Muscles

Muscles is an Australian electronica musician. Muscles' debut album Guns Babes Lemonade was released in Australia on 29 September 2007. The album entered the Australian ARIA Album Chart at #14 on 8 October 2007, reaching #3 on the Australian Artist Chart and #1 on the Dance Album Chart in its first week.

He performed on the Parklife national festival tour in September alongside Justice, M.I.A., Digitalism and MSTRKRFT. The debut album Guns Babes Lemonade was released in Australia during this tour. Muscles did a two week North American club tour in October to promote the US release of the album. In November and December, he played his first headline tour of Australia including three Melbourne shows at the Corner Hotel, Adelaide's Rocket Bar, Family in Brisbane, and an all-ages show at The Forum in Sydney. The tour also included festivals in Newcastle, New South Wales and Canberra, a Myspace Secret Show in Coffs Harbour and the biggest Australian-only music festival Homebake. December 2007 saw Muscles on the support bill for Daft Punk's Australian Never Ever Land tour. He missed the Meredith Music Festival and Never Ever Land Perth due to illness. As of 13 December 2007, his album had reached #3 on the CMJ RPM (Electronic) charts in the US. New Years Eve highlights included playing an abandoned cinema complex in Melbourne with Felix Da Housecat, Spank Rock and Chromeo. Muscles also supported Felix Da Housecat in Sydney on New Years Day after playing BBQ Breaks in Brisbane that afternoon.

In 2008, Muscles was one of the headline acts at the Southbound Festival in Busselton, Western Australia along with Groove Armada, Kings of Leon and many more. In February, he was asked to play the Good Vibrations Festival in Sydney and also gained the main live support for the Chemical Brothers Australian Tour. In February announced he would embark on a 17 date Australian tour to promote new single "The Lake" that is set for release late April. An encore show in Melbourne was added due to popularity in his hometown, and a third Perth show also after Perth and Fremantle shows sold out. With 14 shows selling out it proved to be a record breaking tour for an emerging Australian artist.

Muscles' singles 'Ice Cream' and 'Sweaty' appeared in the Triple J Hottest 100 2007 at #14 and #76 respectively. - Wikipedia