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In search of music’s voices of the future, each of GQ’s 21 global editions nominated a local artist who’s defining the sounds of tomorrow.

ONTD Original: NAIDOC Week Hey ONTD! It's NAIDOC week over here so lets celebrate with some excellent Indigenous Australian and Torres Straight music! Firstly, what's NAIDOC week you ask? Well NAIDOC week in its current form was established back in the early 1970s but can be tied back to the protest movement known as the Day of Mourning in 1938. While the Day of Mourning was a protest on the way white Australia had treated and seized the land of the original custodians, NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) is a celebration of history, culture and achievements of...

Being in your 20s is, as Karydas explains in this song, to be in a state of constant flux. Karydas finds herself pining for the simplistic emotional responses of her youth, when things made sense to her. She still succumbs to childish worries, like acne and the dentist. A grazed knee sends her spinning back to when she was seven, when pain had an obvious physical cause and a definite treatment. “When did I get so fearful?” she asks. As the world whirs around her, she focuses on the freckles on her lover’s face, a constant in a shifting sea. This is an infectious and spritely po...

Ziggy Ramo has released a moving rework of Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody's classic song, 'From Little Things Big Things Grow'.

Ziggy Ramo To Perform At Melbourne Recital Centre Indigenous hip-hop artist Ziggy Ramo will perform this Friday at the Melbourne Recital Centre. Ziggy, who released his debut album ‘Deadly Hearts: Walking Together’ made the ABC audience take note after being censored by the ABC. He corrected Q&A host Hamish Macdonald who issued Ziggy with a “please explain’ for his track ‘April 25th’ which the ABC would not let him perform. “Me sitting on this panel ticks off a box for the ABC which is cultural diversity,” Ziggy said. “If I am not able to express my perspective is it perform...