The didgeridoo helped a Japanese musician recover his memory and will to live.

Sydney hip-hop gang Thundamentals are on a mission to reach their community in real time, one phone call at a time.

Chinese, African, Iranian and Western music will all be featured in this concert at Llewellyn Hall.

Gretta Ray and Anslie Wills play St Kilda's Festival Sunday, Nashville Pussy bring their southern rock back, Kit Warhurst and more.

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

After reaching breaking point, something had to change, so the band split up to write new songs and found their way to higher ground.

Rag'n'Bone Man didn't have anything to write about when he was 18. At 32 that's all changed with debut album Human.

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.

Blackalicious are doing it for the fans, but more than ever they are performing for themselves as well.

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. 

Album reviews: Tinariwen, the Braves, Syd, the Lachy Doley Group and Fractures.

Nathaniel Rateliff is an avowed man of the people, but growing division among them gives him fear.

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

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Thirty-five years since Goanna burst onto the Australian music scene, Shane Howard still has the drive to tell people's stories and stand up for what he believes.

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.