Music Matters

16/09/2025

16/09/2025

This is going to be one fun afternoon!
The launch of the Archie Roach & Ruby Hunter statues has inspired this very special Yalinguth event shining a light on the musical/storytelling legends connected to Gertrude Street.

Live performances along the walk from an awesome line up 🤩

Book your tix via the website, link in bio 😊

Huge thanks to for supporting this event!

16/09/2025

16/09/2025

Playlist: 12-09-2025 hosted by Gracie

Nancy Bates - I Belong; single [2025]

Stella Anning - Yellow Brick Veneer; single [2025]
YARA - Common Sense; single [2025]
BUMPY - Feel Good; single [2025]

Interview with Jason Tamiru and Zoë Dawkins about the immense significance of their immersive musical tour Yalinguth. As part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, this live event will honour the history of First Nations musicians including the legacy of Uncle Archie Roach and Aunty Ruby Hunter.

Jason Tamiru - live 3CR studio performance, Digeridoo and clapsticks
Gilla McGuinness - Sound Story about 3CR Music in the Dark - Birth of Koori Radio
Archie Roach & Ruby Hunter - Down City Streets

Merinda Dias-Jayasinha - Claire; Melodic Fictions [2025]

Interview with Loki Liddle of Selve, so-called Gold Coast (Yugambeh, Kombumerri)-based 6-piece band about the release of their sparkling sophomore album 'Breaking Into Heaven'

Selve - Leading Man Lost; Breaking Into Heaven

Worm Girlz - Seventeen; single [2025]
Piggietails - Speedos; single [2025]
Porpoise Spit - Wild Daisies; single [2025]
On Diamond - Not On Your Own; single from upcoming album Melon On The Vine [2025]

Hot Glue - Bad Dog; single [2025]
The Buoys - Bitch; single [2025]
My Dog, Satellite - Boosh; single [2025]
Baker Boy - Thick Skin; single [2025]

11/09/2025

Juicy show today 12pm - 2pm on 3CR Community Radio 855AM -lock it in!

LIVE in the studio will be Jason Tamriu and Zoe Dawkins from the Yalinguth Live Music Tour to tell us all about this special Melbourne Fringe Festival event and play a tune or two...

Plus it's RELEASE DAY for Gold Coast band Selve, we'll get to chat with Jabirr-Jabirr frontman Loki Liddle about the journey to Breaking Into Heaven - out now ❤️💛🩶

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31/08/2025

Playlist: 29-08-2025 hosted by Gracie

Nidala.- Ground Deep; single from upcoming EP [2025]

Quality Used Cars - I Wish I'd Never Been To Bloody Memphis; One Hundred Million [2025]
Lydia Fairhall- Winter Came; single from upcoming album The Narrows [2025]
Kyarna - Meet in Love; single [2025]
Ruth Hazleton - Tri-Coloured House; single from upcoming album Heronbones [2025]
Sibyl - Porchlight; Weal & Woe [2025]

Jazzparty - Nobody; single [2025]
Melody Pool - Our Eternal Garden; Our Eternal Garden [2025]
Anna Schneider- What's My Age; single from upcoming EP
Izzy Rodin - Sigh By Side; Lift [2025]
Romanie - When Will We Lose Hope?; single [2025]

Clean Beast- Sympathy/Empathy; Sympathy/Empathy EP [2025]
RONA - Mars; single [2025]

Crushed Lavender live in studio, chat about their return to gigging at Nighthawks on 12/09/2025
Acoustic track performed: 'Do You Really Love Me'

Crushed Lavender - J Name Guys; Crushed Lavender EP [2024]
Seymour & The Lizzies - Music Ruined My Life; You Wouldn't Like It Inside My Head [2025]
Gut Health- Beat To Beat; single [2025]
Mature Themes - TV Screens; Another Kind of Life [2025]

bughunt - Playing With The Colours With My Eyes; Exhibit A [2025]
Mudrat - Break Free; Social Cohesion [2025]
The Vovos- Girl Mosh; C**k Rock EP [2025]

Playlunch - Get Around It; S*x Ed [2025]

31/08/2025

3/4 sprigs of Crushed Lavender in the 3CR studio on Friday🤘

Listen back to their stripped-down, punked-out performance of unreleased track 'Do You Really Love Me' https://www.3cr.org.au/musicmatters - and get down to Nighthawks to see their return to the stage on 12th September https://events.humanitix.com/crushed-lavender-nighthawks

28/08/2025

Tune into MM on 3CR 855am 12pm - 2pm for loud, local, lush sounds. Brand new releases on the playlist, plus Crushed Lavender will be in the house for an acoustic taste of their upcoming Nighthawks gig!

3 track album