- The neosoul scene in Brisbane has been growing in depth and maturity in recent years. One of its strongest players is a well-rounded performer, someone who’s covered a lot of ground while still young; just about everywhere you look in that scene you’ll find her and that person is Tiana Khasi.

- Brisbane has a well-deserved reputation for being a punk paradise. Many will argue that punk was not only invented here but has been nurtured and affirmed for more than forty years. However, there are several other sides to Brisbane’s music scene and nearly all are bubbling away thanks to musicians, barely alive in the latter years of the twentieth century, championing genres that rose and nearly vanished before most of them were born.

- Ilana: The Creator is the fifth album, but first true studio album, from Mdou Moctar - guitarist and singer from Niger. Mdou is of the nomadic Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert - a culture which these days, if people have heard of it, it's as likely as anything to be because of its guitar music.

- Laura Imbruglia’s new record, Scared of You, is her first in six years. On first listen, it’s clear her delivery and structure has matured in the interim, with considerably less cowbell, crisp production and nuanced exploration of multiple genres across the ten tracks. What’s still most exciting, though, is her brash refusal to file down any of the jagged edges that are similarly embraced by many of my favourite fully-grown female musicians - Jen Cloher, Jodie Flange and Patience Hodgson all come to mind.

- When you think about influential music from the West African nation Nigeria, the artist who most obviously comes to mind is the legendary Fela Kuti, whose fusion of local folk and popular music with American-influenced funk and R&B became known as Afrobeat.

- Quelle Chris is Detroit's best kept secret. An underground mainstay for the better half of two decades, Chris has painstakingly built a reputation off album after album of unique concepts, charming lyricism, and colourful production to match. His latest, simply titled Guns, follows up 2017's one-of-a-kind Being You Is Great: a top to bottom deconstruction of Quelle's psyche packing all the emotional depth of an existential crisis into its diverse track listing.