- Ever since the heyday of Yo Gabba Gabba, alternative and indie rock bands have been no strangers to the world of children’s music. The TV show was a winner with “cool parents” who would grin and bear the bright colours, giant creature costumes and naggingly catchy ditties in anticipation of that Ladytron or MGMT cameo.

- The last couple of years have been big for Little Simz. One of the most unique voices out of England's hip-hop scene, she's slowly garnered attention through a string of consistently killer features, standing out as one of the few highlights from Damon Albarn's recent Gorillaz work. Grey Area is Simz' fourth full-length release, but feels like a new beginning of sorts. Many moments are deeply personal and offer previously untapped emotional depth.

- One measure of a local band’s success is their audience’s ability to sing along to a set comprised of mostly unreleased tracks. Indeed, it’s easy to forget that until this year, Brissy share-house rock darlings Sweater Curse have only been gigging off the back of a handful of singles.

- Little Songs For Big People is the second album from indie-folk-pop storyteller Harley Young and his band the Haymakers. It follow's 2015's Flinders Parade, an album that was geographically tied to the north-eastern suburbs of Brisbane which Harley at the time called home. Since then though he has been living in London and now resides in Melbourne. It seems a new songwriting direction may be on the cards too.

- Robert Forster will almost certainly always be known, first and foremost, as one-half of the founding duo of totemic Brisbane band The Go-Betweens. Along the way, however, he has gradually pulled together -as well as an impressive array of biographical and music writing- a number of significant solo albums,