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A reggae-rock band from Doomadgee, a remote Queensland town with 20% unemployment, just played their biggest show opening for ARIA-winning King Stingray. The DMC Boys are proving that music can heal communities and dreams have no distance limits.
The Desert Stars traveled 650 kilometers into Australia's Great Victoria Desert to record their new album in a machinery shed, transforming their ancestral homeland into a recording studio. The project might be the world's most remote album production.
Two grandsons of Australian music legend Dr M Yunupiŋu turned childhood dreams on a beach rock into reality, headlining their first major festival just two years after forming Wild Honey. The seven-piece band from remote Arnhem Land is carrying forward a powerful musical legacy while chasing their own big-city dreams.