Trump conspiracists suspect Swift Super Bowl ‘plot’
The climax of the American football season is rigged to ensure the star’s boyfriend Travis Kelce is on the winning team so they can boost support for Joe Biden, so the theory goes.
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X halts Taylor Swift searches after explicit AI Images spread
Social-media platform X blocked searches about Taylor Swift days after explicit, digitally fabricated fakes of the singer began proliferating on the site.
Joni Mitchell to perform at Grammys for first time
The nine-time Grammy winner, who returned to performing last year after a 23-year hiatus, will play at the cermony for the very first time.
Sibling duo paints the town gold once again
Five years after breaking its Golden Guitar Award drought, Tasmanian country-rock act The Wolfe Brothers has once again led the winners’ pack in Tamworth. | FULL WINNERS LIST
Triple J and its increasingly unfamiliar Hottest 100
Just three Australian artists are expected to make the top 10 in this year’s countdown, as the once beloved alternative radio station deals with a dwindling audience and lost identity.
‘Birdman’ Hawk to soar high in a one-day-only world first
For one day only in the Queensland capital, skateboarding hero Tony Hawk will fly high above a crowd of fans at a world-first event to be held in one of Brisbane’s major music venues.
UK arts trailblazer perfectly at home in ‘radical’ Adelaide
Ruth Mackenzie’s Adelaide Festival program is a bit like going on safari. You might see elephants at the waterhole or you might not. Either way ‘we are going to take you on a journey’.
Radiohead offshoot flirts with jazz on experimental album No.2
The Smile can’t hope to completely shed associations with its famous sibling act, Radiohead — and with a release as singular and strong as Wall of Eyes, why should it?
Brothers join country’s galaxy of stars
Almost 20 years after they visited Tamworth as keen country music fans, Nick and Tom Wolfe are now firmly established as one of the genre’s leading acts.
Have Bach, will travel
Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson wanted to see what would happen if he spent a year travelling the world with a suitcase and the Goldberg Variations.
For these partners in life and music, no gig is too far
With its blend of sweetly sung indie pop and folk music, Sunday Lemonade was always going to stand out from the crowd of buskers at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
Fans sue Madonna after two-hour delay
The class action was instigated over a delayed start to the Brooklyn leg of the veteran pop queen’s Celebration Tour.
Meet Lisa O’Neill, ‘one of the great folk singers in the world’
Her fans include Margot Robbie, Iggy Pop, Cillian Murphy and Woodford Folk Festival founder Bill Hauritz, and last month she steeled herself to perform at Shane MacGowan’s funeral.
Meg Washington: ‘I have so much jazz in my bones’
The Brisbane-based singer, songwriter and screenwriter on adapting a film version of a Paul Kelly classic, becoming an ‘art machine’, and voicing a teaching dog in ‘badass’ cartoon Bluey.
The rising star inspiring a Taylor Swift-like fervour
Fans in Brisbane lined up for 48hrs prior to Gracie Abrams’ show, her pop pedigree emboldened by her friendship with the most popular performer in the world today.
Charting dark side of Moon’s zany wit
Keith Moon, the Who’s wild drummer, deserves to be remembered for his comedy as well as for music and tragedy.
‘I didn’t buy the red Porsche or run away with the secretary’
For his 50th birthday, Neil Wilson gathered a few dozen friends and relatives at his family home. His costume change – revealing his new career move – caught everyone by surprise.
Can’t help falling in love with Elvis Express
As the clock strikes 8.33am on Thursday morning, a peculiar crowd in studded white jumpsuits and aviator sunglasses will emerge on the platforms of Sydney’s Central station.
Festival revival for Big Name musos
Warumpi Band original member Sammy Butcher is the guiding spirit of a new musical that revisits the group’s hits including My Island Home and Blackfella/Whitefella.
Sinead O’Connor died of ‘natural causes’
A London coroner has issued a short statement about the death of the award-winning singer best known for her cover of Nothing Compares 2 U.
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