A large crowd showed dance music crosses all boundaries, but is this the last glimpse of it in our new daddy state thanks to the lockout laws?

In the beginning Meat was the voice and Jim wrote the songs.

No Tony Bennett here and the Lady is filling all the spaces with a big voice and a banging sound.

Five years on the sonic depiction of the mutiny on the Bounty resonates even more strongly

The Sydney composer prefers you make your own interpretation of her music that's attracting classical and pop audiences.

Conductor Douglas Boyd and a masterful MSO cast bring control and vivaciousness to Beethoven, Haydn, Schoenberg and more.

Will he? Won't he? When will he? There's a book and a CD to come but it is Bruce Springsteen tour speculation that's everywhere. What do we know and how much is true?

Watch out - Kanye West and Drake have confirmed they're going to join forces on a new album.

Kevin Parker is looking to flex his skills outside his group – and has teamed up with stars including Lady Gaga.

Jim Heath is no man of the cloth but his rockabilly trio, Reverend Horton Heat, has earned itself its fair share of disciples

Dave McCormack does a mean Katy Perry vocal. "California girls are undeniable, daisy dukes and bikinis on top," expertly sings the Custard frontman, as a way of explaining what kind of music his young daughters enjoy listening to.

From leading electronic duo Flight Facilities teaming up with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to breakouts Hayden James and Foy Vance, we have your week in live music covered.

The Cult, Even, Crowded House's ARIA induction, Melbourne Prize for Music, Gold Class and more.

Crime procedurals and pop bands may seem like unlikely bedfellows.

Britney offers to give us what we want; Olafur Arnalds collaborates with Iceland's finest, Lydia Loveless delivers songs with bite and pianist Chris Abrahams releases the second of two albums in as many months, plus a boxed sets from pianist Julius Katchen and Joan Baez.

It's no secret that Lady Gaga has an army of adoring fans, but the lengths they will go to, to ensure they hear her latest single on the radio as soon as possible is bordering manic.

Duelling new albums promised a cross-generational battle at the top of the charts between Britney Spears and Barbra Streisand. It was no contest.

Canberra-born jazz musician Jess Green talks music, travel, and why more girls should get into jazz.

Australian musician Darren Hanlon has brought Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records to Australia to celebrate the work of legendary musicologist Alan Lomax.

EG's reviews of new music from Okkervil River, Local Natives, Young Thug, Drugdealer and Wilco.

Jessica Cerro, the Sydney-based pop dynamo known as Montaigne, is striving for glorious heights.

From Slough to Sydney there's stories of bushfires, heroines, tragic losers, intriguing shoes and the mind of The Office's David Brent.

He is back in Australia and moving forward boldly, as he always has over a career that's taken many paths.

Drake and Tyra Banks play a couple having a lovers' spat at a restaurant in a new video clip for the rapper's song, Child's Play.