On a trying, hot night, the orchestra was put to hard labour early with Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture:

On the eve of a new album the prolific Americana/rock/country artist announces a short return to Australia.

Cops at loggerheads with festival organisers who argue bush bash should be lengthened, not shortened.

A film score becomes a concert piece with the help of some amazing musicians

Swedish death-metallers-cum-prog-rockers blew away hordes of their diehard fans in Melbourne.

Have a little faith Bruce Springsteen asked, and trust in the good in others. It wasn't just a rock'n'roll show then.

First published in The Sydney Morning Herald March 23, 1985

It turns out leaping off the roof of the Super Bowl stadium in a crystal-studded power suit and tricking the so-called 'alt-right' into thinking you're performing a satanic ritual pays dividends, especially if your name is Lady Gaga. 

Nothing says most dangerous band in the world like row upon row of portable plastic seating lined up like some impossibly oversized community hall.

A collection of the late singer's personal items and more, co-curated by family members, will have its Australian debut in October.

George Michael's body has not been returned to his family, six weeks after he passed away at the age of 53.

She plays the piano brilliantly, ferociously and, perhaps, better than anyone else on Earth and she is on her way to Sydney.

What many of the commentators may have missed, though, was that Gaga's decision to sing This Land Is Your Land may have been an inherently political statement.

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The politics was kept to the subtext in a performance high on chrome and spectacle but low on Beyonce-style commentary.

The redemption segment turned up trumps.

The sound of 700 IT workers, consultants, teachers, hipsters and retirees belting out the best of Gloria Gaynor at 8am on a sour summer's day in Sydney, is better than it might seem. Their voices are untrained, unpolished, unheard-of. They have come cradling hopes and takeaway coffees. They have come in activewear and smart casual. They are not singers but this is their choir.

The most these two bands have in common is the era in which they were popular. It doesn't quite translate to a so-called "double headline" concert.

Whether it's his new solo album or the hours on stage with The Boss, this "nephew of" has picked up plenty on what it takes to be a front man, a Big Man and an every man.

A festival which is not about sense or suitability works for just that reason.

Former guitarist with Swedish rock 'n' roll band the Hellacopters, Robert Dahlqvist, has died.

What does a member of the E Street band do with a night off from performing with Bruce Springsteen?

While some music festivals want to be the biggest or the most influential, for Laneway, modesty becomes them as their continued success proves.

Few might have heard the hayseed novelty tune before, but we all knew what it meant in the shadow of phonegate.

With Beyonce expected to be around five months pregnant already, there is speculation she will not be able to perform at the festival in April.