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Gothic horror heightened by blood-stained music
Primal sonic force scythes through heroes and villains alike.
Primal sonic force scythes through heroes and villains alike.
Patti Smith needed two attempts to get through Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm.
A little bit slow, a little bit thin and a little bit light on the best songs, but there was plenty of fun to remember, and farewell, one of the pop gems of the 1960s.
Flume gets the joint jumping, but is there something missing?
In conversation Julia Jacklin is softly spoken, almost timid to the point where it is hard to hear her.
Stadium gigs are a fraught pursuit for musicians... luckily Coldplay are this generation's best stadium performers.
The popstar interrupted his recent Trolls promo tour to give some feedback to students at the Newtown school.
For Tim Levinson, aka Urthboy, wearing three hats - manager, boss and artist - is all about doing the right thing.
Kinda gross, kinda HOT.
Greg Lake, the singer and bass player for British 1970s progressive rock groups Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and King Crimson, has died of cancer, his former manager said on Thursday.
Album reviews: Big Smoke, John Cale, Luke Temple, Wayne Hancock and Lower Plenty.
Sticky Carpet: Young Thug joins 2017 Laneway Festival, Boogie line-up revealed, Cold Chisel's almighty Manly Vale live tapes released and more.
Ali Barter is making up for lost time as her first album heads for the finish line.
After making other people sound good on more than 600 albums, Steve Gadd is leading his own band.
The premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin's Singing Trees gives eminence to the ACO's top-quality voices.
The first half was sometimes shaky, Micky Dolenz wobbling through the melodic challenges of Saturday's Child, while Porpoise Song presaged a trippier Act Two, taken up a notch by the five-piece band.
An artist who didn't want to design album covers has won awards for his work on one of 2016's best Australian records.
Craig Robinson, the US actor and comic, is finally going to make it to Australia with his band the Nasty Delicious.
Coldplay's longevity and staggering success has a lot to do with the incurable positivity and woolly philosophising of Chris Martin.
This program of works by Haydn and CPE Bach is full of dramatic intensity.
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.
Don't miss these shows.
Beyoncé is now the most-nominated female artist in Grammy award history.
On September 12, 1966, the first ever episode of a sitcom about four madcap, mop-haired characters trying to make it in the music industry aired on US television.
When London-based producer Throwing Shade, aka Nabihah Iqbal, plays at Meredith Music Festival this weekend, it won't be your standard DJ set.
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