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Evan Dando has a date at Howler.

Sticky Carpet: Evan Dando touring, Triple R's April amnesty, Underground Lovers back with a new album and more.

Sydney's top gigs

Singer-songwriter Emily Barker provided the theme tune for <i>Wallander</i>.

Bluesman Eugene Hideaway Bridges was five when he started playing around his home state of Louisiana with his father. It got him used to a career spent travelling the world with his music, which brings him to these shores once more.

Album reviews

The New Pornographers, <i>Whiteout Conditions</i>.

Album reviews: New Pornographers, Future Island, Smith Street Band, Karen Elson and Mount Eerie.

What would Brahms have done?

Brahms: The great composer wrought subtle and profound changes with his works.

The title of Avner Dorman's orchestral work, After Brahms: three intermezzi for orchestra, captures not just the sense that the style of the works is modelled on that of the earlier composer (specifically, his late piano pieces), but also what it means to compose and hear music after the subtle and profound changes that Brahms ushered into the musical language.

The enjoyable ultimately outweighs the contentious

21 Pilots: Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph

Depending on your age, watching a Twenty One Pilots show feels like either the equivalent of an adult looking at a teenager and shaking their head, or of a young adult enjoying the angst and drama of being a young adult.

Sydney's top gigs

Jazz singer Emma Pask plays an intimate hometown show.

Emma Pask, The Waifs, Repressed Records and RIP Society Duel Gig, Ukelypstix, Renee Geyer

Sticky Carpet

Queens of the Stone Age are booked for Splendour in the Grass.

NGV's live Friday Night Series with Van Gogh, Splendour in the Grass line-up, Bill Callahan and more.