PAPRIKA • 'Tomorrow Was A Good Day' Launch
Wax Music Lounge · friday 5 dec
$15
catch them live
no melbourne dates announced right now.
sounds like fuji kaze, tokyo incidents, steve lacy, kaytranada
who's in it: akira cairnes, daimu (dime) kurosawa, max villella, oscar lenain
who are they, then
PAPRIKA is a Japanese/Italian/Australian four-piece band from Melbourne/Naarm reimagining city pop for a new generation. Blending the genre’s nostalgic warmth with touches of hip-hop, R&B, blues, and Western pop, they craft a sound that feels both familiar and entirely their own.
Eschewing the traditional star persona, PAPRIKA presents a deliberately fragmented and vulnerable identity that emphasises their ordinariness. By embracing the quotidian, PAPRIKA reinforces that extraordinary things can come from ordinary people and situations.
Their music’s message is simple. The star can be anyone, anywhere.
in their own words · via triple j unearthed
what people say
“PAPRIKA is a Melbourne-based four-piece breathing new life into city pop.”— amrap.org.au
up on triple j unearthed
HOLD YOU DOWNunearthed
SUPERNATURALunearthed
SYNTHESIZER LUVunearthed
the local record
2melbourne nights on the books since april 2025
1in the last year
usually atsolace · wax music lounge
warmed the stage for Alisya Rae at solace — april 2025
shared stages with Alisya Rae, BANKSIA, ELSIE, INIGO MAGNO
recently in melbourne