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Middle Kids Live @ The Corner Hotel (Australia)

As the lights in the cramped hotel function room dim, the stage illuminates. The crowd breaks out into a unanimous roar. Middle Kids, Sydney’s rising indie rock and pop group, emerge. First strum of the guitar and the room falls silent. All eyes are fixated on Hannah Joy, lead singer and guitarist. And as she […]

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Middle Kids Seem to Have, Maybe or Maybe not Quite Literally, ‘Lost Friends’

Middle Kids have come out with their Lost Friends LP. The Sydney, Australia trio consists of lead singer and guitarist Hannah Joy, her husband Tim Fitz on bass, and Harry Day on drums.   After making their way to Elton John’s Beats 1 show, where they caught his attention before they even played their first show, […]

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Middle Kids Newest Single is No ‘Mistake’

Australian indie rock band Middle Kids recently released the video for their single “Mistake” off of their upcoming album Lost Friends.   The song opens with several heavy beats of the drums followed by nostalgic-sounding guitars introducing the first lyrics of the song, “Oh darling / Pick you up just to let you drop / We got […]

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Middle Kids Ablaze on Stage Live @ Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn

The Music Hall of Willamsburg welcomed Australian band Middle Kids on September 16. The group only emerged on the scene with their debut single “Edge of Town” in May of 2016, but things are moving fast for the Middle Kids. They dropped their first EP this February and already have new songs on the way. […]

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Beth Orton Returns to Electronics in “Kidsticks”

British singer-songwriter Beth Orton is no stranger to the music scene. Having gained recognition in the mid-‘90s for collaborations with producer William Orbit and electronic duo The Chemical Brothers, she’s been steadily solidifying her authority as a folktronica pioneer over the years. After dialing back the synths and programmed drums for an acoustic folk sound […]

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Firefly Music Festival is Approaching and we Cannot Wait

Festival season is approaching! It’s that time of year again and there’s a lot of buzz around Firefly Music Festival 2018, which goes from June 14-17 this year. Their killer lineup was announced in January, making it feel impossible to wait for June 14 to finally arrive. Seriously, it’s going to be a long three […]

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The Sound of Monday Releases New Single

Those who follow the North American indie beat have singlehandedly brought raucous rock music back as a major aesthetical influence over numerous genres and styles of music in the last couple of years, but for acts like The Sound of Monday, what their peers may or may not be doing with a style essentially mastered […]

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VOLK Unleash Their New Single ‘Welcome to Cashville’

It is hard to believe it has been a few years since VOLK released their epic EP Average American Band. Since then, Chris Lowe (vocals, guitar) and Eleot Reich (vocals, drums) have spent most of their time on the road having fun with their music. While they have been touring, they have had the pleasure […]