Stonefield head out on their biggest tour to date, Northeast Party House rock 170 Russell, and Dinosaur Jr add a second show to their tour.

In broad daylight, a stealthy band of rebels armed with headphones came to Parliament House. And nobody noticed.

The 22-year-old Canadian set the charts alight last year, but when it comes to setting records rather than selling them he has some stiff competition.

Barry Humphries has just finished a tour of the UK and the US with Australian Chamber Orchestra and cabaret performer Meow Meow. The "degenerate" show, curated by Humphries, showcased the music of Berlin's Weimar Republic (during the 1920s-1930s) from jazz, cabaret and tango to Broadway-musical style pieces written by composers including Kurt Weill, Krenek, Schulhoff, Toch, Brandt and Grosz.

Pop singer Selena Gomez is taking time off to deal with panic attacks and depression.

Big Scary, Angel Olsen, Dolly Parton, Teeth & Tongue and King Creosote

From local legends the Whitlams and Darren Hanlon, to Newtown's King Street Crawl and pop-punkers Motion City Soundtrack, we have your week in live music covered.

Melbourne duo Big Scary's new album Animal has an autobiographical outlook that explores what we crave.

American singer-songwriter Angel Olsen had only one album behind her but she was already feeling burnt out by the industry. A tour of Australia helped rejuvenate her and inspire her latest album.

It takes a lot to prise possessions from an avid collector's grasp, but luckily for the State Library of Queensland, Laurel Dingle can be quite persuasive.

Jess Cornelius had one goal for the new Teeth & Tongue album - to make something different.

From teenage sensation Mallrat to electronic brotherly duo Two Can and Voice graduate turned indie folk darling Vera Blue, here are six new Australian artists you should be listening to right now.

Liz Stringer's songwriting gravitates towards matters that are dark and gritty, but she's mixing up her styles on album No. 5.

So that's the VMA grab bag of antics, awards, performance and pouting over with for another year. It wasn't a vintage year by any means and, if you were looking only at the TV ratings, you might even be tempted to conclude that its relevance is fading.

Two giants go back to their roots, albeit with some help, classics are reworked by "gypsies", and the dark and the mellow are explored.

Beyonce Knowles has been crowned queen of the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards after scooping the Video of the Year award for Formation and Best Female Video for Hold Up, both from her album Lemonade.

Frank Ocean's long-awaited album Blonde entered the ARIA charts in the top spot.

With Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Resurrection, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Philharmonia choirs can legitimately claim a direct line to the composer.

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James Corden aimed for, and mostly hit, the high notes, but Britney Spears strangely chose to mime her way through her own back catalogue.

Seminal rockers Pixies are returning to Australia for a national tour to showcase their soon-to-be released album Head Carrier.

Contracts between music providers and music labels involves the kind of wheeling and dealing you'd expect of Jerry Maguire, but there's reason to care as a Spotify user.

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