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Wally “Meanie” Kempton took the plunge in 2018 and launched his brand-new record label Cheersquad Records & Tapes. Since then Cheersquad Records & Tapes has released new material from acts such as The Meanies, Immigrant Union, Chris Wilson, Jasmin Kaset, Money For Rope, Nick Craft, Minibikes, The Rinehearts and Los Chicos, along with limited edition vinyl releases of older material from artists including Snout, Sandpit and The Level Spirits.

Primarily creating the new label to release material he is passionate about, Wally says “I want to put out music that I really love, and think should be heard. I also want to make older, fabulous Aussie material available on 12” vinyl for the first time”. With a background in music, music and more music, Wally has worked at radio stations, venues, record companies, distributors, been a booking agent, artist manager, tour manager, a band member with Even and The Meanies, and now a record label founder with Cheersquad Records & Tapes.

Pierce Brothers have taken their unique brand of folk music from busking on the streets of Melbourne to the world.

Comprising of twin brothers Jack and Pat Pierce, the multi-instrumentalists have been shaking dance floors and selling out rooms across UK, Europe, Canada, USA & their native Australia. Their irresistible energy and world-class live show has generated a word of mouth buzz not seen for some time.

2017 EP ‘The Records Were Ours’ came in at #9 on the ARIA chart after topping the iTunes charts across the globe. The same year saw the brothers embark on a huge North American tour in support of Tash Sultana. This led to the band signing with Paradigm agency who booked their first North America/Canada headline tour in 2018

This year Pierce Brothers will release their highly anticipated full-length debut album 'ATLAS SHOULDERS'. The album was recorded over a week in Byron Bay and is set for release on October 26, 2018.

A unique blend of rock and shock with some of the biggest names in music, comedy, and entertainment. Sit back and listen as Dean lights the candles of rock every Monday.

Rock/Power-Pop/Fuzz

Following on from his debut 2016 record,
Long Way Back Down, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Lucas James returns in 2021 with a new project, Midnight Drags, and a new album Bad Business, his second full-length LP and first offering with a full band in tow.
Co-produced by esteemed Australian guitarist Ashley Naylor (Even, Paul Kelly) and mixed by prolific engineer Matt Wallace (Faith No More, The Replacements, Maroon 5), Bad
Business shows James at the apex of his songwriting career and marks as his most expansive release to date.
A punchy, nine-track record of guitar-driven power-pop hooks and soaring alt-rock riffs,
the album pays tribute to the pop-rock stylings of the ‘70s and ‘80s, where melody and lush compositions were situated front and centre beside commanding guitars and monstrous pop hooks.
A fuzzed-up rock’n’roll album at its core, Bad Business combines the multitude of influences James acquired from an infatuation with all kinds of guitar-heavy pop music, spanning Bowie to Cheap Trick, The Knack to The
Cars and beyond.
While the early focus for James was to write songs destined for other musicians rather than occupy the spotlight himself, it was only a matter of time before he would begin to crave making music of his own, his own way.
Widely recognised as a sought-after studio engineer by day who spent most of his time in the orbit of extraordinarily accomplished session musicians, the desire to produce his own record with a full band became too strong to ignore, and he got to work writing the album tracks, while assembling a dream cast of top- tier players to collaborate with.
Stream album here
Lyrically, Bad Business is ostensibly grim, filled with a combination of fictitious and real-life tales drawn from the debris of a hardened life. Residues of personal challenges and fragments of real-world experiences are formed into snapshots of torment, gnawing self-loathing, failure, addiction and lovesick
criminals. Yet despite the lyric’s relatively ugly subject matter and ominous undertones, the album’s music is disarmingly upbeat and optimistic. Infectious power-pop hooks swell alongside bonafide alt-rock riffs and stand-out vocals, while Ashley Naylor’s masterful guitar work sits neatly alongside Brett Wolfenden’s (Todd Rundgren, Wolfmother) expert drumming and stomping basslines courtesy of both Warren Booth (The Good China) and Australia’s illustrious bassist Bill
McDonald (Stephen Cummings, Angie Hart).
With engineer Wez Prictor manning the desks and Naylor running the show, the band tracked the songs to a 2” tape in James’ studio, before laying down his vocals and meddling with guitar overdubs. From there, James spent the next few months tinkering with the mix, and upon adding striking flourishes of piano and string sections to the album, the record was complete. The result is a 30-minute collection of expertly arranged tracks that deviate between sizzling power-pop melodies, stadium-sized rock’n’roll burners, earnestly delivered, down-tempo numbers and swirling guitar-laden instrumental epics.

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