A precociously inspired 21 year old skate rat from Northwest Sydney, Jonathan Boulet makes a brand of ceremoniously uplifting, deeply colorful pop that sounds like something for which you’ve been inadvertently searching but never dreamed you’d find. His debut self titled album is out now through Modular Records. 1. What was the first band you

After The Fall burst onto the Australian music scene in 2004 releasing their self-titled debut of that year, with tracks such as “Mirror Mirror”, “Room For One More” & “Sunshine Showers.” Rollingstone Magazine named it one of the Top 50 Albums of the year. After The Fall was also welcomed into triple J’s Hottest 100.

Aeriae is Sydney-based electronic composer/producer Wade Clarke. Aeriae’s tracks pulse with all the addictive beat microscopy and spliced atomic delights of IDM masters like Autechre, and wed these rhythms to conspicuous tonal beauty and classical figures. Organ lines, crystal-like textures and treated White Girl voices wrap around tracks whose compass includes the song-like and the

Caitlin is just 19 years old, but the maturity and credibility of her songwriting has quickly captured the attention of audiences and music industry insiders. 2009 has seen Caitlin indepdendently release her debut ep ‘Tiny Spark’ where each song has been featured in Australian shows and films around the country. Caitlin was also named runner

Bertie Blackman’s first encounter with her artistic self came as child sashaying across her mother and father’s paint strewn studio floor. The daughter of iconic Australian Artist Charles Blackman, “I come from a family of painters, so everything I do is pretty visual. You can see and feel my music.” In 2009 Bertie released her

1. What was the first band you saw live? Beethoven (live) 2. What’d you learn from them? Always copyright your work and make sure you put in your APRA live performance returns! 3. Got any pre-gig rituals? First we wait at an airport for 8 hours. Then we pick up our van and drive around