Falls Music & Arts Festival is a multi-day music festival held annually in Byron Bay and Fremantle, Australia over the New Year's Eve and January period. The festival hosts contemporary music performances, dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other art forms. Camping is available and all locations have nearby beaches which are either walking distance or a short bus ride away. Artists playing at the festival include rock, hip-hop, indie music, electronic music, blues and roots.
Donald McKinley Glover Jr., also known by his stage name Childish Gambino, is an American actor, comedian, rapper, singer, writer, director, and producer. While he studied at New York University and after working in Derrick Comedy, a comedy group, Glover was hired by Tina Fey to write for the NBC sitcom 30 Rock; he was 23. He gained fame for portraying college student Troy Barnes on the NBC sitcom Community from 2009 to 2014. From 2016 to 2022, he starred in the FX series Atlanta, which he created and occasionally directed. For his work on Atlanta, he won various accolades including two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
The St. Jerome's Laneway Festival, commonly referred to as Laneway, began in Caledonian Lane, Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday, February 27, 2005. Beginning as predominantly an indie music event, the festival grew in popularity and expanded to five Australian cities—Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Fremantle—as well as Auckland, New Zealand and Singapore.
Groovin the Moo was an annual music festival that was held primarily in regional centres across Australia. The festival was held during autumn, typically in May of each year.
Peking Duk is an Australian electronic music band from Canberra, made up of disc jockeys and record producers Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles. The pair first garnered attention in 2012 with the release of a Passion Pit bootleg remix. Their biggest hit "High" reached 5 on the ARIA Singles Chart, achieved a triple platinum certification and won the ARIA Award for Best Dance Release at the ARIA Music Awards of 2014. Notable festivals Peking Duk have performed include Falls Festival, Spilt Milk, Splendour in the Grass and Big Day Out.
Takudzwa Victoria Rosa "Tkay" Maidza is a Zimbabwean-born Australian singer-songwriter and rapper.
"This Is America" is a song by American hip hop artist Childish Gambino. Written and produced by Gambino and Ludwig Göransson, with additional writing credits going to American rapper Young Thug, it was released on May 6, 2018 at the same time that Gambino was hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live. The song features background vocals from Young Thug alongside fellow American rappers Slim Jxmmi of Rae Sremmurd, BlocBoy JB, Quavo of Migos, and Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage. The lyrics and accompanying music video, reflecting the core of the Black Lives Matter movement, confront issues of ongoing systemic racism, including prejudice, racial violence, the ghetto, and law enforcement in the United States, as well as the wider issues of mass shootings and gun violence in the United States. Originally, Gambino intended it to be a diss record towards fellow rapper Drake.
The Grass Is Greener is an annual all ages music festival that is held in Cairns and The Gold Coast, Queensland. Their first festival was held on Saturday April 23, 2016 in Cairns, Queensland.
Party in the Paddock is an annual 3-day music festival presented by Triple J that is held in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Their first festival began in 2013 with local acts only.
The This Is America Tour was the fifth concert tour by American recording artist Childish Gambino. The tour began in the summer of 2018, playing over 20 shows in North America and Europe.
Kira Puru is a gender-fluid Australian musician. She is of Maori descent, her father being from the Tainui tribe, and grew up in Cardiff, New South Wales, near Newcastle. Puru has been described as "Señorita, swagger and a troublemaker" by Triple J whose self-titled EP was released in 2018 by New Tribe Music, a joint venture record label with Sony Music Australia. i-D Magazine called Puru "a charismatic stage persona" and she has performed at festivals and events including: Splendour in the Grass, Spilt Milk, Listen Out, and Groovin' the Moo.
Yours and Owls is a brand and annual music festival held in Wollongong, Australia. It originated as a coffee shop, then a gallery and restaurant space, then a music venue, then pop-up gigs, a record label and now holds an annual music festival. in addition to events throughout the year in local venues.
Annabel Hartlett, known by her stage name Godlands, is an Australian DJ, songwriter, and music producer. Godlands has performed at many Australian music festivals and events including: Festival X 2019, Party In The Paddock, This That, Alison Wonderland's Scarehouse Project, Wildlands, Factory Presents, Touch Bass, and Spilt Milk. Godlands is signed to Steve Aoki's record label Dim Mak Records, and United Talent Agency.
Tom Lowndes, known professionally as Hot Dub Time Machine, is an Australian DJ. He has had international success playing at festivals and events including the likes of: Coachella, Tomorrowland, Field Day, Stereosonic, Falls Festival, Groovin the Moo, Reading and Leeds Festival, Latitude Festival, FIB Benicassim and Splendour in the Grass.
Lastlings are an Australian electronic pop band from Gold Coast, Queensland made up of brother and sister duo Amy and Josh Dowdle. They have performed at Coachella, Spilt Milk, Splendour in the Grass, and The Plot. The duo are well known for their song "Deja Vu", which received high rotation on triple j. Lastlings supported Two Door Cinema Club on their Australian national tour.
The 2020 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 23 January 2021. It is the 28th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station triple j. The countdown was announced on the fourth weekend of January.
The 2019 Bonnaroo Music Festival, the eighteenth consecutive edition of the festival, was held June 13 to 16, 2019, at the Great Stage Park Manchester, Tennessee. The tickets were sold out and it was projected that 80,000 people attended the festival across the weekend. The festival was headlined by two sets by Phish, Childish Gambino, Post Malone, Odesza, and The Lumineers.
The Dreggs are an Australian folk pop duo formed in 2017 consisting of Paddy Macrae and Zane Harris from Bribie Island. They describe their music as "acoustic folk with a little 'singer-song writer'". The duo released their debut album Caught In A Reverie in 2024.
