Your Weekly Guide to What’s Hot in Music
These are the tracks that people are talking about:
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Peking Duk / Alisa Xayalith
* This single has been released just after Celeste Barber’s massive
* Fire Fight event confirmed Peking Duk would be headlining.
* also headlining Queen, Alice Cooper, k.d. lang as well. Check online for ticketing and event details.
* Joining these huge acts will be a bunch of Australian legends including Hilltop Hoods, Icehouse, Daryl Braithwaite, Conrad Sewell, Baker Boy, Amy Shark, Jessica Mauboy, Lee Kernaghan, Pete Murray, Peking Duk, Tina Arena and William Barton.
* Features vocals from Alisa Xayalith from the Naked and Famous
Two Of Us
Birds of Tokyo
* This is the latest track release and also title track from Aussie rock pop group Birds of Tokyo with a continuation of the theme of the album which was centred on the breakdown of Kenny’s marriage to his wife.
* Ian Kenny explains “Two Of Us’ is a homage to love. The one you love. I thought I had lost love and would never find it again, never thought I’d be ready again. I spent a couple of years rebuilding my head, heart and soul – then an old friend came back into my life and we both found love again, there and then.”
Bury Us
The Naked and Famous
* This is a synth-pop jam ahead of the Naked and Famous’ forthcoming album Recover, due May.
* The song is about survival and self-preservation, especially at the hands of another who could bring you down.
* This is an awesome effort from these guys, with them just doing better and better year in year out since 2008 – and much beloved by their home country of New Zealand.