A perfectly proportioned pop show
Like their songs, Coldplay go big, very big, but just on the right side of huge.
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Bernard Zuel
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.
A steppin' stone to what could have been a great farewell
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.
'When he speaks people listen'
For Tim Levinson, aka Urthboy, wearing three hats - manager, boss and artist - is all about doing the right thing.
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.
Splendour In The Grass and Falls festivals now American-owned
Two staples on the festival circuit have been acquired by a music industry behemoth with repercussions likely across the local music industry.
Neil Young pulls out of Blues Fest
Bowing to the inevitable, the Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival finally concede the veteran rocker will not be coming in 2017.
Hello from the other side of $30 million
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.
A.B. Original new album is necessary shock to system
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.
Wake up Alan, Crowded House are on
Crowded House review: good enough to raise the sick from their harbourside bed.
A.B. Original deliver an album of anger
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.
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