ZOLA JESUS

Stridulum EP

Sacred Bone Records/Midheaven

For an artist that has admittedly struggled with the limelight, Stridulum is a document that leaves Nika Roza Danilova – otherwise known as Zola Jesus– naked.

KATY PERRY

Teenage Dream

Capitol/EMI

The daughter of Christian pastors and former gospel singer, Katy Perry may have had a few false starts in her journey to becoming a recording artist but her persistence paid handsome dividends with her massively successful pop debut One Of The Boys.

EELS

Tomorrow Morning

E Works/Shock

Best known for chronicling personal tragedies with directness and tempered honesty, singer/songwriter Mark Oliver Everett tries something different on the third Eels album in less than two years: embracing joy.

THE BLACK CROWES

Croweology

Silver Arrow Records/Warner

The Black Crowes have sold over 30 million albums and claimed the title of ‘most rock’n’roll rock’n’roll band in the world’ along the way.

MILES AWAY

Endless Roads

Resist/Shock

There’s no two ways about it: Endless Roads, the third full-length from Perth’s Miles Away, has yet again set the benchmark at an international standard.

LOOSE UNIT

House Of Piper Laurie

Independent/Firestarter

Long-time dark horses of the Perth rock’n’roll scene, Loose Unit have dropped album #1, a non-stop bullshit-tight slab of desert rock.

ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN

Hawk

Vanguard Records/Shock

Twee chanteuse Isobel Campbell, the one-time cellist in the artfully arch Belle & Sebastian, has come up against a lot of ‘beauty meets the beast’ clichés since embarking on an archaeological retrieval of the ghosts of Americana with the drug-damaged dark star of Screaming Trees and Queens Of The Stone Age, Mark Lanegan, five years ago.

DISTURBED

Asylum

Reprise Records

It almost seems hard to believe Disturbed’s debut The Sickness sold something like four million copies in 2000.

THE MISSION IN MOTION

Somewhere Safe

Taperjean/Shock

With two EPs already under their belt, Sydney’s The Mission In Motion have been able to build themselves a solid reputation that has seen them become regulars of the Australian alternative scene.

PIRANHA 3D

Water Slaughter

Directed by Alexandre Aja
Starring Elisabeth Shue, Steven R. McQueen, Jerry O’Connell, Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd, Kelly Brook

Eros and Thanatos. Sex and death. Tits and gore.

KATIE UNDERWOOD

Ain’t Nobody’s Baby

Empire Records
MGM

Before reality TV had hit its prime, the first series of Popstars brought together young singers together to form flash in the pan outfit Bardot.

UNCLE CRACKER

Happy Hour

Atlantic
Warner Music

Matthew Shafer started his foray into music playing decks for Kid Rock, but upon embarking on his solo project under the name Uncle Cracker he moved further and further away from his rap roots.

CLARE BOWDITCH & THE NEW SLANG

Modern Day Addiction

Capitol/EMI

As its title suggests, Clare Bowditch’s fourth LP is an album concerned with modern preoccupations.

MUMFORD & SONS, LAURA MARLING &

DHAROHAR PROJECT

Self-Titled

Third Roster Records

Emerging from an English-Indian musical foreign exchange of superstar proportions comes the first star-studded nu-folk self-titled release from Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling and Dharohar Project.

LOSTBOY!

Lostboy!

Riot Entertainment
Warner Music

Jim Kerr is no stranger to the music industry with his band Simple Minds topping the charts on a regular basis in the ’80s.

GRETA BRADMAN

Forest Of Dreams

Sony Music

The granddaughter of cricketing legend Sir Donald Bradman has put her psychology career on hold to focus on a singing career.

SUPER WILD HORSES

Fifteen

Aarght! Records

While Joe Snow was standing around in the late nineties looking broody and sinister on stage in perennial Perth favourite Snowman, little sister Hayley McKee (now based in Melbourne) was taking notes, so that she could one day achieve garage band greatness.

SCOTT SPARK

Fail Like You Mean it

Other Tongues

From the cover of his debut album, Fail Like You Mean It, Scott Spark looks like a cross between Brian Fallon and Jason Donovan.

CLUTCH

Live At The 9:30

Weathermaker/Shock

It seems like everybody’s obsessed with Clutch. By everybody, I mean, a whole host of respectable rock fans have nothing but relentless praise for the band.

THE X-PRESS

25 Past Adventures In Hi-Fi

The best albums of the past 25 years, the most significant game-shapers, or just our unashamed personal faves – as reflected on by BOB GORDON, JULIAN TOMPKIN and DAVID CRADDOCK.