The Tuckshop

For over a decade now, Jack Carty has been steadily producing some of Australia’s best and most important songwriting.  From his debut, One Thousand Origami Birds, back in 2011, through to albums like Home State, Esk, and Hospital Hill, Jack has chronicled the joy, sadness, and absurdity of life with a piercing clarity – something only truly great songwriters can do. He’s ju...

Usually, The Tuckshop would chat to an artist who has just dropped an album, we’d discuss how it all came together and the stories and experiences that made it. But this week, they chatted to one of the judges of the prestigious The Amp (Australian Music Prize) – the winner of which is set to be announced in just over a month. Pretty much every one of our favourite albums is in the run...

Music has the ability to transport you, not only to a place personal to you, but to a different time or era. This is the magical quality of Gabriella Cohen’s music. On her third album,  Blue No More , Gabriella has stirred up the past, combined it with a fresh future and given us an eclectic mix of style and genre with many well placed throwbacks that will make you smile and reminisce b...

With her debut album, Milan Ring brings together years of artistic exploration and a mastery of her many skills into an album of hope, confidence and honesty. I’m Feeling Hopeful   is nothing short of a brilliant album, oozing with soul, superb song writing and slick production. Milan has delivered one of the years’ best albums with just weeks to spare. How did the songs come abou...

The Predators have been lurking. The trio of Steven Bishop, Ian Haug and John Collins – friends since school, have always had the idea of creating a debut album – and 16 years after forming the group, which was the original core of Powderfinger, they have released their debut album, Everybody Loves. It’s a powerful exploration through retro post-punk sounds, with a healthy dose o...

Artists enter into music for many reasons. It may be an escape, an outlet of creativity or to communicate important messages. For  Birdz , it feels like all three are relevant as he delivers his ground-breaking second album, Legacy. As the title suggests, this album of ten powerful and ultimately bop-worthy tracks, establish a line of communication from Birdz to the wider community. There are...

When a band like The Hard-Ons gives you a call and asks you to be the lead singer, you probably don’t take too long to answer. This was the situation when the band, with 40 years of history, found themselves (again) without a singer and the search for a front-person began. On a whim, it seems, they gave fellow Australian music royalty, Tim Rogers a call, and the rest, as they say is history....

Camp Cope returned this week with a brand new single after three and a half years away – although, of course, they didn’t really go away. Singer Georgia Maq recorded a solo album, Pleaser, and she and bassist Kelly-Dawn linked up for a project called The Garageband Split back in 2020. But the track  Blue  officially marks the return of Camp Cope. Bassist, Kelly-Dawn Helmrich,...

The many faces of Tim Shiel come together, along with a swag of talented artists to make the superb album, Distractions One. It’s a celebration of the power of music and a marvellous meld that spans time, genre and lush landscapes of synth-laden electronica layered beneath swoon-worthy acoustics. He joined Jules and Mick on The Tuckshop to uncover some of the meaning and makings of the album...

With years of touring, EPs and singles under their belt, Moaning Lisa’s debut album has been hotly anticipated, but with such a pedigree of song-writing and musicianship in their repertoire, it was never going to disappoint. Something Like This But Not This has proved to be one of the Australian albums of the year and comes packed with punchy, challenging, hooky tracks and incredibly sharp l...

Sydney four-piece, The Buoys are hitting their stride with tight, driving pop-punk as they prepare to release their third EP, ‘Unsolicited Advice for Your DIY Disaster’.It is anything but a disaster and they would need little advice as this six-track powerhouse of an EP further establishes the melodic punk that has seen them become famous for their live shows. Zoe and Hilary from...

Some songwriters write music to get things off their chest. Some do it to flex their creative muscle. Others do it because it’s what they were born to do. Dominic Breen may fit into all of these categories and as a prolific song-writer, it’s been a tough task to narrow down his assemblage of songs into a succinct group of tracks that will forever be enshrined as his debut album. But th...

Great pop music is all about capturing moments. From Carole King to Joni Mitchell to Taylor Swift, great pop songwriters can make the most intimate moment feel completely universal.  On Gretta Ray’s debut album Begin To Look Around, she does just that. Exploring pain and heartbreak and hope and laughter, the album can sometimes feel like it’s echoing thoughts in your own head - li...

Melbourne four-piece, Amyl and the Sniffers, have only just released their scalding second album, Comfort To Me, but it’s already being hailed as one of the best albums of the year.  Scorching, angry, loving, life-affirming, Comfort To Me is a meteor of an album, one that sees the band at the very top of their musical game, even though they’ve really only just begun. Singer, Amy a...

Darren "D.C" Cross is a music man for all seasons. Over the last thirty years he has never stopped exploring sounds, styles and his own mortality with music spanning the seminal Gerling, the dark folk of Jep and Dep or the open-tuned ramblings of DC Cross. With his 4th solo album, Darren has combined elements from every chapter of his book to try and make sense of the future by combining Distortio...

With the arrival of Spring also comes a sense of renewal, hope and warmth. It seems fitting then that it also signals the arrival of the debut album from Meanjin (Brisbane) DJ, producer and artist, Sampology. His ambitious album, filled with a plethora of self-record samples, all combine to make a lush, layered and stunning record. Regrowth is the result of years of recording and production, but h...

The third record from Ngaiire, titled ‘3’, not only blossoms with ten tracks of textured, beautiful, pop and R&B, but it unveils more about the artist, who has experienced so much since her last album. So much, that this album almost didn’t see the light of day. She joined Jules and Mick on The Tuckshop to explore the heartbreak and the challenges that lead to this, her most...

From a place of sun, warmth and light comes an artist that is not only creating bright and brilliant indie-pop music, but is bringing a smile to the faces of everyone that hears it. 2021, a year of promise, may have been stalled but we have been treated to a new single and the hope and promise of even better things to come as Greta Stanley heads towards her second album. Hope It Lands, the latest...

Sometimes, good things come to those who wait and with Melbourne 3-piece, Cannon, that has never been a truer statement. The band, who rose to prominence in the ‘naughties’ has reappeared in the ‘20s and delivered one of the albums of the year in  Connexion , their first! The album is a mix of raspy guitar hooks, driving bass and realised rock that harks back to a simpler ti...

You’d be hard pressed to find a band more universally liked and appreciated than Polish Club.  The Sydney duo, made up of Novak and John-Henry (if we’re being formal), have earned a reputation for being some of the hardest workers and nicest blokes in the local music scene – while also crafting some of the most energetic and exciting rock music in the game.  They’...

There are not many more famous and beloved bands in Australia over the last 25 years than Regurgitator. The band, born from a number of chance encounters between Quan Yeomans and today’s guest have been synonymous with Australian music with albums from Tu-Plang and Unit to HEADROXX in 2018 and The really really really really boring album from the Pogogo Show band. Ben Ely, is not only the ba...

The unique name, Maple Glider, is one that you may have heard, and for good reason, this Naarm based artist has travelled many miles in her life’s story so far and is now not only turned heads with her vulnerable, delicate and beautiful songs, but has released one of the albums of the year so far with To Enjoy Is The Only Thing.  She has landed slots on NPR’s Tiny Desk, Late Night...

If you’ve had a glance over any Best New Artists or Artists To Watch lists over the last year and a half, there’s a big, big chance you’ve come across the name ASHWARYA.  The Melbourne based artist began turning heads last year with the release of the energetic and arresting ‘Psycho Hole’ and since then she’s been steadily drip-feeding eclectic singles, inc...

Hayley Mary has released two solo EPs in the last 18 months as she solidifies her solo musical journey. The Drip, her second EP is a brilliant mix of vintage rock and poignant observations all delivered with the powerful voice of The Jezabel's vocalist. She discussed the turning points and signs that lead her to creating these two fantastic bodies of work and what's coming next despite the challen...

Second albums are a strange beast. On one hand, they can be easier without the uncertainty of releasing a debut, but they can also come lumped with expectation and pressure. On one listen of Quivers’ second album, Golden Doubt, you get the feeling this album, although with it’s challenges, came together in a warm comforting place, exactly how it makes you feel. The 4-piece of Sam, Mich...