till My Song Is Done [Mushroom Music/BMG]

Kylie Minogue — Tension [Mushroom Music/BMG]

The Kid LAROI — THE FIRST TIME [DELUXE VERSION] [Columbia Records/Sony Music]

Tkay Maidza — Sweet Justice [Dew Process/Universal Music Australia]

Tones And I — Beautifully Ordinary [Bad Batch Records/Sony Music]

Troy Cassar-Daley — Between The Fires [Tarampa Music/Sony Music]

Troye Sivan — Something To Give Each Other [EMI Music Australia]

Best Group

3% — KILL THE DEAD [1788 Records/Virgin Music Group]

Hiatus Kaiyote — Love Heart Cheat Code [Brainfeeder/Inertia]

Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN [Ourness/Believe]

RÜFÜS DU SOL — Music is Better [Reprise Records/Warner Music Australia]

SPEED — Only One Mode [Last Ride Records/ADA]

Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist

3% — KILL THE DEAD [1788 Records/Virgin Music Group]

Becca Hatch — MAYDAY [Forever Ever/SonyMusic

Kita Alexander — Young In Love [Warner Music Australia]

Sycco — Zorb [Future Classic]

Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers — I Love You [Domestic La La]

Best Pop Release

Amy Shark — Sunday Sadness (Sony Music)

Jessica Mauboy — Yours Forever (Warner Music Australia)

Kylie Minogue — Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)

The Kid LAROI — Girls (Columbia Records/Sony Music)

Troye Sivan — Something To Give Each Other (EMI Music Australia)

Best Dance / Electronic Release

Confidence Man — I CAN'T LOSE YOU (I OH YOU/Mushroom Music)

CYRIL — Stumblin' In (Spinnin' Records/WMA)

Dom Dolla — Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

FISHER Feat. Kita Alexander — Atmosphere (etcetc Music)

RÜFÜS DU SOL — Music is Better (Reprise Records/Warner Music Australia)

Best Hip Hop / Rap Release

3% — KILL THE DEAD (1788 Records/Virgin Music Group)

Kobie Dee — Chapter 26 (Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia)

Lithe — Fall Back (GSL/GYROstream)

ONEFOUR — Natural Habitat (ONEFOUR RECORDS)

The Kid LAROI — THE FIRST TIME [DELUXE VERSION] (Columbia Records/Sony Music)

Best Soul / R&B Release

Forest Claudette — Jupiter (Sony Music)

Milan Ring — Mangos (Astral People Recordings/[PIAS])

Miss Kaninna — Blak Britney (Soul Has No Tempo)

PANIA — WE STILL YOUNG (Say Less)

Tkay Maidza — Sweet Justice (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

Best Independent Release

Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again (AWAL Recordings)

Emily Wurramara — NARA (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Kylie Minogue — Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)

Miss Kaninna — Blak Britney (Soul Has No Tempo)

Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)

Best Rock Album

Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again (AWAL Recordings)

Grinspoon — whatever, whatever (Universal Music Australia)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Flight b741 (p(doom) records)

Middle Kids — Faith Crisis Pt 1 (EMI Music Australia)

Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)

Best Adult Contemporary Album

Angus & Julia Stone — Cape Forestier (Sony Music)

Crowded House — Gravity Stairs (BMG/ADA)

Emily Wurramara — NARA (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Emma Donovan — Til My Song Is Done (Civilians)

Fanning Dempsey National Park — The Deluge (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

Best Country Album

Casey Barnes — Mayday (Casey Barnes Entertainment/Chugg Music)

Henry Wagons — The Four Seasons (Cheatin' Hearts Records/ADA)

James Johnston — Raised Like That (Warner Music Australia)

Tori Forsyth — All We Have Is Who We Are (Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia)

Troy Cassar-Daley — Between The Fires (Tarampa Music/Sony Music)

Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album

C.O.F.F.I.N — Australia Stops (Damaged Records/Inertia)

Dune Rats — If It Sucks, Turn It Up (BMG/ADA)

Polaris — Fatalism (Resist/Civilians)

SPEED — Only One Mode (Last Ride Records/ADA)

Teenage Joans — The Rot That Grows Inside My Chest (Domestic La La)

Best Blues & Roots Album

Checkerboard Lounge — SUN Sessions (Cheersquad Records and Tapes)

Dope Lemon — Kimosabè (BMG/ADA)

Georgia Mooney — Full Of Moon (Nettwerk Music Group)

Mia Dyson — Tender Heart (Metropolitan Groove Merchants)

The Paper Kites — At The Roundhouse (Wonderlick Recording Company)

Best Children's Album

Bluey — Dance Mode! (Ludo Studios/Demon Demon Music Group/Rocket)

Emma Memma — Twirly Tunes (GYROstream)

Josh Pyke — It's Gonna Be A Great, Great Day! (ABC Music/The Orchard)

The Wiggles — Wiggle and Learn: 100 Educational Songs for Children (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Zinzi & The Zillionaires — Zinzi & The Zillionaires (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Public Voted Awards

Best Video

REAL LIFE LOVE — SPEED, Jack Rudder, Jem Siow, Thomas Elliot (Last Ride Records/ADA)

Cold Treatment — Lime Cordiale, Jack Shepherd (Chugg Music/MGM)

U Should Not Be Doing That — Amyl and The Sniffers, John Angus Stewart (Amyl and The

Sniffers/Virgin Music Group)

Time Of My Life — Peach PRC, Josh Harris (Island Records Australia)

Lately — RÜFÜS DU SOL, Katzki (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)

Beautiful Eyes — Amy Shark, Marcario De Souza (Sony Music)

Is It Ever Gonna Make Sense — Budjerah, Michael O'Halloran [ONYX FILM] (Warner Music Australia)

Dance With Me — Tones And I, Nick Kozakis and Sela Vai (Bad Batch Records/Sony Music)

Blak Britney — Miss Kaninna, Will Hamilton-Coates (Soul Has No Tempo)

I CAN'T LOSE YOU — Confidence Man, Zac Dov Wiesel (I OH YOU/Mushroom Music)

Best Australian Live Act

Angie McMahon — Making It Through Tour (AWAL Recordings)

Barkaa — BARKAA (Bad Apples Music/Island Records Australia)

Confidence Man — Laneway Festival (I OH YOU/Mushroom Music)

Dirty Three — Love Changes Everything Tour (Anchor & Hope/Remote Control Records)

Dom Dolla — DOM DOLLA AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2023 (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

King Stingray — Regional Run 2024 (Civilians/The Orchard)

Missy Higgins — The Second Act Tour 2024 (Eleven/EMI Music Australia)

Royel Otis — Royel Otis PRATTS & PAIN Tour (Ourness/Believe)

RÜFÜS DU SOL — RÜFÜS DU SOL 2024 Australian Summer Tour Dates (Rose Avenue Records/Warner Music)

Tones And I — P!nk Supported By Tones And I (Bad Batch Records/Sony Music)

Song of the Year

CYRIL — Stumblin' In (Spinnin' Records/WMA)

Dom Dolla — Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

FISHER Feat. Kita Alexander — Atmosphere (etcetc Music)

G Flip — The Worst Person Alive (Future Classic)

Jessica Mauboy Feat. Jason Derulo — Give You Love (Warner Music Australia)

Kylie Minogue — Tension (Mushroom Music/BMG)

Lithe — Fall Back (GSL, GYROstream)

Royel Otis — Murder on the Dance Floor — triple j Like A Version (ABC Music/The Orchard)

The Kid LAROI — Nights Like This (Columbia Records/Sony Music)

Troye Sivan — Got Me Started (EMI Music Australia)

Most Popular International Artist

Ariana Grande — Eternal Sunshine (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia)

Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard And Soft (Darkroom/Interscope/Universal Music Australia)

Chappell Roan — The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (Island Records USA/Universal Music

Australia)

Charli XCX — BRAT (Atlantic Records/Warner Music Australia)

Drake — For All The Dogs (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia)

Olivia Rodrigo — Guts (Geffen/Universal Music Australia)

Tate McRae — Think Later (RCA Records/Sony Music Entertainment)

Taylor Swift — The Tortured Poets Department (Republic Records/Universal Music Australia)

Travis Scott — Utopia (Epic/Sony Music Entertainment)

Zach Bryan — Zach Bryan (Warner Records/Warner Music Australia)

Artisan Awards

Best Cover Art

Daniel Boyd and Nomad Create for KILL THE DEAD — 3% (1788 Records/Virgin Music Group)

Giulia McGauran & Sam Chirnside for Tones And I — Beautifully Ordinary (Better Batch Records/Sony

Music)

Louis Leimbach for Lime Cordiale — Enough Of Sweet Talk (Chugg Music/MGM)

Michael Bryers for Troy Cassar-Daley — Between The Fires (Tarampa Music/Sony Music)

Tomas Shanahan for Mildlife — Chorus ([PIAS] Australia/Inertia Music)

Engineer — Best Engineered Release

Chris Collins for Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)

Dom Dolla for Dom Dolla — Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

Eric J. Dubowsky for Angus & Julia Stone — Cape Forestier (Sony Music)

Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes for Empire Of The Sun — Ask That God (EMI Music

Australia)

Tony Buchen for Mildlife — Chorus ([PIAS] Australia/Inertia Music)

Producer — Best Produced Release

Chris Collins for Royel Otis — PRATTS & PAIN (Ourness/Believe)

Crowded House & Steven Schram for Crowded House — Gravity Stairs (BMG/ADA)

Dom Dolla for Dom Dolla — Saving Up (Three Six Zero/Sony Music)

FISHER for FISHER Feat. Kita Alexander — Atmosphere (etcetc Music)

Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes for Empire Of The Sun — Ask That God (EMI Music

Australia)

Fine Arts Award

Best Classical Album

Australian Chamber Orchestra/ Richard Tognetti — Beethoven Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 'Eroica' (ABC

Classic/The Orchard)

Grigoryan Brothers — Amistad — Music For Two Guitars (Decca Australia/UMA)

Orava Quartet — ORAWA (Deutsche Grammophon Australia/UMA)

Sophie Hutchings — A World Outside (Mercury KX/UMA)

Veronique Serret — Migrating Bird (Migrating Bird Records/The Planet Company)

Best Jazz Album

Audrey Powne — From The Fire (Barely Breaking Even/The Orchard)

Elixir (feat. Katie Noonan, Zac Hurren & Ben Hauptmann) — A Small Shy Truth (ABC Jazz/The

Orchard)

Mildlife — Chorus ([PIAS] Australia/Inertia Music)

Tourismo — Torque (ABC Jazz/The Orchard)

Vanessa Perica Orchestra — The Eye is the First Circle (Vanessa Perica)

Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album

Ack Kinmonth — Scarygirl (Independant)

Harlow — This is HARLOW (Music From Paper Dolls) (Helium/MGM)

Helena Czakja — Nemesis (Original Series Soundtrack) (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Jackson Milas — The Way, My Way (Ambition Records/MGM)

Various Artists — Faraway Downs (DTS Productions/Sony Music)

Best World Music Album

Christine Anu — Waku (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Dobby — Warangu; River Story (ABC Music/The Orchard)

Joseph Tawadros — The Virtue of Signals (Independant/The Planet Company)

Radical Son — Bilambiyal (Wantok Musik/The Planet Company)

Soweto Gospel Choir & Groove Terminator — History of House (Xelon Entertainment)

Friday Flash(back) - Nelly Furtado - 7

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Nelly Kim Furtado hails from Canada and has sold over 45 million records, including 35 million in album sales worldwide, making her one of the most successful Canadian artists. 

Furtado first gained fame with her trip hop-inspired debut album, Whoa, Nelly! back in 2000.

Whoa, Nelly! was meet with critical and commercial success that spawned two top-10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, I'm Like a Bird & Turn Off the Light. 

Furtado's introspective folk-heavy 2003 second album, Folklore, explored her Portuguese roots. Its singles received moderate success in Europe, but the album's underperformance compared to her debut was regarded as a sophomore slump.

Furtado's third album, Loose, back in 2006, was a smash hit and became her bestselling album, with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, also making it one of the bestselling albums of the 2000s.

Considered a radical image reinvention, the album spawned four successful number-one singles worldwide. Promiscuous (feat. Timbaland), Maneater, Say It Right & All Good Things (Come to an End).

Her 2007 feature on Timbaland's Give It to Me in the same era also topped the charts in the US and overseas. Furtado's critically acclaimed duet with James Morrison, Broken Strings, also topped the charts in Europe in 2008.

She released her first Spanish-language album, Mi Plan, in 2009, which won her a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album. 

In 2012, Furtado released her nostalgia-inspired fifth album The Spirit Indestructible. Furtado split with her management and went independent thereafter, releasing her indie-pop sixth album, The Ride, in 2017 under her own label Nelstar Entertainment.

She has won many awards throughout her career, including one Grammy Award from seven nominations, one Latin Grammy Award, ten Juno Awards, one BRIT Award, one Billboard Music Award, one MTV Europe Music Award, one World Music Award, and three Much Music Video Awards. Furtado has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame, and was awarded Commander of the Order of Prince Henry on February 28, 2014, by Aníbal Cavaco Silva, the then-President of Portugal.

Last Friday, we got album number seven, simply titled 7. Featuring SG Lewis, To Love and production from Australia's own Dom Dolla. This follows her collaboration with Dom Dolla, Eat Your Man. So take a stroll down memory lane, with some old and new sounds from Furtado below.

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - THE RUBENS - {Soda}

Friday Flash(back) - Snow Patrol - The Forest Is the Path

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Snow Patrol are the Northern Irish–Scottish band that gave us Chasing Cars.

They formed in 1994 in Dundee, Scotland, consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), and Johnny McDaid (guitar, piano, keyboards, backing vocals). Lightbody is the band's sole remaining original member.

After briefly using the name Polarbear, releasing the EP Starfighter Pilot (1997) and losing Morrison as a member, the band became Snow Patrol in 1997 and added Jonny Quinn to the lineup as drummer. 

Their first two studio albums, Songs for Polarbears (1998) and When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up (2001), released by independent record label Jeepster Records, were commercially unsuccessful. The band signed to Polydor Records in 2002 and Connolly joined as lead guitarist.

Their major-label debut album, Final Straw, was released the following year. Run, the record's biggest hit, saw the band rise to national fame as part of the post-Britpop movement. The album was certified 5× platinum in the UK. 

In 2005, McClelland left the band and was replaced by Paul Wilson. Their next studio album, Eyes Open (2006), and its hit single Chasing Cars (reported in 2019 to be the most-played song of the 21st century on UK radio) propelled the band to greater international fame. 

The album topped the UK Albums Chart and was the best-selling British record of the year. Snow Patrol released their fifth studio album, A Hundred Million Suns, in 2008; their sixth, Fallen Empires, in 2011; and their seventh, Wildness, in 2018. Quinn and Wilson left the group in 2023.

During the course of their career, Snow Patrol have won seven Meteor Ireland Music Awards and been nominated for six Brit Awards and one Grammy. Final Straw, Eyes Open, and A Hundred Million Suns have sold ten million copies worldwide, combined.

Back in May this year, Snow Patrol unveiled The Beginning, the first single from their Fraser T. Smith-produced eighth album, The Forest Is the Path, which was released on Friday 13 September. Spooky!

We Could Be Love - Guests

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - HAYDEN JAMES - {We Could Be Love}

Album of the Year Nomination - September Update - V2.0

Following my love fest for Charli XCX yesterday,  I neglected my other four nominations for the Album of the Year for 2024.

While Charli XCX is just going wild, PNAU, Beyoncé, Tyla & Billie Eilish are also still slaying. Well with Eilish it was her and Charli XCX who created a monster fuss with that Guess remix video!

Till that video, that remix, I felt BIRDS OF A FEATHER was the song of 2024. Guess truly blew that out of the water. Tyla recently won the best Afrobeats MTV Music Award during the week. Whilst Beyoncé was snubbed by the CMA Awards for her country release, Cowboy Carter.

Finally PNAU have continued to fill dance floors with their excellent, Hyperbolic record. So during your Sunday coffee, here are some recent Album of the Year highlights. Happy Sunday!

Album of the Year Nomination - September Update

Charli XCX continues to bring Brat summer now into the incoming Australia summer. It has already had its Northern Hemisphere summer, now its V2.0. With more remixes and a third version incoming. Brat and it's completely different but also still brat. This is wild! So take a look listen below. It lands the 11th of October. Let's go Brats!

 

Friday Flash(back) - Missy Higgins - The Second Act

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Melissa Morrison Higgins is Missy Higgins. This week's Friday Flash(back) is an Aussie icon! Born 19 August 1983), her Australian number-one albums are The Sound of White (2004), On a Clear Night (2007) and The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (2012).

Along with her  number-one singles including Scar, Steer & Where I Stood. 

Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards in 2004 and won 'Best Pop Release' for Scar. In 2005, she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. 

Higgins won her seventh ARIA in 2007. Her third album, The Ol' Razzle Dazzle, was released in Australia in June 2012 (July in the USA). 

Higgins's fourth studio album, Oz, was released in September 2014 and consists of cover versions of Australian composers, as well as a book of related essays.

Alongside her music career, Higgins pursues interests in animal rights and the environment, endeavouring to make her tours carbon neutral. In 2010 she made her acting debut in the feature film Bran Nue Dae and also performed on its soundtrack.

On 23 February 2024, Higgins released You Should Run, the lead single from her forthcoming sixth studio album. The album, titled The Second Act, was released last Friday.

Upon announcement of the album in April 2024, Higgins called the album as "a kind of sequel" to her debut The Sound of White, released twenty years ago to the day.

About the two albums, Higgins said "They're both looking forward nervously and wondering what comes next. They're both asking questions like 'who am I?' and 'who do I want to be?'".

Come back tomorrow to stream the new record, while below discover some old, new Missy magic below. This is a big Friday Flash(back) this week. Another big one next week as we get ready to say hello daylight savings and summer 2024/2025!

Ten Days - Guests

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - FRED AGAIN.. - {Ten Days}

Friday Flash(back) - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds even got their own (well Nick Cave did) Australian Story episode. You can view the entire episode below. After listening/watching some class music videos of course.

The Australian band formed in 1983 by vocalist Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist-vocalist Blixa Bargeld. 

The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey (all from Australia), guitarist George Vjestica (United Kingdom), touring keyboardist/percussionist Larry Mullins, also known as Toby Dammit (United States), and drummers Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States).

Nick Cave & the band have been described as one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in the '80s and onward. 

Since the 80's, they have released eighteen studio albums and completed numerous international tours.

The band was founded following the demise of Cave and Harvey's former group the Birthday Party, the members of which met at a boarding school in Melbourne.

Throughout the 1980s, beginning with their debut LP From Her to Eternity (1984), the band drew largely on post-punk, blues and gothic rock, and formed an evolving, multinational lineup, bringing in musicians such as Blixa Bargeld, Barry Adamson and Kid Congo Powers. 

The band later softened their sound and incorporated other influences on albums such as The Good Son (1990) and The Boatman's Call (1997). Following Harvey's departure in 2009, the band broadened their sound further to include electronic and ambient styles, which feature prominently on the trilogy of albums Push the Sky Away (2013), Skeleton Tree (2016) and Ghosteen (2019).

Last Friday, Wild God their 18th studio album dropped. The record marks their first studio album in five years, following Ghosteen, back in 2019.

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - TEENAGE DADS - {Majordomo}