Hipland Blog

It's been just over a week since NZ-based indie dream pop quartet There's A Tuesday dropped their latest single 'Bus Stop' and we've had it on repeat ever since. Driving, hypnotic, and bristling with sun-soaked guitar 'Bus Stop' is the quintessential I'm-sad-but-still-wanna-groove song, the perfect addition to all those lockdown-picnic playlists I'm sure we're all making.

I don't know what's so auspicious about today's date, but it seems there is a tidal wave of new Australasian music dropping. Well, we here at Hipland have another track to add to today's listening party: 'Letting Go', the debut release from indie-songstress Claira J, a Delta Goodrem-meets-London Grammar power ballad smash that was inspired by ‘a full blown mental and physical breakdown’ she suffered after the abrupt end to a relationship.

The wait is over! Indie-rock legends Holy Holy have finally dropped their much anticipated new album Hello My Beautiful World and in many ways its their most ambitious yet. Following on from singles 'Port Rd', 'How You Been', 'Believe Anything' and 'The Aftergone' Hello My Beautiful World is - as the title would suggest - a paean to our complicated modern existence, bristling with an awareness of life, death, and the cycles of the natural world.

Ladies and gentlemen. We may be living in precarious times. We may be facing down our sixth or seventh lockdown. We may have exhausted everything on Netflix/Stan/Binge combined. But do not despair! New music is here! Introducing Melbourne based indie singer/songwriter Claira J (the musical alter-ego of stage and screen actor Janine Atwill) and her debut single 'Letting Go' which drops next week on August 20.

Bethany, whose stage name is James the Seventh, is a 20-year-old musician based in the US. Music wasn’t her original goal for her life, but due to an accident that stopped her dancing career in 2020 it was the only thing that kept her going. 

In the heart of the hinterland on the Sunshine Coast, Isabelle Campbell and her mother are hand crafting soft, feminine garments.

Alfie Templeman has just released his newest mini-album ‘Forever Isn’t Long Enough’ and has made a playlist of his fave songs that he could listen to for the rest of his life.

Karl Bee is a podcaster with a big smile and a huge vision based on the Sunny Coast in Queensland.  After spending a few minutes in with him it's clear his passion and vision will take him really far.  Like all of us, covid flipped his life and his new podcast "Inside The Mind Of" was born.

When Tiani Seeto moved to Nepal as a teenager, he struggled to fit in. That is until he was given a skateboard. ‘As far as struggling with physical or mental health, I’m yet to find a more effective method than throwing myself at cement," he said.

“It has a lot of the hallmarks of what we do,” Tim says. “At the core of it, it’s a classic Holy Holy song in the sense that there’s real storytelling. A character based, lyrical theme plays out,” says frontman Tim Carroll. “Then there’s Oscar’s emotive chord progressions that subtly influence the way you feel. They feed into the lyrics. You don’t realise why, but you’re listening to the song and certain emotions come up," he adds.

Adelaide pop-punk, self-professed “two-piece puzzle”, TOWNS recently dropped their new track ‘Swimming’, alongside a larger than life video jam packed with colour and energy.

The duo have also announced they’ll be hitting the road later this year for their ‘Swimming’ Tour taking in five dates nationally from Friday 28 May in Brisbane taking in Sydney, Wollongong, Melbourne and finishing with their hometown Adelaide.

Gold Coast band Greatest Hits have just dropped their brand new single ‘Palm Springs’ alongside an uber cool visual directed by Benjamin Robinson.
Hot off the back of touring with the Donny Benét, the three-piece also announced live headline dates for later this month taking in three shows across New South Wales and a Melbourne performance at The Retreat Hotel.

What’s up everybody, It's Friday so that means a new weekly wrap with a bunch of new music for you to sink your teeth into!

First up i’m talking about 19 yr old Aussie Singer/Songwriter TUL-LIAH and she has just dropped her debut EP Fre$h Hugs.  

It’s the morning of January 21st when I sit down to interview Claud. Just another day for us Australians. For the U.S.-based artist however, that means it’s still the afternoon of the 20th, Biden’s inauguration day. It’s a day heavy with significance, and an auspicious one to be interviewing the 21-year-old, an artist who seems tailor made for this new hopeful-present, a gently radical young voice who’s debut album Super Monster (out today on Saddest Factory Records) cuts across age and gender barriers to deliver ear-wormy bedroom-pop about love and coming-of-age with a distinctly 2021 approach.