Symphonic majesty of Sibelius in good hands
Finnish conductor Osmo Vanska’s deft handling allows the music to ebb and flow naturally and effortlessly.
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New stuff, old stuff: trio rides a long, wild wave of creativity
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.
For teeny tiny sisters, big problems are best tackled in song
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.
‘Luckiest band ever’: Oils set for the silver screen
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.
Rock ‘n’ roll meets opera as women in music unite
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.
Sixteen thoughts about Taylor Swift’s new songs
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.
Taylor Swift fans in frenzy over surprise second album
Two hours after releasing her highly anticipated new album, The Tortured Poets Department, the pop star pulled an extraordinarily well-hidden rabbit out of her hat. | REVIEW
Mark Seymour: Hunter, Collector … Boxer?
When you’re invited to watch as one of Australia’s great rock ’n’ roll frontmen dons his gloves and steps into the squared circle, there’s only one feasible answer: yes. Always yes.
There are plenty of power publicists. But only one works for Taylor Swift.
From ‘1989’ through ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ she has fiercely guarded Swift’s reputation: ‘The devil works hard, but Tree Paine works harder’
No fade to black for Amy Winehouse
As the singer’s biopic is released, Sean O’Neill explores what happened to her disgraced ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, and formidable father, Mitch.
The Academy came back from the dead … now it wants to go home
The Australian National Academy of Music is the top-flight arts institution which offers young musicians training ‘unlike anything in the world’. How could it possibly be homeless?
‘I love singing with her’: Emma Donovan raises her voice
‘Her sound seems to come up from down in the earth,’ says Paul Kelly of Emma Donovan. ‘Like all great soul singers, her voice holds both joy and sorrow simultaneously.’
Blood promises, spit and love: how teen spirit solidified gang of four
Entire musical trends and scores of subgenres have come and gone during that 13-year gap between Jebediah’s album releases. What’s kept the long-running Perth quartet together?
Beyonce swings big with Cowboy Carter — and misses
At no point does the US pop superstar justify this country-tinged album’s exhaustive 78-minute length: it’s a record bloated with superfluous interludes and half-formed ideas.
People in class houses couldn’t throw Stones out
Redlands, the 16th-century Sussex farmhouse owned by Keith Richards, was the real star of the band’s 1967 drugs bust.
Jeremy Allen White to play Bruce Springsteen in biopic
The Emmy-winning The Bear star is all-but confirmed to play The Boss in a film based on the making of his landmark 1982 album, Nebraska.
All that music going for a song
Tech and streaming have made writing, recording and distributing a pop song easier than ever, yet reaching an audience of millions won’t necessarily make you rich.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and son named in sexual assault lawsuit
A woman alleged she was drugged and groped while working on board a yacht rented by the rapper
Australian dance music mainstays return refreshed on album No.6
The runaway success of Pnau’s 2021 remix of Elton John’s song Cold Heart took the trio’s profile to new heights, and its global chart triumph opened doors for fresh collaborations.
Bjorn Ulvaeus acquires KISS catalogue for $455m
A Swedish group co-founded by ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus has acquired the music catalogue, name and likeness of KISS and plans to produce a movie about the legendary rock band.
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