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Skegss
Skegss are an Australian surf and garage rock trio originally from Byron Bay, New South Wales. The band's line-up consists of Toby Cregan (bass, vocals, guitar), Jonny Lani (drums) and Ben Reed (vocals, guitar, bass). They have released several extended plays and toured both nationwide and internationally. Skegss made international headlines after accusing American rappers Reese and Lil Yachty of copying the cover art for that collaboration's single, "Do It", from the band's 2015 EP, '' 50 Push Ups for a Dollar''. Their debut studio album, ''My Own Mess'', was released in September 2018 and peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Album Charts. In October 2020 the group re-released '' 50 Push Ups for a Dollar'' on vinyl, which reached number 4. They followed with a double EP as a vinyl compilation album, ''Holiday Food/Everyone Is Good at Something'', re-released in November 2020, which reached number 17. Career 2014–2017: Formation and early EPs Skegss were formed in Byron Bay in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skegss Live At Good Things Festival Melbourne '19
Skegss are an Australian surf and garage rock trio originally from Byron Bay, New South Wales. The band's line-up consists of Toby Cregan (bass, vocals, guitar), Jonny Lani (drums) and Ben Reed (vocals, guitar, bass). They have released several extended plays and toured both nationwide and internationally. Skegss made international headlines after accusing American rappers Reese and Lil Yachty of copying the cover art for that collaboration's single, "Do It", from the band's 2015 EP, '' 50 Push Ups for a Dollar''. Their debut studio album, ''My Own Mess'', was released in September 2018 and peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Album Charts. In October 2020 the group re-released '' 50 Push Ups for a Dollar'' on vinyl, which reached number 4. They followed with a double EP as a vinyl compilation album, ''Holiday Food/Everyone Is Good at Something'', re-released in November 2020, which reached number 17. Career 2014–2017: Formation and early EPs Skegss were formed in Byron Bay in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
50 Push Ups For A Dollar
''50 Push Ups for a Dollar'' is a five-track extended play by Australian surf music and garage rock band Skegss, released on 16 October 2015. It provided two singles, "Fun" (July 2015) and "Eat It" (October). The EP's cover art was designed by Jack Irvine of Space 44. In March 2016 United States hip hop collaborators Reese x Lil Yachty released a single, "Do It". That single's cover art was described by Irvine, "they have just straight up taken the artwork, erased 'Skegss' and put their song title and not even changed anything else. And also, it's a horrible Photoshop edit looks like it was done in Microsoft Paint." The EP was re-released in October 2020 with the lead track from their 2014 single, "L. S. D.", added. It peaked at number 4 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Background Skegss formed as a four-piece surf music and garage rock band in Byron Bay in early 2014. They released their debut single, "L. S. D." ( "Live Sleep Die"), in mid-year. Their founding guitarist, Noa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday Food/Everyone Is Good At Something
''Holiday Food/Everyone Is Good at Something'' is a compilation album of two extended plays, ''Everyone Is Good at Something'' (July 2016) and ''Holiday Food'' (April 2017), by Australian surf music and garage rock band Skegss. It was released on vinyl on 7 April 2017, at the same time as the ''Everyone Is Good at Something'' was released as a CD and DD. The compilation was re-released in November 2020, on vinyl, and peaked at number 17 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Background Skegss were formed as a surf music and garage rock band in Byron Bay in early 2014 Toby Cregan ( Toby Twostring) on bass guitar, Jonny Lani ( Jonny Layback) on drums and Ben Reed ( Ben Ben Bogroll) on lead vocals and guitar. They toured North America in mid-2015 and signed with Ratbag Records (see Dune Rats) upon returning to Australia. The trio's third extended play, ''50 Push Ups for a Dollar'', appeared in October 2015. Skegss followed with a seven-track, ''Everyone Is Good at Something'', as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Own Mess
''My Own Mess'' is the debut studio album by Australian surf music and garage rock band Skegss, released on 7 September 2018. The album debuted and peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, the album was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Rock Album, losing out to ''Amyl and the Sniffers'' by Amyl and the Sniffers. Critical reception Laviea Thomas from '' Clash'' gave the album a positive review describing the album as "Swirling in surfer-boy aesthetic, heartfelt lyrics and joyous guitar patterns." Thomas said "Need to Do" was the "stand out on the album." John Lesson from ''The Newcastle Herald'' said "Skegss might appear like typical surfer or skate rats, but this three-piece possess an uncanny knack for melody nd... while it's typically lo-fi and uncomplicated the hooks are constant." Lesson ended saying "''My Own Mess'' suffers from lack of variety, but Skegss have made one damn catchy debut." Daniel Hansson from ''The AU Review'' said "on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Award For Best Rock Album
The ARIA Music Award for Best Rock Album, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation whose aim is "to advance the interests of the Australian record industry." To be eligible, the recording must be an album in the contemporary rock, modern rock and active rock formats, and cannot be entered in other genre categories. The accolade is voted for by the ARIA Judging Academy, which consists of 1000 members from different areas of the music industry, and is given to a solo artist or group who is either from Australia or an Australian resident. The award for Best Rock Album has been won by Powderfinger the most time, with three wins, for: ''Internationalist'' (1999), ''Odyssey Number Five ''Odyssey Number Five'' is the fourth studio album by the Australian rock band Powderfinger, pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Music Awards Of 2019
The ARIA Music Awards of 2019 are the 33rd Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs) and consist of a series of awards, including the 2019 ARIA Artisan Awards, ARIA Hall of Fame Awards, and ARIA Fine Arts Awards and the ARIA Awards. The ARIA Awards ceremony were held on 27 November 2019 and broadcast from the Star Event Centre, Sydney around Australia on the Nine Network. Guy Sebastian hosted the ceremony, he also performed his track, "Choir", and won two categories. On 24 September 2019 the Fine Arts and Artisan Award nominees were announced and the winners were determined on 10 October. ARIA had revealed the nominees for the ARIA Awards on 10 October. New categories were created for Best Hip Hop Release and Best Soul/R&B Release, which had previously been combined as Best Urban Release. Australian four-piece vocal group Human Nature were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. They performed a med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pist Idiots
Pist Idiots are an Australian pub rock (Australia), pub rock band from Revesby, New South Wales. The band's line-up consists of lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist Jack Griffith, drummer Jonathon Sullivan and brothers Joseph (lead guitar) and Thomas (bass) Quine. The band's name comes from a suggestion by a friend who said "call yourself Pist Idiots" because they were drunk in the garage at the time. " Pist" serves as a homophone of "Pissed up, pissed", which is Australian English vocabulary, Australian slang for being exceptionally intoxicated. Their debut studio album, ''Idiocracy'', was released in September 2021. History Pre-2017: Formation In a 2019 interview with ''Tone Dead'' the guitarist and frontman Jack Sniff said "We were just mates from school. We just started playing together in a garage, then a trivia night and then to the ''Battle of the Bands''. A year goes by and we were still hanging out, jamming, making songs and not really thinking too much about anything. Then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple J Hottest 100, 2017
The 2017 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 27 January 2018. It was the 25th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. A record-breaking number of voters (2.386 million) participated by choosing their top ten songs of 2017. Kendrick Lamar's " Humble" was voted into first place, making him the first person of colour ever to top a Hottest 100. It was also the first track by a non-Australian artist, and the first hip hop song, to win since 2012's "Thrift Shop". Lamar achieved four tracks in the countdown, as did Gang of Youths (a record-equaling three of which were in the top 10), Lorde, and The Jungle Giants. Historically, the countdown has been announced on Australia Day (26 January), but the 2017 countdown occurred on the fourth Saturday of January (27 January), due to opposition to Australia Day's celebratory commemoration of British settlement. This is the first Hottest 100 countdown to occur on a diffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Things (Australian Music Festival)
Good Things is a music festival held in major cities around Australia. It features a number of international and Australian music acts, from various genres including rock, metal, punk, and emo. Retrieved 12 December 2018 At its inaugural festival, the headline acts were The Offspring and Stone Sour. In 2019, the headlining acts were Parkway Drive and A Day to Remember. History In early-2018, music tour organiser Destroy All Lines announced a new music festival, ''Good Things''. It would become the biggest music festival held in Australia since Soundwave in 2015. The Good Things festival debuted in Melbourne, before playing at Sydney and Brisbane. On 19 November, the New South Wales Police Force issued a statement addressing accusations that they "made it impossible" for the Good Things festival to operate as all-ages in Sydney by imposing "multiple impediments" and charging "exorbitant" policing fees. The next day Destroy All Lines announced that the Sydney festival wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surf Rock
Surf music (or surf rock, surf pop, or surf guitar) is a Music genre, genre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California. It was especially popular from 1958 to 1964 in two major forms. The first is instrumental surf, distinguished by reverb-heavy electric guitars played to evoke the sound of crashing waves, largely pioneered by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. The second is vocal surf, which took elements of the original surf sound and added vocal harmonies, a movement led by the Beach Boys. Dick Dale developed the surf sound from instrumental rock, where he added Middle Eastern music, Middle Eastern and Mexican music, Mexican influences, a spring reverb, and rapid alternate guitar picking, picking characteristics. His regional hit "Let's Go Trippin', in 1961, launched the surf music craze, inspiring many others to take up the approach. The genre reached national exposure when it was represented by vocal groups such as the Beach Boys and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report, which had been Australia's national music sales charts since 1974. History The ''Go-Set'' charts were Australia's first national singles and albums charts, published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974. Succeeding ''Go-Set'', the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australia's national charts from 1940 to 1974 in a retrospective fashion using state-based data. In mid-1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, branded the ''Countdown'' chart, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
