Think your song has been stolen? Or just wish it had? There are still plenty of reasons to climb that stairway to a court-ordered heaven.

The jury's verdict ended a high-profile copyright infringement trial that has captivated rock fans, musicians and music writers alike.

Highlights from Carmen, Turandot, La Boheme and other classic operas will be performed in this collaboration with Opera Australia.

Led Zeppelin have defeated a lawsuit which claimed they plagiarised a guitar riff featured in their hit song Stairway to Heaven.

The music has stopped for the ambitious series created by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger about the record industry's wildest decade.

Much of what was written in the Australian String Quartet's concert was composed when its composers were undergoing grief and despair - and it shows.

Donning "It's time" T-shirts and drinking stubbies of Melbourne Bitter, Labor loyalists came from all corners to watch Anthony Albanese in action.

Taylor Swift has faced down Apple and Spotify. Now, she is expressing bad blood with YouTube.

The frontman for Something For Kate is really putting his back into a solo album and tour.

Perhaps the most enduring theme throughout the concert was the all-pervading sense of equanimity.

Rug up, it's time for the Community Cup; plus Mark Lanegan returns to Melbourne, St Kilda's new Pleasure Garden festival and more.

Nigerian popular music from the 1970s is gaining new listeners.

She's been playing music for 10 years, but Alex Lahey's career was given a major boost with the release of her song You Don't Think You Like People Like Me.

Three follow-up albums harness the churning power behind the music industry, for better or worse.

Flume's exploding popularity has surprised even the artist himself.

It's the moment that Judith Hill has been replaying in her mind for the past two months: She was sitting on a plane with a man she loved, talking, having dinner, when suddenly he lost consciousness. She shouted his name: Prince. She shook him. But he didn't come to.

As the saying goes those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

Landmarks on your way through life can tell you you're growing up or have missed the best bits, and Bob Evans songs are there to do the same thing.

Broods, Margaret Glaspy, Mick Harvey, DJ Shadow and Olafur Arnalds.

From great Australian music by the Rubens and the Jungle Giants, to '90s Brit favourites Swervedriver, we have your week in live music covered.

Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant has testified that his memory of encounters more than 40 years ago is dim, though his recollection of the creation of the band's epic Stairway to Heaven was quite clear.

Exploring the reaches of Hungarian classical and folk, South African jazz, garage rock and country pop harmonies.

Hit songs, raking in millions across the globe, are increasingly being written in luxurious boot camps gathering writers, singers and producers together in a musical hotbed of productivity.

A demanding program of chamber music was brilliantly played without gimmickry or flamboyance.