2023
I’ll admit I knew nothing about Zamrock – the musical fusion that came out of Zambia in the 1970s. So I never heard WITCH in their heyday.
Tony McPhee never achieved the fame and fortune of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page or Jeff Beck, his fellow British guitarists to emerge from Britain’s blues boom in the 1960s.
We all need an invigorating dose of primal rage every now and then… don’t we? Coach Party certainly do – and enjoy letting it out.
Australian band RVG – aka the Romy Vager Group – blend emotional songs to a sound that harks back to the early eighties of British postpunk. And are all the better for that.
Austrian supergroup My Pretty Clementine put Vienna back on the musical map for the first time in a couple of centuries.
The Bug Club are a lo-fi garage pop group from Wales and their latest single is this insanely catchy lo-fi anthem, Out In The Streets.
The Rose City Band are the country-flavoured side project of Wooden Shjips duo Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada. This druggy animated road video certainly captures the woozy mood of their laid-back country-fried boogie.
A soothing blend of punk, funk and country seasoned with soul and reggae, and tributes to the month’s dead – Gordon Lightfoot, Tina Turner, Linda Lewis and Andy Rourke of The Smiths.
Not sure if the term Aussie’n’Western is a thing, but if it is then The Paper Kites are a prime example.