Articles by Brian Wise

We want you to exercise your democratic rights by voting in the Rhythms Readers Poll for 2020. This is the one poll of the year that counts and your chance to have your voice heard! […]

The 2020 ARIA Awards, held last night (November 25) at The Star Event Centre, Sydney and broadcast nationally on the Nine Network, was hosted by 12 time ARIA Award winner Delta Goodrem. Tame Impala, took home a […]

The Teskey Brothers, Jimmy Barnes. Tash Sultana, John Butler, Kasey Chambers, Cat Empire and more set to headline. […]

On the forthcoming album, J.T., Steve Earle & The Dukes pay tribute to Steve’s late son, Justin Townes Earle (J.T.), who passed away on August 20, 2020 in Nashville. The album will be released digitally on what would have been Justin’s  39th birthday, January 4, 2021, via New West […]

It’s one thing to write a song for contemporary times. It’s another thing entirely to write a song that will still be relevant in a hundred years. That’s the challenge Natalie D-Napoleon set herself when […]

Midnight Oil bassist and backing vocalist Bones Hillman has died aged 62. Born Wayne Stevens in New Zealand, Hillman passed away at his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after a battle with cancer. “We’re grieving the […]

Billy Joe Shaver, 81, the Texas singer-songwriter who was a key player in the Outlaw Country movement, died in the morning of October 28, 2020, following an illness.   Shaver’s songs are better known than he was. […]

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commissioners are itching to get out and play some actual shows. With the Victorian border restrictions still in place the band are looking forward to their annual December run – this year in […]

Wilma La brings flavours of Europe and Middle East into her rich piano based, soulful vocal filled soundscapes, and counters it with stripped back acoustic pieces. Learning from the jazz giants from the early age, she […]