The alter ego of Helpmann Award-winning cabaret performer Sarah Ward is releasing her first album.

Isabella Manfredi has shared her experiences of sexual harassment in the music industry

Even with an entire warehouse for a wardrobe, eventually something has to give, which is why Opera Australia will stage the garage sale to end all garage sales this weekend, with more than 2000 wild and wacky outfits for sale.

The Pussycat Dolls have refuted claims their chart-topping pop group was essentially a "prostitution ring".

Melbourne Festival: The outrage from a vocal minority in the audience was a bit like yelling at Picasso because his nude's not pink.

Themes of loss and addiction were interspersed with brighter moments.

Braithwaite will be inducted into the ARIA hall of fame after a career spanning four decades.

Melbourne Festival: The Australian virtuoso pianist delivered a superlative performance that stands out among an otherwise drab music program.

Is Steve McDonald one of the hardest working men in showbiz?

There's plenty to see and do in Canberra this weekend.

An innovative new program is bringing together an impressive list of the city's major cultural institutions in an effort to encourage teenagers to "have a go" at cultural activities such as theatre, visual art, music and theatre.

Sticky Carpet on who to see, top picks albumwise and what we're listening to.

Natalie Williams' Chambers of the South was inspired by a photo by astrophotographer David Malin.

A former member of the Pussycat Dolls has claimed the chart-topping pop group was essentially a "prostitution ring".

The Sydney Symphony's Carriageworks series has been one of its most successful ventures into contemporary musical innovation since its Twentieth Century Orchestra series in the late 1980s.

Melbourne Festival 2017: An unconventional upbringing provides rich fodder for weaving story through song.

Icelandic singer Bjork says she quit acting for one year after she was sexually harassed by a Danish director, who was enabled by the industry and his staff "to touch and harass his actresses at will".

Music writer Iain Shedden, who played with the seminal Australian punk band The Saints, has died aged 60.

The fourth iteration of the Americana-themed festival saw Justin Townes Earle return as headliner.

The first trailer for Blade Runner 2049 was filled with familiar imagery from Ridley Scott's original 1982 film - giant neon advertisements, a smoggy noirish future ... Harrison Ford. But it wouldn't have been nearly as potent a nostalgia injection if it hadn't been all bathed in the old film's warm, buzzy, synthesiser hymn by Va

Both main creators of this construct managed to achieve a moving, cogent experience from materials that looked disparate on paper.

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL

Drum and dance square off in a timber-framed glass box at Newport's Substation as part of Melbourne Festival.

Music curator Brian Ritchie says Mona has made its mark on Hobart; now it's Launceston's turn.