In an irresistibly catchy single from his collaborative album with Lance Ferguson, You Am I frontman Tim Rogers offers this rejoinder: ‘Hell yeah, I’m a try-hard / I try harder than you.’
From Donna Summer to Doctor Who, the world would sound very different without the groovy synthesiser that was invented 60 years ago.
Dennis Byron’s distinctive playing on Night Fever, You Should Be Dancin’ and the delicate minimalism of Too Much Heaven are works of rock art.
When the Smashing Pumpkins frontman touches down next month, he’ll be playing six shows backed by an Australian band he’s never played with before. Crazy brave, or just plain crazy?
The Midnight Oil frontman, former politician and environmentalist says the idea that Australia needs a more expensive and riskier technology when it has an abundance of sun, wind and flowing water is ‘a cruel joke’.
Family and friends of One Direction star Liam Payne, who died last month after falling from a Buenos Aires hotel room, have gathered for his funeral.
The crowning of Sydney indie pop duo Royel Otis was confirmed by the Australian music industry on Wednesday night, when it walked away with four ARIA Awards for its debut album | FULL WINNERS LIST
Crazy Rich Asians director John M. Chu’s adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is a visually stunning spectacle, brimming with star power and extravagance, but its sluggish pacing may leave some viewers gasping for restraint.
For this Canberra-born rock band, it’s been a whirlwind week: being introduced to stage by Eddie Vedder in Melbourne, then rehearsing for a debut ARIA Awards performance | WATCH
The British band’s 14th album finds The Cure in high romantic gear, with Robert Smith’s distinctive sob of a voice again proving itself one of the finest instruments in modern music.
Confessional Q+A: The ARIA Hall of Fame-inducted frontman of The Black Sorrows on joy, vegetarianism, money and good luck charms.
The seven Pigram brothers have been performing together since they were teenagers.
The ‘90s rockers stormed the stage at a Gold Coast stadium on Wednesday night 75 minutes later than scheduled – but any sense of crowd frustration quickly evaporated.
Bernie Peri was last seen at a night of karaoke in NSW’s central west; the next day the Elvis impersonator was found dead.
Its opening was greeted with arched eyebrows. But 10 years and many epic gigs later, the Brisbane venue has cemented its reputation as having the best onstage sound around.
The music legend appeared out of nowhere when he started tweeting back in September. Now fans are trying to figure out what he’s trying to say.
Molly Meldrum and Countdown single-handedly skyrocketed the local music scene and irrevocably influenced the lives of Australia’s youth … including me.
Hamas invaded Israel days after the release of singer and Jewish woman Deborah Conway’s autobiography. Instead of attending writers festivals and literary conversations, she was cancelled.
The One Direction singer, 31, had cocaine, alcohol and prescribed antidepressants in system when he died.
When Countdown began screening on November 8, 1974 – 50 years ago today – its host could not have known how the weekly music program would change his life.
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