[2] At family gatherings when the children performed, Stone played trumpet, Catherine saxophone and Angus trombone with Kim singing and John on keyboard or guitar.
[2] After finishing secondary school and while on a holiday with her brother in South America, Stone was impressed by his musical talent.
[3] After playing split sets with each singing backing vocals to the other's material, in 2006, they started a duo, Angus & Julia Stone.
[9] Despite reaching critical acclaim as a duo, Stone had initially embarked on her musical career to become a solo musician.
Poppy Reid of The Music Network found that "Julia uses clever vintage horror film posters painted by UK artist Caroline Pedler.
[12] In June 2011, she sang backing vocals on "Do You Realize" for The Flaming Lips and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at a sunrise concert at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
[15] "Then Angus and I were talking on the phone and he'd been working on more stuff on his own as well and we both just agreed – we were both in the same place, ready to put together a collection of our own songs".
[16] Originally released in 2010, Julia's cover version of "You're the One That I Want" has been featured on UK and Irish TV channel Sky's identification ad.
"[22] In March 2023, Stone featured on Peking Duk's Like a Version of Crowded House's single "Fall At Your Feet" with Dean Brady.
[23] In September 2012, she featured in a campaign, 30 Songs / 30 Days, to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book of the same title.