Exclusive: With Harts’ help, this Aussie band make gorgeous music without ever meeting We live in a truly wondrous age of technology. Years ago, you had to rely on dumb luck and good fortune to meet likeminded musicians...
Cherry Bar unveils insane lineup for 11th annual Cherry Rock festival Hold onto your hats, music lovers, because Cherry Bar have just announced a killer lineup for their 11th annual Cherry Rock festival. With a history...
Foo Fighters break hiatus with surprise UK concert You might recall back in March of last year, the internet was alight with rumours that the Foo Fighters were breaking up. True to their...
Need $15,000 to record your next musical masterpiece? PPCA and the Australia Council have announced they will be offering another series of $15,000 grants, to assist Australian artists with new sound recordings. The...
Are our boutique music festivals getting it all wrong? Look, we love your standard music festival as much as the next punter. Tightly-packed crowds, constant lineup clashes, queues galore… There’s something undeniably satisfying about...
Hip hop activist Brother Ali weighs in on Australia’s political bigots Anybody who caught Jacqui Lambie and Yassmin Abdel-Magjied on Q&A recently would be well aware of the vitriolic xenophobia which permeates our society and politics....
Laura Jane Grace speaks out against Trump’s recent transgender action Among the numerous bone-headed, dangerous and offensive decisions the Trump administration has made over the past few weeks has been to send out a letter...
How comic books spawned one of hip-hop’s underground pioneers Back in the 2000s, during the reign of club-friendly gangster-rap, you spent a lot of time defending hip-hop as more than a music genre about...
Rock legends dragged into a messy legal battle over decades-old recordings We generally look pretty favourably on any institution that sets out to immortalise the artform of rock ‘n’ roll, but when you end up with...
Watch this touching new Leonard Cohen video for ‘Traveling Light’ Like David Bowie’s Blackstar, Leonard Cohen’s final album, You Want It Darker is rife with allusions to the late great legend’s impeding death. Visual artist...
Police warn of sniffer dogs, undercover cops and more at Secret Garden this weekend Secret Garden may seem like an enchanted wonderland in which the basic laws of the universe may be breached, but unfortunately the laws of our...
