Video: Matt Corby - Made of Stone (Live at Studios 301)

Brisbane band  BALL PARK MUSIC have entered 2013 radically. Included at the starting point of the Australian Summer festival circuit, their name popped up on the  Falls Festival  and  Southbound  bills, they supported  Weezer on their Blue Album tour, were one quarter of Triple J's  One Night Stand lineup and have started working on their third album after releasing  Museum in just October last year. A super jam packed schedule over the past three years of writing and recording for these dudes and gal has seen the quintet really grow [...]

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Australian singer-songwriter Matt Corby releases his 'Into The Flame' EP this week, though his musical career began in 2007 where, at just 16, he finished as runner-up in that year's Australian Idol. He could certainly teach our UK contestants a thing or two. In the talent show battle for 'authenticity', Corby has it in spades. His distinctive vocal is immediately apparent. With an impressive range and wide vibrato, he brings to mind a male Lianne La Havas or Anna Calvi, though there's a pleasing roughness to his [...]

Currently in a run of sold out London shows, emerging singer-songwriter Matt Corby has announced a series of headline European and UK tour dates in November. Matt will be joined by his band for the UK shows, which kick off at the Limelight in Belfast on 13 Nov, followed by Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, London’s Scala on 21 Nov, Manchester and Birmingham, concluding at Nottingham’s Bodega on 24 Nov. Still only in his early 20s, Matt Corby ’s songs deliver a uniqueness and maturity well [...]

Twenty-one-year-old Australian singer/songwriter Matt Corby has released four exceptional EP's Down Under, songs that sound like they've been cut from the same distinctive cloth of three of his most pervasive influences: iconic Brit folkie Nick Drake, legendary 90's art/rock pioneer Jeff Buckley and dramatic Irish songwriter Damien Rice. Taking in the depth and vision of Corby's atmospheric, reverbed songs, filled with simmering, spacious melodies and his remarkable Buckley-like voice, it's hard to believe that this is the same person who, at sixteen, was the runner-up in the Australian Idol competition. The loss, it appears, [...]

Back in his native Australia Matt Corby's last EP, 20112s Into The Flame , went quadruple platinum, not bad for a 22-year-old who finished second on Australian Idol in 2007. Boasting model looks, a voice that could melt butter and being backed by the ever-wonderful people at Communion we're gonna state the obvious and say the future looks incredibly bright for Mr Corby. With a sound remiscent of both Wild Beasts and Bon Iver, 'Made Of Stone' - the title track from his most recent EP - is a tidal wave of stark emotion and deep, instrumental [...]

Matt Corby is one of the most searched artist on this site. We pegged him to be a fresh face for 2012 ; however his first six months have been relatively quite on the release front. Reason why we haven't heard any new music is that Corby has been making the rounds on the tour circuit as well as performing at quite a few festivals. Yesterday we got news that Corby released a three track EP, entitled "Made of Stone". Watch his breathtaking live video for "Made of Stone" below, then head to his site and grab "Made [...]

Really we should hate Matt Corby. Not only is he one talented so and so, but he’s a bit of a babe magnet as well. “I would gladly mother his young,” states one comment on his new live You Tube video for Made Of Stone , the title track of his new 3 track free to download EP which is available from his website using this link here . Yep, it’s comments like that which makes us extremely jealous. Until we realise that actually somebody once (actually more than once) did want to mother our young and that’s [...]