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Soul singer Sharon Jones dead at 60
Sharon Jones, the big-voice soul singer who found fame in middle age, has died.
Sharon Jones, the big-voice soul singer who found fame in middle age, has died.
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The boom in celebrity memorabilia is bigger than ever.
The love and devotion developed in the '80s and sealed in the '90s returns to the harbour city for one more outpouring.
Like something from Alice In Wonderland, the ARIAs – Australia's premier music awards – you are whatever genre you say you are, even if it makes no sense.
Curator at the National Film and Sound Archive Karen Hewitt on Kylie, Banarama and working in London's 'Hit Factory'.
Collingwood has a lot of cachet in Melbourne, but Bruce Springsteen remains "The Boss."
When Leonard Cohen's family announced last week that he had died at 82, it gave no cause. Although the poet and songwriter had been open about his failing health in recent months, fans knew little other than what The New Yorker reported in its weekly radio show, that Cohen had been battling cancer.
Includes Lars Ulrich on a Fisher Price drum, of course.
Though the MSO players were novices with this rarity, their interpretation proved confident and remarkably free of miscalculations.
International opera star Sumi Jo has arrived in Canberra for recently moved - but not renamed - Voices in the Forest.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard big winners at The Age Music Victoria Awards.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard rule over The Age Music Victoria Awards, winning three categories.
He's probably washing his hair that night.
Rock legend Bob Dylan, the 2016 Nobel Literature laureate, will miss out on the Dec. 10 award ceremony "due to pre-existing commitments," the Swedish Academy said Wednesday.
Top gigs, November 18
Mel C, formerly known as Sporty Spice, has revealed to a UK magazine that she felt bullied while she was performing with the Spice Girls and she would liked to have been "a bit stronger".
TLC weren't chasing the waterfalls, just a run of hits and memories from a golden R&B; career.
A new Australian hip hop voice next to a well-known one, sombre country rock next to tense electronic music, then some surprisingly sunny shredding soul.
EG album reviews: Weyes Blood, Alicia Keys, Kings of Leon, Justice and Birds of Tokyo
Steve Poltz has been around long enough and seen enough to skip worrying about things he can't change.
Alicia Keys joins the chorus of political dissent, a ukulele master cuts loose and Metallica offer something for the faithful.
They're 10 albums into a career that roared to life in the 1980s and The Cult are still rocking, rolling and loving every minute.
But take note, the hip-hoppers and party promoters are not your standard social activists.
No need for blow-ins from overseas for the music industry's bit of glamour and prize giving. It's local all the way.
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