Friday, June 26, 2026

Picking Up ‘The Scent’: Hot New Nashville Band of Aussies Has Lead Singer Who Sounds Like He’s Made for Radio

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When you get a call from Bebe Buell, who’s making music and chilling down in Nashville, you listen.

Bebe’s husband, Jim Wallerstein, has produced an EP for a new band, a duo from Australia living in the coolest music town in America and drawing huge attention. They’re called The Scent.

Singer/Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kurt Lowney and his musical soulmate Mika Nuutinen, have come together to create a new vision and sound for their debut. Having moved to Nashville from Sydney, Australia, their love for their newly adopted home has led them to set up shop in the USA. Kurt and Mika agree that there is a myriad inspiration to draw from in the diverse cultural landscape that is ‘Music City’.

Kurt played all the instruments on the record, with Mika playing bass, which was recorded at their home studio and mixed at the iconic Sound Emporium.

After finishing the record, the duo have put together the perfect line up of fellow musicians to help them take the music to the next level on stage.

With Kurt being a prolific songwriter, The Scent promises the future will hold lots of new material and exciting changes.

But LISTEN to this guy’s voice. He is radio ready. Tom Poleman, that means you! This group really Hearts Radio.

The Scent’s first video is for “Popstar” but below you can hear all the songs, now available on Spotify and iTunes.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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