The inaugural festival will see hundreds of performing and other artists descend on Melbourne to give us a taste of contemporary Asia.

Tickets for the Opera House forecourt shows started at $127 but almost immediately were sold out and re-selling for seven times that amount.

Tina Harrod and her sensational band could help power the electricity grid with performances like this

Sydney's lockout laws have deadened its live music scene, according to the DJs and artists who once played late into the night in the city.

House prices have pushed Melbourne musicians further into the suburbs – and they've embraced it wholeheartedly.

They call him the Afghan Elvis, and while singer Farhad Darya isn't afraid to sing his own praises on occasion, the nickname, he says, is a "Western thing".

When pistol-packing virtuoso Vitaly Kruchin decided to take a shot at some Beethoven he was not talking metaphorically.

This enthusiastic 25-year-old singer-songwriter is full of plans and ideas.

Airbourne, Fringe Festival, Falls Festival sideshows and more.

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Should he stay or should he go? Maybe it's a case of defiance to the end for the man who has dropped his pants to the world for decades.

She knows what it's like to be tabloid fodder, and to be a tabloid reader, so Adele had the ideal perspective and dedication on this week's famous marriage split.

It's her home town now and whether it's in the bars or on the Opry stage, this Canadian singer is fitting in comfortably in the home of country music.

From moody Melbourne rockers City Calm Down to a tribute to the Church and musician-activist Michael Franti, we have your week in live music covered.

The art of Arthur Boyd has been transformed into music for Bundanon's Siteworks festival.

The star of the new thriller reveals the path she might have taken, and why she's no fan of the word 'strong' when it comes to her roles.

The local singer-songwriter has roared from Melbourne's streets to sold-out European venues.

New music from R&B; king Usher, Usher Cat Empire frontman Felix Riebl, punk girl group the Nots and former White Striper Jack White.

Gregory Porter is a jazz singer at heart, making inroads into pop culture.

Bruce Springsteen, Teenage Fanclub, Devendra Banhart, Warpaint and How To Dress Well.

Pixies frontman Frank Black remembers the pivotal moment six years ago when it was time for his band to make new music.

Ella Hooper is very much in the driver's seat with the 20th anniversary of Killing Heidi's breakthrough around the bend.

The Jerusalem Quartet takes the experience of listening to a string quartet a little beyond Goethe's famous dictum that it is like a conversation among four intelligent people.

Inspired by 'witching hour" when the piano draws something magical out of her fingers, Elena Kats-Chernin has composed the world's first concerto for eight double basses.

"Why is it okay to, like, publicly shame us?", he sobbed in a Facebook video.