The humour may be hokey and the special effects not so special, but John Williams' score remains immediate and memorable.

Two worthy tributes paid to Allan Browne, just in not quite the right currency

Roger Waters' Us + Them concert toured the US for six months last year. Its centrepiece is a ruthless takedown of Donald Trump that casts the US president as the "big man, pig man" of Pink Floyd's 1977 song Pigs (Three Different Ones).

Dennis Edwards, who became a lead singer of the Temptations in 1968 as they embraced psychedelic funk and won Grammy Awards for the songs "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and "Cloud Nine", died on Thursday in Chicago. He was 74.

The good ship Laneway Festival moored on the west bank of the Maribyrnong River, and was eagerly greeted by a flood of hipsters jiving in the summer sun.

In 2003 you'd be hard-pressed to find an Australian commercial radio station that wasn't blasting Evanescence's Bring Me To Life.

His ballads about the downfall of mankind are clever and catchy.

Celine Dion will bring her Live 2018 tour to Australia in winter.

Musica Viva, Australia's oldest independent, professional performing arts organisation, is to launch a worldwide search to replace its CEO.

Composer Missy Mazzoli imagines the tales a 450-year-old double bass could tell.

In the latest jolt to the classical musical world, New York's Metropolitan Opera has fired the veteran British stage director John Copley after receiving a complaint about what the company described as "inappropriate behaviour in the rehearsal room".

Sticky Carpet: DZ Deathrays are popping the cork on new album Bloody Lovely.

The Now tour will visit Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, the Hunter Valley, Melbourne and Sydney.

Jim White and George Xylouris are one of contemporary music's weirdest duos.

There’s something about hearing de facto national anthem, Down Under, played by a Scotsman-turned-Australian, a few Cubans, a Peruvian and a Guatemalan-American.

Yes, that was amazing, Dave. Foo Fighters close Australian tour with a truly rocking show.

Tuning into Moses Sumney's often traumatic, yet tender songs.

"Over time it feels more natural. Now when we start writing about something it usually flows a lot quicker and it's a bit more pure. We have a clearer grasp of what we're feeling now."

Alice Ivy is savouring the lessons she's lerarned from soul music.

Interviewing Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie isn't like interviewing most people.

When Azniv Korkejian took on Bedouine she found she still couldn't avoid her full Armenian name.

Bruno Mars' magic lights up the 60th Grammy Awards at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Dream Wife's Dream Wife, David Tranchina's Grey Sky, The Bennies' Natural Born Chillers, Eileen Joyce's The Complete Studio Recordings, Rhye's Blood and The James Hunter Six's Whatever It Takes.

After a Grammys ceremony that saw female artists all but shut out of the major wins, viewers had one message for music's biggest awards show: #GrammysSoMale.