Rock festival Download, made famous in its original home Donnington Park, touches down in Melbourne next year.

If there was a textbook called Working Around Your Limitations, Drake's Boy Meets World tour would be among the prime examples.

It has been a breakthrough year for new kid on the block Khalid Robinson.

Stevie Nicks' voice is a thing to behold.

The pop star was denounced by civil liberty groups after attempting to silence a blogger over an unfavourable article.

The heart of Frederic Chopin, pickled in a jar of alcohol and then encased in a stone pillar in Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, Poland, shows the Polish composer died from complications of tuberculosis, according to an early version of an article published by the American Journal of Medicine.

By 11 she'd played with Oscar Peterson, but this drummer has never been one for resting on her laurels

Happy birthday to "Australia's answer to Mozart".

Eddie Rayner has revived his orchestral arrangements to classic Split Enz songs - now with added 'groove'.

The sun was shining on this regional city, bringing out the best in this annual festival.

Israeli-American jazz-pop singer Noa is about to sing her song of peace in her 50th country, writes Michael Dwyer.

Maturity of musical understanding between all four players shone through the performance.

As Midnight Oil neared the end of their massive eight-month world tour, all was right with the world.

This was Balkan music propelled by an appropriately primal force.

Under associate conductor Benjamin Northey the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra delivered a full-bodied performance.

The band is just one of those friendships that just picks up where we left off, says Suzie Higgie.

The disco act is supposed to be all about love and fun, but now two tribes of Village People are facing off in an ugly legal battle that can have only one winner.

Leaving aside Jet, Nic Cester is back with something different, and brilliant.

When Stevie Nicks closes the shows on her Australian tour with her 1981 hit Edge of Seventeen, it will hold a particularly special meaning for the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll.

"I don't want to be cheesy, but it's really nice when you meet a kid who talks about losing a parent and it's your song they played while dealing with it. That's seriously cool."

When singer Sam Smith rocketed to international fame at 22, he found himself catapulted into "a very thrilling life".

The art of shoegazing

Sydney pianist Emma Stephenson has won the 2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowship thanks to her striking flare for composing.

A 60th birthday is often seen as one of those events that it is better to quietly skate over, perhaps with only a small celebration involving close friends or a partner. But in the case of Elena Kats-Chernin, one of Australia's most eminent composers, that particular milestone was never going to be allowed to slip by unnoticed.