Culture
Music
Legendary music venue shuts its doors
For more than a decade, the inner-city location has been at the heart of the local jazz scene.
- by Nick Galvin
Latest
What it takes to master ‘the best job in the world’
Benjamin Northey has been appointed the first professor of conducting at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
- by Nick Galvin
Sabrina Carpenter reveals alternative album cover ‘approved by God’
The original cover of the star’s upcoming album Man’s Best Friend sparked uproar. Now, like Kylie, Gaga and Christina Aguilera before her, she’s offered an alternative.
- by Nick Newling
Composer, conductor, Buddhist and model: Inside the restless mind of Eric Whitacre
The Grammy winner’s marriage of electronica and vocal music, Eternity in an Hour, is poised to make its Australian premiere.
- by Joyce Morgan
Banning phones at gigs? That’s a bad call
Sabrina Carpenter wants to ban phones at gigs. Why don’t we just ban joy, too?
- by Robert Moran
‘I felt uncomfortable the whole time’: Inside Lorde’s raw and risky return
Lorde leans into vulnerability on her raw new album, Virgin.
- by Jules LeFevre
It’s the Everest of music and Mark Isaacs has scaled it twice
The Sydney composer has just recorded his second symphony.
- by Matthew Westwood
Opinion
AI
By robots, for robots: The new soundtrack to our lives is giving me nightmares
It has already created millions of songs. Now it has emerged that AI music’s growth will come largely at the expense of human musicians.
- by Lionel Laurent
Rock legends AC/DC reveal Australian tour details
The Aussie royalty will paint the town black for the first time in nearly 10 years.
- by Nell Geraets
‘We have no choice’: Bar owners drive a levy to make sure the music won’t die
It’s not sexy, but the cost of insurance is one of the greatest challenges facing live music operators and festivals. Now one bar owner is taking a bold step to tackle it.
- by Karl Quinn
Concert tickets prices are skyrocketing. Fans have come up with a worrying solution
The flurry of international superstars touring Australia is prompting hundreds of thousands of music fans to find alternative ways to pay to avoid missing out.
- by Nick Newling
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