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The brainchild of 26-year-old Brighton born singer/songwriter Mike Rosenberg, Passenger is redefining the troubadour for the 21st century. Formerly a five-piece band, Passenger has now pared back to basics, quite literally bringing music to the streets on a series of lengthy busking journeys across Australia, America and the United Kingdom. A classic journeyman musician, cut from the same mould as Van Morrison, Neil Young and John Prine, Passenger has the unique ability to move from the humorous to heartbreaking with every song.
 
 

Meet some of Melbourne’s top online music journalists and find out everything you wanted to know about getting your writing and photos published at SYN's Online Music Journalism Workshop.
 
Sept 1st at Signal Youth Arts Centre, down in Flinders St.

"In 2003 a New York Times article credited Hip Hop duo Koolism as "the standard-bearer of Australian hip-hop" and marked them as a group to keep an eye on. A year later, the pair left Australia's major music industry night, the ARIAs, with the 2004 Best Urban Release award for their self-produced 3rd album, "Random Thoughts".
 
Koolism are back with their latest release The Umu available September 3rd.
 
Source Koolism Myspace

The Ancients launch The Ancients 2 in Melbourne on Saturday 11 September at Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall in Carlton. They are also confirmed to support Mirah (USA), Sunday 24 October at Northcote Social Club. ‘The Ancients 2’ is available now thru Sensory Projects: from: www.sensoryprojects.com.au

www.myspace.com/theancients