Australian music
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.
- by Karl Quinn
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Opinion
Property development
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?
- by Tom Compagnoni
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.
- by Karl Quinn
‘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.
- by Karl Quinn
The 10 best albums of 2024
It was a Brat summer, but it was also a Short n’ Sweet winter.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Annabel Ross, Jules LeFevre, Nick Buckley and Robert Moran
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.
- by Neil McMahon
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.
- by Rod Yates
Analysis
Music festivals
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.
- by Karl Quinn
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.
- by Linda Morris
‘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.
- by Michael Dwyer
Dicey Topics
Good Weekend
‘It does something to the soul’: Meg Washington on the power of singing en masse
The singer-songwriter discusses why she makes music, not being smart with money – and her hatred of leaf blowers.
- by Benjamin Law
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