David Le'aupepe wears his disadvantaged start to life like a talisman on his sleeve.

Breaking out as a soloist from a world dominating boy band is an exercise fraught in peril.

Simmons on Thursday stepped down from the companies he founded amid a new sexual misconduct allegation against him.

It was Sia's first Australian tour in five years, but you wouldn't have even known she was there.

The integrity of the ARIA awards has been called into question by one of its own judges.

Sticky Carpet: Thank you Malcolm Young, for the memories and the music you made.

A long-running dispute has taken an odd turn, with the US-based band blocking fans of the original Australian line-up from its website.

Several Australian music artists have received Grammy nominations but the music industry's biggest awards show looks like it will be a showdown between rap's old and new guards with hip-hop acts dominating the main categories.

Jazz master Antonio Sanchez is at Bird's Basement until December 3.

They were a bunch of long-haired, hard-rocking skate dudes from the California suburbs - and they never took themselves too seriously.

Downtown Boys bring a powerful political message to their music.

Flamboyant frontman Nic Offer has a point to make.

It looked set to be the year of the female at the ARIAs but a massive number of nominations failed to translate into wins for the ladies of Australian music.

In a different venue, a church bell ringing would have signalled the start of another AC/DC hit.

Greg Gonzalez of Cigarettes After Sex was on no-one's radar for years – then things went nuts on YouTube and The Handmaid's Tale.

This Cat's ageless songs help tell a fascinating life story.

Bruce Smeaton tinkers on his piano at home in Binalong and tells Cris Kennedy the secrets of film scores

Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes has given energy minister Josh Frydenberg a lashing and ordered him not to use his name in order to sell "shitty" policies. 

Singer Paulini has been roasted after appearing on Channel Ten's quiz show Have You Been Paying Attention.

In Coronation of Poppea, wickedness triumphs and virtue is destroyed.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' Who Built the Moon?, Lo Carmen's Lovers Dreamers Fighters, Stefano Bollani Trio's Mediterraneo, Mavis Staples' If All I Was Was Black, Daniil Trifonov's Chopin Evocation and King Crimson's Chicago.

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New Zealand artist Lorde played her final show of the year in Melbourne.

A local star is set to be crowned at Australian music's night of nights on Tuesday, but it's a feather-haired blow-in who's understandably sparking the most excitement at this year's ARIA Awards.

Morris Hayes recalls insane rehearsals spanning up to 72 hours and crazy demands as musical director of Prince's New Power Generation between 1992 and 2012.