Everyone, and their mother, knows Courtney Barnett is the hottest Australian act to name-drop right now. Yes, hotter than Chet Faker, Tame Impala or Flume. Even Jack White is on board that bandwagon thanks to her new single with him.
But when you want to impress your friends with how you're on top of who else is out there, who else will be talked about, boasted about and played about here and internationally you need more. In honour of Australian music month, here are 10 Australian acts you should be listening to right now.
BANOFFEE
Performing as Banoffee, Martha Brown makes some of sharpest, sweetest sounds to emerge from the electronic pop scene in Melbourne: R&B-influenced beats, house piano licks, spaceship synths, and yearning vocal melodies are all part of her ever-evolving digital form. The 25-year-old, who got her start in the minimalist indie-pop trio Otouto, has done the showcase circuit and meetings madness of a working trip to the United States, but is focused on building a career forged by her own musical identity and not the marketing campaigns of others. There are two fine Banoffee EPs out, with an album due in 2016. CM 
Play this: With Her
L-FRESH THE LION
Rapper, producer and social worker Sukhdeep Singh flays the easy politics of mouthing platitudes about racial harmony in Australia as much as he attacks the ugliness of Muslim-bashing and racism. "The language that generally condemns violence and discrimination, but betwixt when it comes to denouncing racism and hatred towards ethnic and religious minorities," he wrote on his website. As he talks about in his new single, Get Mine, though he's born in western Sydney, he's constantly questioned on his Australian-ness as if there's only one way to be Australian. But it's a stupid question. "My back's too strong for the cane," he says. BZ
Play this: Get Mine
METHYL ETHEL
Weird and wonderful rock music - more screwy Cosmonaut than guitar grunt - has taken hold in Perth, with this fresh-faced trio the successors to the Tame Impala/Pond school of share-house psychedelia. Tame Impala maestro Kevin Parker once mixed a Methyl Ethel gig, at mates' rates of $50, but frontman Jake Webb, along with rhythm section Thom Stewart and Chris Wright, are pursuing their own sound on their debut album, Oh Inhuman Spectacle, which is a lot more fun than the title suggests. Their songs are warm, wigged-out pocket symphonies that pull you into the band's spiky yet serene flow. CM
Play this: Twilight Driving.
PALACE OF THE KING
Heavy, swinging, swaggering but not obnoxious, Melbourne's Palace of the King aren't afraid of traditions - that name is also a Leon Russell song recorded by Freddie King. They tip a hat to hard rock and metal bands past and present, from the Datsuns and Deep Purple to Jack White and Black Sabbath. They can play stomping long songs and punch out short ones that (whisper it) have some pop sense. "Palace of the King is literally like a huge ground-shaking Palace of riffs, soul and rock'n'roll," is how fellow musician and fan Joel O'Keeffe, lead singer and guitarist of Airbourne, describes them. Sounds about right. BZ
Play this: No Chance In Hell.
ELIZABETH ROSE
Two years ago supremo Australian electronic artist Flume identified Elizabeth Rose as one of the acts that would follow his path from the underground to the mainstream, and the handful of singles and remixes the Sydney electronic singer-songwriter and studio hand has released since then have defined her path there: the glinting, glorious The Good Life, the stern to shimmering Another Life, and just last month the woozily joyous Shoulda Coulda Woulda. A Triple J favourite and occasional Flight Facilities collaborator raised in Rozelle, Rose's debut album is out at the beginning of next   March and will further her burgeoning profile. CM
Play this: Shoulda Coulda Woulda
MEG MAC
Megan McInerney can be sparse and ghostly while still sounding like she's making gospel. She can take a pop song into quirk-free electronica and not lose its essence. She can also make a straight-out ballad that wouldn't be out of place on some chart-topping, afternoon radio-friendly album. Heavyweight soul and freaky R&B man D'Angelo took her on his US tour this year, seeing the weird inside the pretty of those songs, but she's also getting the attention of those who think weird is just a dirty word, because her songs and her singing sound like they're going to be making something great pretty soon. BZ
Play this: Never Be
ROYAL HEADACHE
The Sydney garage-punk band that outgrew their scene, their sound, their audience's expectations and, for one night, the stage management rules of the Opera House, Royal Headache have become one of the most celebrated Australian underground acts at both home and abroad. Their status has only been accentuated by the uncertainty of their tenure, which had the group breaking up in 2014 only to deliver their rattling, emotive second album High this   August. The band's defining force is frontman Shogun (aka Tim Wall), a loose-limbed and impassion singer who gives their concise tracks - nothing over three minutes - an urgent clarity. CM
Play this: Need You.
DAN KELLY
He's not a new kid in town, though he probably could wear cowboy boots as well as any of the Eagles, but Dan Kelly's first album in five years, Leisure Panic, is not just another witty, pungent, literate and tunes-heavy set of songs. It's none-more-Australian, picking away at city rivalries, politics and wankers in many forms, from weekend hippies to those who like to remind you they only read Vanity Fair or The New York Times. And it is as catchy as hell, whether you like your music pop-sweet, guitar-driven or heard in the dark on headphones. BZ
Play this: Never Stop the Rot.
SLUM SOCIABLE
Slum Sociable are two musician friends from Melbourne named Edward Quinn and Miller Upchurch, but as the electronic duo Slum Sociable they assume multiple identities, all combined into one heady audio assemblage that includes vintage hip-hop beats, soulful laments on the microphone, shape-shifting jazz licks, and the murky magic of Bristol trip-hop. They've only been playing live for a year, in between holing up in the studio with Big Scary's Tim Iansek, and the breadth and assuredness of their new EP, TQ, begins to suggest another group of Melbourne audio alchemists, the Avalanches. CM
Play this: All Night
HERMITUDE
They won the Australian Music Prize two years ago but that was only a way-station here and internationally where they are now festival regulars. The production/writing team from Sydney's Blue Mountains Luke Dubber (aka Luke Dubs) and Angus Stuart (aka El Gusto) are still among the biggest thinkers and most adventurous experimenters in Australian music. This year's Dark Night Sweet Light album went further and deeper with high twisting electronic sounds next to barebones hip-hop, big hearted R&B alongside reggae and soul and then deep, deep bass. All this and some easy to like melodies snuck in, too. BZ
Play this: Through The Roof