Lorde's new album, Melodrama, is brilliant
Melodrama is nothing to be frightened of when you can put it in songs that can carry the weight.
Since joining Fairfax in 1992, Bernard has been an editor and written on education, roads and local politics. These days, he specialises in music and is the senior music writer and reviewer.
Melodrama is nothing to be frightened of when you can put it in songs that can carry the weight.
Still awkward but now channelling Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno, Beth Orton is doing something new with old forms.
Even with a full band and backing vocalists, the control and class of the quiet English singer stood out.
What's in a name? Oliver Perry is anything but dumb, his musical life as D D Dumbo about to go worldwide. Because, or despite, the name?
The one-time One Direction star backs up November shows with more next year while the Kiwi superstar comes out in November to play under the stars.
If you've got some flamboyance and some front, anything is possible, even getting the most famous scream in Australian music on your album.
The young electro-pop artist thinks she's waited 200 lifetimes for this opportunity. That's why she is taking charge of it all.
Hip-hop trio Bliss n Eso turn up their noses at the political fixation on 'us and them'.
While the visuals, sound and songs impressed, if you're looking for the woman within, all that glitters is not Goldfrapp.
His baritone and pared back storytelling, and maybe some Tim Tams, made something special from ordinary things.
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