Punk rock lives, and other things we learned in Australian music in 2022 | Michael Dwyer
Ratbag axe thrashers Amyl and the Sniffers are the other dominant contenders, featuring across six categories including best group, best Australian live act and best rock album , reflecting an unstoppable global infiltration since their last ARIA win for best rock album in 2019. Following her
three years back, the world will be counting the number of times singer Amy Taylor slips the f-word into her acceptance speeches.3. First Nations artists keep rising It’s surreal to reflect on ARIA’s best Indigenous release category of the late ’80s and ’90s, especially those years when Weddings Parties Anything beat Kev Carmody, Coloured Stone, Gondwanaland, Scrap Metal and Yothu Yindi to the prize. The First Nations artists sprawling through multiple categories in 2022 are many and hugely varied, led by unstoppable hip-hop party guy Baker Boy, LA-groomed pop-rap sensation The Kid LAROI and Yolngu surf-rock newcomers King Stingray.
ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd shared her frustration, while pointing to the increased diversity of a judging academy that still has some work to do. Case in point: the clever new mixed-gender best solo artist category pits Thelma Plum, Julia Jacklin and Courtney Barnett against seven blokes.5. No chart, no start
Gumbaynggirr rapper Tasman Keith was clear in his Insta post of September that his “validation doesn’t come from an outdated award platform held up by privileged white record executives”. But he used the oversight of his album,to make a point about the awards’ selection criteria, in which a song or album needs to make a showing in the ARIA charts in order to be eligible for the awards.
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