Music

Hiddleswift: Since when is Taylor Swift the first to write about her exes?

BERNARD ZUEL 2:24pm Love, lust and loss are all grist for the songwriter's mill. So why are we picking on one T Swizzle?

AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams to quit after Rock Or Bust tour

BERNARD ZUEL 2:46pm The news of yet another departure from Australia's biggest ever band will leave one schoolboy uniform looking very lonely.

'Night mayor' may save the dream of Sydney's nightlife: music advocates

BERNARD ZUEL 2:34pm An electronic music conference hopes to tap into the experience of Amsterdam in maintaining a vibrant nightlife to keep Sydney alive and open.

Bankruptcy court helps rapper 50 Cent turn an Australian dollar

BERNARD ZUEL 9:19pm Even with debts approaching $50 million you can rely on this hip hop star to stay clean and, soon, debt free.

Beyonce condemns police shootings and demands respect for black lives

BERNARD ZUEL 8:58am One of the world's biggest pop stars calls for community-wide action after yet more police shootings.

Willie Watson and Josh Hedley move from country sidemen to centre stage

BERNARD ZUEL 12:15am No longer in the background, two talented country/folk musicians reveal what it's like to step into the spotlight as solo artists.

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Album reviews: Tracy McNeil, Matt Malone, ME Baird, Alan Parsons Symphonic Project

12:15am From a prog rock giant to a northern NSW folkie, via Victorian country rock, the nascent sounds of hip-hop and gloom, doom and guitars.

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Leah Flanagan's new album Saudades: from Portugal without love

Kate Kingsmill 11:45pm Leah Flanagan's new album was named with a little help from her friends.

Tegan and Sara on Love You to Death and speaking out against homophobia

CRAIG MATHIESON 11:09am Like many songwriters, Sara Quin – one half of the dexterous Canadian pop duo Tegan and Sara alongside her identical twin Tegan – used to believe that bad times made for good songwriting.

Fat White Family tell it like it is, whether you like it or not

Anthony Carew 11:45pm British band Fat White Family have had some horrible things said about them. They've also said some horrible things.

Top gigs in Sydney: Ngaiire, the Bennies, Broods, Glass Animals, Willie Watson and Josh Hedley

Bronwyn Thompson 11:45pm From the impressive Ngaiire to Kiwis-on-the-rise Broods and alt-country favourites Willie Watson and Josh Hedley, we have your week in live music covered.

Sticky Carpet: The Grates, the Drones, Bachelors From Prague and Abbe May.

Martin Boulton 11:45pm Sticky Carpet: The Grates play the NGV, the Drones celebrate Bakehouse birthday, Bachelors From Prague return and Abbe May.

Two-night jam inspires The John Steel Singers

Arne Sjostedt 10:00am For the John Steel Singers, it all comes back to the jam. A fertile hotbed for creative ideas, that's how they found the name of their studio, The Plutonium, the title track for their third album, Midnight at The Plutonium, and the majority of music that found its way on there.

Seth Sentry's campaign to bring hip-hop to the people

Ashley Wick 11:45pm Aussie hip hop artist Seth Sentry says he wants to bring the music to the people by visiting regional towns during his upcoming national 1969 tour.

ABC Classic FM set for major shake-up

KERRIE O'BRIEN ABC Classic FM could be facing its most radical restructure ever, according to senior sources within the broadcaster.

Adele lets slip tour of Australia is likely

BERNARD ZUEL Summer looks the best chance for Australia to see Adele but will we have to wait for a new PM to find out?

Abbe May: finding the groove again after her biggest test

CRAIG MATHIESON The first sign that Abbe May knew something was wrong was the sudden loss of her hearing.

Cream Festival searching for a Canberra music act to join the line-up

New music event Cream Festival recently announced their line-up and is now looking for an up-and-coming Canberra act to be the final name on the list.

'We are the champions': Queen beats ABBA to the most successful album in British history

MICHAEL IDATO Though the two bands have jockeyed for decades to hold the record for the most albums sold, it has finally been made official: the iconic Queen have outpaced the Swedish supergroup for the most successful album in British history.

It's not surprising Prince and Bowie died early - musicians face increasing health risk

Mark Guarino The deaths of David Bowie, Glenn Frey and Natalie Cole may have caught music fans by surprise, but the lives of many musicians are being cut short by crazy hours, unhealthy diets and no exercise.

German music giant BMG buys iconic Australian record label Albert Music

BERNARD ZUEL A gut-wrenching decision means Albert Music, the company "built" by Easybeats and AC/DC, will no longer be locally owned, ending 131 years of a family business.

Frank Ocean hints at 2016 release for his new album Boys Don't Cry

Elie Choueifaty Frank Ocean has hinted at a July (or November) release for the much hyped, long rumoured Boys Don't Cry album.

Cambridge choirs to perform in Canberra

Janet Wilson The Choir of Christ's College, Cambridge and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge are bringing a feast of old and new music on their Australian tour.

Wings Of The Wild review: Who is Delta Goodrem, really?

BERNARD ZUEL Reclaiming her place at the centre of Australian music needs more from Delta Goodrem than desire. Her new album searches for meaning.

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Romantic Fantasies and Sequenza Italiana review: Old and new glow with feeling

Peter McCallum Two divergent approaches to coaxing musical fire from cat-gut and horse hair were on show last week, with the glowing breadth of Vadim Gluzman's old-school tone in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concert in D, Opus 35 and the wild, possessed playing of cellist Giovanni Sollima.

Review: The Spheres by Griffyn Solos at Belconnen Arts Centre

Jennifer Gall Like ripples across the night water, each melodic idea slowly moved outward as the next motif took its place until the listeners were enmeshed in a net of sounds and the memory of sounds.