Buchanan are an Australian alternative rock band formed in late 2009, the project of English-born Josh Simons in collaboration with friends.

Deciding to steel themselves and avoid hasty commitment, the band headed back to the studio to develop more material and record the follow-up.

The single was a Triple J hit, immediately added to high rotation[6] and gained a five out of five star rating from Richard Kingsmill[7] and multiple additions to The Hype Machine.

Distributed via Inertia Records,[10] Zoo Weekly gave the release four stars, comparing the songs to "Phoenix, with the emotional gravitas of Mumford & Sons and the instrumental dexterity of Sigur Rós.

[20] In March 2012, the band released "Run Faster", a warm-up single for their forthcoming debut album, to positive critical reviews.

[26] In October 2012, the band announced on their social media pages that they were embarking on a national tour of Australia throughout November and December.

The album, released under Simons' own label Raw Imagination People Expect,[28] was met with extremely positive critical reviews.

[32] Andy Baldwin was hired to mix the record with the band choosing to master the album at Abbey Road with Geoff Pesche.

On 26 September 2015 the band headlined the TEDx Macquarie University conference, which was streamed live worldwide, debuting several tracks from the new album.

[45] On 27 October, Simons' birthday, the band put up a post on social media revealing the album would be called Pressure in an Empty Space.

[52] The album was mastered at Metropolis Studios in West London by John Davis and was met with extremely positive critical reviews.

[53][54] The album follows Simons during the compounding experiences of the breakdown of a committed relationship whilst dealing with an obscure form of cancer in 2014, which Tone Deaf described as "a stunning and incredibly moving piece of work.

"[55] The band premiered the video for the title track "Pressure in an Empty Space" on a new social-professional network for musicians called Vampr.

[52] In July 2016 the band were announced as the opening act for Keith Urban, hand-picked for the Australian leg of his ripCORD World Tour along with Carrie Underwood.

[56][57] It was announced in the same month that Simons co-wrote The Voice (Australian TV series) winner Alfie Arcuri's single "Careless Game" with Troye Sivan.

[64] Simons and Kilhoffer co-wrote and co-produced the final track of Cyhi the Prynce's debut album No Dope on Sundays released in November 2017.

[68] In January 2018 Simons co-produced and mixed Tre Capital single "Blue Eyes White Dragon Flow", which premiered on Complex.

[78][1] The March 2019 release of Jenny Queen's album Baby It Was Real and We Were the Best on ABC Music included the single "Medicine" co-written by Simons.

[80] In April 2020 Simons was named in The Music Network's Thirty Under 30 Awards in addition to being voted Reader's Choice in a public poll.

[81] Simons was quoted acknowledging the awards by saying, "I’m going to celebrate with a quarantini," in reference to the curfews and lockdowns related to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.

[92] Simons also played guest guitar in Kelly's band during the Australian leg of Coldplay's Music of the Spheres World Tour,[93] a record breaking run which included new attendance records at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium with 227,000 fans over four shows,[94] and Sydney's Accor Stadium with 338,776 fans over four shows.

[95] In October 2024, Business News announced Simons as a winner of their Melbourne Young Entrepreneur Awards in the Digital Disrupter category.

[97] Throughout 2024, Simons has, as Vinyl Group CEO, acquired The Brag Media,[98] Mediaweek,[99] Funkified Entertainment[100] and Serenade,[101] while raising over $15 million in new funds for the company.