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...
Year-long Simpsons punk project continues with ‘Streetcar’ musical suite Dan Cribb’s year-long tribute to The Simpsons continues, with this month’s offering being a megamix of sorts of the songs featured on the season four...
Dead Letter Circus drop their reinvented version of classic track ‘One Step’ Dead Letter Circus are returning with a new album, but this one’s going to be a little bit different. Named The Endless Mile, it sees...
Prince surges back into the Top 40 charts thanks to streaming In life, Prince was infamously protective of his music and how it appeared online, but now that the legend has left us his music has,...
Jimmy Chamberlin is selling loads of his Smashing Pumpkins gear online Jimmy Chamberlin, drummer of The Smashing Pumpkins during their classic years, is selling over 200 pieces of musical gear. The gear includes “many pieces used...
