A decade ago, Duffy – single name, single album (at that point), multiple Brit Awards, a Grammy, very Welsh – had been to number one on...

Surreal is a catch-all phrase these days, from sporting winners to dazed and confused ministers of the crown. It means absolutely...

The last great album of the 1970s – or was it the first great album of the 1980s? - came out 40 years ago. London Calling was The Clash...

There’s been talk again about getting that classical music stuff into the ears, and the wallets, of people under the age of 40. It’s a...

Having been thrilled by Anna Calvi on Sunday night and been put in mind of another small frame/outsize impact Englishwoman with guitar...

Tickets go on sale today, June 12, for U2’s November shows marking the anniversary of the album, The Joshua Tree (see dates at the...

This Sunday, as part of Vivid Sydney, avant-garde electro pop maker, multi-discipline artist, and bold creator of live shows which don’t...

Tomorrow Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier play in Hindmarsh in South Australia, working their way to Mackay in Queensland at the end of...

While he is in the country at the moment, playing solo and Wilco songs – see dates below - Jeff Tweedy is helpfully reminding us of his...

As we look at separate albums from Joy Williams and John Paul White this week (READ THOSE REVIEWS HERE), a chance to remember how their...

As she launches into several in-conversations as part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival this week, along with plenty more elsewhere...

As anniversaries go, three years isn’t really noteworthy. If it was a wedding anniversary you’d be getting something leather. Which is...

Still alive. Not just still alive, but still moving, singing, provoking and thinking. How did that happen Iggy Pop? Playing his second...

Later this year a remodelled Fleetwood Mac will tour Australia, Lindsey Buckingham replaced by Mike Campbell and Neil Finn, Christine...

Painting by Jason Benjamin As yet another humbly quiet, earnestly gentle pop singing man delivers an album for people who can’t...

It’s all relevant. It’s always been relevant. For Billy Bragg and the UK. In the 1980s and ‘90s, Bragg sang about fashioning a new...

After his floundering career was given a massive boost by his unfortunate but, bluntly speaking, financially fortuitous death and...

Last week, Peter Tork, officially the “kookiest”, and also the most accomplished musician, in the Monkees, died at the age of 77. His...

Robert Smith’s merry band of black-clad pranksters, The Cure, will be here mid-year, at the Vivid Live festival, to recreate the 1989...

This week Kacey Musgrave’s album, Golden Hour, was named album of the year – and best country album – at the Grammys, and she also won...