From Dame Nellie Melba to Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue, this music industry hall of fame has been a long time coming.

The ensemble was in fine form delivering carols and Christmas songs, though a few could have done with more oomph.

Performing to a near-packed house, the MSO and its choir presented a middle-of-the-road version of Handel's oratorio.

Making her entrance wearing a giant vulva on her head, Peaches rocked the crowd as she did the foundations of gender norms and expectations at Meredith Music Festival.

Primal sonic force scythes through heroes and villains alike.

Flume gets the joint jumping, but is there something missing?

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.

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.

After making other people sound good on more than 600 albums, Steve Gadd is leading his own band.

Ali Barter is making up for lost time as her first album heads for the finish line.

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.