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Alex Lahey: Pop and pep

Alex Lahey: Pitchfork named her song <i>You Don't Think You Like People Like Me</i> as "Best New Track".

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.

Life on the line

Singer-songwriter Brandy Clark.

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

Flume gears up

Flume, aka Harley Streten, will headline soldout Canberra music festival Spilt Milk.

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

Singer who was on the plane with Prince shares her story

Judith Hill said Prince's eyes "fixed" before he lost consciousness on the plane.

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.

Birth, marriage, death and Bob Evans

Post-baby boom: Kevin Mitchell, in his pop singer/songwriter guise of Bob Evans, writes about the life of a family man ...

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.

Album reviews

DJ Shadow.

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

Top gigs in Sydney

The Jungle Giants, (from left) Cesira Aitken, Sam Hales, Keelan Bjiker and Andrew Dooris, play the Metro on June 25.

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

In short

Pleased as punch to be a trio, Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs of case/lang/veirs.

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

Where music hits are made

Guy Sebastian at work at the Bali Songwriting Invitational 2016, at Swarapadi Villa and Recording Studio, Ubud.

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.

It's the family business

Emerging from personal darkness, Tracy McNeil's new album continues her father's journey.

Continuing the family business meant helping her father make his last album before her turning to her own brand of country rock for Tracy McNeil

Shortlist album reviews

Barcelona alt.rock group Mourn.

From Catalonia to Canada and an Australian in Paris, the sources of location and inspiration are spread as far and wide as the styles of music.

Alicia Keys is locking up my mobile phone at her concert

Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys is one of a growing number of artists requiring audience members to lock their mobile ...

On a cool, Manhattan night, DJ Walton, who helps manage Alicia Keys, steps outside the Highline Ballroom to tell the guy at the door who, exactly, he may allow to bring a mobile phone into the singer's sold-out gig. The list is very short.

The Veronicas to guest star on The Voice

The Veronicas, Jessica and Lisa Marie Origliasso.

Australian pop duo The Veronicas will be seated in The Voice's red chairs next Sunday, replacing The Maddens who will briefly return to the United States for a tour commitment.