Last night the ARIA’s (Australian Record Industry Association) took place. This is the Australian equivalent to the Grammy’s (US) and Juno’s (Canada).
The big winners of the night were Silverchair winning 5 awards - Best Group, Best Rock Album, Single of the Year, Album of the Year and Highest Selling Single. Living in Australia I have been exposed to music that I would not be exposed to living in Canada.
Over the course of the year I have heard the following Australian artists/groups you may or may not have heard of:
- Silverchair
- John Butler Trio
- Powder Finger
- Eskimo Joe
- Sneaky Sound System
- Evermore*
- Missy Higgins
- Ben Lee
- Delta Goodrem
- The Veronica’s
- Wolfmother
- Bernard Fanning
- Rogue Traders
- Sarah Blasko
- Kylie Minogue
- Jet
- Shannon Noll
- Anthony Callea
- Ricki Lee
- Guy Sebastian
Some standouts for me are The John Butler Trio and Eskimo Joe. I highly recommend listening to these 2 groups.
It makes me think what new Canadian music and artists I have missed out on hearing during 2007.
*Evermore is a New Zealand group. But because of the closeness to Oz they have lots of air play on Australian radio and have been nominated for ARIA’s.
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