After a wealthy hotel owner in Egypt sent a private jet to pick up the siblings for a last-minute appearance, the Stones were made to wait until 2am to perform. The reason for the extended delay blew them away.
Months after the US singer’s mega tour left our shores — and the Australian music industry fuming — senior artist managers think they have a solution.
The Grammy-winning rapper, who is touring Australia this month, takes aim at President Joe Biden and characterises Israel as ‘a state that’s gotta rely on an apartheid system’
A volley of diss tracks earns both rappers career boosts and concern about the dark nature of the accusations
The wife of two of the Rolling Stones – Brian Jones and then Keith Richards – personified 1960s excess. Now her children want to correct the record.
As the war in Gaza threatens to overshadow the glitzy international song competition, the Adelaide duo Electric Fields hope to unite a fractured audience.
The country’s National Security Council advised Israelis planning to travel to Sweden’s third largest city during the contest from May 7 to 11 to reconsider their plans.
Australian country music’s most awarded Golden Guitar winner on musical therapy, personal crises and the ‘Fight Club car’ that keeps him young.
When Taylor Swift played to about 630,000 people on her seven-date stadium tour in February, Paul Kelly watched from the crowd. Missy Higgins, too. Then an old initiative was reborn.
The Teskey Brothers’ APRAs win saw them follow in the footsteps of sibling duos such as Malcolm and Angus Young of AC/DC, and Neil and Tim Finn of Crowded House | FULL LIST OF WINNERS
Loving ABBA was once a love that dared not speak its name – certainly not among 13-year-old boys in the playground. But 50 years after Eurovision victory ABBA is finally supercool.
The nine-time Grammy and dual Oscar winner will play 12 East Coast dates in support of her forthcoming third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.
Mike Pinder was was innovative keyboardist and founding member of the Moody Blues and wrote many of the group’s most progressive and interesting songs.
She’s the poet laureate for the TikTok generation, but Taylor Swift needs a team around her who can tell her when it’s time to shut up.
Finnish conductor Osmo Vanska’s deft handling allows the music to ebb and flow naturally and effortlessly.
Three simple words spoken during the creation of its second album helped Brisbane-born alternative rock act Regurgitator survive for three decades and release its 10th album, Invader.
How do you explain big topics like climate change to a young audience? For this Melbourne duo, the solution was simple: pair the information with chords and melodies, and put it in a song.
The knotty, defiant story of Sydney rock band Midnight Oil is set to be told as a feature-length documentary film, with the world premiere to take place at the Sydney Film Festival on June 5.
Hosted in Brisbane since 2018, the Australian Women in Music Awards highlights the achievements of female music industry workers across 18 categories, with opera to debut later this year.
This chapter of Taylor Swift’s life has been the deepest gold mine for new material, inspiring a huge, 31-song double album which surprised fans on Friday night.
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