Australia has a new awards ceremony set to honour women in music.

Billy McFarland has told a judge he "grossly underestimated the resources that would be necessary to hold an event of this magnitude".

A new Melbourne scultpure will attract more rock 'n' roll sightseers to AC/DC Lane.

Jessica Mauboy says We Got Love was chosen because it was a strong song with a simple message.

• Mogwai

Some adrenalin junkies ride massive ocean waves for thrills. Others seek their rush by surfing the epic soundscapes of Mogwai.

Kamasi Washington has received some heavy accolades in recent years - "the future of jazz" and "the jazz voice of Black Lives Matter," among them.

• The Rubens

A glimpse into the natural musical progression of The Rubens' latest work.

• Sabine Meyer and Alliage Quintett

The classical saxophone quartet has much to recommended it in terms of homogeneous balance, virtuosic agility and surprising capacity for both power and softness. However, it lacks a repertoire of significant music, and there is a certain sameness to the sonic textures, issues the Sabine Meyer and Alliage Quintett dealt with by appropriating the great music of other ensembles and adding a piano and the individuality of a great clarinettist.

• The Vampires

After 11 years the Vampires have hit upon a vein that's all their own.

Naima Amar Lopez is used to drawing a large, appreciative crowd when she stages her dramatic flamenco show in Pitt Street mall.

Nicole Car's debut as Violetta in Elijah Moshinsky's classic 1994 production of La Traviata is a significant rite of passage in her auspicious career trajectory.

Call them Cold Chisel or the Barking Spiders, the fans just can't get enough.

One of Australia's greatest jazz exports has died

Having notched up 11 studio albums and two decades as a solo performer, "Robbie F---ing Williams" - as he introduced himself - launched into the Sydney leg of his The Heavy Entertainment Show tour with gusto.

The clarinetist discusses her collaboration with the Alliage Quintett and other musical matters.

A clean-living Moby rocketed to fame after pushing electronica into the mainstream, Then the wheels fell off. Now he is sober again, creatively prolific and battling for animal rights.

Sticky Carpet: Stereophonics are touring Australia in April and May.

'It's quite hard to get it right – dumb enough that people can pick it up quickly, good enough to last years of gigs.'

The Breeders' All Nerve, Migos's Culture II, Blair Dunlop's Notes from an Island, Camp Cope's How to Socialise and Make Friends, Sally Whitwell's Philip Glass Complete Etudes for Solo Piano and Linsey Pollak and Lizzie O'Keefe's Dangerous Song - Blue

After the absurdist brilliance of Barrie Kosky's production of The Nose for Opera Australia (reviewed separately), the week's music continued to stretch the mind with Japanese drumming from Taikoz and the SSO, and sublime Tudor and Jacobean English music from the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.

Coping with the attention that comes when people connect with your music.

Savall shrinks the gulfs between Old World and New, between past and present.

Peter Bence - "the world's fastest piano player" according to The Guinness Book of Records - has enjoyed a stellar concert career in the past three years. Moscow one week, Zurich the next, Australian cities about to come.

Crass but polite, egotistical yet generous - what's not to love about this showman?