Indie

Red Rockets of Borneo are a five-piece rock band hailing from Melbourne. Propelling heat-seeking, guitar-driven rock missiles in rapid-fire succession at their audience; their live shows explode off the stage. The band were together a full year before playing their first gig in 2010. In that year Red Rockets of Borneo produced a film clip and their first album, which was later launched to a sold-out crowd at the Old Bar in March 2011.

The Dresden Dolls are an American musical duo from Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Formed in 2001, the group consists of Amanda Palmer (vocals, piano, ukulele, toy piano, harmonica) and Brian Viglione (drums, percussion, guitar, vocals). They describe their heavily art-damaged and theatrical style as "Brechtian punk cabaret", a phrase invented by Palmer because she was "terrified" that the press would invent a name that "would involve the word 'gothic'," and are part of an underground dark cabaret movement that started gaining momentum in the early 1990s.

While the mere mention of their name often invokes raised eyebrows and amused smiles among the uninitiated, Brisbane four-piece Hungry Kids of Hungary produce music that inspires equal measures of curiosity and joy. Dressing their immaculate indie tunes with a healthy dose of 60’s pop sensibility and lashings of soul HKoH have wasted no time in carving out a name for themselves on the Australian music scene with a quartet of radio singles and their relentless touring regime.

As heard on Triple J and Triple J unearthed. Playing with Camera Obscura and at The Lost Weekend Festival with Dirty Projectors, Dinosaur Junior, etc. Little Scout are a group of friends from Brisbane who have dedicated their lives to crafting perfect indie pop music. If they do not succeed in this mission, there is a very certain chance that their legs may fall off and they will be banished to a remote island to live in shame.