Buttering up the audience with a song on the spot
If proof was needed he could write a classic song any time he wanted to, Ryan Adams created one on the spot, sliced, cooked and ready to eat.
Since joining Fairfax in 1992, Bernard has been an editor and written on education, roads and local politics. These days, he specialises in music and is the senior music writer and reviewer.
If proof was needed he could write a classic song any time he wanted to, Ryan Adams created one on the spot, sliced, cooked and ready to eat.
Two staples on the festival circuit have been acquired by a music industry behemoth with repercussions likely across the local music industry.
Bowing to the inevitable, the Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival finally concede the veteran rocker will not be coming in 2017.
More than 600,000 people will see Adele's concerts, and buy her t-shirts, and her luggage on the way back to England will be weighed down with Australian dollars.
Our politics may be dirty but political pop music is rare and usually polite. An Australian hip-hop duo don't want to play nice anymore.
Crowded House review: good enough to raise the sick from their harbourside bed.
This week's albums feature tough talk on modern Australia and tough metal from veteran rockers, psychobilly is revived, Americana finds roots in Melbourne and there's a spot between pleasure and pain.
Nothing but open skies and old-fashioned manners in the country from the country of this Idaho native.
As ever there was one Voice to rule them all but the biggest winner of Australian music's big prize giving night doesn't even use his voice on his records.
Finally, the album of the show fans waited 30 years to see from one of the reclusive giants of pop music.
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