photo by Lawrence Watson A week ago, a desperate plea-disguised-as-an-insulting-tweet from Liam Gallagher all but begged his brother Noel...

He’s currently taking some time off to recover from surgery for cancer but Elvis Costello will still likely take that time to write a...

Later this year, Bloc Party will return to Australia to play their debut album, Silent Alarm, in full. That febrile, nervy, agitated...

While we are all intoxicated by Belgium’s firepower, Mexico’s giant-killing, Nigeria’s potential and Australia’s presence in their...

One man recently released an album, though it was hard to hear it over the sound of his growing boy crush on the president; another has...

Spurred by a marvellous evening of Scott Walker music – played by Jeff Duff, Jess Ciampa, Susie Bishop, John Encarnacao and Glenn Rhodes...

In a few days Lily Allen releases her new album, a fourth. Eleven years ago she wasn’t sure there would be a second. She wasn’t sure she...

With this week’s playlist focusing on the brilliant work of Hal David with Burt Bacharach (and Bacharach with Elvis Costello) Wind Back...

She has a new, radically different (again) album coming in June and Jill Barber will surprise many fans who have enjoyed folk pop,...

The unbelievably sudden and sad news of Scott Hutchison’s death last week sent Wind Back Wednesday to this interview with him recorded on...

This week sees the release of a film, Midnight Oil 1984, that captures the band seemingly at the height of its powers and simultaneously...

As we wait expectantly for two new songs later this year – and as we brace for the comedy/horror of an avatar tour – it’s time to get in...

While we try to avoid the thought, let alone the sound, of his collaboration with the artist actually known as Shaggy, here’s a holiday...

Glasgow’s finest pop romantics return to Australia in a few weeks. In 2004 they made their first visit here and some of us who had been...

The surprising news that a new Sade album is on its way prompted not just excitement in these parts but a reminder that seeing the band,...

In 2004, at the height of their world domination, when their benign skivvy rule meant every meal had fruit salad (yummy yummy) and every...

The Australian Music Prize for the best Australian album of the year is awarded on Friday (early disclosure: I will be part of the...

He’s all over the news and social media this past week with a new album (conveniently reviewed here), a Super Bowl performance and a...

As the Australian leg of the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival starts this weekend - hello Adelaide on Friday and Sydney on Sunday – here’s a...

It had to be, given he announced this week – not long before his latest tour of Australia was to kick off - that he would no longer...