Vital as ever, Pearl Jam prove they’re not yesterday’s men
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.
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.
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.
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.
With his rock band Calypso Cora, Finojet Rudd is at the start of what he hopes is a long career in music – but when it comes to studying persistence, the roots of his inspiration began at home.
Four years ago, before King Stingray’s live debut, none of them knew where this music might take them; the prospect of playing at venues filled with up to 15,000 Americans would have felt like a pipe dream. But now they’re here.
Familiarity can breed contempt in popular music, to the point where you may not be sure if you really need to hear Khe Sanh again. But you’ve never heard it like this.
Bluey’s cartoon storytelling centres on play and the relationships between young children and their parents – and having recently become a first-time father, composer Joff Bush will now be drawing from real life.
In the early years of his music career, John Farnham’s life was dominated by a manipulative, egomaniacal manager whose control over the young star was so absolute that he was secretly plying him with drugs: amphetamines to keep him working all night, followed by sleeping pills in his morning coffee to knock him out cold.
From an apocalypse-obsessed church to a busy family home, it’s been a long road for songbird Sarah Blasko, whose seventh album deals with highly personal subject matter.
At 69, it’s tricky for Paul Kelly to find firsts – but next year, the ARIA Hall of Fame-inducted artist will do something he’s never done before.
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