Sydney singer-songwriter Jack Carty has worked hard in his 25 years to get where he is in music today. Traveling constantly, supporting seasoned acts like Josh Pyke and playing the iconic SXSW festival recently, he has injected his life experience into his song writing, which makes for enthralling listening.

In This Issue: Launching Live at The Bucket Singha Thursdays, Evan & The Brave single launch, Ngaiire single launch, Pick Pockets & Rascals, Spirit of House Secret Block Party, Bar100 at Vivid Sydney Festival, Klaxons What We Do Is Secret DJ set, Jack Carty EP launch, Willow Beats ep tour, Funky town: a tribute to the 80s and old school r&b, Jeremy Hunter supporting the Chemist, Femme Locale at The Vanguard.

Launching Live at The Bucket, Singha Thursdays

In this issue: Sydney gets its first Electro-Swing night, Soul of Sydney reveals a secret Block Party on Sunday, Spirit Faces play Brighton, Novo & the Experience launch EP, Sons Of East play Sydney and Manly, Newtown Hotel hosts Hip Hop & Soul night with Tuka, Ellesquire and JONES Jnr, Jack Carty & Casual Psychotic team up for EP and secret launch party and High Highs come back to Australia.

A Night of Electro-Swing at The Brighton Hotel

The engaging stories and up-lifting melodies of folk music always make for an inviting night of live music. Take this, make a night of it, and host it in the increasingly popular Surry Hills bar The Soda Factory; you now have the new hang-out for a Wednesday night, and entry is completely free.

There’s a surprisingly smaller list of album releases announced this week. Though the ones that have been announced certainly create just as much excitement. Justice are releasing a live recording album from one of their concerts, heavywights Sleeping With Sirens have got a new one on the way, Wendy Matthews has returned from 12 years off, and Knife Party have a new EP! Plus there’s others too.

In this issue: Pel Mel to headline the Goodgod Small Club, Splashh announce debut album, Walk The Moon announce two very special headlining shows including a gig at The Standard, Folk Club at The Soda Factory, Jeremy Neale launches much anticipates single "In Stranger Times" and Bloody Lovely Audrey throw launch party for risqué new video.

Pel Mel reunite to perform at GoodGod this month.

We take you back to the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas with the final episode of the first season of the AU review podcast, featuring Australia's own Jack Carty and much much more! We'll be back later in the year with our second season! Stay tuned and thanks for listening.

Part 3 of our The Aussie BBQ at SXSW photo coverage continues with Blackchords, Jack Carty, The Rubens, Jackson Firebird (pictured) and Georgia Fair.

Photos by Johnny Au

In less than a month, the city of Austin, Texas will be throwing open its doors to tens of thousands of music fans, industry officials and musicians for the annual SXSW music festival and conference. Amongst that number are over thirty Australian artists. Over the course of the next couple of weeks we'll be profiling these artists, offering a brief introduction to what they’re about and what they have to offer.

The extremely talented duo of Jordan Millar and Jack Carty are teaming up for a bit of a national tour to last through the next three months! The "Cold Lights on a Modern Life" tour will see the singer-songwriters bring their unique and intimate sets to venues all over Australia, sharing and embodying each artist's distinct style of performance. You'll get acoustic, blues, pop and so much more, you really need to get along just to find out!

Hello and welcome back to our weekly wrap of music industry shenanigans that have happened around Australia (and the world). It’s been a few sleepy weeks with Santa bringing all kinds of things for everyone. Everyone seems to now be busily making tunes or wheeling’ deals again, so let’s get into the thick of things.

This week: ARIA action for 2012 and in the last week, more Australian acts announced for SXSW, and a new crowd-funding site specifically for musicians to fund albums, projects and videos.

Some great Australian and New Zealand talent have been announced as featuring on this year's SXSW line up, as the festival reveals its third wave artist announcement. This bunch of artists brings the total of participating musicians for SXSW 2013 to a whopping 1300...and still counting.

Check out the Aussie/NZ contingent below and congratulations!

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The Audreys
The Beards
Jonathan Boulet
Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes
Kirin J Callinan
Jack Carty
Dead Letter Circus