Moaning Lisa is the product of four Canberra-based music grads/dropouts who find purpose in making loud noises together. Their music operates on the edge of the grunge genre: somewhere between composed restraint and fuzzed-out, life-affirming  alternative rock.

Do You Know Enough? is the journey of a queer girl navigating her early 20s. It follows the organic passing of milestones like yearning, love, heartbreak, self-assurance and reinvention. Each track plays a crucial role in the forming of an emotional narrative, leaving no stone unturned.

The songwriting was organic and gradual; dipping into punk, shoegaze, and heavy alternative rock across the five tracks.
 
Each song harnesses their own anthemic qualities; “Carrie” being a punk call-to-arms of queer women; ‘Good’ a rich feel-good shoegaze love song; “Lily” a heart-wrenching rock ballad; “Comfortable” a momentous ode to single life, and “Sun” a mammoth adventure into seizing the next chapter.
 
Do You Know Enough? poses a question that seems obviously answered throughout the five tracks, but leaves yourself open to the possibilities of the future. 

Release: October 19th, 2018, Hysterical Records
​Words: Hysterical Records

Christine and The Queens has released her already highly acclaimed second album Chris, courtesy of Because Music / Caroline Australia.

Chris was written, arranged and performed by Christine and the Queens. It is the follow up to her already-iconic debut record Chaleur Humaine, released to near-universal acclaim in France in 2014 and the rest of the world in 2016.

“Chaleur Humaine was about teenage years, most of it,” says Christine. “Loneliness, really true feelings, and there is a softness in the way I wrote as well, because I was properly introducing myself.”

Chris arrives on different terms. “It gets to be a bit more exhilarating, because I get to say, okay, I've been introduced now. I get to be more confident, and it matches what happened in my life as a woman.”

She says the first record turned her from a reclusive, bookish young woman writing for herself into “an athlete performer, which is something I always wanted to live, but it happened. Then suddenly I'm out in the open and I'm having more experiences, meeting people, having relationships, and stories are happening to me. All of a sudden, you're a real grown-ass woman.”

“The second album could have been me finding a fancy producer in LA and doing the pop shit,” she laughs, “but actually, no. I wanted to make it even more personal, if it’s possible.”

Release: September 21st, 2018, Because Music/Caroline Australia
Words: Because/Caroline

Here at Edge Radio, we're absolutely stoked to be bringing you the National Live Music Awards for 2018! Now in its third year, the event fills a gap previously overlooked in the Australian music awards
​landscape. The winners of this year's state and national awards will be revealed on Thursday December the 6th, at events around the country.

2017 was a corker, with the Tasmanian awards being scooped up by EWAH & The Vision of Paradise, Seth Henderson, The Brisbane Hotel, and Dark Mofo.

2018's pool of nominees is predictably just as impressive!

The National Live Music Awards 2018 nominees in the Tasmanian categories are as follows (excitement!):

There's also a brand new award this year! The All Ages Achievement (AAA) Award recognises the achievements of an individual, organisation, band/artist or event who has worked through the red tape and helped make all ages events happen in their state. The winner of this award will be announced on the night.

The Tasmanian awards will be announced at the Hobart Brewing Company on Thursday December the 6th. Tickets are $10 inc. bf through Oztix or $10 on the door. The event will include full live performances and a door prize from Audio-Technica. Most importantly, $5 from every ticket sold will go towards Support Act - a charity which helps Australian artists and music workers who are facing hardship due to illness, mental health problems, injury, or other crises.

The hugest congratulations go out to all of the amazing nominees, and we hope to see you in December!

Good Citizens begins and ends with a thought. “I’m thinking violence is the answer”, Cash Savage sings as the Last Drinks rally behind her.
 
Of course, it’s just a thought. And this is just a song. But the music Cash Savage is making is informed by real life - her own, and those of the people for whom violence, or the threat of violence, is inescapably real. The human beings who are called minorities and treated as though their lives matter less than others. The women and children on whom domestic violence is enacted, and those in the LGBTIQ+ community for whom violence is an implied or overt threat behind the rhetoric of “family values” and “good citizens”.
 
Following on from 2016’s hugely acclaimed One Of Us, Good Citizens raises the stakes and signals the ascent of Cash Savage and the Last Drinks as one of the heavy hitters of Australian music’s new era. An incandescent live band at the height of their powers, led by mighty frontwoman Savage, whose potent lyrics and impassioned delivery articulate the personal-political issues of these times with all her heart, guts and grit. 

 
The title track was inspired by disbelief of the warped representations of “mainstream” Australia portrayed in the TV commercials screened during a sporting event. “You don’t need a job to be a good citizen,” Cash insists. “You don’t need to go to church to be a good citizen. You don’t need to be married to be a good citizen. But a little bit of empathy could go a long way.”

“We’re all humans, ”Cash affirms, “which means we’re all part of the problem. And we’re all part of the solution.”

 
The album comes to a devastating conclusion with ‘Collapse’, a song Cash wrote for her daughter. “I hope she understands that the world is a violent place,” Cash explains. “She’s growing up in a world where there’s violence everywhere, but our privilege allows us to believe that violence is someone else’s problem. The wars that are fought are at a distance. A non-violent life is a privileged life, and fewer and fewer people are living that privilege.”
 
The politics of Good Citizens hit home all the harder for their juxtaposition amongst songs that are deeply, passionately, personal. The ache of missing a partner, the heady highs of falling in love, and the triumph of knowing that love is indestructible. Even as it peers into the abyss of the anger and brutality that rock our times, Good Citizens burns with a fierce flame of belief in the goodness that may yet prevail.

Release: September 21st, 2018, Mistletone Records
Words: Mistletone