Having celebrated its 1st birthday last year, triple j’s Unearthed digital radio station has done the math and produced a list of the top 50 artists spun on the station. With a strong emphasis on up-and-coming fresh talent, the list gives a strong indication of who to keep an eye on.
South Oz is normally left out of any sort of music talk, but that’s probably going to change given that the top two Unearthed artists are SA residents – hip-hop rising star Purpose and indie rock crew Bad Dreems.
Following Victoria’s Runforyourlife, New South Wales enters the mix with Sticky Fingers and the band exciting everyone at the moment The Preatures.
A whole range of genres have been covered, definitely skewed more towards the indie side of things, but plenty of hip-hop, including Allday with C1 and Mr Hill & Rahjconkas.
Take a look at the list below to get an idea of who you will soon be hearing a lot more of.
1. Purpose – SA
2. Bad Dreems – SA
3. Runforyourlife – VIC
4. Sticky Fingers – NSW
5. The Preatures – NSW
6. Mr Hill & Rahjconkas – NSW/QLD
7. Collarbones – SA/NSW
8. Tinpan Orange – VIC
9. Them Swoops – VIC
10. Argentina – QLD
11. Drop Frame – WA/VIC
12. Pigeon – QLD
13. Winter People – NSW
14. Remi – VIC
15. Money For Rope – VIC
16. Cub Scouts – QLD
17. YesYou – QLD
18. Rainy Day Women – WA
19. Wolfwolf – QLD
20. Tigertown – NSW
21. Sun City – WA
22. Jackie Onassis – NSW
22. Art of Sleeping – QLD
24. Vegas Aces – QLD
24. The Fabergettes – NSW
26. Ry – VIC
27. The Griswolds – NSW
28. Stillwater Giants – WA
29. Taxidermy Hall – VIC
30. Death Starrs – QLD
31. Jimblah – SA
32. Lurch & Chief – VIC
33. Dirt Farmer – VIC
34. Jeremy Neale – QLD
34. Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes – VIC
34. Bloods – NSW
37. Palms – NSW
38. Saskwatch – VIC
39. Seven – QLD
39. Axolotl – VIC
41. Koolta – SA
42. Ta-ku – WA
43. The Belligerents – QLD
43. Rainman – QLD
45. Allday x C1 – VIC
45. Coach Bombay – VIC
47. Bored Nothing – VIC
48. The Trouble With Templeton – QLD
49. Oliver Tank – NSW
50. Tokyo Denmark Sweden – NSW
