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Frenzee at the Tote (clockwise from top left): Apollonia, Adonis, and Nikos Xylouris.

Dad’s a world music legend. Now the kids are making their mark – as punks

The Xylouris siblings have entered the family business, playing traditional Cretan music, but with a sideline that’s all their own.

  • Karl Quinn

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Congrats Sydney, you just bulldozed your own legacy

AC/DC are the biggest thing ever to come out of Australia. So why did we just flatten their childhood home?

  • Tom Compagnoni
Finn Keane, left, and Rohan Sforcina, whose business Head Gap Recording Studios was destroyed in a blaze on Friday morning.

Music community rallies after recording studio, guitar maker gutted in suspect blaze

Head Gap, which has won ARIA and Music Victoria awards for its work with the likes of Courtney Barnett and Paul Kelly, has been left in ruins along with a guitar workshop.

  • Karl Quinn
Jimmy Barnes with his daughter Katy Lee Carroll.

‘A wonderful woman’: Jimmy Barnes unveils another grown-up child

The rock’n’roll legend has made something of a habit of discovering grown-up children he didn’t know he had.

  • Karl Quinn
Charli XCX’s Brat might’ve ruled, but these other artists also created our favourite listening this year.

The 10 best albums of 2024

It was a Brat summer, but it was also a Short n’ Sweet winter.

  • Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Annabel Ross, Jules LeFevre, Nick Buckley and Robert Moran
Melbourne band Yacht Rock Revival.

Yacht rock – the genre you had no idea you knew so well

The name was coined as a joke in the early 2000s, but this genre of pop music is fast developing a serious fan base.

  • Neil McMahon
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Hard-Ons

Wild, talented and loud – is this the most Aussie band ever?

From early beginnings at a Punchbowl school the Hard-Ons won fans around the world.

  • Rod Yates
The Bluefest crowd in 2022.

In Bluesfest we trust? The art, and cost, of Peter Noble’s backflip

At a time when many music festivals are doing it tough, comments by Bluesfest founder Peter Noble have done no favours to the sector.

  • Karl Quinn
The Boys Vocal Program has been run by the Department of Education for more than decade.

Focus on NAPLAN stifles arts and music education: report

Perceptions that art and music are “bludge” subjects are among factors depriving NSW students of a well-rounded arts and music education, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

  • Linda Morris
King Stingray’s tour of the US has been filled with “crazy cool” moments.

‘Fighting the good fight’: King Stingray finds new ears for an enduring campaign

They may have new-found fame in the US (and partied at the NBA), but the Yolngu surf rock band’s heart remains in the Northern Territory.

  • Michael Dwyer

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