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Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2025 (17-26 October) By Des Cowley The Melbourne International Jazz Festival has come a long way since being founded nearly three decades ago. Like any long-running cultural event, it has had […]

Grim days call for fierce love, and Mavis Staples — one of the most enduring figures in American music — is laying it down. Coming out November 7, ‘Sad And Beautiful World‘is the latest solo […]

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds will bring their WILD GOD TOUR to Australia and New Zealand in January and February 2026, their first shows in the region since 2017. These shows will be held […]

Singer-songwriter, guitarist, banjo player, and actor Willie Watson this week releases a digital only deluxe edition of his first “fully original solo album”. The self titled record was originally released in late 2024, has now […]

A brand-new Waylon Jennings single has arrived. Shooter Jennings has unveiled “The Cowboy (Small Texas Town),” a previously unheard track by his legendary father, available now via Son of Jessi/Thirty Tigers. Written by outlaw country […]

The Pleasures don’t pull any punches on their long-awaited second album, Enemy of My Enemy, released this week. The record sees the band in full flight—trading verses, swapping stories, and sparking off each other across […]

Acclaimed Australian musician Davey Lane has today released his hotly anticipated fourth solo album, Finally, A Party Record., marking another bold chapter in a career defined by versatility and craftsmanship. Out now on limited edition […]

Forty-five years into his career and now celebrating his 70th birthday, Paul Kelly shows no signs of slowing down. Today, the Australian music icon announced his new album, Seventy, due November 7, and unveiled a […]

Photo: Flaco Jiménez at the annual Tejano Conjunto Music Festival, San Antonio, Texas, 1982. Photo by Chris Strachwitz, courtesy of the Arhoolie Foundation. “If you only just push one button and you push it with […]