HopeStreet Recordings

“Simon Burke has always known how to write a great tune!”
Lance Fergusson (The Bamboos/Double J)

The Meltdown. It’s a bold, brassy, twangy steam train of bumping backbeats and swinging shuffles. Then there’s that voice. Sweet as honey. The voice is soul, but it’s country too and something else indefinable; like you heard it before but don’t know where… Introducing Better Days, The Meltdown’s first release on HopeStreet Recordings.

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Not in Australia?
Find Cosmetic Love online internationally:

Fat Beats (US)
Kudos Records (UK)

It’s been a long time between drinks for Melbourne’s mighty Afrobeat juggernaut The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra (The POAO). To get everyone warmed up for 2015’s much anticipated LP release, two of the group’s vocalists, rapper 1/6 and singer / percussionist Lamine Sonko are fronting alternate sides of a split 7” out on HopeStreet Recordings. A highly nutritious Afro freaky snack to keep enthusiasts of all things raw and righteous satisfied till the main course arrives.

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HopeSteet Recordings & Scatter Scatter Tropical Discotheque present:

Cosmetic Love 45 record launch 
The Public Opinion Six
MC 1/6
Scatter Scatter Soundsystem
DJ Manchild 

Saturday February 7th @ Shadow Electric Bandroom (Abbotsford Convent)

It’s nearly christmas time so darvid thort he’d offer some super special gifts for those last minute shoppers.  Click the image below to find out more or browse the store.

Joy to the world! HopeStreet Recordings and Northside Records are filling your Christmas stockings early this year. Daddy - Emma Donovan and The PutBacks’ frenetic psych/soul stomper – is now available on a super exclusive limited edition 7” for those who need their niceness presented in the nicest of formats.

Only 150 hand numbered records are available, featuring In The Dirt, a PutBacks instrumental on the B side. That’s two sides of searing 45 rpm funky good times for the dancefloor in you.

In the spirit of exclusivity, the Daddy 7” is only available from this website and Northside Records, Fitzroy. Copies will be available for purchase from Thursday the 11th of December and will sell in numbered order from 9am. Who will get number 1? Best get up early, kids! Records #1-10 have been signed by Emma.

Daddy is the first single from Emma and The PutBacks’ new album Dawn. 

“Emma’s voice is everything you’d want in a soul singer. She’s the real deal.”
Wax Poetics on Daddy

The debut album from Emma Donovan & The PutBacks is out now in Australia (with international dates following very close behind)!

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Dawn takes some cues from the burgeoning soul revival, but it’s a far looser interpretation than many releases in the style. This is no attempt at reviving a bygone era. There’s no horn section. There’s more rock in there. There’s more country in there. There’s more, in Emma’s words, “blackfella music” in there. The songwriting is more akin to classic Aboriginal bands like Coloured Stone than it is to Sharon Jones. The sentiment is personal, for both Emma and the band, and forward looking, rather than revivalist. Shades of every soul record you ever liked sneak through: Al Green’s Hi Records era? Check. Aretha’s Classic Atlantic recordings? Check. Stacks of Stax? Check. It’s all there, but all different. Dawn is it’s own thing, indigenous Australian soul. From the ferocious opening salvo of Black Woman to the sweet and gentle comedown of Over Under Away, Dawn is above all a journey through Emma’s life written in song.

Download “Daddy” right here!