Sophia Brous wants you to hallucinate. Legally, of course, via the medium of performance.

After years of subtle subtweets and vague disses in interviews, Katy Perry has finally confirmed the obvious: She and Taylor Swift are feuding.

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Ryan Adams' Tivoli set ran the gamut from his 2000 debut Heartbreaker to his latest album Prisoner.

Life could have been so different for Baxter the Robot. A product of US company, Rethink Robotics, Baxter was designed to perform any dull, repetitive tasks no human would ever want to undertake.

Performers from around the world have begun reacting to news of a deadly explosion at Ariana Grande's concert at Manchester Arena in the UK.

Elton John's 1972 song Rocket Man, about a lonely astronaut on a mission to Mars, has been recast as a tale about a refugee cut adrift from his family in a video unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.

The 38-year-old British host of the Late, Late Show with James Corden delivered an emotional message upon learning news of the explosion at the Ariana Grande concert.

Nobuyuki Tsujii plays Chopin. Sydney Symphony. May 19. Opera House. ★★★★½

The electric shock rips Michaela Davies' left arm into the air before dropping like a dead weight on the double bass.

Melbourne International Jazz Festival: Kage dance theatre

Cher stunned the audience at the Billboard Music Awards by revisiting her 1989 hit If I Could Turn Back Time in the same outfit she wore for the original clip.

Homegrown superstars Sia, Flume and Keith Urban missing out on an armful of trophies at the Billboard awards.

Four players layer infinite depth into a Pollock-like sonic canvas

A year ago Amy Shark had a demo for a song called Adore on her laptop. She had no record label, no management and definitely no fans.

Soundgarden's Chris Cornell had sounded groggy and was slurring his words in a phone call to his wife.

With no spouse, daughter or son, a US judge has ruled that six siblings of pop music superstar Prince are the heirs to his vast estate, worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Harry Styles shows plenty of ambition on his solo debut, Danish group Mew exude confidence, the She-Devils imagine a Lynchian soundtrack and Kavisha Mazzella conjures up a dream world.

The wife of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell said on Friday that she did not believe the singer meant to kill himself, suggesting anxiety drugs he was taking might have played a role in his death.

A year ago, no one had heard of Amy Shark.

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The sudden death of Chris Cornell - one of grunge's last remaining 'Big Four' - is a huge loss.

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters drops the C-bomb on US President Donald Trump.

One reporter in the crowd said Cornell wasn't "mentally present" for his final time on stage.

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The lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave Chris Cornell has died in Detroit aged 52.