Culture
Music
Meet the supergroup giving the middle finger to the Aussie music industry
New hip-hop supergroup 3% are taking an urgent, raw and honest approach to topics such as land reparations and Indigenous deaths in custody.
- by Gemma Grant
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Your five must-see gigs for September
This month we have psychedelic pop, garage rock, soulful pop and more from some stellar homegrown talent.
- by James Jennings
Opinion
Pop music
Anyone excited about the Oasis comeback has taken too many Class A drugs
Lads, Britpop’s ancient history – and you weren’t that good anyway.
- by Ben Coady
‘I might need to go to emergency’: Oasis superfans in race for tour tickets
Oasis fans are making plans to be there when Manchester’s famous Gallagher brothers are reunited on stage.
- by Martin Boulton and Frances Howe
Simone Young has big plans for 2025
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra chief conductor has taken the wraps off next year’s program.
- by Nick Galvin
The new album from this superstar is pop at its most fun, fizzy and sex-forward
On Short n’ Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter leans all the way into her bawdy brand of frothy pop.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
‘The great wait is over’: Gallagher brothers bury the hatchet for Oasis tour
Noel and Liam Gallagher have ended several days of intense speculation, revealing Oasis will return to the stage in 2025.
- by Martin Boulton
Definitely, maybe the most rock’n’roll band ever: Why Oasis matter
Part theatre, part poetry and purely for the people. As Britpop’s self-declared kings will tell you themselves, they are really all that.
- by Karl Quinn
MSO managing director departs, Peter Garrett to lead independent review
After weeks of controversy and a vote of no confidence from its own musicians, the managing director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has left the organisation.
- by Gemma Grant and Elizabeth Flux
Are Oasis getting back together? Everything we know about the rumoured reunion
After decades of public feuds, Noel and Liam Gallagher are teasing a joint announcement.
- by Meg Watson
This music journalist amassed 50,000 records. Now he’s selling all of them
Renowned music journalist Glenn A. Baker is auctioning off his collection of tens of thousands of records and other music collectables.
- by Frances Howe