Album reviews: No let up for Lorde
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Latest releases from Lorde, Buckingham/McVie, Laurel Halo, My Friend the Chocolate Cake and Jason Isbell.
Latest releases from Lorde, Buckingham/McVie, Laurel Halo, My Friend the Chocolate Cake and Jason Isbell.
It was only back in March when the Sydney electronic music festival Days Like This was slammed for its lack of female artists on the bill. A month later, Brisbane rockers Regurgitator dropped off an Australian National University line-up for its lack of women and non-binary talent alongside them. Coupled with the significant male bias in those who head labels, those earning the biggest chunk of APRA royalties, and end-of-year song and album lists, it's no surprise female and female-identifying artists feel it needs to be addressed straight up.
It's the Australian tour we've been waiting nearly 25 years for. Although one city will be waiting a good while longer.
Prodigy of iconic '90s New York rap duo Mobb Deep has died, aged 42.
After a decade toiling on their sound, two Melbourne siblings have turned the Teskey Brothers into the name on everyone's lips.
The singer describes a big change she has seen in music since the '80s.
Grigoryan brothers are guitarists with words, neo-soul singer SZA releases a long-anticipated debut, American jazz drummer Tina Raymond assesses the state of her country through music and electronic group Thrupence show some variety.
This "classical" group don't see divisions, they see only new lessons to learn and styles to absorb, from minimalism to tango to folk songs.
From Mental As Anything to timeless rockers Icehouse, we have live music covered.
Twenty years since their breakthrough debut album, Grinspoon are excited to take the band on tour again.
Video has emerged of US rapper YG demanding female fans take their tops off at an all-ages concert in Brisbane on Saturday.
A Melbourne band has been forced to publicly deny misconduct allegations against one of its members.
The program's capping-stone came in the Shostakovich: a splendid technical accomplishment without apparent flaw across all five movements.
Each variation here tells, through amusing musical mimicry, a story from Cervante's classic novel.
After 20 years, Paul Grabowsky and Simon Barker are increasing the musical options rather than shutting them down.
The soprano demonstrated unerring accuracy in the composer's tensile upper-line arcs and rapid ornamental flourishes, as well as having a creamy fullness of timbre.
John Lennon's 1971 song Imagine is considered one of his masterpieces. Rolling Stone once called it his "greatest musical gift to the world."
Sticky carpet: Kimbra comes to Supersense, Husky reschedules shows, Sticky's album of the week and more.
Brisbane's Major Leagues are sending out a dreamy, jangly signal to indie-pop loners everywhere.
New releases from Beth Ditto, Jim Lawrie, Kevin Morby, SZA and Dan Auerbach.
Two years ago, Irishman Jonny Bongo was running a pub quiz in Liverpool, England, but not your average pub quiz. "It had loads of stupid elements to it, and the night would always end with a rave, dance offs and the stupidest questions I could think of."
If you haven't already bought a ticket, you probably won't be seeing Lorde perform in Canberra.
The acclaimed singer has taken her new songs "out of the studio and into the real world", she says.
Still awkward but now channelling Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno, Beth Orton is doing something new with old forms.
Just when you thought the lengthy saga of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize win had finally ended, it takes another entertaining turn.
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