“[Tommy and I] have been friends for about 16-17 years now. You get less than that for most major crimes these days…” It’s a playful sentiment that echoes throughout Golden Magnetic, the debut album conceived by Mama Kin (Danielle Caruana) and Melbourne producer Tommy Spender. But aside from being a stellar collection of tracks inspired […]
African Pop Titan Turns Concert Hall Into Dance Hall Ending a 14-year wait, the king of African pop and Grammy-Award winner, Youssou Ndour returns to Sydney for his Opera House debut – bringing his block party backed by his legendary 12-piece band Le Super Étoile de Dakar, acrobatic dancers and over three decades of funk-fused […]
At 10:40 am, Ed Lippmann returns with Part 2 of Loved and Unloved, our new series of Sydney By Design, this time discussing heritage issues. The topic for this week is The Rocks and Green Bans in the 1970s. At 11:00 am I will play an interview I recorded in Adelaide a couple of weeks […]
Arts Thursday 15 March 2018, presented by Bronwyn Rennex ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: I speak to Josephine Skinner and Megan Monte, Co-Directors of a new contemporary art space in Paddington called Cement Fondu. Cement Fondu will present a multi art form program of curated exhibitions, featuring visual arts, performance, dance and music by Australian […]
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UK saxophonist YolanDa Brown is touring Australia with her jazz, soul and reggae album Love Politics War. She joined Thursday Drive to speak about the real-life inspirations for her record and what it’s like being a musician, a mum, and also a children’s book writer. Listen to her interview below. Find YolanDa Brown’s upcoming shows […]
Taking a step back from her band Hiatus Kaiyote’s, Nai Palm released her first solo album, ‘Needle Paw’ in October 2017. This album has a compilation of R&B and soul and truly digs deep into emotion. Acoustic guitars meets Palm’s smooth voice for an album of pure emotion. Based out of Melbourne, Haitus Kaiyote rose up […]
Read More… from ‘Needle Paw’ with Nai Palm is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week
This weekly community billboard is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global, and connected. […]
Read More… from Community Billboard 15th of March – 22nd of March
Grammy Award Winning Jazz Vocalist Tours Australia As one of the world’s foremost jazz vocalists, Kurt Elling has won the DownBeat Critics Poll for 14 consecutive years and has been named the “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association on eight different occasions. The New York Times declared him “the standout male […]
An Insight Into the Origins of Rock ‘N’ Roll The Sun Records All-Stars is a singing, playing insight into the origins of rock ‘n’ roll at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where the Million Dollar Quartet of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis changed music forever. The show is presented in […]
Living right next to a huge body of water can leave incredible opportunity, but it can also mean having a huge responsibility. The responsibility in keeping the land around these bodies of water clean, so life beyond land can stay happy, so Earth can remain healthy. That’s where the Marine Stewardship Council comes into play. […]
Tina Harrod Releases Powerful New Album Songwriter and vocalist, Tina Harrod, releases a breathtaking new album CITY OF LONGING, with a launch concert at The Clovelly Bowling Club, Clovelly, Wed 11 April. Concerts in other cities announced soon. City of Longing was co-written and produced by brilliant composer/pianist STU HUNTER who has worked with Passenger, […]
This week sees the start of a new series of Sydney By Design with Ed Lippmann and he has called this series Loved and Unloved, where we will address heritage issues. Part 1 at 10:40 is an introduction to the series, defining what the heritage issues are: do we pull down, do we keep, what […]