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A Bunch Of Links

Artist / Collective Run Spaces

Black Wire Records: Not-for-profit punx/label/gallery/legends. Current outlet is their new(ish) store/space in Forest Lodge, 19th Nervous Breakdown.

Blogs

Best Before: A Sydney-based pop blog covering everything from locals to globals, with honest-to-goodness live reviews and everything.
David James Young: A fantastic writer and passionate scene supporter. DJY has had many podcasts and projects to his name, and his collected work at this site is well worth a read.
JAMs: Sydney's Music Family: JAMs is the brainchild of Sam Latto and there's tons of overlap between this project's aims and what SydneyMusic.net is trying to do... which is fantastic! Sam's got a thoughtful, well articulated and ambitious vision and plenty of activity executing on that vision: including a podcast, some featured gigs and a ton of blog-style content.
Sound Doctrine: Tommy Faith has long been writing one of the sharpest, wittiest music blogs in a time where there really aren't a lot of them. He's got an ear that can swiftly pull out novel music that deserves a listen - and he's not chasing trends, he's just vibing. We love Tommy.
The Creative Independent: An inspiring, no-bullshit initiative founded by former Pitchfork staffer Brandon Stosuy, featuring thoughtful and in-depth interviews with musicians and other creative folks.

Discord Communities

Aussie Wigglers: This Discord is a thriving bunch of modular synth nerds.
Spirit Level: Spirit Level is an artist-run label and collective of likeminded humans. Their Discord is a really lovely community of creative support.

Industry Resources

Live Performance Australia: The peak body for the live industry in Australia, representing everyone from promoters and artists to venues and educators.
MusicNSW: The not-for-profit NSW state body for contemporary music. Everything from funding and professional development to policy and advocacy.
Support Act: An incredible not-for-profit supporting music industry professionals with mental health services, crisis relief, and wellbeing programs.

Labels and Distros

Aquatic Lab: "Aquatic Lab is Australia’s first underground bass record label, and is recognised globally as one of the earliest international outposts of the UK dubstep sound."
Art As Catharsis
Astral People Recordings
Bird's Robe: Bird's Robe are synonymous with post-rock and progressive rock in Australia, along with a broad spectrum of other experimental genres. Some local artists on their roster include sleepmakeswaves, Solkyri and We Lost The Sea.
Dew Process
Extra Spicy
Future Classic
Half A Cow: The Hummingbirds! Art of Fighting! Kim Salmon! Crow! A venerated Aussie indie label with a lengthy roster.
Ivy League Records
Resist Records
Sweat It Out
Sydney City Chiptune Ministries: "Old and new chipmusic, modular soundscapes, demoscene tracker files, hardware jam tapes, outsider electronic drones, field recordings and other DIY scene-based music"

Niches

Emus (Exploratory Music in Sydney): Experimental music radio show on Eastside 89.7fm also offers a comprehensive events calendar and newsletter.
Utility Fog: Peter Hollo (Tangents, Fourplay, Raven, countless cello contributions for other musicians and projects) has been running the Utility Fog show on FBi Radio for nearly 20 years. He's an authoritative source on his domain of "postfolkrocktronica, dronenoise, power ambient, post-everything improv... and more?" and has been a fantastic promoter of the myriad of amazing artists in this space. Listen to the show, check the playlists, there's always something gobsmacking to get your ears into.

Radio

2SER
FBi Radio

Record Shops

19th Nervous Breakdown: Forest Lodge. From the people that brought you Black Wire Records.
Beatdisc Records: Parramatta
Birdland: CBD. Jazz and blues specialists.
Egg Records: Newtown
Halcyon Daze Records: Newtown
Papa Disquo: Newtown (basically Enmore)
Red Eye Records: CBD
Repressed Records: Newtown
Resist Records: Marrickville. Hardcore and Punk.
Something Else Records: Newtown
The Record Store: Surry Hills
The Vintage Record: Annandale
TITLE: Surry Hills and Barangaroo
Utopia Records: CBD 🤘

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A Bunch Of Links

Artist / Collective Run Spaces

Blogs

Discord Communities

Industry Resources

Labels and Distros

Niches

Radio

Record Shops

... and a complete listing of all of the venues that we've listed shows for

Alexandria

Avalon Beach

Bondi

Camperdown

Chippendale

Coogee

Darlinghurst

Enmore

Erskineville

Eveleigh

Katoomba

Kensington

Kogarah

Leichhardt

Marrickville

Milsons Point

Moore Park

Newtown

Paddington

Petersham

Rouse Hill

St Peters

Surry Hills

Sydney

Sydney Olympic Park