Sheffield’s finest return to Australia in 17 days, showcasing the latest incarnation of a band whose members are scattered around the...

Back in Australia from this Monday, Lily Allen has an autobiography, a comeback third album, and most recently a pop chart bothering fourth record. That’s a fair story so far of rise and fall back and rise again. As Wind Back Wednesday recalls, a decade ago there was already one big wave she was riding and her 2009 shows in Australia were a sign that there might just be a lot more to talk about. _______________________________ LILY A

The most recent album from Australian duo Dead Can Dance, Dionysus was one of the best records of 2018, and longlisted for the Australian...

This week has been filled with debating the pros and cons of one of the ubiquitous names of the 1980s, with people reliving their glory...

There’ll be some 2018 best-of-the-year things coming your way soon: look out in the next week for favourite albums (including links to...

Last week, Air Supply, the Australian group with massive success in the 1970s that nobody wants to talk about because they’re not even as...

As the Freddie Mercury/Queen film Bohemian Rhapsody continues to inspire debate in households (in ours, one says shockingly bad, one says...

From trumpets on high and murmurings on the wind, news has come that Australia’s biggest, brightest, longest-lasting and – yes – most...

It was announced last Friday that early next year Melbourne’s pop music heroes, Icecream Hands, will reissue – on vinyl and CD – their...

While we’re having a bit of a run at some modern folk with deep and old roots, via Lisa O’Neill’s new album and the thinking behind the...

Photo by Jamie Williams As the musical lineup for the next Sydney Festival is announced today, here’s a chance to take a brief step back...

Photo by Danielle Smith It’s like she never left. Or is that time hasn’t changed at all? Lady Gaga continues to rake in not just box...

Having suddenly discovered a social and political voice – though as one cynic noted, only after she had sold her American tour tickets –...

In the second stab of a mini Marilyn fest – check out last month's’s foray into the bowels of a MM concert here – we go further back...

With his return to the studio and the stage in the past year, Marilyn Manson has reaffirmed everything you ever thought about him – good...

Singer, guitarist, songwriter, Anna Calvi released her new album, Hunter, last week, dealing frankly with the boundary between reality...

Next week Paul Simon will release In The Blue Light, an album reworking some of his songs he thought “were almost right, or were odd...

This week it was announced that Bellshill’s finest purveyors of (American and Scottish) West Coast rock/country-rock/pop-rock, Teenage...

Music is important, sport is important, but some things are even more important. In 2009, a year after Canadian Jill Barber had been...

The Sainted One turns 60 this week and as a devotee who was nearly near enough to touch the hem one night in London, no further excuse is...