Since 1995, Triple J’s Unearthed initiative spotlights unsigned acts by giving them precious radio playback time and the audience that goes with it. And from October 5, its new digital-only radio station will take that exposure a step further.
There won’t be a drive show or breakfast show — just music from as-yet-unsigned acts. Unearthed’s pedigree is quite impressive; it’s where Grinspoon, Missy Higgins and Killing Heidi all started out. [ABC]
Ollie
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 12:04 PMObscure? wut? It’s doing exactly what it says it does… playing unearthed artists. Reporting fail?
Michael
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 12:06 PMOf course it’s playing music you haven’t heard before, that’s the whole point, it’s a launchpad for aspiring artists.
Steve
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 12:07 PMWhat a stupid misleading headline! Thats the whole idea of Unearthed, unearthing aussie bands who “nobody has ever heard of”. Unearthed has been a Triple J staple for over 15 years now and unlike the commercial stations they give new artists a go. This should be celebrated not ridiculed. Your headline should read something like “Triple J continues to promote unsigned Australian acts with new digital station”.
Maybe you should stick to the Apple fanboi articles.
Corteks
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 12:08 PMI actually read the headline as a joke on hipsters :P
Regardless this is great news!
Alex Kidman
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 12:27 PMThat was pretty much the headline intention — and as I made clear in the article itself, I’ve nothing but praise for the Unearthed concept.
Harris
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 5:57 PMI… GOT the original headline? Now I’m just confused as to if it’s deeper than I thought.
Goose
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 12:32 PMThat’s how i read it as well, maybe a Hipster Kitty/dog photo would have rammed the point home.
stevjosco
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 1:29 PMListening to a radio station playing music from artists I’ve never heard of sure beats listening to a radio station playing music from artists I wish I’d never heard of.
It’s great to see Triple J ramping up their support for unsigned bands. Hopefully we’ll get loads of exciting new music that maybe, just maybe, filters down to some of those commercial radio stations that could so desperately do with a new direction.
@kevmarl
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 1:36 PMIs it cheaper for the ABC if all of the music they play is from unsigned artists??
Callie R
Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 9:20 PMduring the course of the actual competition for unearthed, it was always free airplay with no royalties (but people were encouraged to go to the gigs or buy the eps to support the bands separately). it was only if you won that they’d do a deal with you to pay you royalties for airplay. I don’t know how that will work with a fulltime unearthed station though.
DR
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 2:46 PMA station with no ads, no annoying hosts, and a tonne of new music sounds pretty damn good to me, time to get a digital radio.
Penmonicus
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 3:34 PMI was wondering what people were complaining about and figured you’d changed the title. Then I found the original in the URL.
Hawks of Alba are a great band. I’m going to see them tonight, in fact.
dave
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 5:05 PMcheck out chaos divine if you like plethora or any prof rock/metal
Sam Timmins
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 7:20 PMLack of Android.
ABC FAIL!