WHAT A PARTY IT WILL BE. Come one come all. FREE and ALL AGES. Lots of records, giveaways, prizes, good times and funk. Performing LIVE will be STEPPERS and then from NEW ZEALAND the incredible hiphop band MOKOMOKAI finally our own angel will see us out, the legendary KEE’AHN. We also get to have a SINGING with the one and only BAKER BOY at 2om.

The day will be soundtracked by legendary DJ’s from 3RRR – local community radio celebrating 50 years this year! Hear Johnny Topper, BUMPY and EMMY from PEBBLES, ENNIO STYLES , the SYSTA BB, and bo$$man DAVE HOUCHIN plus more we will have a fun giveaway from RISING linking in their show THE VINYL FACTORY: REVERB. We will have TOTES and TEEs in a classic collab with BURN.

INSTORE ANNOUNCEMENT

BARO SURA

Live performance + DJs

Friday jan 23rd 4-7pm

Get down to celebrate the amazing album TODAY & ALWAYS available on vinyl from Northside plus CDs and cassettes too from the 23rd. Join a celebration of friends and fam from 4-7 with DJs c.frim LORI and Negassa spinning wax and of course there will be a PRIZE for the best dancers. Live performance is happening too!! 

All INSTORES are FREE & FUNKY and take place on the stolen lands of the Wurrundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never seeded.

THURSDAY 4th DECEMBER 6pm sharp!
SUMBISORI Album Launch

Assembled to realise bandleader Liam McGorry’s compositions drawing on 1960s Italian & French soundtrack music. The group includes Lachlan Stuckey and Jethro Curtin (Surprise Chef), Hudson Whitlock (Brenda, The Pro-Teens, Karate Boogaloo), Will Morrissey and Tom Pettit (Saskwatch, Let Your Hair Down) and Katarzyna Wiktorski. Don’t miss your chance to see this band in the intimate setting that is a Northside Instore

Kee’ahn released her debut EP ‘for me, for you x’ on October 9 via Northside Records. To celebrate, she has announced a headline tour with shows in Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, and Melbourne. The announcement comes alongside the release of her stirring new single ‘At Least For Now’.

Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy
Friday, 7 Nov 2025 08:00pm
Doors at 08:00pm

Kee’ahn (they/she/nyulu) is a Kuku Yalanji, Jirrbal, Torres Strait Islander songwriter and performer from North Queensland. Kee’ahn, whose name is derived from kee’an, the Wik word meaning to dance and to play, has been immersed in the world of music since childhood, drawing inspiration from soul, R&B, and pop. 

Since their breakout in 2020 with the single ‘Better Things’, Kee’ahn has captivated listeners with her lush melodies and rich vocals, sharing powerful stories of hope and healing. Kee’ahn champions finding strength in our struggles, encouraging us all to reflect, reinvent, and rejoice in our journeys. 

Her music deeply connects to culture, community, and self, earning her awards such as the Archie Roach Foundation Award and Music Victoria’s Best Emerging Artist award. She has since collaborated with Baker Boy, Emma Donovan, Dallas Woods, Alice Ivy and shared stages with the likes of Julia Jacklin, Hiatus Kaiyote, Greentea Peng and Angie McMahon.

With their recent singles off the EP ‘Heavy’ and ‘This Is Not the End’, Kee’ahn’s sound has evolved into a groove-driven neo-soul style, which has earned them widespread support from triple j, Double J an

COOKIN’ ON 3 BURNERS Friday 31st October – 6pm SHARP

The backbone of the breakbeat that move this city’s funky feet, its local legends @3burners who always deliver the funk, the whole funk and nothing but the funk. They have a new album droppin’ COOKIN’ THE BOOKS. Come down to get down. Prize for the BEST DANCER and also PRIZE FOR THE BEST COSTUME too!! Yes its on Halloween, so if youre out n about step through!

Come down at 6pm SHARP! and cut some shapes and remember all instores are ALL AGES and FREE and the new record will be available to buy on the night, and maybe signed if we ask nice!

This event will take place on the lands of the Wurrundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never seeded.

INSTORE ANNOUNCEMENT BRENDA  Fri 22nd August 2025. 6pm sharp. Brenda is the nom-de-plume of prolific multi-instrumentalist Hudson Whitlock, who’s new album ‘BATH TIME’ is on College Of Knowledge RecordsBrenda encompasses the left-field soul sensibilities for which Whitlock has come to be recognised in cult instrumental groups Surprise Chef, Karate Boogaloo and The Pro-Teens, alongside heartfelt, introspective lyricism delivered in a sincere, delicate falsetto. Stylistically, lines can be drawn to the 1960s sweet soul ballads of The Delfonics, Jean-Claude Vannier’s vivid arrangements for Serge Gainsbourg, and, of course, the unmistakable flavour of Melbourne’s cinematic soul movement à la other Whitlock exploits Surprise Chef and Karate Boogaloo .Join us on the release day of this amazing record by an inspirational young artist. It will be performed live in the church of funk for the disciples of groove, thats YOU from 6pm sharp.  Yes there will be a prize for the best dancer, Yes, this instore is held on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded.

NATALIE SLADE will be launching her amazing new record on the day of release here at NORTHSIDE RECORDS. Join us for Natalie’s only Melbourne show. It is an amazing record that is produced by funk machine SAMPOLOGY. 

Natalie is an amzing Sydney based soul artist who has worked with J DILLA collaborator STEVE SPACEK, DJ KATALYST, SIMON MAVIN (Hiatus Kaiyote) and more. 

Her album MOLASSES will be out on BBE records on August 8th, join us at 6pm SHARP and  the night will ,of course, feature a prize for the best dancer. Will it be YOU?

Instores are held on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded.

INSTORE PERFORMANCE

LADI 6 

LIVE PERFORMANCE & Q&A

FRIDAY 6th JUNE AT Northside records

Launching her new record ‘Le Vā’ , Ladi 6 draws deep  from her Moana heritage and  one of Aotearoa’s most influential voices in soul, pop, and electronica. Her new record reviewed by Martyn Pepperell, he says,” Ladi6 sings with a graceful melancholy over a rich bed of bubbling lead synths, woozy pads, triumphant stabs, and a g-funk indebted whistle. Sitting between the ‘60s/’70s modular synthesiser experimentation of Wendy Carlos and Mort Garson and the modern ambient/electronic R&B sound of Kelela, FKA Twigs, Solange and their peers”

Join us at 6pm SHARP as LADI 6 and friends bring the Pacific Soul sound Down Unda. Yes there will be a prize for the best dancer and the show is FREE and ALL AGES. 

All instores are held on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

INSTORE ANNOUNCEMENT! CINTA Friday January 10th at 6pm sharp! CINTA drops her sophomore album WORTH CONTROL that has been described as “Australia’s soul album of the year” it’s an amazing second album, rather than it being a chronological artistic step forward, it feels as though we’ve turned inward, taking a deeper, more introspective journey into the heart of our expression. We’ve sharpened the vision we had for our first record, and ‘Worth Control’ truly shows how we’ve grown and come into our own. Like any good musicians we’re equally enamoured by the classics as we are contemporary, boundary-stretching music, so our goal is always to marry these ideas within our own composition. This union of old and new-school creates a solid platform for our wonderful songwriter, Cinta to demonstrate the magnitude of her vulnerable and authentic storytelling. Local soul / r&b goodness to help start your year and ours. Come to the show, Grab a copy of the record then kick on to the @theevelynhotel later that night as CINTA brings in a whole bunch more friends on the bigger stage and jams the night away. Get tix for the Evelyn gig and come to the INSTORE starting at 6pm or be convinced to keep on….All INSTORES are free and funky and we do have a prize for the BEST DANCER. All instores are held on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded

Henry Maas’ iconic collection of classic jazz LPs is coming back to Fitzroy!

The Collection will be unveiled at 6pm-8pm on Friday 18th and remain instore until the end of MIJF on Oct 27th.  Not Online just inside.

Henry Maas opened the Black Cat Cafe in 1982 to give a home to the beatniks and freaks and jazzers and those who liked a nutty chilli burger as well. Together with his friends Toni Edwards and Mario from Mario’s, they travelled the world buying groovy cool jazz. They brought it all back to Fitzroy, and along with the band called BACHELORS FROM PRAGUE  they kept Fitzroy knee deep in Jazz.

We have recently bought the collection from Henry and he has given us his blessing to return them to the funky streets that he helped give groove. 

1000 classic jazz records go out on sale at Northside Records coinciding with opening night of the 2024 Melbourne International Jazz festival. The records will be unveiled with the local legendary DJ ANDREW YOUNG playing selections from the Henry Maas Collection, alongside photos documenting the Fitzroy music scene of yore by Henry’s niece DEBRA MAAS.

Come along and TAKE FIVE or more records to instantly get the 10% discount which every musician always enjoys at Northside Records. So get down and do the DAVE BRUBECK and TAKE FIVE……..