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Winter McQuinn
Winter McQuinn is an Australian musician, songwriter, and environmentalist. His work fuses folk, rock and psych-pop, intertwining vintage tones with contemporary lyrical content. Shindig! Magazine (UK) describes his music as "psychedelic pop with a 21st Century environmentalist twist." He is the founding member of Sunfruits, who released their debut album ''One Degree'' in 2023 to great acclaim following this with UK/EU tours in 2023 and 2024. Winter's solo work began with his debut album release ''A Rabble of Bees'' in 2021 His highly acclaimed 2024 album ''Move to the Trees'' was included in Rolling Stone Australia's Top 50 Albums of 2024 and KEXP FM Roadhouse Show Top 10 Albums of the Year. In November 2024, he released ''Recently I've been missing the Colour Green,'' a collaborative EP with Acacia Pip of PINCH POINTS. Winter and Acacia are touring the UK/EU in support of this album in 2025. Winter is currently the drummer with Jade Imagine on the Australian label Remote C ...
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Shindig! (magazine)
''Shindig!'' is a popular music magazine that is published monthly in the United Kingdom. It has been published by Silverback Publishing since 2015. Before that it was published by Volcano Publishing from 2007. History ''Shindig!'' was founded by Jon 'Mojo' Mills in 1992 and was initially published under the name ''Gravedigger'' as a photocopied fanzine that covered garage-punk music. The name ''Shindig!'' was adopted in 1994 to better reflect the broader content of the magazine and pay homage to the American Broadcasting Corporation show of the same name, which brought the British Invasion to the USA. In 1997 Mills was joined by Andy Morten after Morten saw a review of a band he was in, Bronco Bullfrog, published in the magazine. Up until 2002 it was published only once a year. In 2007 a deal with the small Cambridge-based Volcano Publishing launched the by now full colour magazine as a high street title for the first time and secured international distribution. In 2015, follow ...
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UpStart Award (Australian Music)
The UpStart Award is an annual Australian award for singer-songwriters based in Victoria, Australia. The award is funded by a music loving family in Melbourne, and the winners are decided by a panel of local music experts including Angie McMahon. The Upstart Award was founded in 2017 with the intention of supporting and furthering Victorian based singer songwriters careers. Awards by year {, class="wikitable" , + !Year !Finalists !Winner , - , 2017 , Alex Gilbert Dominic Kearton Gena Rose Bruce Jade Imagine James Ellis James Maloney Miss Eileen and King Lear Susie Scurry (The Grand Magoozi) Alex Lashlie Rhea Caldwell , Jade Imagine , - , 2018 , Joshua Blashki Ryan Basile Gena Rose Bruce Rhea Caldwell Ryan Downey Wesley Fuller Oscar Lush Bella Quinlan Jemma Rowlands Susie Scurry , Ryan Downey , - , 2019 , Gena Rose Bruce Fenn Wilson Phil Peers (Dumb Whales) Georgia Delves (Georgia State Line) Katie Bates Jack Robbins Holly Alexander (Signal Chain) Tamara Reichman Luke Jon ...
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Australian Rock Drummers
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21st-century Australian Singer-songwriters
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Australian Multi-instrumentalists
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21st-century Australian Folk Musicians
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Psychedelic Folk
Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelic music that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic instrumentation of contemporary folk music, folk, but adds musical elements common to psychedelic music. Characteristics Psychedelic folk generally favors acoustic music, acoustic instrumentation although it often incorporates other instrumentation. Chanting, early music and various non-Western folk music influences are often found in psych folk. Much like its rock counterpart, psychedelic folk is often known for a peculiar, trance-like, and atmospheric sound, often drawing on musical improvisation and Asian influences. History 1960s: Peak years The first musical use of the term psychedelic is thought to have been by the New York–based folk group The Holy Modal Rounders on their version of Lead Belly's "Hesitation Blues" in 1964. Folk/Avant-garde music, avant-garde guitarist John Fahey (musician), John Fahey ...
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Psychedelic Music
Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as Dmt, DMT, Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin mushrooms, to experience synesthesia and Altered state of consciousness, altered states of consciousness. Psychedelic music may also aim to enhance the experience of using these drugs and has been found to have a significant influence on psychedelic therapy. Psychedelia embraces visual art, movies, and literature, as well as music. Psychedelic music emerged during the 1960s among folk music, folk and rock music, rock bands in the United States and the United Kingdom, creating the subgenres of psychedelic folk, psychedelic rock, acid rock, and psychedelic pop before declining in the early 1970s. Numerous spiritual successors followed in the ensuing decades, including progressive rock, krautrock, and heavy metal music, heavy ...
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Australian Musicians
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