Dangerous ground: reconciling the two sides to Michael Jackson
In more ways than one, Roman Banks took on the most difficult role on Broadway when he was cast as the treasured and troubled pop icon in MJ: The Musical.
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Blue skies ahead for Bluesfest as festival promoter changes tune
When music festival director Peter Noble announced in August that Bluesfest 2025 would mark the finale of the long-running event, he was near the end of his tether. What’s changed?
Sandy Bash returns to desert roots with Williamson sunset gig
While this Queensland tourist attraction is taking a breather for its 2025 edition, organisers have booked one performer for a sunset concert to mirror the desert gig that set it all in motion.
Tina’s unchained melody joins national treasury
Tina Arena’s signature song has been named as one of 10 new additions to Sounds of Australia, a collection of nationally significant audio recordings.
Jack White gives an emphatic lesson in textbook rock ‘n’ roll
Anyone grumbling that rock ‘n’ roll is dead ‘n’ buried needs to park themselves in front of this man and his exceptional band.
Forty-four years after heartbreak hotel, Iva seeks his long-lost axe
For 44 years, Icehouse frontman Iva Davies has been mourning the loss of a dear friend. All these years later, he’s hoping to be reunited – and you may be able to help him.
Kelly applauds film ‘mutation’ of his song How to Make Gravy
On Sunday, Paul Kelly’s 1996 Christmas song — now a treasured Australian classic — will cross creative disciplines when a film adaptation begins streaming on Binge.
Trying on try-hard as an insult? Try again, say these try-hards
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.’
When Billy Corgan met The Delta Riggs
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?
Peter Garrett on the ‘high-risk’, ‘cruel joke’ of nuclear energy
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’.
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