THAT BIRD
THE TESKEY BROTHERS
SONGWRITERS: THE TESKEY BROTHERS
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
ALBUM: RUN HOME SLOW
LABEL: HALF MILE HARVERSI STUDIOS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 2019

The Teskey Brothers are an Australian blues rock band from Melbourne, named after the two brothers who formed the group in 2008: Josh Teskey (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Sam Teskey (lead guitar). The band also includes Brendon Love(bass guitar). and Liam Gough(drums), in 2019 they signed with Glassnote Records and Ivy League Records.  They have released two albums, Half Mile Harvest(2017) and Run Home Slow(2019). At the 2019 ARIA Music Awards, The Teskey Brothers were nominated for seven awards, They won three categories for the album, Run Home Slow, Best Group, Best Blues and Roots Album and Engineer of the Year(Sam Teskey).
The band was formed in 2008 by two brothers, Josh Teskey (vocals) and Sam Teskey (guitar), along with Brendon Love (bass) and Liam Gough (drums). They started by playing in the streets and at parties, Then playing larger venues and were soon attracting attention from record labels. The band began to experience success in 2017. On 12 January 2017, The Teskey Brothers released their debut album, Half Mile Harvest, which was produced in their home studio. Half Mile Harvest was in the Top 20 of the ARIA charts and eventually became number one on the ARIA Independent Album charts.
In 2018, they signed a deal with Downtown Music Publishing. In 2019, the band signed with Glassnote Records, Ivy League Records, and Mushroom Music Publishing. In July 2019 won the Levi Music Prize; a prize to financially assist Australian and New Zealand acts to achieve their export goals. The band contributed 7 songs for the 2019 Palm Beach soundtrack which was released in July 2019. On 2 August 2019, The Teskey Brothers released their second studio album, Run Home Slow which debuted at number 2 on the ARIA Charts. The album won Engineer of the Year for Sam at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019. The album also won the ARIA Award for Best Group and Best Blues and Roots album.
In April 2020, the band announced the release of their first live album, titled Live at the Forum, released on 15 May 2020
Paul Barr from Reading called the album "a great follow up" to their debut saying "Here are new songs with added stylistic variations and instrumental colour but retaining that familiar Teskey Brothers sound" believing producer Paul Butler "has helped push the band to new heights".
Dan Condon from Double J said "All the songs here are solid, there's nothing offensive and there's nothing ground breaking. The Teskeys know where their strengths lie, they know what they like, and they stick to it.
Zoë Radas from Stack Magazine said "Its sweet '60s syncopation, dreamy rock 'n' roll, romantic Van Morrison-esque rhythm and blues, and tender neo-soul compositions elevate the boys' former folk leanings into absolutely gorgeous new territory." adding "It's full of stand-outs".
Josh Hinton from Culture Fly said "Run Home Slow isn't fresh and it isn't hip, but who needs to be those things when you can be timeless?" adding "Class never goes out of style, and on this evidence, the Teskeys have plenty of both to spare.
Harriet Wolstenholme from Go London said "The Melbourne outfit find home in a sound that fuses the laid-back spirit of an Aussie rock band and the soul music of a bygone era. The result is a wide-ranging album destined to soundtrack every hipster romance." concluding with "For a blues album it leaves you feeling far from it".
Zach Edwards from Forte Magazine said "Run Home Slow is a beautiful, well-crafted record full of character, space, simplicity, heart, and soul; The Teskey Brothers once again blurring the boundaries of time and genre in the clearest, most enjoyable way possible."
Run Home Slow is the second studio album by Australian indie blues rock band The Teskey Brothers. The album was released on 2 August 2019 and peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Charts.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, the album was nominated for seven awards, winning three; Engineer of the Year, Best Group and Best Blues and Roots Album.
At the Music Victoria Awards 2019, the album was nominated for three awards, winning Best Album.
People they can be so unkind
If they’re not happy
If they can’t speak their mind
But unwind the needle just to find

One more line, one more line

People they got something to say
They can be carried or be carried away
But it takes bricks and mortar
To speak your mind
So keep putting ‘em down, put ‘em down

That bird had song to sing
Something to say
Is it still here?
Or has it flow away?
This morning it had something to say
Is it still here?
Or has it flown away?

It reminds of a time where my memories fade
Thoughts ain't sharp unless they're laid
But if I can't remember
Will I feel it again?
All I need's a oiece of paper and pen

But you can take a photograph
Or can you just be there?
Do you need to remember? 
Or can you just be there? 
If I kept my promise, would we still be friends?
If I remembered would I feel it again?
COLORS
BLACK PUMAS
SONWRITER: BLACK PUMAS
HOW: LIVE IN KUTX STUDIO 1A
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: BLACK PUMAS
LABEL: ATO RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 2019

Black Pumas is an American psychedelic soul band based in Austin, Texas, led by singer Eric Burton and guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada. The group received its first Grammy Award nomination in 2020 for Best New Artist at the 62nd awards.
The duo formed in 2017 and released their debut album, Black Pumas, on June 21, 2019. They performed at South by Southwest in 2019 and won a best new band trophy at the 2019 Austin Music Awards. On November 20, 2019, they were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Quesada was a member of Latin funk band Grupo Fantasma when it won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album for the 2010 album El Existential, and when it was previously nominated for the same award in 2008 for Sonidos Gold.
Through a mutual friend, Quesada connected with Burton, who had been a singer-songwriter in Austin since busking his way from Los Angeles in 2015. Quesada felt that Burton's vocals were a match for the retro-funk- and R&B-flavored tracks Quesada had been working on, and the two joined forces in 2018 as Black Pumas. Working out their material both in the studio and on-stage during a weekly residency at Austin's C-Boys Heart & Soul Bar, they signed a deal with ATO Records and released a pair of singles, "Black Moon Rising" and "Fire", in early 2019. Their acclaimed debut LP followed in June of that year and helped to earn the duo a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.
The duo's self-titled debut album was called "perfectly realized" by The Guardian, while Headliner Magazine called it "a polished, timeless-sounding debut album," noting Burton's "electric, soaring vocals," adding that the band sound "impossibly good live," while Pitchfork described the band's sound as "acutely cinematic", and Rolling Stone complimented frontman Eric Burton's "tireless, charismatic energy".
In May 2020, Black Pumas featured on the cover of Headliner Magazine: "Burton the showman surges with a humming energy, leaping about the stage (and often into the delighted crowd) whilst effortlessly filling the venue with his electric, soaring vocals, while a mellow Quesada leaves him to it as he holds the groove down."
Black Pumas performed "Colors" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! following their network TV debut on CBS This Morning along with a taping on season 45 of Austin City Limits. The band's single "Colors" later reached number one on AAA radio.
In 2020, the band performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and embarked on tours of North America and Europe including festival additions at Coachella and Newport Folk Festival. In their hometown of Austin, Texas, Black Pumas became the first band to sell out four consecutive shows at Stubbs, one of the city's live venues, and on May 7, 2020, mayor Steve Adler proclaimed the date as Black Pumas Day.
I woke up to the morning sky first
Baby blue just like we rehearsed
When I get up off this ground
I shake leaves back down to the brown brown brown till I’m clean
Then I walked where I’d be shaded by the trees by a meadow of green
For about a mile I’m headed to town town town in style
With all my favorite colors
All my favorite colors
My sisters and my brothers see them like no other
All my favorite colors

It’s good day to be a good day for me a good day to see my favorite colors
My sisters and my brothers they see them like no other
All my favorite colors
Now take me to the otherside
Where the baby blues birds fly
In grey clouds, or white walls, or blue skies we gon’ fly feel alright
Now we gon’ woo woo woo ya
They sound like woo woo woo ya
The least I can say I anticipate a homecome parade as we renegade in the morning
All my favorite colors
All my favorite colors

My sisters and my brothers see them like no other
All my favorite colors
It’s good day to be, a good day for me, a good day to see my favorite colors
My sisters and my brothers they see them like no other
All my favorite colors.

MAKE THEM WHEELS ROLL

SAFIA
SONGWRITERS: BEN WOOLNE-KIRKHAM; MICHEAL BELL & HARRY SAYERS
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
ALBUM: MAKE THEM WHEELS ROLL
LABEL: PARLOPHONE
GENRE: DANCE
YEAR: 2016

"Make Them Wheels Roll" is a song by Australian electronic music group Safia. It was released as the second single from their debut studio album, Internal(2016).
The song premiered on Triple J on 4 March 2016. Ben Woolner said the song is about "How you're encouraged to be part of society to keep things going." He added, "it's definitely up there with one of the favourite tracks we've done." The song was released on 4 March 2016.
SAFIA is an Australian electronica, indie pop band formed in Canberra. They met at Radford College. They won the Groovin' the Moo competition in 2012 and were featured on Peking Duk's ARIA top 10 single, "Take Me Over".
The band says the name comes from a song they wrote called "Sapphire", but it does not mean anything. The band have since found out that safia means serenity in Arabic.
When it comes to the band's influences, they claim to have a very broad range of styles and genres but list artists like Purity Ring, Major Lazer, Feed Me, Chet Faker, Disclosure and James Blake.
In 2014, lead singer Ben Woolner appeared as feature artist on the Indian Summer single 'Aged Care' under the pseudonym 'Benjamin Joseph'. The band opened for Twenty One Pilots during their 2017 Emotional Roadshow Tour Pacific Leg which started in Wellington, New Zealand.
On 30 June 2016, the band announced the title of its debut album, Internal, which was released on 9 September 2016 and peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Charts.
On 13 October 2017, Safia released "Cellophane Rainbow".
In 2018, they released "Freakin' Out", which was the first track they wrote after their album "Internal".
Things that you thought you’d be
Shake mediocrity, you know
Burbs or the streets
Doesn’t matter where the crows don’t eat
Where the crows don’t feast
On the hungry and the weak

Click click, pen to the track
After this babe you can’t go back, you know
‘Cause if you ain’t all that
Might as well have you’re bags by the door to go
Because you’re on your own
Because you’re on your own

(And they say)
Put me back together
Fix my broken mind
Make them wheels roll
Oh, lord
Make them wheels roll

Back to the grind
Conform or redesign, you know
No place for a cog that thinks all on their own
Just flesh and bone
Oh just flesh and bone

Put me back together
Fix my broken mind
Make them wheels roll
Oh lord
Make them wheels roll
(And they say)
Put me.

    CARS IN SPACECa

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COSTAL FEVER
SONGWRITERS: Fran Keaney; Joe Russo; Tom Russo; Marcel Tussie & Joe White
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
ALBUM: CARS IN SPACE
LABEL: IVY LEAGUE RECORDS
GENRE: INDIE
YEAR: 2020

According to Metacritic, The French Press has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 4 reviews, indicating that it has received "universal acclaim" from critics. One favorable review of the EP was written by Pitchfork Media's Stuart Berman, who gave it an 8.1/10 rating, writing that the French Press "shines just as bright as their last EP [Talk Tight], but the songs cast darker shadows." In a more mixed review, Landon MacDonald of PopMatters gave the EP a 5 out of 10 rating, writing that "Ultimately, this record is for indie rock fans alone and can’t stretch past the borders of the genre."
Robert Christgau gave Talk Tight an A grade, writing that "If you like the [guitar] effect—and why not, it's beautiful—you'll gravitate to it on sound alone. But what I'm loving at least as much is lyrics that suit the bright white male culture the sound implies." He also compared the band's sound to that of the Go-Betweens, a comparison that has also been made by critics like Stephen Deusner. The band has also been aligned with Melbourne's dolewave scene. 
[Verse 1]
You trace your hands around the wheel
Your face, it shines in the flicker of the film

[Pre-Chorus]
It sounds like rain, I hear the beating in my heart
You want it simple, how hard you make it

[Chorus]
Could have been stumbling on the ancient stone
Four feet wandering in the eve before we
Turn inside, turn inside
Turn inside

[Post-Chorus]
Buzzing overhead
Banging on and on and on

[Verse 2]
Come around, come around, through the cold, in the warmth
Of the car, I'm the raven, I'm the keeper of your secrets

[Pre-Chorus]
It sounds like rain, I hear the beating in my heart
You want it simple, how hard you make it
[Chorus]
Could have been stumbling on the ancient stone
Four feet wandering in the even before we
Turn inside, turn inside
Turn inside

[Post-Chorus]
Buzzing overhead
Banging on and on and on

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
At the intersection, waiting on the corner
Bottom of the freeway, before it opens up
At the intersection, waiting on the corner
Bottom of the freeway, before it opens up.