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Flight Facilities' "classical" ARIA Award was a controversy waiting to happen
Classical is as classical does it seems as the music industry's awards leaves it up to the artist to decide what kind of music they're making, and which award suits them.
Classical is as classical does it seems as the music industry's awards leaves it up to the artist to decide what kind of music they're making, and which award suits them.
MUSIC THE SAINTS ★★★ The Gasometer Hotel, October 5
The Goss is right, the brothers who asked When Will I Be Famous return in 2017 for, they hope, a big show.
Rod Temperton, the musician and songwriter behind the Michael Jackson classics Thriller, Rock With You and many other hits, has died of cancer in London aged 66.
One time wild children of pop punk, new kings of the concept album and stars of Broadway, return for arena shows in 2017.
Ellie Goulding's Brisbane concert Wednesday night was to music what a good rom-com is to cinema – a little predictable, flat in parts, a hit with the girls, yet with a moment towards the end where even the guys thought this wasn't so bad after all.
He got his start on Australian Idol, but Shannon Noll says reality TV music shows can be dangerous for kids trying to kickstart their careers, as another Idol contestant struggles to find money for her music.
Scott Mescudi, better known as Kid Cudi, has stepped away from music and checked himself in rehab for 'depression and suicidal urges'.
While electronica, pop and good behaviour rule the roost at Australian music's biggest prize night, there's still some room for the weird and wonderful.
Neil Young will make his debut at the festival in Byron Bay next year.
Black consciousness and lives that matter in a softly spoken mix of soul and R&B; from Beyonce's sister.
Aussie rapper Drapht, real name Paul Reid, says the Australian music industry needs to get behind indigenous rights.
Fans and Meadows Festival onlookers were shocked to see Kanye West stopped mid-Heartless song by a man running onstage, only to be told by the rapper: 'Sorry guys, family emergency I have to leave the show.'
He looked like a has-been before he was even 21 but now it's stadium shows and duelling with Springsteen for Juzzy B.
The concert's highpoint came with Nelson Freire's performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto in an interpretation of illuminating restraint.
Performing at a grand final game is like being handed a poisoned chalice, which Keith Urban acknowledged ahead of Sunday's NRL Grand Final, but he needn't have worried, with fans loving his duet with Jessica Mauboy.
The animal within was set free but the human eye as a cool observer was just as important as Big Scary reinvented themselves.
'To be blunt, I never got to see Indigenous faces on commercial TV,' the Australian singer said after being offered Seven's new The Secret Daughter role.
Female victims of sexual assault say a culture of victim-blaming combined with uneducated security guards means assaults are frequent and underreported.
With sing-song quavers laced with menace, ASAP Ferg comes off a bit like Jack The Ripper telling nursery rhymes. The crowd loved every minute of it.
The annual gathering of Australia's musical diaspora that is the Australian World Orchestra no doubt recaptures the fond, careless raptures of a youth music camp for its players, as well as kindling cultural pride in the rest of us.
We still call Malta, and Bulgaria, Poland, France and Britain, home when it comes to the children's version of Europe's famous singing competition.
One Direction's split is all but cemented with Niall Horan releasing his first solo single since the band went on hiatus last year.
There are mere mortals who sing, and then there is the man in the hat with the melted-chocolate baritone
The country music trio ostracised for criticising the Iraq war is back and back in demand for an Australian tour.
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