Norah Jones' latest album shows her to be not just a good writer, player and singer, but a fine assembler of talent.

Children's entertainers The Vegetable Plot are on a mission of "love and peas".

From local favourites Big Scary and Ball Park music, to ace female rockers Pup and the Coathangers, we have your weekend in live music covered.

Hillary Clinton supporter Katy Perry has stripped off in a new parody video encouraging US citizens to vote.

In 2011, when the Panics released their assured top 10 success Rain on the Humming Wire, affable frontman Jae Laffer​ came home from recording at Woodstock. Now, five years later, the peripatetic years have passed.

Longer songs and stranger bands hitting the right notes with music fans, says Brisbane group the Belligerents.

Pixies, Nick Waterhouse, Jenny Hval, EZTV and the Black Sorrows.

With tumultuous times behind them, the band members are discovering a new resolve and fresh inspiration.

Flume has dropped a new track in protest at Sydney's lockout laws.

A cobbled together quintent gave a confident rendition of Beethoven and Mozart.

New approaches from Justin Vernon's Bon Iver and Angel Olsen is balanced by happily familiar goods from Pixies and Teenage Fanclub. Meanwhile, there's something monstrous coming from Christopher Young Quartet.

Since the phenomenal success of her debut album, the musician has shunned the limelight. She explains why to Neil McCormick.

Their acid-drenched, psychedelic-rock music has found a wider audience far from Canada, where they formed over a decade ago.

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The Crowded House ticket disappointment for many fans shows that when the people selling the ticket also get a cut from a second sale, often at a far higher price, it could be the gamekeeper has turned poacher.

Releases from Australian soprano Nicole Car, Will Sheff's Okkervil River, R&B; singer-songwriter Gregory Porter and prolific ambient electronic pop artist Braille Face.

The writer of the international hit 1234 and a former member of The Avalanches are among the first time nominees for the awards recognising composers for film and TV.

The inaugural festival will see hundreds of performing and other artists descend on Melbourne to give us a taste of contemporary Asia.

Tickets for the Opera House forecourt shows started at $127 but almost immediately were sold out and re-selling for seven times that amount.

Tina Harrod and her sensational band could help power the electricity grid with performances like this

Sydney's lockout laws have deadened its live music scene, according to the DJs and artists who once played late into the night in the city.

Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon tried to find himself on a Greek island; it proved much more traumatic than collaborating with the likes of Kanye West, but it yielded the first song on his new album 22, A Million.

House prices have pushed Melbourne musicians further into the suburbs – and they've embraced it wholeheartedly.

An Italian collective from a dull town makes space-doom music as Ufomammut and stunning poster art for artists such as Iggy Pop, the Black Keys, Sigur Ros and Amanda Palmer.

They call him the Afghan Elvis, and while singer Farhad Darya isn't afraid to sing his own praises on occasion, the nickname, he says, is a "Western thing".

When pistol-packing virtuoso Vitaly Kruchin decided to take a shot at some Beethoven he was not talking metaphorically.