This week’s Up & Comer is Sarah D, originally from Adelaide, and now based in LA. If you would like to be featured as an Up & Comer on Lip, email Zoya at editor@lipmag.com! Tell us a bit about yourself! I am a Polish/Australian, pop/rock artist, born and bred in the humble city of…
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This week’s Up & Comer is Amy Chase! If you’re in a band, or play awesome music and want to be featured as a Lip Up & Comer, email Zoya at editor@lipmag.com! Tell us a bit about yourself! I’m am 27 years old and am currently living between Sydney and Cairns. I am half…
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When I first got the email about interviewing Oh Pep!, the adorably catchy folk-rock-indie quintet based out of Melbourne, I couldn’t help but think how clever it was that leading ladies Olivia Hally (guitar/vocals) and Pepita Emmerichs (violin/mandolin) creatively married their names to come up with something that perfectly describes their style of music. The more I…
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A lot can be said about Joe Robinson, whose guitar playing proficiency has led critics to compare him to legendary guitarists well beyond his years. He was the charismatic teenager who won Australia’s Got Talent back in 2008, blowing audiences away with his perfect acoustic performances; the guy who released a full-length album at the…
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‘It has been quite a big year…’ says Helen Croome sweetly. Croome is better known as Gossling and indeed, it has been a big year. ‘Every now and then I sit down with a little book and write down all the things that we’ve achieved and look back over it and get excited,’ she adds….
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I don’t listen to the radio or watch much TV, and half the time I’m far too lazy to download new music. Which means that my music taste is mostly stuck in the ’90s, with some current stuff thrown in if I stumble across it. My younger sister I care for is one of the…
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This was the day that I dreaded for many months. I didn’t have a ticket for Radiohead’s two very, very sold out Sydney shows and was preparing myself for a week of listening to Kid A alone in the dark and crying with dismay. However, on the Friday morning before the concert, I was awoken…
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Previously the wonder-woman of teen series H20: Just Add Water with her track Ordinary Girl, Kate Alexa is straying away from her good-girl-next-door reputation and diving straight into the deep end of everything drugs, sex, alcohol and love in her latest album Infatuation. Alexa’s career launched at the early age of thirteen, meaning the experience…
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‘If Anthony Kiedis, Slash and Tina Turner had a red-head musical love child, I’d be her.’ 23-year-old Melbourne-based musician, Mimi Velevska exudes a warm-hearted, carefree and charismatic attitude that seems to rub off on those that are affected by her presence. Through her music, Velevska endeavours to help everyone do away with the same kind…
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The first album in six years from ‘folk-tronica’ singer songwriter, Beth Orton, Sugaring Season emphasises the folk rather than the ‘tronica’ and is an exhibition of Orton’s precise and beautiful song writing. Orton is a master of her craft and her 20+ years as a professional artist is clearly reflected in the emotional ballads of…
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Stacey Piggott is one inspiring lady – not only is the she the director of Two Fish Out of Water, one of Australia’s leading music PR firms, but she’s taken the time to turn her 14 years of experience in PR to write a book – Blow Your Own Trumpet : A Musician’s Guide to…
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If you close your eyes as you listen to the opening track on Only for the Woods, you will feel as though you’ve been transported to another land. Imagine warm fires, worn picnic rugs, and a camp of gypsies dancing, clapping, and playing their guitars, banjos, and loud drums. The exotic food, beautiful wagons,…
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After the 2011 debut of Meditations On The Sun, Melodie Nelson is hand-delivering to us her follow-up album, To The Dollhouse. Melodie Nelson, the solo moniker of Lia Tsamoglou is no stranger to music. She has been playing the piano since she was seven, and began to develop her talent as a songwriter around…
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Tell us a bit about yourself! My name is Suzie Smart and I’m a singer/songwriter/guitarist. I first got into music hearing my Dad play Bob Dylan on his acoustic guitar – when I heard the real deal I was hooked! At the age of 19 I picked up a guitar, learnt three chords and began writing….
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