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Charli XCX’s late-night masterpiece Brat is her best album yet
Texturally brash and genuinely affecting, the pop iconoclast’s new album is a must-hear.
- by Jules LeFevre
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Performing arts
Unseen for 60 years: Lost Beatles tape unearthed at secondhand market
Sydney filmmaker and former musician Greg Perano bought an old 8mm film that contained live footage from the legendary Sydney Stadium gigs for $11.
- by Michael Dwyer
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Review
Settle down, Swifties – the Beatles are still the biggest thing to hit Australia
Looking beyond the headlines and focusing on the Eras Tour’s Australian leg in isolation, it’s worth noting a few sober facts now that we’ve all, ahem, shaken off the excitement.
- by Tom Compagnoni
This wildly popular music is a source of pride and sadness
Nearly 25 years on, Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man remains as relevant as ever.
- by Nick Galvin
This superstar DJ looks to go supernova with her strategic but edgy debut
Chart hits, festival slots, a fashion line, and finally a debut album – South Korean DJ Peggy Gou is a phenomenon.
- by Annabel Ross
Rapper at centre of ‘white devil’ school song controversy addresses furore
A song from Indigenous rapper Birdz was banned from a Sydney primary school this week. But he says it’s been taught inside classrooms for years.
- by Meg Watson
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‘What is it, 1991?’: Prominent rapper slams move to ban controversial song
One of Australia’s biggest hip-hop artists has slammed comments from the NSW government, after a Birdz song was withdrawn from rotation at a Sydney school.
- by Meg Watson
The best gigs to check out this June
Here’s our pick of the gigs to catch in a packed month of music
- by James Jennings
Please stop forcing me to sing Sweet Caroline - you’re ruining sport
Some kid named Caroline gets born in Boston, and 27 years later I can’t have a civilised half-time without being forcibly drafted into a mass singalong.
- by David Free
If the Yarra could make music, this is what it would sound like
An ethereal soundscape in Melbourne’s CBD begins the moment the sun grazes the horizon – and no two listeners will hear the same work.
- by John Bailey
Sky Ferreira emerges after 10 years of ‘being erased’ by record label drama
The cult pop enigma returns to Australian stages for Vivid Live in Sydney and Rising in Melbourne.
- by Robert Moran