Eleanor Jacks joined Laura & Sarah by phone to chat about her fantastic new single ‘I’m Drunk and I Love You’.

Eleanor Jacks is the artist name of singer/ songwriter Hannah from Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Eleanor Jacks was born and songs started to flow simply because they had to. Internalising the emotions wasn’t healthy. If you ask Hannah about Eleanor Jacks, her response… “Eleanor is just a girl from Sydney pumpin’ out the tunes…” 

Get in touch with us! Please send all submissions to [email protected] – we love getting new submissions and keen to hear your new track. We only play tracks that have been released within the last 4-6 weeks, so make sure it’s super new and hopefully we’ll give it a spin.

We’d love to know what you’re listening to right now, or what your thoughts are on the songs played on our show. Join us on Facebook and share your favourite tunes or follow our Spotify playlist – this playlist is updated weekly with the best new release Australian tunes!

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It’s time for a Local Roots Live Jam Session with Approachable Members of your Local Community!

Each week we bring an artist into the studio to delve deeper into everything about them, and get them to perform a few tracks live-to-air for you. It’s like a live concert in your car, bathroom or really anywhere you listen to the radio!

Approachable Members of Your Local Community make music that’s a gently heaving wave of team spirit and pop melodies; funny but not a joke, approachable but not simple, and generously glazed in extra servings of groove and charisma. Reliably funky and devilishly handsome in their matching Adidas, these nebbish boys from the more-recently-clean streets of St Kilda who make up the Approachable Members deliver a service the community knows and loves.

If you like getting a little bit drunk with your Grandma at Shabbat dinner, matching your outfit to your best friends, and deeply funky grooves, you might be a great addition to the team. Whatever you come for, Approachable Members Of Your Local Community just want to make you feel at home, and share their little slice of suburban paradise with you.

Get in touch with us! Please send all submissions to [email protected] – we love getting new submissions and keen to hear your new track. We only play tracks that have been released within the last 4-6 weeks, so make sure it’s super new and hopefully we’ll give it a spin.

We’d love to know what you’re listening to right now, or what your thoughts are on the songs played on our show. Join us on Facebook and share your favourite tunes or follow our Spotify playlist – this playlist is updated weekly with the best new release Australian tunes!

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It’s time for a Local Roots Live Jam Session with Merpire!

Each week we bring an artist into the studio to delve deeper into everything about them, and get them to perform a few tracks live-to-air for you. It’s like a live concert in your car, bathroom or really anywhere you listen to the radio!

2018 was an undeniably huge year for Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt. The brain behind transfixing nom de guerre Merpire, Rhiannon has quickly grown from nascent head-turner to powerful frontrunner of the local indie-pop scene.

Nestling into her new Melbourne home, the past 12 months have seen Merpire release her debut EP Endless Chatter and play a slew of noteworthy live shows including a sold-out EP launch at The Gasometer Hotel. She has supported the likes of Angie McMahon, Olympia, Phantastic Ferniture, Oh Pep! and more, and recently played her biggest run of shows to date supporting Didirri on his National ‘Measurements’ Tour.

Merpire stopped by the Local Roots studio for our first ever Jam Session.

Time to get cosy, grab a tea and enjoy the amazing vocals of this very talented artist.

Get in touch with us! Please send all submissions to [email protected] – we love getting new submissions and keen to hear your new track. We only play tracks that have been released within the last 4-6 weeks, so make sure it’s super new and hopefully we’ll give it a spin.

We’d love to know what you’re listening to right now, or what your thoughts are on the songs played on our show. Join us on Facebook and share your favourite tunes or follow our Spotify playlist – this playlist is updated weekly with the best new release Australian tunes!

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ELKI is a Sydney singer-songwriter with a passion for the melodic mastery of Burt Bacharach and an ongoing obsession with the fiery pop dramatics and genius of Kate Bush.

We interviewed ELKI on Local Roots and played her new track ‘Nightmare’, a playful song of underwater romantic disaster that arrived in the songwriter’s sleep.

It’s a textured, percussive song, with vocal harmonies threading in and out of the march of the beats, hand claps, and mouth pops. It’s rich and full and features layer upon layer of vocal parts to produce a brand of pop that snaps your attention straight into focus.

“I wrote a large chunk of ‘Nightmare’ in my sleep and woke up with the opening verse fully formed.” She explains further that writing comes out of daydreaming and switching off the phone, getting into a subconscious state and tuning out. I think that’s where ‘Nightmare’ came from – my brain looking for a way to express all those pent up ideas. If I haven’t been tweaking a melody, scribbling a lyric, or re-recording a demo, I feel like it’s a day wasted. That’s why I’m a firm believer in turning the technology off and doing your own thing.”

Get in touch with us! Please send all submissions to [email protected] – we love getting new submissions and keen to hear your new track. We only play tracks that have been released within the last 4-6 weeks, so make sure it’s super new and hopefully we’ll give it a spin.

We’d love to know what you’re listening to right now, or what your thoughts are on the songs played on our show. Join us on Facebook and share your favourite tunes or follow our Spotify playlist – this playlist is updated weekly with the best new release Australian tunes!

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Ok Moon is the new collaborative project between Dustin Tebbutt, LANKS, Hayden Calnin and Xavier Dunn, which deals in raw and colourful stories of the heart woven through cinematic pop songs.

The project started with a single song and from there slowly grew into much more,  fuelled by a strong creative chemistry and respect for each other. The resulting work explores themes of loss, regret, growth, humility and courage. It inhabits a lush sonic landscape that sways between intimate pianos, yearning guitars, and driving electronics, while capturing the process of four different voices rolling into one.

We spoke with Dustin Tebbutt about the new project, his own music and about the upcoming tour.

Get in touch with us! Please send all submissions to [email protected] – we love getting new submissions and keen to hear your new track. We only play tracks that have been released within the last 4-6 weeks, so make sure it’s super new and hopefully we’ll give it a spin.

We’d love to know what you’re listening to right now, or what your thoughts are on the songs played on our show. Join us on Facebook and share your favourite tunes or follow our Spotify playlist – this playlist is updated weekly with the best new release Australian tunes!

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It was another big week in finds for new independent music.  Local Roots is here to make sure you are always up to date on all the latest new Australian music! Local Roots is committed to playing the best new Australian music from well-know Australian established bands, to those bands just starting off and in need of some airtime. If you’ve got a band you would love to hear on-air, email [email protected] and we might play them on our next show!

Here’s a list of all the tunes played on this weeks show:

We’d love to know what you’re listening to right now, or what your thoughts are on the songs played on our show. Join us on Facebook and share your favourite tunes or follow our Spotify playlist – this playlist is updated weekly with the best new release Australian tunes!

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It was another big week in finds for new independent music.  Local Roots is here to make sure you are always up to date on all the latest new Australian music! Local Roots is committed to playing the best new Australian music from well-know Australian established bands, to those bands just starting off and in need of some airtime. If you’ve got a band you would love to hear on-air, email [email protected] and we might play them on our next show!

Here’s a list of all the tunes played on this weeks show:

We’d love to know what you’re listening to right now, or what your thoughts are on the songs played on our show. Join us on Facebook and share your favourite tunes or follow our Spotify playlist – this playlist is updated weekly with the best new release Australian tunes!

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This week Jason & Dinah are back in the studio and bringing you the freshest new releases.  Local Roots is here to make sure you are always up to date on all the latest new Australian music! Local Roots is committed to playing the best new Australian music from well-know Australian established bands, to those bands just starting off and in need of some airtime. If you’ve got a band you would love to hear on-air, email [email protected] and we might play them on our next show!

Here’s a list of all the tunes played on this weeks show:

We’d love to know what you’re listening to right now, or what your thoughts are on the songs played on our show. Join us on Facebook and share your favourite tunes or follow our Spotify playlist – this playlist is updated weekly with the best new release Australian tunes!

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Dana taking you through your Summer with Local Roots Summer Sessions.

Local Roots is here to make sure you are always up to date on all the latest new Australian music! Local Roots is committed to playing the best new Australian music from well-know Australian established bands, to those bands just starting off and in need of some airtime. If you’ve got a band you would love to hear on-air, email [email protected] and we might play them on our next show!

Here’s a list of all the tunes played on this weeks show:

We’d love to know what you’re listening to right now, or what your thoughts are on the songs played on our show. Join us on Facebook and share your favourite tunes or follow our Spotify playlist – this playlist is updated weekly with the best new release Australian tunes!

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ARIA Awards Time! Jason & Dinah hit up the red carpet and met with a bunch of the best Aussie acts about music, birthday cakes and a special announcement from PNAU! On their return they hosted a special half hour ARIA’s special edition show on JOY 94.9 on Thursday 29th November with all the ARIA’s goss. Here’s your chance to catch up on all that happened on the night.

Lover of Independent Australian Music? Local Roots is for you and airs Tuesday nights at 10pm on JOY 94.9.

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