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The Kev Carmody tribute album ‘Cannot Buy My Sooul’ has been expanded with new recordings by Courtney Barnett, Kasey Chambers & Jimmy Barnes, Mo’Ju & Birdz (produced by Trials), Kate Miller-Heidke, Alice Skye, Archie Roach and Electric Fields.

Yorta Yorta singer songwriter Scott Darlow is the first signing to Mushroom’s new label Reclusive Records.

The National Indigenous Music Awards are pleased to announce in the face of the COVID19 pandemic, that they will continue in 2020, reacting to a climate where celebrating and shining a light on First Nations artists is even more important than ever. Opening their nominations today, the NIMAs are ready to face the challenge of building and supporting community in a changed world.

Archie Roach will head out on his final Australian tour in May.

Australian music legend Archie Roach has been named Victoria’s Australian of the Year.

Archie Roach will publish his memoir ‘Tell Me Why’ on 1 November and on the same day release a companion album.

Brendan Gallagher, producer of Jimmy Little’s contemporary comeback ‘Messenger’, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release with shows around Australia in October and November.

When Indigenous singer songwriter Thelma Plum was a small girl growing up in the New South Wales country town Delungra, her musical tastes were being molded listening to Paul McCartney and Paul Kelly. On her new album ‘Better In Blak’, she has co-written a song with her two idols.

Jessie Lloyd and her Mission Songs Project is the recipient of the International Touring Grant from The Cat Empire and The Australia Council for the Arts.

Indigenous rapper Danzal Baker aka Baker Boy has been named Young Australian of the Year.

Melbourne’s iconic venue The Corner Hotel has named indigenous hip-hop artist Baker Boy the recipient of its 2018 Corner Award.

Roger Knox, an inductee of the National Indigenous Music Awards Hall of Fame, will perform and speak about his life at MPavilion, Arts Centre Melbourne for the Australian Music Vault.

The Yothu Yindi dance classic ‘Treaty’ featuring Gavin Campbell has been updated to include Baker Boy and Dhapanbal Yunupingu, the daughter of Dr M. Yunupingu.

Local indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu achieves something after his passing in July of 2017 which he didn’t do while he was still alive, and that is score a No.1 album locally, as his fourth studio album and first posthumous release “Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow)” debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.

Gurrumul’s final recording ‘Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow)’ will be released on April 13.

Christine Anu will be recognised for her decades of work with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Australia’s First Nations Music.

Yothu Yindi will get back together for a show in Sydney in January woth The Herd and Baker Boy.

Dr G. Yunupingu, best known worldwide as Australian indigenous musician Gurrumul, has died at the age of 46.

The Jimmy Little Managers Fund is being lanched in Darwin on Friday, which aims to to invest in and empower Indigenous operators in the music industry.

A week after the reconciliation week, and week in which we lost his former band mate from Yothu Yindi; Geoffrey Gurrumul and Delta Goodrem’s rendition of his song “Bayini” could be headed for a No.1 debut this week in Australia.