Kate Burke and Ruth Hazleton are two of Australia’s most respected and renowned folk musicians.  Their vocal harmonies, exceptional musicianship and unique interpretations of traditional song have won them national and international acclaim over the years. 

Since performing together for the first time in 1998, Kate & Ruth have toured Australia and internationally, recorded five studio albums, and played and recorded with such luminaries as Andy Irvine and Bruce Molsky. They’ve picked up awards (ScreenSound Australia Award for Best Folk Album, Lis Johnston Award for Vocal Excellence), and have been described by The Australian as “Why folk music is cool again”.

Their new album Declaration heralds a new era for the duo as they collaborate with musician and producer Luke Plumb (Shooglenifty), and explore the light and darkness of our world through the lens of folksong. 

These are all midi files, please forgive the audio quality.

The Stetson Family walk the line between alt-country and bluegrass with their free-wheeling, spirited songs, awash with soaring harmonies. Described in American Songwriter Magazine as "champions of fresh bluegrass but with a bedraggled soul of rock and roots," the band takes their audience on a journey down life's crooked highway. Their songs have been chosen from bands around the world to be showcased and performed at the International Bluegrass Music Association Songwriter Showcase in Nashville, Tennessee.

"They blend like one of the legendary bluegrass or country families…their best material yet.” Rick Moore, American Songwriter, Los Angeles

In 2013, after a string of solo EPs, multi-instrumentalist Roxy Lavish assembled the Suicide Cult – a constantly evolving big band featuring some of Melbourne’s finest musicians. Fusing the storytelling of Bob Dylan and Neil Young with the folk-psych of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the band brought their raucous live show to stages across in Melbourne. In 2014 RLATSC released their debut album, the harp-driven blues excursion Join Us Or Die Alone. And now, two years on, the band is set to unleash its darkest and most desperate statement yet, the aptly-titled Black Storm Brewing.

Recorded and mastered at Melbourne’s legendary Head Gap Studios, Black Storm Brewing is a hellfire blast of bluesy rock ‘n’ roll, fuelled by wailing guitars, swirling organs, screeching trumpets, and beats destined to get hips shaking. Roxy Lavish fronts the microphone like a man with his heart and soul on fire, painting a scathing portrait of personal heartbreak and wider social breakdown, further enhancing his reputation as a gutter poet of uncompromising and considerable talent. 

Roxy Lavish and the Suicide Cult plan to release and launch Black Storm Brewing later in 2016. 

Followers of Pete Fidler