Coldplay: Moon Music review — uncool, unsubtle and I can’t help but like it
Coldplay are back with Chris Martin sounding like a groovy vicar.
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Rumour has it, The Cruel Sea’s retirement is over
When the award-winning Sydney-born rock band reunited last year for its first run of concerts in a decade, guitarist Danny Rumour had a surprise gift for Tex Perkins: new song ideas.
Pianist sues Melbourne Symphony Orchestra over Gaza cancellation
Jayson Gillham claims the cancellation of one of his concerts amounted to discrimination based on political belief or activity.
‘The biggest secret in entertainment wasn’t a secret at all’
Three-thousand people have now come forward with allegations against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, lawyers say. As the ‘wall of silence’ crumbles around him, the picture emerging is horrific.
Original and audacious take on the Joker is compelling viewing
Joaquin Phoenix won a best actor Oscar for the 2019 prelude to this film, and there is every chance he will go back-to-back with his tour de force performance in this astonishing sequel.
Pink Floyd sell catalogue for nearly $600m
The $A581 million deal is understood to include the band’s recorded music as well as their name and the artists’ ‘likeness’.
Arnhem sisters doing it for themselves
Getting nine-piece rock act Ripple Effect Band on the road is no small endeavour, but its hunger for taking its songs to the people is of a piece with the band’s goal of breaking down gender barriers.
Kris Kristofferson, country singer and Hollywood star, dead at 88
He was known as the hyper-literate hillbilly who made his own rules, with his songs transforming the genre in the Seventies.
‘A perfect love’: How Kasey Chambers bounced back from heartbreak
The darling of Australian country music has always worn her heart on her sleeve. But finding love – with a bandmate 19 years her junior – is helping her hit the highest notes of her musical career.
‘Freak-offs’ and parties – now Diddy’s in a cell
Rapper Sean Combs partied with the A-list and met royalty. Prosecutors say he’s also a sex trafficker who coerced women into performing sex acts that he then filmed.
‘I wanted to give up on being a musician so bad’: Chad Lawson
Pianist, podcaster and composer Chad Lawson, 49, on the joy of waiting tables and touring with Julio Iglesias.
Keith Urban gets High on his euphoric love of music
This album’s roadtrip aesthetic follows a timeworn formula: it demands to be played loud while you sing the choruses with the windows down as you travel to new places.
Cold Chisel at 50: battered but unbowed ahead of sold-out tour
Not so long ago, tour rehearsals for Cold Chisel involved imbibing high-octane stimulants so that this famously hard-living, hard-charging rock band could burn out stages nationwide. Things are a little different these days.
How death rocks: no sex, no drugs and definitely no Vicious
Sex Pistol Sid Vicious didn’t merit a mention when he died – nor did Buddy Holly. Now the colourful lives and deaths of pop stars are a staple of its pages, writes The Times obituary editor.
ARIA Awards 2024: indie duo Royel Otis leads nominations
The Sydney group will battle it out against heavyweights like Kylie Minogue and Troye Sivan for Album of the Year.
Titanique turns tragedy into laughs
Celine Dion’s songs will go on, and on, if the newest hit musical about one of the great maritime tragedies is anything to go by.
‘I was completely and utterly overwhelmed’: Comedian Brian Nankervis on meeting Bob Dylan
Writer, TV/radio host and comedian BRIAN NANKERVIS on fate, meeting Bob Dylan and what keeps him sane.
Jane Schoenbrun on their gut-punch trans horror
“Growing up, the art I cared for was the primary emotional relationship in my life,” says the director of I Saw the TV Glow, a coming-of-age story about two dysphoric teens searching for identity through the screen.
In excess: Keith Urban’s musical highs amid hard-earned sobriety
It’s easy to look at him and see a man who appears to have it all, including a movie star wife — a fine recipe for writing off an artist who’s long been one of Australia’s most successful musical exports. This, however, is a mistake.
Kylie takes on the world (again)
Just a few years ago it seemed Kylie Minogue’s career was on the downslope. Now, she will soon embark on her biggest world tour since 2011, with a new album to be released next month.
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