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The Ocean Party

The Ocean Party have been hanging out and playing together since they were kids. The boys grew up together in Wagga Wagga and have been developing their sound for years. They take their influences from Australian predecessors The Triffids, The Go-Betweens, Paul Kelly, and also The Shins, The Custom Kings and The Panics.

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The Triangles

The Triangles are a five piece band from Melbourne, Australia, who started playing together in 2003. Their style is informed by many types of music including psychedelic pop, guitar based indie rock and 1970s folk. The Triangles independently released two albums of folky experimental pop in 2003 and 2004 before their first major release ‘Magic Johnson’ came out on the independent Australian label Half A Cow in 2005.

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Mom, Dad and the Kids

Biography
The band first started in 2008 as a creative release and refreshing change for lead vocalist Jayme van Keulen-Brain along with Alex Marsden, Mike Lynch and Joel Williamson. Starting out as 'Burning Ships' and playing a small amounts of shows, a realization that this was a great thing was made, the fat was trimmed and dedication was tested. As time progressed the band grew into something more than a side project.

Slug Guts

Slug Guts hail from the barren, heat stricken confines of Brisbane, Australia, a town as desolate as it is depressing and suburban. Slug Guts began when four degenerates had little else to do but form a band in the tradition of Pussy Galore, X (Australia not L.A.), and Birthday Party. In the first four months of the band Slug Guts recorded their first LP Down on the Meat which was released on Stained Circles Records (Jay Reatard, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Dirtbombs).

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Basement Birds

Basement Birds is an Australian indie supergroup comprised of Kavyen Temperley (Eskimo Joe's frontman and bassist), Steve Parkin (solo singer/songwriter), Kevin Mitchell (musician) (Jebediah, Bob Evans frontman) and solo singer/songwriter Josh Pyke. The groups' mutual love of lush vocal harmonies and alt-country style was the basis for forming the Basement Birds project. "Luckily we all seem to have fairly similar tastes in music, I think it'd be harder if we had someone who was into death metal and another into jazz fusion.

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Yeah Wednesday

Gavin and Janette from Yeah Wednesday met while working together in an internationally touring band. After realising that life had become 'Groundhog Day', they unpacked their suitcases to concentrate on writing and recording ... and have secured publishing deals in both Australia and the US. Some of their music has been licenced to the fashion industry - and they've also written/ produced tracks for Comedians and other Indie artists .... 'Gravity Is Our Friend...' - a collection of 10 tracks ranging from Electro Dance Rock, to Blues, to Nu-Jazz, to Trip-Hop...

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Kim Salmon and the Surrealists

Kim Salmon and the Surrealists was an Australian indie rock band formed by Kim Salmon in 1987 when he was living in Perth between the final two tours by The Scientists. When the Scientists stopped, Salmon continued the Surrealists as his main band, while also playing in The Beasts Of Bourbon. Salmon formed the first lineup of the Surrealists in mid-1987, with Brian Hooper on bass and Tony Pola on drums.

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