The pick of this year’s offerings, according to these ears anyway, will be with you shortly. And elsewhere you’ll be getting variations...

News came last week that Alanis Morissette is marking the 25th anniversary of her decade-defining album, Jagged Little Pill – and her new...

As Laura Marling’s three-show solo tour of Australia, in March next year, inches closer, it’s a good time to go back, right back, to her...

Actor, writer, director, songwriter and a woman who takes control, Julie Delpy, was always certain this life would end badly. When it...

Released 50 years ago, to underwhelming sales and attention, Dusty Springfield’s Dusty In Memphis has come to represent one of the great...

Wait, didn’t she announce her retirement? Back in 2014? Two more shows this week – in Newcastle and Sydney – to round off the third (or...

Mr Charles Jenkins had a birthday at the weekend, and as he is one of the finest pop craftsmen in the country that demands a raised glass...

Ben Watt, formerly of Everything But The Girl, producer/DJ and solo artist (hear two of his tracks on this week’s playlist …..), label...

The great Polly Jean Harvey edged past 50 last week, with the only disappointing part of that being it didn’t come with a new record –...

Today the new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, Ghosteen, is reviewed on this page. It is an album whose emotional landscape and musical...

Not just a composer and experimenter, and one of our finest at that, but a teacher, a passionate supporter of students and other...

As his 2020 tour has been announced (see dates below), it’s time to check out the last time Nick Lowe was in this corner of the world –...

A unique and prolific songwriter, a raw soul, a painter and a singer, Daniel Johnston died last week, drawing reflections from unlikely...

In a week which, more or less, marks both her birthday and the 10th anniversary of her first – and so far only – tour of Australia, you...

At the end of this month The Flaming Lips will mark 20 years since The Soft Bulletin turned them from low-selling weirdos with wild...

Clearly not ready yet to say farewell for good, despite her 2017 tour being declared her last to Australia, Patti Smith will return here...

The man who provided a now legendary performance at a rugby league grand final by being heard by no one – which was infinitely better...

Eight years after their first collaboration as Seeker Lover Keeper, Sally Seltmann, Holly Throsby and Sarah Blasko will release their...

The release of a great new score for the 1927 silent film The General – by UK trio Haiku Salut, reviewed here – prompted a turn to a 2004...

Amid the wash up from a hugely successful Splendour In The Grass, and the news that it now has approval to be even more huge in the...